Line 6 Helix Stadium Pre-Launch Discussion

Orvillain said:
Honestly, within a window, I've had some really good sounding captures from my amps over the years, even the Kemper ones. I generally haven't found many others that I liked out in the world though. For me, I'm always a bit surprised (but also kinda not) at how people are so willing to just use off the shelf captures, without making their own.
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Instant gratification has rooted itself pretty deeply since the internet exploded. People seem to want everything to be handed to them these days.
 
Frodebro said:
Before the internet, you had to ride your bike to the library and dig through the card catalog to find stuff. Then use the Dewey Decimal System to locate the book(s) in the library.
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And before the library you had to find an expert in person and learn direct! It’s just something to point at and blame, I think. The first true free public library opened in Peterborough, NH (1833)
 
Mikael Dez said:
And before the library you had to find an expert in person and learn direct! It’s just something to point at and blame, I think. The first true free public library opened in Peterborough, NH (1833)
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It’s not a blame thing at all, more of an observation of the steady shifting of how we receive information.

Way back when, the leaders of the church were the only literate ones around. People relied on them to receive information.

Then literacy became more and more commonplace and people were able to read things for themselves without the risk of any “interpretations” from whomever they had previously relied upon to inform them.

Now, Siri, Alexa, and Grok have reassumed the role once held by the early priests. People ask them to get the information for them, and generally don’t question how accurate or unbiased it is.
 
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Frodebro said:
It’s not a blame thing at all, more of an observation of the steady shifting of how we receive information.

Way back when, the leaders of the church were the only literate ones around. People relied on them to receive information.

Then literacy became more and more commonplace and people were able to read things for themselves without the risk of any “interpretations” from whomever they had previously relied upon to inform them.

Now, Siri, Alexa, and Grok have reassumed the role once held by the early priests. People ask them to get the information for them, and generally don’t question how accurate or unbiased it is.
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I spent about 5 minutes today feeding "yo momma" jokes into ChatGPT just to fuck with it.
 
Mikael Dez said:
You’re fucked when AI takes over 💯
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Orvillain said:
Honestly, within a window, I've had some really good sounding captures from my amps over the years, even the Kemper ones. I generally haven't found many others that I liked out in the world though. For me, I'm always a bit surprised (but also kinda not) at how people are so willing to just use off the shelf captures, without making their own.
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I have no idea. Between Kemper, ToneX, and now NAM, I’ve spent WAY too much time sifting through shit, paid and free. It’s a waste of time when I can just do it myself either 1. With a fucking amp modeler or 2. Capturing it myself.
 
Sascha Franck said:
With the inflationary amount of NAM files (and we're likely only at the beginning), this will possibly become the same as it's been with IRs, namely an endless rabbit hole. Which possibly is the positive aspect of proprietary formats a la QC and KPA - you do at least need the hardware, so not every single hack on earth can upload and share their captures of whatever it might be on Tonezone3000.
Also, with the QC and KPA, you can at least kinda access captures more or less straight on the unit, whereas with NAM profiles you have to download them, possibly prelisten to them in whatever NAM plugin (all of them offering no proper onboard database management) and finally transfer them to whatever hardware.
During the time that takes I would've created a dozen gigworthy patches within any decent component modeling hardware.
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Stadium Pod Express FTW. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION, WORK AND SACRIFICE FOR LINE 6 IN THIS MATTER.

The masses thank you! The BEAUTIFUL STADIUM POD EXPRESS.
 
KingsXJJ said:
Great! Too bad that “captures are stupid” for some morons.
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I spent about six years with a Kemper before entering Fractal Land. For me, the Fractal approach is much more efficient for quickly homing in on what I'm after. The caveat to this is that I have a pretty good grasp on which amps to start with, and which thingies to twist and push to get to my desired sound.
 
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