Line 6 Helix Stadium Pre-Launch Discussion

OK ... not at home ... listening on the built-in speakers on a 10 year old 11" Sony Ultra book :(

These sounds are utterly amazing ..... what shocked me is how - to my ears at least - its sounds almost nothing like the Helix.

The new Agoura Modeling is clearly the real deal.

Well done L6.

And I'm not even buying one - until the "Stompium" is released :)
Yeah and the Hype knob's pretty cool - not overdone or anything.
 
I don't get crazy with my paths usually, and I have a really hard time wrapping my head around parallel paths. So what is the effect of dropping down the fuzz into a parallel path but not routing around a different effect? Does it just blend in some dry guitar?
Yeah, the dry signal along side the fuzz can keep your amp sounding punchy and clear whereas traditionally something a full on Big Muff very easily turns into a wall of mush through many amps. The physical big muff deluxe pedals actually give you a knob to blend in dry signal for exactly that reason.

That said, I think they put the fuzz after the cab in that video, so then it’s more like a quirky saturation effect.
 
I don't get crazy with my paths usually, and I have a really hard time wrapping my head around parallel paths. So what is the effect of dropping down the fuzz into a parallel path but not routing around a different effect? Does it just blend in some dry guitar?
Yes basically. But you can imagine it like this:

Guitar comes in. Split into two paths. You have one effect on path A, another effect on path B. The outputs of these effects join afterwards.

This means the effects do not interact - ie; your compressor doesn't affect the level of the guitar going into the fuzz. Your chorus doesn't affect the signal going into the reverb.

etc etc.
 
Stuff's starting to come out now; another one:


I’m just a few mins in but have to say I’m loving what I’m hearing. It’s been pointed out in other clips, but there’s something different with the attack that plain sounds better than Hx. The clipping character is awesome too. When he rolls his guitar volume down with the SLO you get a really nice listen to how the clipping softens up.

I can’t pick out a sonic flaw or non-natural fingerprint at all with this right now.
 
Me, just waiting for the non-XL Stadium

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Yes basically. But you can imagine it like this:

Guitar comes in. Split into two paths. You have one effect on path A, another effect on path B. The outputs of these effects join afterwards.

This means the effects do not interact - ie; your compressor doesn't affect the level of the guitar going into the fuzz. Your chorus doesn't affect the signal going into the reverb.

etc etc.

Yeah, I kind of understand that use case — routing around another effect so they don't interact. I just hadn't seen using it, I guess, to route around the dry guitar.
 
"Modelers don't typically do high gain as well?"
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Some definite scratchiness on that Panama preset. Smooths out a bit and sounds good when it's pitched down though.
I noticed a bit of that and string noise but that to me is going to happen if you are gating really tight or if you have a tone of upper mid / presence but that is the modern sound and easy to rectify switch mics , high cut the cab , move the mic
I have my Fractal and it does that as well with noise under the notes depending on gate and eq setting
 
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