FAS: FX8 with Palmer FAB5 5W Amp - Demo

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This video represents my first experience with the FX8 which I'd only had for about 2 hours. It shows the FX8 as a straight up stomp box to a simple but high quality 5W amp with a 10" Eminence speaker - the German made Palmer Musical Instruments FAB5.

Fractal Audio's FX8 takes all of the superb quality drives and effects from its flagship Axe-FX and packages them into one seriously tough pedalboard. There are 8 effect access footswitches with which to access any of the effects and many of the effect types feature X and Y states which means your choice is dramatically increased. You can internally place effects pre or post your amp's front end or effects loop and on the rear you'll find comprehensive control facilities for things like MIDI, expression pedals and relay switches. Stereo? Of course. FAS have also given us FX8-Edit, a quite spectacular OS X and Windows GUI with which to write, share and save your presets.

Further videos featuring the FX8 in more advanced configurations will appear soon.

Many thanks to Andrew Farnham at Independent Music, Australia, and Fractal Audio Systems.
Thanks also to Greg Collins at Sonic Frog, Australia, for the Palmer Musical Instruments FAB5 amplifier. (See: http://www.sonicfrog.com.au/p/358/palmer-fab5-5w-tube-guitar-amp) And thank you to Mick Brierley for the Sweet-tone A2 pickups used in this Strat.

Today's tools:

Guitar: 2013 Fender CS Total Tone '56 Relic Stratocaster with Brierley Sweet-tone pickups
Amp: Palmer Musical Instruments FAB5 Amp with 10" Eminence speaker.
Extra effects: Many. FX8!
Cables: Providence and Fender
Power Supply: N/A
Mic: Shure SM57 (amp) Samson Airline77 (me)
Camera: Sony HDR CX150
Soundcard: AVID Mbox Pro 3
Computer: Apple iMac 27" i7 3.4 GHz 16 GB RAM
Software: Pro Tools 11.3, Waves CLA Guitars (slight comp over input track), Waves L3-16 Limiter (to keep levels in check at output), Apple Final Cut Pro X (video editing and Youtube compression).







Tags:
Fractal Audio Systems
FX8
Multi-Effects
Pedalboard
Stratocaster
Palmer Musical Instruments
FAB5
Brett Kingman
Brierley Pickups
Sweet-tones
Fender Stratocaster (Guitar)