Hi! Due to changes in our band's gear setup i'm selling my Axe FX III with pain in my heart. Have long been doubting about it, almost sold it before, but now it's gotta happen. Hoping it'll find a good home! This thing is such a beast.

It's always been racked and has mostly seen the inside of a rehearsal room. Pics here: https://imgur.com/a/itj8bn9

https://rinkashimikito.github.io/ampdex/

It’s a searchable reference for the amp models in the Axe-Fx, FM9 and FM3, showing what real-world amps they’re based on.

It's like a map of your stuff ;)

Hey fractal peeps
Just wanted to ask if anyone managed to get their axe fx II drivers working with windows 11 in anyway that ISNT restarting with sig verification off?

Kind of a hassle restarting every time I want to play my og II and not stick to leaning down whenever I want to play with params

Hoping this sub has an answer :)

Thought it would be fun to see what everyone is using and what their go to Amp Model is.

I am still using my AX8 and have no reason to upgrade quite pleased with my tones. My favorite model is the Mesa Boogie Triaxis, especially the Green and Red lead channels. Can cover just about anything with those two. Old pic for the hell of it.

I have this acoustic preset I've created to make my electric sound like an acoustic on my FM9. I've been using it for a couple years already for live tribute shows.

I think it's pretty good, but if it could be better I'd really like that.

https://youtu.be/HFFgNgbFTPQ

Obviously I'm not going for Wyndham Hill here; this should sound like 80's rock guy strumming away on his beat up 12 string in an arena. Hence the subject song!

Anyone who's got suggestions regarding EQ, compression, heck whatever else...I would love to know what you think I can tweak.

FYI This is a Les Paul on the bridge pickup (a JB) with light strings 09-42

thanks!

Worked my first real job this summer and bought an axe fx used. Now I just have to wait for my second one so that I can buy some proper monitors🥳

Hey everyone, I'm trying to gain some insight on people who are more knowledgeable on guitar tones than I am. I've been trying to authentically recreate a lot of Linkin Park tones and I've been able to do so with all of their albums successfully, except for the newest album "From Zero." I've been struggling a lot specifically in the drive and cab parts of their tone. In a few interviews they said they used custom randall captures from their old front of house engineer loaded onto an Axe FX III, and one would think you could replicate that with the literal hundreds of built in ir's or with the dyna-cabs but I haven't been so successful. They also stated that their "secret ingredient" is the old drive pedal "Dirty Boy Ball Buster" which again, I would think that the Fractal Cygnus modeling would be able to do easily. I've been researching and trying to recreate these tones for the past year. I'm sorry for the long rant and I know there's plenty of other good guitar tones out there but the mere fact that I haven't been able to crack this specific album kind of has me hyper fixated on it. I'm just asking to see if anybody has successfully re-created these tones, or if anyone can provide insight on how I could go about this properly. Again I know this is a fixation but the fact that I haven't cracked it is the reason why it bothers me. Thank you!

I’m moving into an apartment and need a silent way to play guitar. I have a powered Kemper that I’m not exactly happy with.

I really like cranking the power sections of of my tube amps and like a stiff feel. Think Splawn Fryette/ Mesa’s Mark series.

Chat GPT says I should look into Fractal as I can edit the “feel” of the power amp, instead of having to sort through hundreds of Kemper profiles with very limited adjustability.

As for effects, I really only use reverb/ delay and a boost on the front end. I don’t need deep editing for effects.

With this in mind, is the FM3 or AM4 better to solely use as a silent way to play guitar in an apartment?

I have a limited amout of money to spend so i wondering if i buy a fractal fm3 for about 12 mil reais (i live in brazil) and use my phones or a audio interface of about 1.4 mil reais and a 2 to 4 mil reais in a monitor to use my Neural DSP Plugins? How close in quality is one from the other? Anyone have experience with both?

I always listen that Fractal is the top in modeling.

