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    FRACTAL AUDIO SYSTEMS FM3

    Dec 04, 2020 4 minutes
    WORDS DARRAN CHARLES

    January 2018 saw Fractal Audio Systems’ Axe-Fx rackmount unit upgraded with substantially increased processing power, new modelling tech and an improved GUI. It was only a matter of time before its pedalboard sibling, the AX8, would receive similar treatment. Enter the FM3, unveiled in April 2019 but only recently available to the European market. Was it worth the wait?

    Featuring Fractal’s ARES amp-modelling technology and inheriting the Axe-Fx III’s hundreds-strong suite of amp models and more than 2,000 cabinet impulse responses, the FM3 can perhaps best be viewed as the floorboard sibling of that third-generation rackmount unit. Fractal’s Matt Picone explains: “This project was less about the AX8, which was already in the

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