New Line 6 product speculation thread [disclosure: HX One]

[DrewJD82]

Like a native - quite literally!

Zucchini is an Italian word...

Courgette is French, but from 1066, French was the language of the noble class.

Rather interestingly, the English language is littered with different terms depending on your social status - pork, beef, mutton, venison are all words we might use today to describe food, and are derived from french, whereas pig, cow, sheep, deer are Germanic words used by peasants to describe the animal, because they didn't get to eat them

This continues to this day, where you Americans eat stuff that wouldn't legally be considered food over here!



BTW - where the merry fu@k does "eggplant" come from?

This post proves an American mentality: people with EU accents are smart.

 

[paisleywookiee]

So sad…..

 

[timbuck3]

This post proves an American mentality: people with EU accents are smart.

but in uk their teeth are so neglected and poor

 

[dk_ace]

How's the UI tho?

Some have knobs, some have sliders

 

[Enchilada Jones]

but in uk their teeth are so neglected and poor

There are so many ways to stand out from a crowd, if that's your thing. Lots of people have shown it can be an art form. You seem to go another way, the path illuminated by dumpster fires.

 

[DrewJD82]

but in uk their teeth are so neglected and poor

Holy shit Tim, do we need to take you out back and spray the TGP off you with a hose?

 

[SillyOctpuss]

Holy shit Tim, do we need to take you out back and spray the TGP off you with a hose?

 

[dronerstone]

Well, I have a Whammy V, a POG2, and an MXR poly octave pedal and I’ve owned all of them for a long time and gigged with all of them. The Helix Poly stuff is better than all of them, full stop.

D

I do agree on the HX algorithms, but as far as I remember there's no dual poly pitch in the HX universe (yet), which is why the POG 2 remains top-tier.

 

[JiveTurkey]

I love our fine UK folks here

 

[SwirlyMaple]

Thanks for reminding me society hasn’t moved past dumbass mentalities like this.

Is it society that hasn’t moved beyond it, or a few numpties who got left behind?

 

[SwirlyMaple]

I do agree on the HX algorithms, but as far as I remember there's no dual poly pitch in the HX universe (yet), which is why the POG 2 remains top-tier.

Genuine question, what does one use dual poly pitch for? As a virtual capo and then harmonizing chords on top of that?

 

[paisleywookiee]

but in uk their teeth are so neglected and poor

It’s true, @Foxmeister is nearly indistinguishable from Austin Powers. JFC

 

[Mongillo19]

Is it society that hasn’t moved beyond it, or a few numpties who got left behind?

Are we THAT shocked Tim thinks this way unfortunately there are always going to be Tims in the world but I'd like to think a large portion of society has moved forward albeit slightly.

 

[fazer]

but in uk their teeth are so neglected and poor

Well you’re right, of course, and we really should stop running around Sherwood Forest shooting each other with bows and arrows too!

 

[paisleywookiee]

Well you’re right, of course, and we really should stop running around Sherwood Forest shooting each other with bows and arrows too!

If you carve someone’s heart out though, make sure you use a spoon. Alan said it hurts more.

 

[dronerstone]

Genuine question, what does one use dual poly pitch for? As a virtual capo and then harmonizing chords on top of that?

Lower and upper poly octave (at the same time) + dry signal, for example, like I'd use any EHX POG family member.

 

[HotRats]

Zucchini is an Italian word...

Actually we call them zucchina (singular) and zucchine (plural).
There's no zucchini in Italian.

Eggplants are melanzana/melanzane

 

[HotRats]

 

[dk_ace]

I do agree on the HX algorithms, but as far as I remember there's no dual poly pitch in the HX universe (yet), which is why the POG 2 remains top-tier.

I built a patch with poly pitch on both paths with an amp and some other stuff on each, so I have a POG2 replacement patch. And, it’s epic….

D

 

[dk_ace]

As said, I don't agree with that, at least not with all of it. Especially when it comes to latencies, the advanced L6 pitch stuff is not exactly great, to put it carefully.

Hmmm… I don’t see why I really have to explain this. For anyone who has used both of them extensively this is pretty obvious. But I’ll do it anyway…

HX is better because you can choose where you want to be on the spectrum between having very little latency and having very high quality. For playing a part that is clean or almost clean in a quiet section of a song where the guitar will be heard very clearly, you can select very high quality. If you want less latency and are in a context where you can get away with some artifacts (overdriven tones where they wouldn’t be noticed as a bad thing), you can select that.

The latency has never been a problem for me regardless as long as I’m playing loud or through IEMs. My picking hand adjusts to play slightly ahead subconsciously so that what I’m playing is heard as being in time. I’ve never had to practice that, it just happens. Maybe I’m unique in my ability to do that, but I doubt it. If I were playing in a bedroom listening to latency, of course it would bother me. Playing with a band and focusing on a performance, never remotely noticed it or struggled to play in time.

Where the HX stuff really stands out is that brilliant auto eq control. You can turn it down and have the whammy sound, or adjust it up so that you have a more natural tone to the shifted stuff.

I also use the heck out of it for practicing tunes and where the track I have is in a different key than what we’re gonna perform it in.

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