Line 6 Helix Stadium Pre-Launch Discussion

[mbenigni]

"Sabbra Cadabra."

And if anyone would like to make fun of me by telling me how easy it is to get that sound... and then tell me how to get that sound... I'm all ears. I have in fact asked ChatGPT or whatever engine is now inescapably lodged into Google Chrome, and it was the same old drivel about how Tony used a Rangemaster treble booster.

News flash: I think I'm making progress with a Moogerfooger block at the front of my chain, mixed at about 50%.

But of course, as previously noted, Tony is in the fingers.

 

[[Nathan]]

The length of this thread is probably why cliff just releases products when they’re done

 

[StarF666]

The length of this thread is probably why cliff just releases products when they’re done

Wasn't he the one obscurely declaring his new product will make everything else look like a game boy?

 

[laxu]

The length of this thread is probably why cliff just releases products when they’re done

I think this one should be nuked when it releases and a new one started.

 

[Foxmeister]

The length of this thread is probably why cliff just releases products when they’re done

 

[wharf rat]

 

[GTR37]

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I would have to go back and dig but I swear it was shown earlier like a year before they officially announced it , there was a post called “ I am just going to leave this here “ and it was a picture of the prototype

Edit I am sorry that was the AX8

 

[EOengineer]

While I didn’t love everything he dialed in the shorter video earlier this year, I’m 2 mins in here and this is exactly what I want to watch. Someone dialing in presets. That Deluxe sounded great from the start.

 

[mbenigni]

From the facebook group

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Long boot times are sometimes unavoidable, but I do take issue with the amount of elapsed time with no user feedback whatsoever. That’s been a pet peeve of mine with Apple devices for a while now. Sure, it may take a minute for a complex piece of gear to boot up, but it should somehow acknowledge (with a beep or a light or whatever) that the process has started - and that it’s not dead - immediately. For a few seconds, I thought this was someone documenting a DOA Stadium.

But here again: probably easily rectified in firmware.

 

[ispunk]

This is the first time I've seen a ferrite bead used on an IEC cable

 

[laxu]

While I didn’t love everything he dialed in the shorter video earlier this year, I’m 2 mins in here and this is exactly what I want to watch. Someone dialing in presets. That Deluxe sounded great from the start.

The constant camera changes frustrated the hell out of me when many times he's like "I'm going to add this thing" and it cuts to a camera where you can't see the actual unit being operated.

 

[paisleywookiee]

A guy on Facebook was bitching (maybe that’s too harsh a word) that he could only get two Agoura amp blocks, a tube screamer, and a poly pitch on one line before he ran out of DSP.
Dunno, that sounds like a lot of shit.

I know it’s just my use case showing, but I’ve never understood the obsession with poly pitching as an absolute necessity. Maybe it’s because I grew up in the 90’s when this wasn’t even a possibility.

 

[wharf rat]

A guy on Facebook was bitching (maybe that’s too harsh a word) that he could only get two Agoura amp blocks, a tube screamer, and a poly pitch on one line before he ran out of DSP.
Dunno, that sounds like a lot of shit.

I know it’s just my use case showing, but I’ve never understood the obsession with poly pitching as an absolute necessity. Maybe it’s because I grew up in the 90’s when this wasn’t even a possibility.

He also put two amps in one line; not sure how that impacted his DSP, but I feel like he was trying to replicate how he built a QC preset on Stadium.

 

[paisleywookiee]

He also put two amps in one line; not sure how that impacted his DSP, but I feel like he was trying to replicate how he built a QC preset on Stadium.

Yeah, I would’ve just treated them as two separate rigs in two separate lines.

 

[deadpool_25]

My cats disagree.

Makes sense. Cats are disagreeable.


But I still love them too

 

[laxu]

A guy on Facebook was bitching (maybe that’s too harsh a word) that he could only get two Agoura amp blocks, a tube screamer, and a poly pitch on one line before he ran out of DSP.
Dunno, that sounds like a lot of shit.

I know it’s just my use case showing, but I’ve never understood the obsession with poly pitching as an absolute necessity. Maybe it’s because I grew up in the 90’s when this wasn’t even a possibility.

Sounds like Poly pitch is still really demanding. Helix Floor/Rack can fit Poly Pitch + Amp + Cab and not much else into a single path.

So by that notion they were able to cram a full extra amp, and a drive pedal into there.

 

[AZG]

A guy on Facebook was bitching (maybe that’s too harsh a word) that he could only get two Agoura amp blocks, a tube screamer, and a poly pitch on one line before he ran out of DSP.
Dunno, that sounds like a lot of shit.

I know it’s just my use case showing, but I’ve never understood the obsession with poly pitching as an absolute necessity. Maybe it’s because I grew up in the 90’s when this wasn’t even a possibility.

Did that include cabs?

 

[GuitarGorilla]

@wharf rat and whoever else ordered from MF in hopes of getting a first-wave Stadium:

After reading reports on the FB group that MF was pushing people's orders back I chatted with them this morning. They're now saying:

-ALL Stadium orders are pushed back to a Dec 23 ship date based on instructions from L6.

-They do not, in fact, have 1000+ units in their warehouse waiting to ship, and they don't know when they'll receive the units they expect.

This could be junk info just like all of the other bad info they were giving out. But it doesn't look good for those of us who switched from Sweetwater in hopes of getting the Stadium earlier.

 

[paisleywookiee]

Did that include cabs?

No, he put the cabs on the second line.

 

[paisleywookiee]

Just watched this; very impressed. Everything sounds amazing, and the UI is awesome. I take back what I said about the skeuomorphic stuff.