Line 6 Helix Stadium Talk

[JiveTurkey]

More power to you. I have pictures with the Floor and Stomp turning completely invisible. It's a wellknown issue, too.

I never denied your experience. There are MANY hills to die upon in this gear space (barf) but led strength for me is not one of them.

 

[Sascha Franck]

There are MANY hills to die upon in this gear space (barf) but led strength for me is not one of them.

Each to their own of course, but among some other things, the bad visibility has been one of the key reasons for me to sell the Floor. And ultimately also to built my recent small board not around the Stomp but a GT1kCore and a Tonex.

Anyhow, that's not even exactly why I posted my original comment triggering all this yet again.
I just happen to think it's absolutely as legit to discuss about whatever UX shortcomings as it is to discuss about accurate amp modeling. Personally, I'd buy a Stadium with global blocks, better visibility and some up to date sound sculpting options but still using the old modeling engine any day over what is available right now.
Doesn't mean I don't like great new amps, not even remotely, but as I live player I have very different preferences.

 

[EOengineer]

Unfortunately this thread is comprised of primarily night gigging vampires. Googling around I actually see more folks asking HOW TO TURN THE LED BRIGHTNESS DOWN than anything else.

You can only make an LED so bright. This just feels like the guys you see taking flash photography of beach sunsets. Like…my dude…I don’t care what your power source is…it ain’t gonna light up the universe and it sure AF isn’t going to be brighter than the sun. I’m not sure how you solve this problem. I don’t know of many lights that are super visible in direct sunlight.

 

[Sascha Franck]

Googling around I actually see more folks asking HOW TO TURN THE LED BRIGHTNESS DOWN than anything else.

I'm sure you have any of those links handy.

You can only make an LED so bright.

True. For example as bright as on a GT-1000. Or on a TC Helicon. Which have ZERO visibility issues.

And fwiw, I'm not talking about direct bright sunlight. Diffuse stage light on sunny days is much more critical.

 

[EOengineer]

I'm sure you have any of those links handy.

Sure. Here’s one.

live work with Helix HX - LED brightness issue

Good news first....Gigged last night with the helix hx for the first time...worked amazingly well, the amp channel switching is just fantastic, and I found the sounds to be easily comparable with my 'expensive' pedals, with the added bonus of not sucking the tone from the amp when connected. On t...

line6.com

 

[Karl Houseknecht]

Use them on any daylight gig and you'll know.

Played a ton of gigs with the original Helix and had no problem seeing it in outdoor gigs.

Have to agree with the Turkey here, never had an issue with the original and I used it a bunch in bright conditions. Maybe you didn’t increase the brightness to max?

 

[Sascha Franck]

Sure. Here’s one.

Didn't know you couldn't read properly. Now I do.

Maybe you didn’t increase the brightness to max?

I did.

 

[OG-T]

My personal experience is that OG Helix is hard to see in an outdoor setting. Was hoping for brighter display and switches.

 

[paisleywookiee]

So, I went Friday to Sweetwater and played a Helix Stadium for a bit, dialed in a preset. Wasn't super jazzed with it, tbh. Even told the Turkey about it, and was just going to do an AM4.

Then my pal David brought his into the shop today, and we spent a few hours with it, but still all stock cabs. Wow. Seriously. Playing it through a single QSC K8, it's really, really good. For one thing, getting tones out of my stand-bys like the SLO100 and JCM800 was an absolute cinch. But I literally dialed in the new IIC+ with my eyes, and switched cabs (WTF Line 6; a 1960 with T75's is the matched cab?!) and bam. Perfect, right off the bat.

The IIC+ is going to end up being my main tone, for sure. I'm really, really digging it, and glad I didn't Timbuck my pre-order.

 

[paisleywookiee]

Sure. Here’s one.

live work with Helix HX - LED brightness issue

Good news first....Gigged last night with the helix hx for the first time...worked amazingly well, the amp channel switching is just fantastic, and I found the sounds to be easily comparable with my 'expensive' pedals, with the added bonus of not sucking the tone from the amp when connected. On t...

line6.com

Have to agree with the Turkey here, never had an issue with the original and I used it a bunch in bright conditions. Maybe you didn’t increase the brightness to max?

Didn't know you couldn't read properly. Now I do.



I did.

Alrighty then, who’s up for a good five pages on brightness?!

 

[Sascha Franck]

Alrighty then, who’s up for a good five pages on brightness?!

Defenitely not the same guys being up for 100 pages of amp accuracy.

 

[Sascha Franck]

But hey, we could as well talk about global blocks. Or modifiers. Or anything UX related.