Sascha Franck
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This thread is starting to look like a bunch of drunk people typing...
What if you just found out the truth?
This thread is starting to look like a bunch of drunk people typing...
This thread is starting to look like a bunch of drunk people typing...
What if you just found out the truth?
Are you on an IPhone 7??Not for me for some reason
Helix Boomer Box confirmed:What a boomer comment! Phones are perfcetly usbale foenwirtsing
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Count me as one of the Winstons in this thread, nodding and smiling with all you Peter Venkmans with your wit and intellect.
Igor said they're looking into it but that it shouldn't be negatively affecting the models. I do think the XTC model sounds broken though and not how it's supposed to. I can't really prove it in any way though unfortunately. And with it being remodelled in Agoura I don't see the old version being changed at all.Did anything happen with this in the end?
Igor said they're looking into it but that it shouldn't be negatively affecting the models.
Even if I'm not using it a lot, just because the EV Panama Blue is keeping.me busy in a happy way, the Helix Blue Channel of XTC model is -imho - very good, too, even if I never tried the real amp.I do think the XTC model sounds broken though and
Suppose I better make some clips. I’ve described it a few times, it’s REALLY fuzzy and does weird stuff like there is a lack of headroom (even when the bias and MV are low).Even if I'm not using it a lot, just because the EV Panama Blue is keeping.me busy in a happy way, the Helix Blue Channel of XTC model is -imho - very good, too, even if I never tried the real amp.
Could you tell something more about what isn't right in your opinion?
The Helix DC thing was separate to the side effects of dialling in ripple, it was producing DC with ripple at 0 on several amps. I agree though that ripple can quickly sound bad, and IMO, quite often it's not a very realistic approximation of the sound of amps.Axe-FX III
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Helix Native (Ripple 5.0)
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Helix Native (Ripple 0.0)
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With Ripple at standard settings (5.0), the HX model creates pretty significant low frequent ghost notes which, due to the gain of the amp model, result in very messy harmonics in the actual frequency range of the guitar. I wonder what the intention of Line 6's sound design team was for this and why they have deliberately set the default value for Ripple so high.
@MirrorProfiles BTW, in my tests the Axe-Fx III models show the same (sometimes even more) low frequency content you described as DC offset.
Imho it doesn't make sense to use the standard Ripple settings. My default settings for both Ripple and Hum are always zero in my Helix presets.I did some tests today to compare Helix Native to my Axe-Fx III and was quite shocked how much low frequency ghost notes the HX power amp modeling created with the standard Ripple settings
Axe-FX III
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Helix Native (Ripple 5.0)
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Helix Native (Ripple 0.0)
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With Ripple at standard settings (5.0), the HX model creates pretty significant low frequent ghost notes which, due to the gain of the amp model, result in very messy harmonics in the actual frequency range of the guitar. I wonder what the intention of Line 6's sound design team was for this and why they have deliberately set the default value for Ripple so high.
@MirrorProfiles BTW, in my tests the Axe-Fx III models show the same (sometimes even more) low frequency content you described as DC offset. I was also surprised to see that the Axe Fx III adds harmonics to a supposedly unprocessed (directly from input to output, without any additional block in the chain) 200 Hz signal. Is that the so-called “secret sauce”?
Axe-Fx III unprocessed 200 Hz sine wave
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RME UCX II unprocessed 200 Hz sine wave
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I wonder what is the standard way to remove DC from digital signal, maybe high-pass filter at some low frequency like 3Hz?