Digital Igloo (Eric Klein, YGG)

Hey @Digital Igloo
I appreciate the interview you and Ben did with Worship Tutorials. One thing you said has been sticking in my mind for the past few days. You were hoping to see more people create original/ambient/etc tones making the most with routing and multiple effects. That’s something I’ve enjoyed doing with the Stomp.
The thing that is stuck in my mind is a memory of being really dissatisfied keyboardist in the 90’s playing workstations I was told I should love because they were powerful. After pivoting to playing primarily guitar I came across the MicroKorg and had the most satisfying 2 hours of playing it in the music store.
I wonder if there’s a space for Line 6 to do an ambient/guitar-synthy box that’s not bumping elbows with Meris and Strymon et al. The real clincher (and challenge) would be an interface that encourages quick exploration and play, like the MicroKorg.
 
ragingplatypi said:
Hey @Digital Igloo
I appreciate the interview you and Ben did with Worship Tutorials. One thing you said has been sticking in my mind for the past few days. You were hoping to see more people create original/ambient/etc tones making the most with routing and multiple effects. That’s something I’ve enjoyed doing with the Stomp.
The thing that is stuck in my mind is a memory of being really dissatisfied keyboardist in the 90’s playing workstations I was told I should love because they were powerful. After pivoting to playing primarily guitar I came across the MicroKorg and had the most satisfying 2 hours of playing it in the music store.
I wonder if there’s a space for Line 6 to do an ambient/guitar-synthy box that’s not bumping elbows with Meris and Strymon et al. The real clincher (and challenge) would be an interface that encourages quick exploration and play, like the MicroKorg.
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Oh yes, that's right up my alley. If I had a million hours in the day, I'd make a bunch of videos on how to get these types of sounds out of Helix or HX Stomp right now, but I recognize how most traditional multieffects appear to overserve all but the geekiest among us.
 
Digital Igloo said:
Oh yes, that's right up my alley. If I had a million hours in the day, I'd make a bunch of videos on how to get these types of sounds out of Helix or HX Stomp right now, but I recognize how most traditional multieffects appear to overserve all but the geekiest among us.
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I think you personally putting out a video, or doing a proper Line 6 video would be welcome, and open a lot of people up to the concept.
 
ragingplatypi said:
I think you personally putting out a video, or doing a proper Line 6 video would be welcome, and open a lot of people up to the concept.
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I write and host most of the top-down how to videos for HX Stomp, HX Effects, etc. but apparently few people watch them. Maybe the thumbnails need a stupid facial expression and hyperbolic clickbait title?

[O face] THIS ONE TRICK WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE!
 
Digital Igloo said:
Huh; works fine here, but I didn't sit and listen for more than a few minutes. Will ask James about it.
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CakeEater said:
Since 3.71 it seems like the intermittent signal dropout on S/PDIF is back. It's my most used output at home and I've only noticed it happening again in the last few weeks.
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Hi, @Digital Igloo , just to follow up on this, the dropouts are definitely still happening. In my sitting room setup, my laptop connects to the Helix via USB, and my TV connects to the Helix via the stereo return 3-4. The laptop, the TV, and my guitar all go through the Helix and out through S/PDIF into my digital amp. I've heard all three drop today, not frequently, maybe once every hour, they drop as one, so it has to be the output.
 
CakeEater said:
Hi, @Digital Igloo , just to follow up on this, the dropouts are definitely still happening. In my sitting room setup, my laptop connects to the Helix via USB, and my TV connects to the Helix via the stereo return 3-4. The laptop, the TV, and my guitar all go through the Helix and out through S/PDIF into my digital amp. I've heard all three drop today, not frequently, maybe once every hour, they drop as one, so it has to be the output.
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QA asked me: What's the digital amp? Is it S/PDIF or TOSLINK with an adapter? Is there a ticket number to reference?
 
This may have been covered, likely to death, but is the Catalyst the closest L6 is going to get to having a Helix Combo amp? Would love to have an L6 equivalent to the Boss Katana 50 or Fender Mustang GTX50. I get the whole "plug and play/simplicity" thing with the Catalyst, but I'd rather have an HX50 combo that blows the Katana and Fender outta the water.
 
Digital Igloo said:
I write and host most of the top-down how to videos for HX Stomp, HX Effects, etc. but apparently few people watch them. Maybe the thumbnails need a stupid facial expression and hyperbolic clickbait title?

[O face] THIS ONE TRICK WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE!
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Yes DI something like this --->

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:LOL:
 
Digital Igloo said:
QA asked me: What's the digital amp? Is it S/PDIF or TOSLINK with an adapter? Is there a ticket number to reference?
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The amp is a NAD D7050 with a proper S/PDIF input. I'll try to rule-out other electrical interference, it did happen once when I plugged in my laptop, the whole signal including guitar and TV, but I couldn't replicate it. I'm pretty sure it's also happened when just playing.
 
Iron1 said:
This may have been covered, likely to death, but is the Catalyst the closest L6 is going to get to having a Helix Combo amp? Would love to have an L6 equivalent to the Boss Katana 50 or Fender Mustang GTX50. I get the whole "plug and play/simplicity" thing with the Catalyst, but I'd rather have an HX50 combo that blows the Katana and Fender outta the water.
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Like this?
 
the-trooper said:
Like this?
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No.

From what I’ve seen from L6, the Catalyst was launched under the “simple plug and play” mindset to serve players who just wanna plug in and play and not go down a rabbit hole of infinite tone options.

And that’s great for those who want that.

What I would love to see is essentially a Helix combo, that offers ALL the amps, pedals, cabs, etc that you get in the Stomp/Rack/LT/Floor.

So, I can access my Helix multiverse in a unit that also has an amp and speaker. Then I can manipulate the tone choices simply by standard knobs/small screen or way in depth by connecting the amp to HX Edit.
 
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