Line 6 Helix Stadium

dws2384 said:
I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume the modelling will be pretty damn close (or on par) to fractal and the capturing up to Tonex, but theyve somewhat changed the space and have moved beyond ‘just’ a guitar modeller, this is like a whole new category of music creation/practice/band controller device. They took the best bits and pieces from every company, rolled it into one and added more.
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To me Helix Stadium is very much like those synth workstations that were popular once. It kinda even looks like the "brain" of one.

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Funk Soul Brother said:
Okay, I'll be back when the actual product ships & to gets to y'all, after y'all suss every *gritty* detail via a couple of million posts!

Line 6 reflecting on the Helix Stadium's impact across the whacky forums/social media geek-o-verse (no wonder they didn't release the toanz today!)

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Comes to a gear forum and makes fun of people for participating in the gear forum
 
Chocol8 said:
The poor NAM geeks are all butt hurt this morning. Cheer up, at least you are in a better spot than Kemper and QC. :rofl
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I don't know if you've noticed but, nearly everything you've said has the potential to be entirely wrong - where as I'm being cheerfully optimistic about the potential for NAM support - which many others would be happy to see also.

As for being butt hurt, or that I should 'cheer up' -
this reads like you've drunk too many cans of warm lager.

Go drink some water before you make a mess on yourself, you pillock.
 
molul said:
Not sure if proportions are correct in that picture. Distance between switches are almost the same across Floor Stadium Floor and Quad Cortex., and Quad Cortex should be significantly smaller, while Floor and Stadium Floor should be the same.
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They're based on the official specs and press release package - i.e. as accurate as possible, based on information we right now.
 
Blix said:
My main gripe with Helix is all amps had the same dull and flat feel to me when I compared to my Fractal.
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I had similar feelings with some of their earlier amp models, but pretty much all the ones added in the last two major FW revisions are extremely pleasing IMO, some more than others.
 
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dws2384 said:
I noticed when he announced them he said “helix stadium” and then went back and corrected himself and said “helix stadium floor” so I’d assume they’d just be helix stadium stomp and helix stadium effects. The LT will likely never exist as the XL is already smaller than it was.
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I wonder why they didn't call it Helix 2. The "2" would be perfectly justified with the new features, would be easier to say and write, and would be better for surnaming:

Helix 2 Floor
Helix 2 Floor XL
Helix 2 Stomp
...

I guess they wanted to have a balance between keeping the Helix brand while starting a new sub-brand, but as others said, this might be the only thing I didn't really like about the announcement.
 
Chocol8 said:
The poor NAM geeks are all butt hurt this morning. Cheer up, at least you are in a better spot than Kemper and QC. :rofl
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My doubt about NAM: is it already an industry standard like IRs? If not yet, I totally understand that some companies prefer doing their own thing and have full control of it, both in terms of engineering and marketing.
 
Lysander said:
Not even close. In fact, by userbase, NAM is likely still in the minority when compared with the Kempers, QCs and ToneXs of the world.
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It's not even any kind of "standard" in the plugin world (ok, maybe the "capturing standard" of the plugin world). Most people I know use dedicated guitar suite plugins and the amps coming with those suites.
 
Lysander said:
Not even close. In fact, by userbase, NAM is likely still in the minority when compared with the Kempers, QCs and ToneXs of the world.
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And I'll add to that:

NAM, being great, is far from the potential of capturing tech WILL reach.

It lacks efficiency (CPU optimization will be accomplished, sooner or later). It lacks dynamic capturing. It lacks onboard capturing (into whatever unit it could be run)... And, just as any other digital audio tech, it can be improved in terms of aliasing, accuracy and whatnot.

So any tries on dynamic capturing (liquid profiles, hybrid sims, etc) is a research path. Any unit having onboard, easy, hassle free, not-guessing capturing is desirable too. It will converge with simulation, to end up being one hybrid tech.

All of that WILL be done. And my guess is that it'll be done by brands investing resources. Not by NAM.

NAM, as is, is great. But a lot of evolution must be done.
 
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molul said:
I wonder why they didn't call it Helix 2.
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From TOP:

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And more recently from here:

Digital Igloo said:
Personally, I sort of see "Helix" as its own brand, almost separate from other Line 6 products, and the name carries a lot of familiarity and weight—which is the whole point of branding. So presumably, if we ever get around to making a new flagship, I can only imagine it'd have to be called Helix Something... Or Something Helix. But not "Helix 2" or "Double Helix", because those names are lazy and dumb.

EDIT: Lazy and dumb for Helix. Absolutely nothing wrong with putting a number after one's product. <cough> DL4 MkII, AxeFX III <cough>
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