new axe fx xl

[BYTOR]

Looks like it's a buyer's market for the 1st 3 versions of the fractal

Some folks have been holding their breath hoping for that for years now

Won't be happening any time soon

 

[lessthan12]

Buy a Plexi and a tube screamer……never goes out of style...

unless you live in a condo or apartment...

Buy a Plexi, tube screamer, and Torpedo Live or Radial Headload. Problem solved.

ya know I was thinking that route...the torpedo that is, not the plexi. With tax returns around the corner I was thinking about getting another axe fx II but also thought about just getting another 5150 III and the torpedo cab. I have a friend selling a 5150 III for 900 and might be a better option for me. How is the torpedo cab?

 

[jlbaxe]

Buy a Plexi and a tube screamer……never goes out of style...

unless you live in a condo or apartment...

Buy a Plexi, tube screamer, and Torpedo Live or Radial Headload. Problem solved.

ya know I was thinking that route...the torpedo that is, not the plexi. With tax returns around the corner I was thinking about getting another axe fx II but also thought about just getting another 5150 III and the torpedo cab. I have a friend selling a 5150 III for 900 and might be a better option for me. How is the torpedo cab?

You would need the Torpedo Live with out a speaker cab to attenuate. The C.A.B doesn't attenuate

 

[animal]

I bet animals as leaders was a major proponent.
.

?!?!
They only use 5 patches live

DNW regardless...only thing I could thing of wanting is maybe a floor processer and that would only be for acoustic and that atomic thingy is looking good for that

 

[Shiny_Surface]

Interesting, seems like a mid-generation refresh.

It may not be as large/rabid a stampede as the mass sell off when the gen II was released, but the hardcore early adopters will already be writing their for sale ads.

 

[bmi]

About the Axe-Fx II XL, Let me clear up a few things:

The primary impetus for the XL was the FASLINK port. Since I had to develop a new mainboard to support this I figured why not put in some of the other requests we get from the power users.

The additional memory is FLASH which is EPROM not RAM. This will not increase the looper time as the amount of RAM has not changed.

The type of FLASH memory is "Super-FLASH" which is an expensive, high-reliability memory. It can be erased hundreds of thousands of times without wearout or slowdown. This prevents the need to wear-level the memory and the dreaded "Tuning Memory" stuff.

There is no longer any SRAM for preset storage. All presets are stored in FLASH.

There is still a small SRAM for storage of system information that requires a battery. You can still back your system up to FLASH. If the battery dies you won't lose your presets and hopefully you've backed up your system.

There is enough FLASH memory to store 1024 presets and 1024 user cabs but I'm reserving half the memory for future upgrades.

The "Special Sauce III" uses a combination of things to get a lower noise floor. One of these things is new, premium Burr-Brown op-amps in the signal path which have extremely low noise and distortion (and are very expensive). As always I don't design stuff to be cheap, I design it to be good.

The optical encoder requires power and therefore can not be retrofitted into a Mark I/II. Also the shaft and bushing size are different so it doesn't fit anyways.

UltraRes is not specific to the XL and, in fact, the beta testers have Version 13.00 beta now and are testing the UltraRes capability.

All algorithms will be identical between the Mark I/II and XL. They all share the same code base. Any enhancements/improvements will benefit all models except when aforementioned features are not available.

The Mark II will continue to be produced and sold. The XL is a higher-priced option for those who need the features and does not in any way obsolete the Mark II.

If there is a better op amp for the input my guess is that there will be a brand new input more transparent.
If the input is more transparent it will sound better and you will have more details.
So IMO there will be a difference in sound between the normal and XL version due to this new input.

By the way the input jack is located on a small pcb with the headphone jack. I can't remember if there are Op amps on this board.
If this is the case it's perhaps possible to swap this pcb with the new one. I doubt but who knows?
I wonder what kind of Op amps justify +700$?

 

[Bishop5150]

I bought a brand new Axe II in September so I'm good. It basically just sits and collects dust. It's not replacing my glass anytime soon.

 

[SFW]

While I'm sure that this is another great tool... I have zero interest in this.

 

[blackba]

Here we go again, the iphone of the gear market. Time to sit back and enjoy the ride....

 

[jlbaxe]

 

[polaris20]

Buy a Plexi and a tube screamer……never goes out of style...

unless you live in a condo or apartment...

Buy a Plexi, tube screamer, and Torpedo Live or Radial Headload. Problem solved.

ya know I was thinking that route...the torpedo that is, not the plexi. With tax returns around the corner I was thinking about getting another axe fx II but also thought about just getting another 5150 III and the torpedo cab. I have a friend selling a 5150 III for 900 and might be a better option for me. How is the torpedo cab?

You would need the Torpedo Live with out a speaker cab to attenuate. The C.A.B doesn't attenuate

Splitting hairs, but the Live doesn't attenuate, it's just a load box.

 

[jlbaxe]

Buy a Plexi and a tube screamer……never goes out of style...

unless you live in a condo or apartment...

Buy a Plexi, tube screamer, and Torpedo Live or Radial Headload. Problem solved.

ya know I was thinking that route...the torpedo that is, not the plexi. With tax returns around the corner I was thinking about getting another axe fx II but also thought about just getting another 5150 III and the torpedo cab. I have a friend selling a 5150 III for 900 and might be a better option for me. How is the torpedo cab?

You would need the Torpedo Live with out a speaker cab to attenuate. The C.A.B doesn't attenuate

Splitting hairs, but the Live doesn't attenuate, it's just a load box.

yeah wrong word Thanks

 

[jlbaxe]

Im going to use the Torpedo Live with my SLO when I get one Great unit

 

[Black Sabbath]

 

[NITROHOLIC]

Buy a Plexi and a tube screamer……never goes out of style...

unless you live in a condo or apartment...

Buy a house Problem solved.

fixed it for ya.

 

[polaris20]

Buy a Plexi and a tube screamer……never goes out of style...

unless you live in a condo or apartment...

Buy a house Problem solved.

fixed it for ya.

I have a house. Let me guess; you don't have kids?

 

[jlbaxe]

Buy a Plexi and a tube screamer……never goes out of style...

unless you live in a condo or apartment...

Buy a house Problem solved.

fixed it for ya.

I have a house. Let me guess; you don't have kids?

I have kids...... That's why I have a 100w amp

 

[jcj]

Tihis was my Standard, at V 9.0...I certainly dug it at the time...

 

[JimmyBlind]

Tihis was my Standard, at V 9.0...I certainly dug it at the time...

Aside from the lack of a USB interface, the standard is everything & more than most players need from a unit imo. Even the standard is a pretty overwhelming & deep device.

 

[guitarslayer]

Tihis was my Standard, at V 9.0...I certainly dug it at the time...

Sounds great!