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Yeah, I probably shouldn't have admitted to that out loud—Line 6 doesn't even know we did that.
The clips actually sounded great, because Axe FX sounds great. But yeah, still hilarious.8 mono or stereo.
Presumably, you'd just mute the click for the 1/4" and XLR Matrix layers, and leave it on for the Phones output to your drummer. No special routing necessary. There are other routing scenarios we support, but I can't get into details right now.
We were going to wait to announce this but screw it. If you count models like we did with Helix, Stadium currently has 39 Agoura amps/channels, not 16+6. (The 50th Anniversary Ampeg SVT has 5 channels alone.) However, some amps (like the Revv 120 and Bogner Ecstasy) are too big to include multiple channels in a single model, so we're keeping them separate, as in OG Helix.
The demo video's guitar was Agoura and dialed in by Jeff Schroeder (Smashing Pumpkins); the bass was Agoura and dialed in by John Button (Roger Daltrey, session guru).
Clips are forthcoming.
Within the context of what we were actually talking about, yes, they're meaningless specifically because a veritable army of chodes will descend like locusts with a billion "HuR DuR! ThAt S0uNdZ diGItuHL y0U nEEd fRacTal oR yoU sUcK!" comments. The screenshot in sashimi's quote above describes a real-world example that proves my point.
It doesn't matter how amazing our clips sound, it literally won't affect the narrative at all. YouTube will YouTube and biased douchebags will douchebag. If they invested in a particular product, they somehow feel incentivized to knock everyone else's product down a peg, as if it somehow validates their purchase decision... yet they treat it as if their comments validate their very existence. Frankly, it's transparent and pathetic, and if I catch a Helix user doing the same thing, I try to call them out on it.
So they're not itching for clips to hear Agoura, they're itching for clips so they can $#!‡ on Agoura, whether they actually listen to them or not. $100 says we could release a YouTube video of Stadium clips today—with no audio whatsoever—and the comment section will still contain comments on how it sounds like @$$ and that Fractal or QC is soooo much better. Honest criticism takes work and perspective.
Also, a big part of Agoura (and this is echoed repeatedly by beta testers) is its immediacy and how it responds under your fingers; clips do nothing to help convey this. Still, clips are forthcoming. As mentioned repeatedly in both the keynote and long-form video, please be patient.
Back when POD HD Pro was out, people still used hardware to record guitars in studios. But now, the percentage of Helix Racks sold vs. Helix Floor/LT compared to HD Pro/X vs. HD 500/X are notably smaller. Rack form factors are selling less as years go by, presumably because it's so much easier to just use plugins like Helix Native.
I have songs with 30+ instances of Helix Native. No reamping ever required, because they're all running in real time. I just use Helix Rack as a front end/variable impedance input now and when I want to mess around without having to boot up my studio Mac and Logic.
TGF isn't a tiny fraction as bad as YouTube. Man, that Sweetwater video comment section is a straight clown car, and the Guitar World announcement thread for Helix stadium is 99% toxic bile filled with AIDS-infected needles. Seriously, some of those guys are just plain bad people; the constant feral urge to spew diarrhea onto anything and everything cannot be good for one's mental health.
Relatively speaking, this place (and Chad Boston's group) is a breath of fresh air. So thank you all.
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