Stadium Tips & Tricks

[banned]

Post any tips & tricks!

No side discussion on releases, bug reports, features etc. - strictly your best advice on how to set up an amp or effect for optimal results, and guidance on how to match certain real-world pedals etc. Help the community out!

I'll start with some Reverb settings that I think sound good -

Dynamic Plate: Large Reverb

• Decay = 10s
• Predelay = 0
• Damping = 7.4khz
• MotRate/Range = 0 (you can set to taste; I prefer 0)
• Mix = 31%
• Low Freq = 204hz
• Low Gain = +3dB
• Low Cut = Off
• High Cut = Off

Dynamic Plate: Medium Reverb

• Decay = 2.7s
• Predelay = 0
• Damping = 7.4khz
• MotRate/Range = 0 (you can set to taste; I prefer 0)
• Mix = 27%
• Low Freq = 204hz
• Low Gain = +3dB
• Low Cut = Off
• High Cut = Off

Dynamic Hall: Medium-Large Reverb

• Decay = 6.7s
• Predelay = 0
• Room Size = 30m
• Damping = 7.0khz
• Diffusion = 100%
• MotRate/Range = 0 (you can set to taste; I prefer 0)
• Mix = 38%
• Low Freq = 204hz
• Low Gain = +3dB
• Low Cut = Off
• High Cut = Off

It also helps to sometimes add Dynamic Ambience ahead and put one of the above in parallel/series. Of course, you can build on that and add Particle Verb etc. for fancier sounds.

If you wish to add Dynamic Ambience, here's a great general setting that just works -

Dynamic Ambience: Add a Touch of Ambience

• Predelay = 5 ms
• Room Size = 8m
• Damping = 5.0khz
• Diffusion = 50%
• Shape = Late100
• Mix = 50%
• Low Cut = Off
• High Cut = 10khz

 

[banned]

On Delay - if there's a 'Scale' parameter on your delay, set it to 75%. Big difference - make or break the sound!

Many fantastic delays in Stadium. One of my favs is Crisscross. Please see below Lele's settings based on AT's Halo sound.

Crisscross Delay

Note Sync A: 1/4
Note Sync B: 1/8 dotted
Feedback A: 50%
Feedback B: 80%
Pan A: left 75
Pan B: right 75
Mix: 17%
Level: 0
Crossfeed: 5.0
Headroom: +12dB
Mod Rate: 8.3 Hz
Mod Depth: 2.6
Shape: triangle
Phase: 180
Bit Depth: 16 bits
Sample rate: 48 kHz
Low cut: 130 Hz
High cut: 3.5 kHz

Adjust to taste.

 

[GTR37]

Watch the master on high gain amps or they can get unruly

 

[Digital Igloo]

From any empty or existing processing block (other than Split or Merge), push + turn the Lower Knob. Stadium quickly skips through subcategories without having to open the Model List at all. Helix/HX does this too, but few people know about it.

 

[bucephalus]

From any empty or existing processing block (other than Split or Merge), push + turn the Lower Knob. Stadium quickly skips through subcategories without having to open the Model List at all. Helix/HX does this too, but few people know about it.

Which button on Helix does this?

 

[GLiDE-BPM]

As far as whether focus changes save with snaps, I snap enabled all the knobs on the Revv Gen Purple in my patch.
Hit save for posterity's sake. Then I went to Snapshot 2 and moved the focus to one corner all the way. I then pressed the save button twice
on the Stadium. Did the same thing for Snapshots 3 and 4, saving after every drag of the focus to a different extreme corner.

I went through my Snapshot buttons and focused on the Revv Gen Purple block. Every time I pressed a Snap button, all of the
amp values changed to way different values as expected. So whether it was supposed to behave that way, at least saving
after every snap edit including Focus guarantees you won't get snagged by a glitch in Stadium or Stadium Edit. I've always saved Snapshots/Scenes that way on every device I have owned and still own. Nice warm fuzzy whether necessary or not!!!

 

[EOengineer]

My tip is to try splitting your amp and cab blocks so you can place time based and spacial effects there. Placing delays and reverbs after the cab sometimes sounds too clean to me. I’m used to hearing those effects through my guitar speakers. Give it a shot for a different vibe.

Side question - Can someone ELI5 what the dry-thru parameter does on something like the cosmos echo? I’m familiar with the concept of dry-thru in delay pedals whereby your non wet signal remains unprocessed and unconverted. That’s not really an option in Helix/Stadium though. Everything’s going through the converters. I don’t get it.

 

[Orvillain]

Side question - Can someone ELI5 what the dry-thru parameter does on something like the cosmos echo? I’m familiar with the concept of dry-thru in delay pedals whereby your non wet signal remains unprocessed and unconverted. That’s not really an option in Helix/Stadium though. Everything’s going through the converters. I don’t get it.

Dry-thru avoids the dry signal going through any internal processing in the block - preamp simulations at the front-end, output saturators or soft clippers, any filtering at the input or output that gets put it in to help simulate a particular effect.

 

[banned]

My tip is to try splitting your amp and cab blocks so you can place time based and spacial effects there. Placing delays and reverbs after the cab sometimes sounds too clean to me. I’m used to hearing those effects through my guitar speakers. Give it a shot for a different vibe.

Side question - Can someone ELI5 what the dry-thru parameter does on something like the cosmos echo? I’m familiar with the concept of dry-thru in delay pedals whereby your non wet signal remains unprocessed and unconverted. That’s not really an option in Helix/Stadium though. Everything’s going through the converters. I don’t get it.

Wouldn't it just be how much (what %) of the dry signal (from before the cosmos echo) comes out of the output?