Line 6 Helix Stadium Talk

[ejecta]

People have talked about the low midrange, and that seems to be where it's most noticeable, but if you listen for it, it shows up all over.

Man if I have the same experience this will make it a keeper for me. The mids are where I think ALL modelers really don’t have it right especially with lower gain crunch tones. The need to be rich and have a warmth that helps them poke through in a mix.

I hope I don’t have my hopes up too much but I’ll find out later today when I get home.

I like what I’m hearing so far.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Chatting in a PM chain on this. The more I think about it; Proxy will be a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE draw on this.

1. Not going to get anything Neural.

2. Tone-X, different reasons than NDSP but generally same POV for me. Captures never turned out for me and was just an absolute slog for nothing.

3. If Fractal has their own capturing process; I'd 1000% give it a go. As is described and planned with NAM; I'm not sitting at home doing NAM nerd stuff. Yuck. I'll just grab a FAS amp and go. That'll will probably remain to be the case anyway.

4. Helix is poised with Proxy to smash this particular niche-but-not-really-a-niche feature out of the park, imo.

 

[Jarick]

Where you setting the treble on the Fractal model? I find myself putting at 9:00 or lower. And of course, depends on cab and mic.

Great feedback! I always struggle with getting knobs too far away from noon, but I tend to run this model around 10-11:00 and then lower the bright cap value. I don't like removing the bright cap but default it's pretty aggressive unless the gain is run up high. Because the Helix doesn't have adjustable bright cap I wanted to get a sense for how bright it is out of the gate.

 

[EOengineer]

Great feedback! I always struggle with getting knobs too far away from noon, but I tend to run this model around 10-11:00 and then lower the bright cap value. I don't like removing the bright cap but default it's pretty aggressive unless the gain is run up high. Because the Helix doesn't have adjustable bright cap I wanted to get a sense for how bright it is out of the gate.

Your post here is a perfect example of why opinions vary so wildly on 800s. You can try a dozen, some will have the cap clipped, others will use a different value, etc. Fractal got this right by exposing that bright cap value as a parameter. We’re still very early with Agoura so no idea whether parameters like this show up, but I will say check out the Superbass if the 800 is too snappy for you. Once you crank it there is some common ground to be covered there.

 

[dbagchee]

2. Tone-X, different reasons than NDSP but generally same POV for me. Captures never turned out for me and was just an absolute slog for nothing.

If Proxy is on par with TONEX (which I expect it to be) it will be a grand slam for Line 6. I've really turned around my perspective on captures after really digging in to TONEX more since getting the TONEX One. You still have to slog through captures, but generally the curated sets vendors put together do the heavy lifting.

I think Jon mentioned this in one of his videos too, this is week 1 of the next 10 year cycle - we're on the ground floor of what the Stadium has the potential to be.