Line 6 Helix Stadium Talk

[JiveTurkey]

If you have touch capacitance turned on, tapping on the switch will rotate through the assigned devices.

I'm not sure if there's any other indication somewhere, but that would be nice.

I thought I tried this but didn't seem to do anything when I did. It's funny as I have been through the proverbial fires of "interface h#ll" on my FM stuff but I find myself still scratching my head a bit on the easiest thing there is

 

[banned]

Billy is just as excited as the rest of us!

 

[dk_ace]

Helix footswitch setup is faster and generally easier than FAS (duh) but sometimes I feel like the desire to make it the "easiest thing ever" kind of obfuscates a layer of what is assigned where? I'll add a Favorite block of whatever in to a preset and the associated blocks/functions create a 'Multiple' scenario on a switch where I can't always see/figure out what is assigned to it on the device and definitely not in the editor. Unless I am missing something obvious?

Snapshot recall setup on the Stomp page doesn't seem to toggle to last used snapshot like it does on the combo page with snapshots either? Unless that's by design?

Whenever I assigned multiple things to a switch, I labeled the switch. If you leave it as “multiple”, you’re just relying on your memory for what it does and my memory isn’t that good especially mid-tune at a gig or rehearsal. It’s pretty easy to figure out though if you didn’t label it, just lightly tap the switch and it will walk you through all the things on the switch. Unless you turned off the capacitive switch stuff, then you’re probably screwed…

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[EOengineer]

I got a chuckle out of the bright cap discussion here. The first clip I heard of the agoura plexi where I could see the settings, I immediately said to myself “that thing has no bright cap or a very small value bright cap - just wait until the internet figures that out lol.”

To be clear, I find the “correct” bright cap value to be too brash and over the top. I also don’t care for it without a bright cap. My happy place is somewhere in the middle, but in the lower end of the middle values.

I wish they would add a selectable cap value to most amps, it makes them far more versatile across a variety of gain ranges, guitars, and pedals that feed the amp.

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Well I’m glad you were amused. I definitely did not chuckle.

Luckily I have the AM4 and a 1959 to scratch that itch. Some of us have been banging the bright cap parameter drum for a couple years now on the Helix side. The agoura 2203 has a bright cap and it’s great.

My hunch is it’s just a very vocal minority of us yelling so it probably gets shrugged off for other priorities. I don’t think the practical functional effect off the various bright cap values is appreciated or well understood by many, including many of the modeling companies.

As I’ve been ramping up on the AM4 I’ve noticed Cliff’s own understanding of Superleads, 800s, and the effect of the various bright cap values he’s found has changed as he’s added more and more Marshalls to the Fractal system. He clearly gets it now and it’s pretty easy to get exactly what you’re looking for as far as Marshalls go in the Fractal world.

Adding a bright cap option to the Agoura Plexi would help. I’d personally prefer to see a 70s model show up along with bright cap options but a bright cap on the existing model would help a whole hell of a lot.

I’m not so sure this is an error so much as a very opinionated take on the Plexi that was received poorly by those of us who really love our Marshalls with bright caps.

 

[mikah912]

I'm not really the biggest Plexi user except for mid and lower gain these days, but I saw the night and day difference it made when you all got Line 6 to redo the JCM800 with a bright-cap enabled 2203.

That's why I co-sign any similar drum beating about their Plexi. It's a great unit, and it should have the icons (e.g. Plexi, Vox, JCm800, Dual Recto, 5150, etc.) in classic configurations.

 

[Mooselake]

You can change the cab all day, and it'll inform the Amp's SIC. But if you change the amp in a linked pair, the cab will change to its default. That's why it says "Amp > Cab Link", not "Amp < Cab Link" or "Cab > Amp Link."

This is how it works with Amp+Cab blocks in Helix/HX or Amps and Cabs in POD Go when Global Settings > Preferences > Link Amp/Cab is on. (It is by default.)

What's the behavior when using a dual cab block? Does it just use the SIC characteristics of one of them? In a dual block I usually use two of the same cab as a way to emulate two mics on a single cab, but I've been known to make some odd pairings. And I suppose in theory a person could want to get the effect of having two separate cabs in parallel and load the amp a lot more. Just curious of what the conventions are that Stadium is using, not a request to make it work every which way imaginable.

Also, as a PSA, I've not figured out how to do the amp-cab link on the editor app. The "Link Cabs" option doesn't seem to do anything when selected in the app. But on the unit itself it seems to allow me to make the expected selections.

 

[Sascha Franck]

I already have several other parameters assigned. I don't believe there's a way to swap the status just for one value (though I could definitely be wrong).

Yeah, once there's multiple parameters assigned, it's not as easy anymore. Otherwise swapping the on/off status of the switch would be possible.

 

[Sascha Franck]

There is the Command Center but not a spot that I've found in the editor.

This was the place in the old editor (had to grab the pic from Google as my Stomp is on a bandbus):

Would be kinda weird if that didn't exist anymore - but maybe it went to another location.

 

[JiveTurkey]

This was the place in the old editor (had to grab the pic from Google as my Stomp is on a bandbus):

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Would be kinda weird if that didn't exist anymore - but maybe it went to another location.

Thanks for this. It's probably right in front of my face. I'll check when I get home.

 

[Sascha Franck]

It's probably right in front of my face.

Well, maybe not. I looked up some pictures and it certainly isn't in the old spot anymore. I'm sure it must be somewhere else, though. In case it's not (can't find it on the L6 site explaining the editor...), that'd be a huge oversight.