Helix JCM800 2203 Request Thread (FW 3.70 new Brit 2203)!

James Freeman said:
I don't know about Facebook customers though, they wear scarves, fedoras and deep-v neck shirts, they play firebirds, jazzmasters and fuzzes, and they don't care about Marshalls or Boogies, very peculiar bunch, don't listen to them.
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Are these hipster Facebookers not worried about man cleavage???
 

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James Freeman said:
That's THE sound, this amp was made for humbuckers.

I hope Line 6 will do this one justice.
No funny stuff like horizontal inputs with out-of-spec B+ or shoddy low gain 12ax7 tubes.

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Line 6: "Best I can give you is a 2210 fine tuned and dialed in with Brian Mays guitar and treble booster. Did someone call for reverse delay? Gotcha. Built in. No knob to disengage."
 
I did watch that video and all I can say is wow!! I have never played through an amp like that amp, so all the talk and banter over this was taken with a grain of salt, but I could hear the sounds of my youth, AC/DC, Def Leppard, Scorpions, etc. It is such an icon in music history, maybe one day soon we will get one on the Helix platform.
 
I agree with many here... Boogie, marshall, orange and engl are helix models that I prefer not to use... and that even in the ge series of mooer they are more usable, that's annoying
 
I quite like the Orange models, both the Rocker and the 80 are on point imo.
Th Boogie Lead could use the other poweramp mode (Presence Pull) and the Pull Fat switch in the tonestack, otherwise the model does exactly what it should.

The Marshalls though... 😬
Great sounding stock 70s Super Lead, JTM45 and 2203 <- that's table stakes, throw in a Jubilee and you have 99.9% of Marshalls people want in a modeler.
 
Being away from the Helix stuff for a good while, I recently went back because this gig had certain requirements and the HX stomp was a good fit.

Spent a lot of time tweaking past couple of weeks and the JCM800 situation isn't a unique one IMO. Might be exaggerated because of the non original unit they used to model, but overall Helix models are way too distorted. They distort way too much before any sense of pleasing compression. Turning the gain as you would on an amp and things gets very distorted, ends up in mush. I had way more success dialing in pretty much any tone by trying to keep the Drive control way lower than I would on a real amp and trying to bring compression with the advanced controls.
 
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