Howdy!
The past 18-24 months have been, let's say... arduous... and when my ever-patient wife repeatedly asked when we'd finally go on vacation, I responded with "we just gotta get through NAMM, babe." Our friends in
Spotlights are finishing up their European tour with Helix Stadium and Showcase running guitar amps (through quilter power amp and Marshall 4x12) and effects, vocal effects, tracks/intros/seques, automation, and a click for the drummer. (Sarah's using an LT for bass duties too.) We flew out to see their London, Paris, and Barcelona shows. They kicked ass.
Got back a week ago and all the post-NAMM emails, meetings, and Proxy madness made me avoid social media for a bit longer. So I'm not
back back just yet, but at least I got through page 214 of this thread.
No, and this is something that plagues every UI with a list and increment/decrement engagements—If a list isn't visible, up means next. If a list is visible, down means next. Left/right, up/down, there's no free lunch here. If if bugs someone, Global Settings > Switches/Pedals > Swap Up/Down lets you change it.
No free lunch here either, as by definition, "active" snapshots autopopulate the state of the block when it's added. Still, you can do one of three things:
- Bypass the block, copy it, and then paste it in place
- Save the block as a favorite while bypassed
- From a new preset, before selecting any other snapshots, bypass the block
There was indeed an elusive (now fixed, will be in 1.3) speaker impedance curve bug that affects approximately 13% of amp and cab
combinations (but no
default amp+cab combinations). From what I've been told, it shouldn't bias the high end more than 1 (maybe 1.5?) dB or so up or down. Is this what people are experiencing? Not sure, but the team sure isn't sitting on their hands, shrugging.
And as others have mentioned, amp models currently load the SIC of their default cab if an unlinked cab or IR is used.
I have songs with POD Farm that I cannot replace with any other plugin because of how accustomed I am to that particular sound. Totally get it.
Interestingly enough, one company purposely restricts the range of tonestack knobs to avoid "wrong" settings that might hurt a newbie's sensibilities. Line 6 certainly doesn't, at least on purpose. Maybe it's the SIC thing? I kindly request you check beta in a week or so.
A/D/A, oversampling, clocking, power supply, overall headroom, circuit layout... You'd think they should be minuscule differences, but collectively, it all adds up.
Wait, didn't I address this very thing with you in the past? Again, all the new effects developed for Helix Stadium have already been released for Helix/HX. Anyone insisting Stadium gets effects that Helix/HX doesn't is gatekeeping.
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