Helix Talk

Tweaking in what? The settings of the amp and cabs? Cortex is better straight away?

Why has Line 6 such trouble doing this?

(Must say I have not tweaked one bit on the Super Reverb so maybe Line 6 stepped up their game again?)
Line6 amp model defaults are not good. I don't know what the hell they are using to make them, but I have never heard anyone say that they were happy with the settings they load when you add an amp block and select a model.
 
Line6 amp model defaults are not good. I don't know what the hell they are using to make them, but I have never heard anyone say that they were happy with the settings they load when you add an amp block and select a model.
It might be handy a list where the community shares their best defaults.
 
It might be handy a list where the community shares their best defaults.
It likely wouldn't be. Guitar, playing style, tone preference, output system...all these play a big part so someone else's settings are likely not that great either.

Best is to figure out your favorite settings and save those.
 
Line6 amp model defaults are not good. I don't know what the hell they are using to make them, but I have never heard anyone say that they were happy with the settings they load when you add an amp block and select a model.
This was true up until 3.x

The later updates, and their accompanying presets, have been very usable right out of the box
 
Line6 amp model defaults are not good. I don't know what the hell they are using to make them, but I have never heard anyone say that they were happy with the settings they load when you add an amp block and select a model.
I think that's a fair perspective. It does force you to get in there and tweak. Not a bad thing though. There's a lot of useable range in the hx models so it pays off to get something right for yourself. Simple fact is - no default will work for everybody because everybody is not outputting hx the same way. Headphones, FR, studio monitors, tube amp fx return, whatever -- they all will behave differently.
 
Line6 amp model defaults are not good. I don't know what the hell they are using to make them, but I have never heard anyone say that they were happy with the settings they load when you add an amp block and select a model.
Real talk. If the default settings are randomized somehow, peace. They're bad, but peace. But if a person--a person with real, functional, human ears--is deciding on these generally atrocious settings, they need to find a new job at L6. They're not good at this.
 
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