What would you say is the most diverse amp in Helix?

[Sascha Franck]

I was shocked by how good the Bogner Blue is at low-drive crunches. I was expecting nothing but high-gain tones out of these amps.

Same here. But otherwise, I think the GSG is made to be my favourite dirt platform for a while to come. There's several ways how you can balance things between the pedals being the main actors or the amp taking over (sort of masking the pedal's character a bit).

And fwiw, there's no other amp going so well with my Nobels ODR-1 mini, based on the old circuit without the low cut, usually an extremely difficult to integrate pedal for how I'm doing things, but the GSG simply takes it like a champ.

 

[HotRats]

It's more like a modded Fender Twin with an extra gain stage.

It's one of my favorite models and I've considered buying the real amp several times over the years. One of the best cleans you can get too, and a fantastic pedal platform.

I have no I idea what the circuit is or based on.
I just know that I used it as a single channel marshall substitute with joy.

 

[ragingplatypi]

I have no I idea what the circuit is or based on.
I just know that I used it as a single channel marshall substitute with joy.

I might have misunderstood, but I thought there were 2 versions of the Lonestar, one that leaned more Fender and another that leaned “British”.

 

[laxu]

I might have misunderstood, but I thought there were 2 versions of the Lonestar, one that leaned more Fender and another that leaned “British”.

The preamps are the same, the Lonestar Classic is a 6L6 poweramp and the Lonestar Special is an EL84 poweramp. The modeled amp is the Classic.

 

[Mooselake]

I think in the first iteration I probably said some thing about the Ventoux, and that's still one of my mainstays. "Diverse" is relative, and my need for diversity is minimal compared to many.

Grammatico seems most useful to me for everything cleaner than a 'hard rock' tone.

But I wanted to echo the shout out to the German XTRA Blue. I like the crunch I can get out of the amp itself. I usually wind up with a drive pedal model in front of an amp for everyday 70s-80s rock tones, but I like the character of the Blue's overdrive.