Axe-Fx III · Reference · Axe-Fx III · Cygnus

Look it up fast

Tables, diagrams and fixes. Built to be opened mid-session with a guitar still on, not read front to back.

The hardware

Controls

Every front-panel control on an interactive diagram, and what the FC controllers add.

Every jack on an interactive rear panel — four inputs, three stereo outputs, Humbuster and FASLINK II.

The numbers that answer a question, with the FM9 and FM3 comparison where they differ.

Sound

The two axes that make one Fractal preset replace a dozen — and the concept Helix has no equivalent of.

14 by 6, all stereo, and a CPU budget you manage rather than fixed caps you hit.

Every model Fractal themselves describe — and an honest account of the ones they don't.

Using it

Studio, live with an FC, into a real amp, or both at once.

Straight answers to the things people actually ask.

Symptom, cause, fix — including what is documented behaviour rather than a fault.

Grid, scene, channel, shunt, Humbuster, FASLINK, Cygnus, Ares.