the swede
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So... After a few months of purging my soul, I jumped back on the horse with a PG.
This is a great unit. The size is perfect for all possible scenarios. Even though I'm just a home player I value the size aspect. More well built than one would initially think. The UI is great, much better than Stomp. Number of switches and expression along with modes, snapshots and tactile functions makes it very intuitive and easy to use. By far I think this is best "Just plug in and play your damn guitar" unit Line 6 has under the Helix era. It definitively inspires without getting tangled up in twisting knobs and menus. Setting up a preset is so quick.
I even succeeded in some nasty freeze/Hold weird assignments:
by taking off the wah from the pedal,
turning wah mix to 0%,
assigning the level of the wah block to the pedal
This will turn the Wah block to a level/volume pedal
So now we have two Volume.
Now we can assign nr 1 to a Reverb or delay feedback, swell it in, have it run away, press the toe, over to nr 2 and you still can swell while things run in the background. Bingo.
All in all, I should be 100% happy and I basically don't need more. The "package" is perfect in theory.
I won't go into the cons I've found as they are pretty silly and mostly referring to my preferences of how I like to do things/play.
Problem is I want more
Ive used the Stomp for several years, mostly at home. And it's a great box everyone should have (even if it's in a drawer for a while). Problem with me and Stomp is that we don't get along where we want each other.
For a while it's on its own, fine.
Then its on a pedalboard with a bunch of stuff (the best place for a stomp).
Then its on its own but with a switch device and expression pedal and power supply (almost as pricey as an LT)
I can do what I want with a Stomp.
So, conclusion is that I'm floating around in the Helix world, trying to land somewhere. I started with a LT, back when I was playing in a band setting. That was glorious.... I miss that. Miss that box. But at home, not so much.
Honestly between you guys and me, the problem is more home related. I want to be in the living room, in the middle of everything so to say (kids, wife, laundry, kitchen). We had a room in the basement that was kinda setup like a "studio" but honestly I didn't like having everything down there. And I didn't like carrying stuff up and down (Stomp, guitar, computer, cable, headphones). And I hated being down there. Now its a training room for the whole family, with we all need anyway.
Today it struck me, now that the boys have their own rooms upstairs (was an empty attic just until last year) we are doing a guest room from their old room.
Maybe if I could sit there, I could feel better being "in the middle" and still have a fixed spot for guitar playing. This idea led me back into the possibility that maybe I should get a LT again.... maybe that's the right solution.
It took me a week to realize Pod Go is super great but won't do what I want. But at least I've tried it.
The easiest (and economical) way out of this mess is to get a new Stomp, I know it like it was my own body and I get a very long way with just the Stomp and an Expression pedal. And stand up to my own words, that its silly and downright idiotic not to have a Stomp if one likes Line 6 Helix.
I know there is the Stomp XL, but to me a XL with expression pedal and a pretty management, is basically an LT (bought used maybe). It's a very thin line between that but a very large distance in dsp. We'll see where I end up. Its undecided.
Sorry for the mess I might have created inside of anyone reading all this crap.
This is a great unit. The size is perfect for all possible scenarios. Even though I'm just a home player I value the size aspect. More well built than one would initially think. The UI is great, much better than Stomp. Number of switches and expression along with modes, snapshots and tactile functions makes it very intuitive and easy to use. By far I think this is best "Just plug in and play your damn guitar" unit Line 6 has under the Helix era. It definitively inspires without getting tangled up in twisting knobs and menus. Setting up a preset is so quick.
I even succeeded in some nasty freeze/Hold weird assignments:
by taking off the wah from the pedal,
turning wah mix to 0%,
assigning the level of the wah block to the pedal
This will turn the Wah block to a level/volume pedal
So now we have two Volume.
Now we can assign nr 1 to a Reverb or delay feedback, swell it in, have it run away, press the toe, over to nr 2 and you still can swell while things run in the background. Bingo.
All in all, I should be 100% happy and I basically don't need more. The "package" is perfect in theory.
I won't go into the cons I've found as they are pretty silly and mostly referring to my preferences of how I like to do things/play.
Problem is I want more
Ive used the Stomp for several years, mostly at home. And it's a great box everyone should have (even if it's in a drawer for a while). Problem with me and Stomp is that we don't get along where we want each other.
For a while it's on its own, fine.
Then its on a pedalboard with a bunch of stuff (the best place for a stomp).
Then its on its own but with a switch device and expression pedal and power supply (almost as pricey as an LT)
I can do what I want with a Stomp.
So, conclusion is that I'm floating around in the Helix world, trying to land somewhere. I started with a LT, back when I was playing in a band setting. That was glorious.... I miss that. Miss that box. But at home, not so much.
Honestly between you guys and me, the problem is more home related. I want to be in the living room, in the middle of everything so to say (kids, wife, laundry, kitchen). We had a room in the basement that was kinda setup like a "studio" but honestly I didn't like having everything down there. And I didn't like carrying stuff up and down (Stomp, guitar, computer, cable, headphones). And I hated being down there. Now its a training room for the whole family, with we all need anyway.
Today it struck me, now that the boys have their own rooms upstairs (was an empty attic just until last year) we are doing a guest room from their old room.
Maybe if I could sit there, I could feel better being "in the middle" and still have a fixed spot for guitar playing. This idea led me back into the possibility that maybe I should get a LT again.... maybe that's the right solution.
It took me a week to realize Pod Go is super great but won't do what I want. But at least I've tried it.
The easiest (and economical) way out of this mess is to get a new Stomp, I know it like it was my own body and I get a very long way with just the Stomp and an Expression pedal. And stand up to my own words, that its silly and downright idiotic not to have a Stomp if one likes Line 6 Helix.
I know there is the Stomp XL, but to me a XL with expression pedal and a pretty management, is basically an LT (bought used maybe). It's a very thin line between that but a very large distance in dsp. We'll see where I end up. Its undecided.
Sorry for the mess I might have created inside of anyone reading all this crap.
