Inside the mind of Digital Igloo!

[Fireproof]

Pretty cool article about our friend Eric Klein.

The Long Game: Inside the Mind of Eric Klein

The story of Helix Stadium isn’t just about gear. It’s about the way Eric Klein’s brain refuses to stop working. His fingerprints are all over the Helix family of products, and now, the company’s new flagship-in-waiting: Stadium.

www.thegearconfessions.com

And one more time for the slow peeps:
“It’s not Helix Mark II or the Touchscreen Helix,” he insists. “It’s a completely new platform made from scratch.”

 

[Ed DeGenaro]

That was a great read. Thanks

 

[paisleywookiee]

I thought "Inside the Mind of Digital Igloo" would be more like this right now:

 

[AlbertA]

or this

 

[Fireproof]

I thought "Inside the Mind of Digital Igloo" would be more like this right now:

or this

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Haha. Both are probably relevant.

 

[GTR37]

I was thinking more like this

 

[mrchevy]

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[PBGas]

 

[Antipodes]

Interesting times for DI fer sher. The culmination of years of development, a next gen product about to hit the fan all over the world. I think we are fortunate that single minded guys like DI, CK and Cliff Chase have followed through with such focus on decades long projects to bring us all these toys/tools.

Think of the usual rapid turnover of modern corporate management - companies led by guys and gals with little or no domain specific knowledge who walk away with 9 figures in "compensation" leaving a smoking ruin - and all the short term thinking that has trashed most of the once great western brands. If you look at Sony, Toyota or Honda you see what a visionary founder can do for a company in a couple of decades.

 

[Sascha Franck]

That's an absurd nonstop-praise.

 

[Ed DeGenaro]

That's an absurd nonstop-praise.

And you know what, having worked a decade in MI, and a decade as consultant.
The amount of shit end users thinking they know better fling warrants the occasional non stop praise.

 

[Sascha Franck]

And you know what, having worked a decade in MI, and a decade as consultant.
The amount of shit end users thinking they know better fling warrants the occasional non stop praise.

Maybe. But this article is of no value at all. But that goes for pretty much anything on that site, which I've stumbled across before already.

 

[Antipodes]

That's an absurd nonstop-praise.

When a relative of mine was about five, his family billeted members of the Vienna Boys Choir during their pre-war tour of the antipodes. Over the breakfast table, one of the choristers advised him that "der fuhrer ist wunderbar". So this was sort of like that but lacking the virtue of brevity?

I am glad to see some sort of continuity in effective leadership in the music biz. What worries me is how formerly successful companies are so often being trashed by bad management. Plenty of musical examples but these are not life and death matters.

In Oz, the national airline, Qantas was in public hands and had a reputation as the worlds safest airline. The govt privatised the company and a decade or so ago the Qantas board employed some imported effwit who used every dodgy means to cut costs - illegally fired staff during Covid while accepting billions in government support, failed to order new aircraft in a timely fashion and outsourced maintenance to places outside Australia almost entirely and outsourced baggage handling to complete incompetents who lost enormous amounts of luggage. This guy was paid 125 million dollars. The company was fined and had to pay former staff damages that amounted to a similar sum for his blatantly illegal industrial actions.

The airline is hanging by a thread on the safety front because they are flying aircraft well past their use by date - they are having component failures on flights and have not enough spares to keep the necessary amount of planes in the air. If you hear of a mass fatality it will be likely due to pure greed and incompetence. And look at what has happened to Boeing after scumbags from McDonnell-Douglas took over after the merger. The only up to date aircraft Qantas seems to be running on domestic routes are 737 8s ... so we are getting some sort of a synergy between the worst aspects of both of these companies.

Was that non-stop criticism more to your taste?

 

[Sascha Franck]

Was that non-stop criticism more to your taste?

I have no idea how that was related.

 

[Ed DeGenaro]

Maybe. But this article is of no value at all. But that goes for pretty much anything on that site, which I've stumbled across before already.

Likely, yet I found it still a good read.

 

[Sascha Franck]

Likely, yet I found it still a good read.

I'd rather read something about ideas regarding future development. That'd be interesting to me.

Reading it's "not a Helix with a touchscreen" doesn't really mean much to me, because from a user's POV that's basically what it is.
No, of course it's not, there's improved amp modeling and some other things making your Helix life easier. Fwiw, personally, I find the output mixer to be a most excellent idea, other seem to drool about Focus view and what not.

So, would I like some better sounding amps? Sure. And would I love the touchscreen along with the encoders for editing instead of having to deal with an editor? You bet I would.

But all of that is pretty much along the "expectable evolution", not causing too much excitement, at least not for me.
And when reading an article that is largely about the future development of a platform I might invest some money into (right now I wouldn't, for some reasons), I'd rather read about something truly exciting that might be on the future roadmap.