Line 6 Helix Stadium

Sound clips of high gain amps with the guitar's volume knob rolled down to show dynamics

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Sound clips of high gain amps with the guitar's volume knob rolled down to show dynamics

As much as I bagged on the rollout of Archetype: Misha Mansoor yesterday, Neural DSP's own 13-minute YT vid (not the three-minute hype one with Misha in the speeding van and playing in the desert against a fiery background) demonstrated that content EXACTLY how I want to see Stadium amps, cabs and effects demonstrated.

I'm confident Line 6 is building up to something more substantial like that, but I doubt we'll see it before October, even if they make the decision to ship earlier without Showcase.....
 
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Feel ya on that. Every couple years I buy a looper and think “This is the time, I’m going to be a loop master”...
A looper promises so much, but also presents enormous risk. Without adequate preparation (and/or a tolerant band), it's basically a trainwreck button.

It's one thing to sit alone layering ambient sounds, or letting a fairly arbitrary first loop serve as master to whatever follows. It's quite another to start throwing new loops on top of an actual live song (as I'd love to be able to do.) First off, you've got to have an opportunity to actually play the part at least once, which not every composition will accomodate. And then you need an escape plan when something inevitably goes wrong. :D
 
Video is great and a great feature but that crunch tone used in the first ~8 seconds is such a classic home-base tone ..... yep ..... clean and crunchy and midrange'y and defined all at the same time .... just glorious ™

I would've sworn that was a Plexi during that first part, but the video says he's using the Revv 120 Red model (!?!?!). If Paul indeed used that for the entire video and not just the solo, I'm guessing he is using a single-coil/coil tap sounds for everything until the heavier rhythm comes in around :49.

In any case, this is just pure usability porn. They thought sooooooooo much out when crafting the UI for this unit. The lower knob turn thing is just ridiculous icing on top of the cake.
 
I would've sworn that was a Plexi during that first part, but the video says he's using the Revv 120 Red model (!?!?!). If Paul indeed used that for the entire video and not just the solo, I'm guessing he is using a single-coil/coil tap sounds for everything until the heavier rhythm comes in around :49.

In any case, this is just pure usability porn. They thought sooooooooo much out when crafting the UI for this unit. The lower knob turn thing is just ridiculous icing on top of the cake.

Man ... thats not a tone I -would- have associated with that Amp ?
 
Generators are extremely versatile amps. There's a reason they've became sort of a modern studio staple.

Honestly, almost all amps with some gain are very versatile amps - the real question is whether the guitarist is versatile.

Weird ..... not knowing what it was, I would have picked it as some sort of crunched-up EL84 style Amp :)

I always thought the Revv's were "meant" to be for modern hard rock / djenty stuff .... how wrong was I !
 
Weird ..... not knowing what it was, I would have picked it as some sort of crunched-up EL84 style Amp :)

I always thought the Revv's were "meant" to be for modern hard rock / djenty stuff .... how wrong was I !

Paul is definitely using the neck single coil on his custom Pacifica, so that's playing a big role in the tones in the first part of the vid as well.
 
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