Normal pedals vs Fractal VP4

[Chase42147]

Zero perceptible latency b/c I'm maintaining a healthy amount of analog dry signal. Running all 3 effects on the VP4 still sounds great, but they seem to sound and feel more distinct and pop out better when I let each unit serve a single purpose. This could have more to do with my routing chain than the VP4 itself. That is, running each effect into a single channel of the mixer vs all 3 effects crammed into 1 channel of the mixer.

I would buy the VP4 again tomorrow. It's a fantastic unit. Especially in stereo!

Cool, that's good to know. Ya, the stereo effects are what are really interesting me, looks like so much fun!

 

[Chase42147]

As both a pedal and vp4 owner, ill give you my opinion. I have two board (i could build probably two more with the other pedals i have laying around).

My main board is an h90 with a gate, two overdrives, tuner and expression pedal (i run 4 cable method since i only use amps these days). I do like the ability to turn the od off if i dont want it and i can easily adjust things on the fly (however i do very little adjusting). The board sounds great and i can easily swap overdrives when ever im in a different mood.

I also built a simple board with the VP4, expression pedal and a Suhr mico midi pedal so i can channel switch with trs or midi with all of my amps. The pros to the vp4 board is i can have one button change everything including effects and amps channel. (I really hate tap dancing). Its a simple and clean board with very little wires/cabling that sounds great and is super versatile. I think the user interface is stupid easy to use and crazy simple to edit things on the fly (better interface than the H90). I don’t notice any sound degradation to my tone (I'm pretty sensitive to that) and no latency issues either.

If the VP4 was available earlier last year i would have done that instead of the H90, i do love eventide effects and always seem to come back to them but fractal is also stellar for effects as well.

From a cost standpoint the VP4 you get more for the money. I have no need or interest in amp modeling at this point (been there done that). And the whole 4 effects at one time aren’t enough complaint is really silly, some effects you can actually get two types of effects at a time but i don’t really see the need for wanting more, just t make a new preset

I think I'm convinced haha, VP4 it is. Definitely cheaper than buying all of the pedals I'd like to add to my board. Like you said, the less cabling with the VP4 as opposed to regular pedals is nice. No switching unit required then, big plus!

 

[bubucci]

VP4 arrived.
It took a while to used to new UI but no problem. It is limited but still enought for most ussual players. You have only 4 blocks but for each slot You have 4 channels so there is some variety. You can still have presets which are almost as fast switching as scenes.
The effect sound exactly the same as FM9. 4CM is easy to set and there is no need for humbuster cables because it is power by the adapter (9V, 1.2A). The size is perfect.
Price/value is excellent even here in EU. I have comparison with GT1000, Helix and QC and Fractal is league on its own.

 

[jabps]

You guys still digging the VP4?

Anyone do any comparison with the Strymon stuff? Thinking about redesigning my smaller board. I'm am very delay heavy and love simple effects like flange, chorus, phase and vibe etc.... If I go the VP4 route I'll probably combine with some pedals.