John Nathan Cordy

Week ending 18 September 2026

In the headlines

• Fender's CEO speaks
• Fractal adds NAM

At the desk

• 13 September: "I Need to STOP BUYING AMPS". 18 September: "I'm SICK Of My Amps Not Sounding Right", solved by running two of them at once.
• He ditched about 50 pedals on 12 September. Among the favourites that survived, two are broken and one has never been opened.
• He also reports that Fractal will add NAM support to the Axe-FX III, running on a separate core, with up to two NAM blocks per preset. It was one of 14 uploads this week, and the only one with actual news in it.

Said

• 0:10 “in a world where the existence of the tube amp is sort of, and, you know, showing up with a tube amp is becoming kind of problematic”
• 1:14 “now in a space like my local music shop, it doesn't really sell that many amps, and certainly not, you know, 4x12s, and certainly not Marshall heads and all that sort of stuff”