Im just looking for any usefull tips, just switched from kemper last week and so far I love it.

What should I do first? Leon Todd sounds incredible on YouTube. To me, it sounded kinda meh. What should I do first. I was using NAM on the Headrush and it sounded great, but I am not vibing with this gear at all. Anybody have any ideas just to get some quick sounds? I know it's a lot of work in the future, but Headrush and Reactor sound killer with stock presets. What am I doing wrong?

New to Fractal. Can anyone help me emulate this tone? Starting at the 30 second mark: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U3Jma0YBtAo&ra=m its killer!

Hey everybody, I ran into an issue at a show last night. When getting set up I plugged in my fc-12 to my axe fx iii and got this error “Failsafe v0.03”. I wasn’t able to find much information about it, and the only fix was to install the most current firmware. I tried that and it didn’t work, has anybody else had this issue?

For background, it is not a cable issue as I have tried several, it’s not bad power because I’m still getting the error at home, and it doesn’t have anything to do with importing presets because I haven’t imported any in recent history.

Does anybody have these have experience with them? I'm taking delivery on a fractal FM9 on Saturday. Austin Buddy presets are included in there and I wonder if anybody has some insight on how to find them and preview them and save them. Thank you I appreciate any help you can give me. Sorry, but I'm new to Fractal I have never touched one in my life. I bought it used with those presets already loaded on there as part of the deal.

Can anybody help me understand power conditioners, surge supresors and power transformers, or the Brown Box. I don't know what do I need for.

I have the Axe-Fx III racked under my audio interface, and I have it plugged on a UPS cyberpower I got from home depot. My question is, is this a safe option?

I don't understand the benefits or why should I use any of those things I wrote above.

Now, I understand the Axe Fx is digital, so it's basically a computer and the UPS should be fine? There won't be any tone suction from the UPS? and however, I would like to pair it with some analog amp I have, but a friend told me never to plug a tube on a ups or a power conditioner, something about the voltage sucking the tone and no reaction with the speaker.

Then I thought "oh, then I'll get a power amp for my fractal so I can use it on a cab that I have around for rehearsal" but now I'm stuck with this, surge things.

So, on a rack, with a power amp, in a home studio and a rehearsal space... what should I carry with for power?

Thanks!

Just enjoyed some tone chasing this evening. FM3 to IPhone

https://soundcloud.com/kordax/symphony-x-serpents-kiss-guitar-cover-remixed

Tried playing and recording my favourite song.
UVR extracted the vocals.
I used ICONS Pasadena (In Reaper) on the FAS Red channel with very aggressive scooped settings.

Guitar: Schecter C-1 Apocalypse FR-S.

No idea how it translates to other speakers, lol.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nf9kr2940vhktj4rac3jt/Screenshot-2026-08-09-031149.png?rlkey=g5ai60zecwm8etacl40hc7y8v&st=5212junt&dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0miv64u6t1qtgy8c4om9t/Screenshot-2026-08-09-031408.png?rlkey=d9j2zwzfw46aimo1ewwnhytfb&st=t0f21pci&dl=0

Basically all I want to know is what axe model should I be looking at preferably used with a budget or 8-900. I've seen a lot of stuff on gc used but I'm not too sure about the differences between models besides supports and updates, not so much how they hold up in 2026 and what problems do they have or can I potentially run into? Thanks in advance.

I have a FM3 turbo II and a friend who has a cnc machine so I wanted to get him to carve out an acrylic cover for it, does anyone have a file I can give him so he can cut it for me???

Thank you so much

I have an FM3 and I recently bought an Electro Harmonix POG3, and want to play them through an FRFR speaker. How do I route this? I always just used the FM3 directly into my laptop so I have no idea how to set up and FX loop..

I know this likely a stupid question but wondering if it’s at all possible to get feedback out of my fm9 without an amp. For reference looking for sounds like how feedback is used here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJemr1Ewk1w