Line 6 Helix Stadium

[Orvillain]

Bro, if the first Agoura tour clip of the JCM800 2203 is a Tube-Screamer boosted chugfest for the BMTH "vibez", people are gonna riot.

 

[HomespunEffects]

I know there will be some arched eyebrows that the first Stadium Agoura isolated sample of a Brit Plexi isn't some humbuckers kerranging away with everything on 10, but this clip makes absolute sense to me. Shows the dynamic range and response wonderfully and sounds great too, even though I rarely play this type of stuff. …

Master on 10, both volumes a little over half way. This is the jumped Marshall thing and I’m here for it. The only thing I’d change is Mids on 10 because that’s my thing.

That sounds really excellent.

 

[sashimi]

This clip is exactly what I want to hear. Sounds very dynamic and responsive to touch, you get a whole range from clean to breakup. Sounds fantastic, great first clip, looking forward to hearing more.

 

[timbuck3]

I know there will be some arched eyebrows that the first Stadium Agoura isolated sample of a Brit Plexi isn't some humbuckers kerranging away with everything on 10, but this clip makes absolute sense to me. Shows the dynamic range and response wonderfully and sounds great too, even though I rarely play this type of stuff.

Thanks for the weekend drop!

I love plexi dynamics in the real amp

 

[2dor]

Master on 10, both volumes a little over half way. This is the jumped Marshall thing and I’m here for it. The only thing I’d change is Mids on 10 because that’s my thing.

That sounds really excellent.

Gimme all on 10 and slammed with a boost

 

[HomespunEffects]

Gimme all on 10 and slammed with a boost

 

[2dor]

 

[HomespunEffects]

 

[AlbertA]

I know there will be some arched eyebrows that the first Stadium Agoura isolated sample of a Brit Plexi isn't some humbuckers kerranging away with everything on 10, but this clip makes absolute sense to me. Shows the dynamic range and response wonderfully and sounds great too, even though I rarely play this type of stuff.

Thanks for the weekend drop!

Nice!

Ok that sounds fantastic.

Keep 'em coming.

 

[Richard_G]

Sounds great!

I predict I will have a hard time convincing myself to not buy a Stadium generation product.

 

[Mooselake]

Show of hands:

Who cancelled their preorder after hearing the clip?

Who went and initiated a preorder because of the clip?

Seriously, I thought it sounded good, and I appreciate the L6 folks taking the trouble to put it out there. It's a thankless job.

 

[Vic Winters]

Yep.

There's a bunch there.

Off
Input 1,2
Mic
Return 1-4
MIDI?
USB?
S/PDIF?
Nexus?

 

[Fireproof]

Show of hands:

Who cancelled their preorder after hearing the clip?

Who went and initiated a preorder because of the clip?

Seriously, I thought it sounded good, and I appreciate the L6 folks taking the trouble to put it out there. It's a thankless job.

I placed my preorder!

 

[AlbertA]

Show of hands:

Who cancelled their preorder after hearing the clip?

Who went and initiated a preorder because of the clip?

Seriously, I thought it sounded good, and I appreciate the L6 folks taking the trouble to put it out there. It's a thankless job.

Forgot one, "who kept their pre-order?"

 

[Karl Houseknecht]

Seriously, I thought it sounded good, and I appreciate the L6 folks taking the trouble to put it out there. It's a thankless job.

I thought it sounded great too. I said on TOP: it doesn't suck. And that is telling given where we are here in 2025. I think we are so absolutely spoiled by great modeling at this point that clips like this might not blow us away, but at least there was nothing about it that seems to be blowing people OUT. I can remember a recent modeler release where the initial clips weren't flattering at all. This wasn't that.

 

[Mooselake]

Forgot one, "who kept their pre-order?"

Ha, yeah, didn't really forget it. A fourth could be "Who still opted not to preorder?" I was just light-heartedly trying to see if the clip caused anyone to change their mind enough to take an action one way or the other.

 

[HomespunEffects]

Forgot one, "who kept their pre-order?"

Is it October yet?

 

[BenIfin]

This whole strat-neck-pickup-lets-play-like-Temu-SRV-demo's bore me to tears.

Have to say though, even allowing for all the Y/T stuff, its sounds and [seems] to respond to dynamics pretty much like "real".

I think the Agoura ride is going to be a very long and satisfying one :)

Now - lets play a game .... how long before this clip is posted on the Fractal Forum and the posts read along the lines of "my Axe Standard was nailing this years ago" ..... "typical junky L6 tones" ..... "totally plastic sounding" .... "terrible Top End" ... "dynamically flat" ... "no different to the current Helix' .... "not even 2D sounding" ..... "Cliffs going to eat Agoura for breakfast" .... "its clearly been post processed and it still sounds like a bad Boss tone" .... blah blah blah etc....

I'm guessing 1 week.

 

[BenIfin]

PS: Bring on the "Stompium"

 

[GuitarGorilla]

I was just watching the latest round of Stadium videos. Being able to search by the actual original gear name instead of the Line6 name will be a big help. One of the big annoyances of the QC has been having to pull up the NDSP website device list when I can't remember what a certain amp is called in the QC.