Line 6 Helix Stadium Talk

[MirrorProfiles]

Real Revv - channel 4 (Red) with aggression on red (equivalent to 2 on the models):

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qjhl...Revv.mp3?rlkey=js5jgfy7wwzoz0hyhd6tjorjb&dl=0

The load was a real V30 4x12 cab - an Orange if you're curious.



Stadium Revv - equivalent settings:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/u0mu...-Red.mp3?rlkey=vgy15csw38xdvry3xlxx29v2g&dl=0



Stadium Revv - same settings as above, but treble and presence increased a lot to try and get the thing sounding brighter and punchier:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rg3c...IGHT.mp3?rlkey=o1dmj3wuxpdl1jw41mhruh0uu&dl=0


The same impulse response in all cases. The differences you hear are almost emblematic of my entire experience with Stadium.

IMO, Stadium here just sounds noticeably like a modeller and that’s not a description I really like to use. Feels more distant, less lively, more flat. The adjusted one doesn’t really help, it just goes a bit weird.

IDK why so many of the amps have that characteristic with the top end and low end not being right. My guess is something in the poweramp modelling needing a tweak.

 

[dean701]

similar to the way I add an input eq on some of the FAS Marshall amps, I have been adding a parametric EQ prior to the Stadium amp block and putting a low cut between 150 and 250 Hz. It works sometimes for containing some of the low end muddiness. If I pipe out from Stadium and use the FAS Multicomp, it helps clean things up. The Helix 3 band comp doesn't perform the same way.

 

[crispsandwich]

IMO, Stadium here just sounds noticeably like a modeller and that’s not a description I really like to use. Feels more distant, less lively, more flat. The adjusted one doesn’t really help, it just goes a bit weird.

IDK why so many of the amps have that characteristic with the top end and low end not being right. My guess is something in the poweramp modelling needing a tweak.

Maybe I'm going deaf then because some of the Agoura models feel and sound better than anything else currently out there IMO.