A young lad, unexperienced in effects, began a journey towards finding his signature tone. Never satisfied with what he had, he often did away with pedals, selling them to people more desirous of what had been previously revealed to him through his personal research. His effects board expanded and contracted, grew greater and smaller, according to his whim and stage of amusement at any given time. His preference was for the most cost-effective and efficient high-quality tone that he could afford.
This past year, his journey was brought to an oasis of technology and quality that amazed even his curiosity and imagination. He found Fractal Audio Systems. Although far from analog, the quality of amps, effects and cabs for the price point would be comparable to owning over 250 amplifiers of various types, 450 effects of various types, and over 1024 various types of guitar cabinets.
If he owned each of the real amps, effects, and cabs, he would need a literal warehouse to house all of these.
By contrast, he owns a simple modeler unit on a pedalboard with a tuner for acoustic sweetened tunings and expression pedal, that resides next to his workstation by his feet, where he can access it at any time he chooses.
He has to thank someone who shall remain anonymous that introduced him to Fractal, and eventually made it so he could maintain a cleaner standing by offering up his purchase invitation to an inquisitive older man now, still inexperienced in effects by comparison. To the anonymous individual who has provided me with countless hours of joy regards Fractal, you were indeed very kind.
Would it ever be necessary to consider analog/digital stomp boxes again? Likely not, given the fact that there is so much flexibility and versatility with Fractal, why would anyone ever need to collect amps, effects, and cabs, if Fractal has just about everything a guitarist might ever want or need?