Line 6 Helix Stadium Talk

[sashimi]

 

[HotRats]

Brian here ( I created Worship Tutorials, and Bradford and I created Signal Theory).

We have been discussing starting a new brand for years now, and finally it seemed like the time was right. Worship Tutorials was original intended to make.... worship tutorials, ha. In the beginning that's really all I did - teach how to play worship songs in church.

Over time we focussed our content more and more on gear, presets, captures, etc. It always felt strange for us to do that on a church/worship channel, and we also felt it would be difficult for guitar players outside of the (admittedly odd at times) sub-genre of modern praise and worship to either be interested at all in our content, or to take us seriously.

We also wanted to split the business of our presets and captures away from a Christian/church centric brand. I made both Def Leppard and Slash signature presets this past year. Putting those on Worship Tutorials feels... weird.

So we wanted a brand that was solely focussed on gear/presets/catpures, etc. And we wanted Worship Tutorials to be able to go back to its initial vision of providing content specifically for church players.

So, in a round about way, yes - we created Signal Theory because nobody would take a high gain demo from Worship Tutorials seriously .

We do have some Stadium content on Worship Tutorials on Youtube, but it's us using it to play worship songs. OK - back to Stadium talk.

You did the right thing.
Even if there might be something to learn form the P&W scene, that's an USA specific niche and we (at least me, lol) non USA citizens don't care/don't know about it.

I've never watched a video of yours form the worship music channel just because I'm not into that music or religion.

The worship word in the channel name simply kept me away from it.

On the other hand I've watched and enjoyed your new channel so far.

 

[Sascha Franck]

I get the USB concern. At the same time, just track a DI tone and monitor the processed tone and do your plugins later. Over complicating the process for what?

Playing through whatever given tone might alter how you play very noticeably.

 

[AlbertA]

I was very close with my guesses about DSP/Application SoC here: https://thegearforum.com/threads/li...e-launch-discussion.9058/page-473#post-430606


Gut shots




DSP - Analog Device's ADSP-21593KBPZ10 - Newest Dual Core SHARC+ running @1GHz




Application SoC => NXP i.MX 8M Plus Quad



A/D - AKM AK5558VN



DAC - AKM AK4458VN



RAM for NXP i.MX 8M Plus - Micron 4GB LPDDR4




RAM for ADSP-21593 - Kingston 512MB DDR3L


NXP Wifi/Bluetooth module - AzureWave AW-CM358




Storage - Samsung eMMC 16GB KLMAG1JETD-B041

 

[AlbertA]

FPGA - Lattice Semiconductor LCMXO2-1200ZE-1MG132C



Other stuff

 

[StarF666]

FPGA - Lattice Semiconductor LCMXO2-1200ZE-1MG132C

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Nice computer! Now who's gonna wait for Rev B. because it fixes whatnot and when will people realize, you got to have Rev. A for the true vintage sound because...

 

[Gary_W]

“It’s easier if you switch to butthole view” has a special ring (no pun intended) to it as it’s shouted across the stage to the other guitarist.

This is why we can’t have nice things.

The anal part of me wants to point out that the part of the ‘focus’ icon that makes it look like a butthole is actually the aperture adjustment which is part of the lens on a traditional manual camera - it’s not actually the focus. AITA for mentioning this?

I’m going to be down on myself and say ‘yes, I am the arsehole’. I’m not sure how they’d represent a glass lens moving towards or away from another lens (which is kind of what focusing is doing) in a simple icon so them showing the aperture butthole as the main feature of the icon is reasonable.

I fear that, now I’ve pointed this out, we will have a NJC video saying ‘Click here to discover the massive inaccuracy issue with Helix Stadium’ where it compares a digital camera lens that has no butthole and an actual camera lens that does and then has a big thumbs down on the focus view icon because it causes digital clipping and isn’t like an analogue camera.

 

[Orvillain]

 

[Gary_W]

Spare butthole. Useful.

 

[HotRats]

Holy willy flaps. Steve Sterlacci just taught me something... I totally spaced on Helix Stadium having Stomp A and Stomp B views... ie.... two pages of stompo's !? That's killlerrr.

I posted that very feature request on the old ideascale back in 2018 or so.
I'mreally happy they implemented it in Stadium.

 

[Orvillain]

Another quick ambient clip this morning:

Dropbox

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[HotRats]

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Good ol YT

he clearly doesn't play guitar at all.

 

[HotRats]

The old Helix had noise issues with grounding when using it to switch channels on an amp. Hope that’s not still the case with the new unit.

It also depends on the amp, I guess.
I had to use a transformer isolator with the helix floor and the 100W jubilee but not with the 25W.

No idea why.

 

[Goontone]

Totally fair, but when 1.2 drops, we'll do the same with 1.3. When 1.3 drops, we'll do the same with 1.4. When 1.4 drops... Suddenly you're looking at a you-know-who situation.

Voldemort?

 

[TheTrueZoltan!]

Voldemort?

His little brother Voltimort. His most feared spell kills all monetary transactions.

 

[Orvillain]

I'm trying to figure something out. I think there might be some dry-amp bleeding through the IR block when I only load 1 IR, but it is quite hard to tell. Anyone else spotted anything like that??

 

[Orvillain]

Yeah, I rebooted the unit and have setup exactly what I setup previously, and can't get it to happen now.

I think it might've been something to do with the SPDIF clocking going a bit haywire maybe??

 

[BenIfin]

I was very close with my guesses about DSP/Application SoC here: https://thegearforum.com/threads/li...e-launch-discussion.9058/page-473#post-430606


Gut shots

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DSP - Analog Device's ADSP-21593KBPZ10 - Newest Dual Core SHARC+ running @1GHz

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Application SoC => NXP i.MX 8M Plus QuadLite

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A/D - AKM AK5558VN

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DAC - AKM AK4458VN

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RAM for NXP i.MX 8M Plus - Micron 4GB LPDDR4

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RAM for ADSP-21593 - Kingston 512MB DDR3L
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NXP Wifi/Bluetooth module - AzureWave AW-CM358

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Storage - Samsung eMMC 16GB KLMAG1JETD-B041
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FPGA - Lattice Semiconductor LCMXO2-1200ZE-1MG132C

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Am totally out of my knowledge zone here ..... but are these good / fast / state of the art sort of chips / processors -or- are they 1. 2 or more generations old (?)

 

[ejecta]

Did you have the noise problem with other heads or is it a Mesa thing? TBH; I won't probably end up taking the Mark and HX out of the house at the same time anyway for gigging. If I do; I'll probably just bring the channel switch and move on.

I never had an issue with the channel switching part because I didn’t use it that way but read others have irrc and some brands were worse that others. I use those hum eliminators because in my studio I have several rigs that are interchangeable with a lot of hookup and the more you have hooked up into the add or different outlets the more places for ground loop hums. I think that gear is just too useful not to have around.

 

[bucephalus]

How does even have time to play the guitar if he’s making a new video every 14 minutes? Next time make them all buy it like everyone else, lol.

I find him, quite literally, exhausting.