Line 6 Helix Stadium

[Gary_W]

So you were talking about switching from one preset to another. There’s some lag there it’s not instantaneous and it’s worse leg than the original helix.?

Yes. Currently it’s a little quicker than heating up a hot tub. At 1.1 it’ll be a little quicker than preheating your oven.

 

[Dom Mcsweeney]

Is this latency?

no, this is a forum where we discuss the very latest news about stocks and share prices in Tim Bucks

 

[JiveTurkey]

You'll get some lag tonight for sure. Tell us how you do.

 

[Lysander]

Is this latency?

Dear god, no.

 

[paisleywookiee]

Tim should start a Twitch channel, where we just watch him exist, in his own strange world.

 

[mbenigni]

Is this latency?

 

[mbenigni]

Tim should start a Twitch channel, where we just watch him exist, in his own strange world.

He once (long ago on TOP) described a scenario where he walked into a hotub store in his swimsuit, hoping for a test drive, and in my mind's eye this always plays out as a Sasha Cohen skit.

 

[Gary_W]

I’ve not owned a Helix but….

When I made song presets for gig purposes, I’d make a ‘performance’ per song (on Kemper). The stomps on the floorboard would then take me through the relevant parts of the song and would either adjust gain levels / put on a stomp / add delay or similar. I stuck to one amp per song. To be honest, I only used 3-4 amps total for a 90+ min set and we played all sorts (cover band and we played a mix from 60’s to current at the time). I don’t think I ever found a need to go to a different core amp model during the same song but maybe I’m under-thinking it for a change? Heck, before the Kemper I gigged a single channel master volume only amp with a pedal board so I tap-danced badly. Nobody left.

Snapshots here will do that for me right? I haven’t played live for a while but I’m not ready to give that up forever.

 

[paisleywookiee]

He once (long ago on TOP) described a scenario where he walked into a hotub store in his swimsuit, hoping for a test drive, and in my mind's eye this always plays out as a Sasha Cohen skit.

Omg. I’m going to now think Tim is an Americanized Borat.

 

[mbenigni]

Omg. I’m going to now think Tim is an Americanized Borat.

I nearly attached a photo of Borat in his Speedo.

 

[Sascha Franck]

If we're talking about live, time-sensitive use, you can have clean/dirt/lead/whatever live in a single preset with snapshots. Snapshots/scribble strips help make it easier to keep track of,

Well, I for one had a hard time to deciper my kitchen sink presets when I was not using them for a longer while.
I'm right now going for a mixed approach with my GT-1000 based setup, I'm using some individual presets for quick and dirty access and some "let's do everything within one preset" creatures as a kinda playground. But obviously that only works because the GT's switching is gapless (including FX trails) and has global blocks (and the external amp sound boxes are "global" as well). It's defenitely not possible to create this kinda setup with a Helix Floor (after all, there's reasons why I sold it, none of them related to sound quality).

and Showcase will make it even easier for live use.

Defenitely not for me as I can see no use case for it.

 

[Dom Mcsweeney]

 

[Dom Mcsweeney]

I feel like Sascha and Tim doing a podcast together might possibly be the most entertaining thing to listen to ever.
Perhaps with occasional and abrupt interjections along the way by Orvillain.

 

[GTR37]

I feel like Sascha and Tim doing a podcast together might possibly be the most entertaining thing to listen to ever.
Perhaps with occasional and abrupt interjections along the way by Orvillain.

Best suggestion ever why don’t we have this ?
With weekly guests like Neural Street Boys , Igloo
Cliff

 

[Chocol8]

Best suggestion ever why don’t we have this ?
With weekly guests like Neural Street Boys , Igloo
Cliff

HIGHER Cliff!

 

[mikah912]

Well, I for one had a hard time to deciper my kitchen sink presets when I was not using them for a longer while.
I'm right now going for a mixed approach with my GT-1000 based setup, I'm using some individual presets for quick and dirty access and some "let's do everything within one preset" creatures as a kinda playground. But obviously that only works because the GT's switching is gapless (including FX trails) and has global blocks (and the external amp sound boxes are "global" as well). It's defenitely not possible to create this kinda setup with a Helix Floor (after all, there's reasons why I sold it, none of them related to sound quality).

I'm not quite reconciling "Clearly-labeled snapshots of my own making with discreet displays are too confusing for me if I don't play them all the time" with "Tapping from preset to preset in a strictly one-way linear fashion with no labels on any effects and a small screen with undescriptive icons in a low-res layout view....now that's more like it!"

 

[KHAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!!!!!!]

You'll get some lag tonight for sure. Tell us how you do.

 

[Fireproof]

So you were talking about switching from one preset to another. There’s some lag there it’s not instantaneous and it’s worse leg than the original helix.?

Yep. Go ahead and cancel that preorder now.

 

[ian_dissonance]

I'm not quite reconciling "Clearly-labeled snapshots of my own making with discreet displays are too confusing for me if I don't play them all the time" with "Tapping from preset to preset in a strictly one-way linear fashion with no labels on any effects and a small screen with undescriptive icons in a low-res layout view....now that's more like it!"

I went from Helix to GT1K as well, I can’t say I find the footswitching any more complicated. I tend to pick a scheme and stick with it across presets though. Delay are always x switch with x color, drives are always x switch and x color, etc. Even with the Floor and LT I was still using the color rings more than the display to know what I was doing. One thing the switch did was point out how much I didn’t need in Helix. I’ll definitely be interested in whatever “stompium” ends up being, though. At least as long as Line 6 finds their way to input dynamics controlled parameter modulation.

 

[mikah912]

I went from Helix to GT1K as well, I can’t say I find the footswitching any more complicated. I tend to pick a scheme and stick with it across presets though. Delay are always x switch with x color, drives are always x switch and x color, etc. Even with the Floor and LT I was still using the color rings more than the display to know what I was doing. One thing the switch did was point out how much I didn’t need in Helix. I’ll definitely be interested in whatever “stompium” ends up being, though. At least as long as Line 6 finds their way to input dynamics controlled parameter modulation.

I totally get that method! But the same color ring configuration is available on Helix, and you can switch between any of 8 snapshots which would give you more immediate access than 5 GT-1000 patches in a bank.