Line 6 Helix Stadium Talk

Fireproof said:
I've just tried mine out at home. In my office I have it hooked up to a Friedman ASC-10.

Wife was out so i was alone. Just for grins, I cranked it up loud. I got it loud enough I had to move out of the office (left the amp in there - I just needed some distance). Hard to quantify how loud I got it, but it was loud - as loud as I've cranked my Badlander 50 or Friedman Runt. I just wanted to see what it sound and felt like. Maybe not stage volume with a drummer, but it was pretty dang loud (i'm sure people outside could hear it).

I'll tell you - it felt awesome. Definitely better than any prior attempts with Helix (last I used Helix diligently was pre-3.5 so keep that in mind). But the agoura amps and effects and everything I tried just sounded and felt like I was playing an amp. I knew immediately at that point that selling my FM9 to fund it was the right move for me. Because it sounds and feels great (quiet and at volume) and is super fun to configure and play with "on device" - which is what I really needed / wanted..
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I really appreciate you following up with this feedback. You nailed exactly what I was wondering about. I’ll for sure drag out the wedge this weekend and crank it up.

I love my guitar cabs but one of my favorite modern conveniences is showing up to a gig with a rig in a backpack. Every sound guy I’ve worked with has also loved it. Anything that makes that experience better for the guitarist is IMO a solid step forward.
 
Ran into my first Stadium bug (I hope software!). When I turn it on, it gets stuck on the Helix Stadium XL splash screen. The scribble strips show with the stomps for the patch that should be displayed. But the screen is just the splash. I've restarted multiple times 😕

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Mongillo19 said:
Ran into my first Stadium bug (I hope software!). When I turn it on, it gets stuck on the Helix Stadium XL splash screen. The scribble strips show with the stomps for the patch that should be displayed. But the screen is just the splash. I've restarted multiple times 😕

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Yeah, it's a rite of passage.

It should go if you press the home button a few times.
 
Yeah, that'll be it; the boot after importing IRs take a while.

Also, be aware there seems to be a but with IRs relating to either volume or quality (depending on who you ask).
 
In Leo Gibson's last two videos, he complains bout the the Agoura SLO 100 not having a depth knob and thinks it's a lack of attention to detail. What he doesn't seem to realize is that the earlier ones didn't have it. It was a common mod known as the "depth mod". The newer ones have it from the factory. The graphic in focus view seems to be from one that has the depth knob. It's probably not supposed to represent that actual reference amp. The people who do the graphics aren't the ones that do the amp modeling (I'm assuming). One of the videos compares it to the FM9 against a real amp. This makes the whole thing flawed IMO. He should have chosen a different amp that has the same specs. He could have spent a couple of minutes and looked it up. I don't even necessarily like SLO100s and hardly ever use them but even I knew about it.

I'm not going to bother linking them because I don't really think they're worth the time to watch.
 
ccc118 said:
In Leo Gibson's last two videos, he complains bout the the Agoura SLO 100 not having a depth knob and thinks it's a lack of attention to detail. What he doesn't seem to realize is that the earlier ones didn't have it. It was a common mod known as the "depth mod". The newer ones have it from the factory. The graphic in focus view seems to be from one that has the depth knob. It's probably not supposed to represent that actual reference amp. The people who do the graphics aren't the ones that do the amp modeling (I'm assuming). One of the videos compares it to the FM9 against a real amp. This makes the whole thing flawed IMO. He should have chosen a different amp that has the same specs. He could have spent a couple of minutes and looked it up. I don't even necessarily like SLO100s and hardly ever use them but even I knew about it.

I'm not going to bother linking them because I don't really think they're worth the time to watch.
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I'm not too concerned, considering most people I've seen really dig the SLO Agoura model, and I loved the regular HX one.
 
paisleywookiee said:
I'm not too concerned, considering most people I've seen really dig the SLO Agoura model, and I loved the regular HX one.
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The Agoura SLO kicks ass (but is a smidge picky about cabs, IMHO). If you need to add or subtract "depth", I'd play with the Z Pre/Post parameter which controls where negative feedback affects the amp circuit.

It's also nice to slather a little "Hype" (maybe 3-4 on the parameter dial) for some multiband compression that gives more "oomph" to it as well.
 
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