Line 6 Helix Stadium

[ian_dissonance]

I have succeeded and riling you all up and taken the target off LINE6's back...My checks in the mail!

It’s a guitar forum, post clips.

 

[Mikael Dez]

It’s a guitar forum, post clips.

I’d like to hear them!

 

[ian_dissonance]

I’d like to hear them!

Right, nobody cares about whose labor you’re extracting the value from here, let’s hear some licks!

 

[the swede]

Avanza epost

I have succeeded and riling you all up and taken the target off LINE6's back...My checks in the mail!

its way easier to just sit on the scanner and post your cheeks image here. Mail is old… sending cheeks on mail is really old.
It’s even quicker to just selfie your cheeks and upload it like the kids do.

 

[Whizzinby]

The XL date that Sweetwater shared when I made my preorder - not that they're the gospel, mind you - was October.

Remind me again, which is shipping first, the XL or the standard?

 

[Mikael Dez]

Remind me again, which is shipping first, the XL or the standard?

XL in Oct, standard in Dec!

 

[Richard_G]

This has quickly risen to the top of my wish list. Looks like an incredible product!

The only thing I can imagine knocking it down to 2nd place is a next generation Fractal device - and even that might not do it if not done correctly. But being a fan of Fractal for 15 years or so I have faith in them releasing a great next generation device.

 

[mbenigni]

This thread brought to you by the insecure LINE6 fan club.

Versus that unmistakable display of security: fluttering like a moth at a flame around a thread concerning a product you allegedly don't care about.

 

[DLC86]

Technically, all but Acustica Audio Nebula are copycats (if they capture at all).

Fixed that for you

 

[la szum]

Man, I think these threads are a bit like a Rorschach Test for clues into people's depth psychology
and inherent proclivities and hangups.

Some of us pretty cool, very chill, and excited for the success(es) of others.

Some of us, well, not so much.

Long live the Bickerments, but much more so, long live the Merriments!

 

[mbenigni]

Technically, all but Kemper are copycats (if they capture at all).

Why bother even trying to make a counterpoint here? Proxy is like a tangent of a tangent of the overall Stadium product design.

 

[Byrdman]

Everyone else in the Modeling & Capturing business...

Congratulations to @Digital Igloo and everyone at Line 6! You may have just moved the entire industry in a new direction.

 

[Whizzinby]

What's the point of even trying to make a counterpoint here? Proxy is like a tangent of tangent of the overall Stadium product design.

Yeah, of everything in the box, that’s the feature I care least about. I hope it ends up being cool, but it’s the “everything else” that makes this super compelling for me.

 

[dk_ace]

Interested to hear that there will be no Agoura effects in 1.0 as per one of the youtube interviews. Having recently migrated back to analog drives, I've not loved the Hx drive effects in direct comparisons. I could see the increased hardware dynamic range being a factor there, as I have suspected that the dynamic range was where I was picking up what I didn't like about the Hx stuff.

Surely the YouTube thing is wrong? I can’t imagine a new flagship and no new effects goodies. Well, I can imagine it but I dont want to.

Throw in a new set of killer reverbs with the increased processing power and footswitching and my FM9 might have reason to be nervous…

D

 

[mbenigni]

Yeah, of everything in the box, that’s the feature I care least about. I hope it ends up being cool, but it’s the “everything else” that makes this super compelling for me.

I think it's an important feature, as with QC Captures, for holding folks over while they wait on one particular amp model or another. But suggesting that Stadium is a copycat product because e.g. NAM or Kemper or any other capturing/profiling technology exists is just ludicrous.

 

[EOengineer]

Surely the YouTube thing is wrong? I can’t imagine a new flagship and no new effects goodies. Well, I can imagine it but I dont want to.

Throw in a new set of killer reverbs with the increased processing power and footswitching and my FM9 might have reason to be nervous…

D

It came straight out of DI's mouth. Unfortunately I don't have a timestamp.

EDIT: 8:55 - thanks @yek

 

[banned]

If they can take

Something akin to Performance View on Helix LT or Play View on Stomp and POD Go. All 12 switches appear on the screen, and we're trying to avoid the disconnect from horizontal splaying some might experience in the heat of the gig, so we make it really easy to recolor presets and snapshots so you always hit the right switch.

Unlike LT, Stadium can of course run 10 stomps in each of its two Stomp modes (plus two external if you set Control A/B as footswitch inputs). So 22 stomps total per preset.

Almost no one has complained about the footswitch spacing on HX Stomp (67mm). In fact, this might be the second or third time I've read something like this. Conversely, tens of thousands of people have complained about Helix's chassis size, which is largely dictated by footswitch spacing.

Gotta say, this is a weak take.

First of all, outside of the looper or preset clips, Showcase doesn't record audio (despite the fact that our system architect worked at Digitech forever ago). It also can't edit stems. Building a DAW into a guitar processor—at least in 2025—is just begging for disaster.

Second of all, Proxy's sheep icon represents 3 things:

1. Y'know, cloning
2. The Dolly the sheep print ads we used to run way back in '97, '98
3. All of these companies embracing profiling/capture tech are just sheep following in the footsteps of what Christoph Kemper built. Including Line 6!

I'd like a simple garage-band style DAW in the workstation

Would help so many of us that just want to do a quick jam and record.

 

[dk_ace]

It came straight out of DI's mouth. Unfortunately I don't have a timestamp.

He was exhausted, it was a long week. Let’s hope he misspoke.

D

 

[dk_ace]

It came straight out of DI's mouth. Unfortunately I don't have a timestamp.

Just started listening, doesn’t sound like a slip. Dang it.

D

 

[Chocol8]

as i sit here at my job that's made me rich for the last 12 years, yes, I'm a very stupid man.
For engaging with a bunch of whiney b*tches

I am guessing that job doesn't rely on your personality or charm.