Line 6 Helix

siraxeman

Teetonetal said:

Sporky said:

The issue with other peoples' patches is always going to be that they made them in a different room with a different amp and a different guitar. Also different ears.

Which is why I am amazed people can make a living out of selling them...

They can? Really really make a living from selling Helix patches ? That sounds a bit far fetched....I know there's a lot of muppets in the world n all but! 

fretmeister

siraxeman said:

Teetonetal said:

Sporky said:

The issue with other peoples' patches is always going to be that they made them in a different room with a different amp and a different guitar. Also different ears.

Which is why I am amazed people can make a living out of selling them...

They can? Really really make a living from selling Helix patches ? That sounds a bit far fetched....I know there's a lot of muppets in the world n all but! 

https://www.glenndelaune.com/patch downloads.htm

there you go!

Cabicular

Depends what you call a living ...

siraxeman

I know about Glenns patches - he's been selling patches for years for GT's as well as Pods etc....but I'd guess that's not a living but a sideline little earner on the side. I seriously doubt he makes his full living from this. Its nothing illegal but its one of the reasons I'm not a fan of this guy - isn't there a whole community of Line 6 and Boss for free patches?

Cabicular

No one is forcing anyone to do anything they don't want to
there is the line6 community for tones but let's just say it's highly variable

siraxeman

as are peoples perceptions of Glenns patches (and anyone elses...even here!). He's guilty of no crime here....so all those that want to buy his patches can. I'm sure he's laughing all the way to the bank.

Cabicular

He's not laughing that hard ... I don't see the harm
some of his routing ideas are pretty interesting and maybe saved me an hour or so of fannying about
an hour of my time is worth more than 10 dollars to me
hes presets are better than the supplied Line6 ones for the type of music I'm doing 90s type hair metal

Digital_Igloo

siraxeman said:

isn't there a whole community of Line 6 and Boss for free patches?

Yes: http://line6.com/customtone/browse/helix/

John_A

Just got in to the Snapshots feature - I had wrongly assumed all you could do was switch stuff on or off, and just found you can set parameters too.  The 'problem' with my JCM800 was I loved it set clean, and dirty, but live I normally had to settle for clean and use pedals for dirt to give me the flexibility I needed.

Not any more   and the 2204 model really is the mutts!

Still struggling to get a sound I'm happy with in to my Jet City FX return using an EQ block, the FRFR sound is fab, but I'm sure I'll get there.

Still haven't scratched the surface, but more and more impressed every time I use it, a good sign is that I'm not actually fiddling with it as much as I thought I would have to, I just put a sound together and play it

**EDIT** After a bit more tinkering I've found that by using 2 discrete paths one with full amp / cab sim -> XLR the other with just a pre-amp -> 1/4" Jack I can get something that I'm Happy with, what I would really like to be able to do it take a pre-amp output from the amp block and route it to the 1/4 output

siremoon

V2.01 firmware has been released

Teetonetal

siremoon said:

V2.01 firmware has been released

Don't think I am going to bother - Firmware updates make me nervous and the fixes don't look like things I'll run into soon.. might wait for the next feature release..

kjdowd

Teetonetal said:

siremoon said:

V2.01 firmware has been released

Don't think I am going to bother - Firmware updates make me nervous and the fixes don't look like things I'll run into soon.. might wait for the next feature release..

Few people on the Facebook group complaining that there seems to be a major issue with 2.01 (muffled sound or like a phaser stuck on) so, yes, I'd hold off. 

johnny9fingers

Cabicular said:

He's not laughing that hard ... I don't see the harm
some of his routing ideas are pretty interesting and maybe saved me an hour or so of fannying about
an hour of my time is worth more than 10 dollars to me
hes presets are better than the supplied Line6 ones for the type of music I'm doing 90s type hair metal

"An hour of my time..."
Sensible person.
"I'm doing 90s type hair metal"
Getting work? Wow. You must be pretty damn good at it then.

I'd love to do a workshop with some of you guys. In fact maybe we need to have some sort of IRL meetings with guitars and Helices. Rent a room in a pub or something. Headphones, small monitors, and a small mixing desk and four or five Helixed-up guitarists with patches and ideas.

Yes we can do lots of this stuff online, but we are, as well as artists, craftspersons. We work with our hands and our senses, and the virtual world doesn't actually convey the same quality of information as real life. Yet.

Cabicular

johnny9fingers said:

Cabicular said:

He's not laughing that hard ... I don't see the harm
some of his routing ideas are pretty interesting and maybe saved me an hour or so of fannying about
an hour of my time is worth more than 10 dollars to me
hes presets are better than the supplied Line6 ones for the type of music I'm doing 90s type hair metal

"An hour of my time..."
Sensible person.
"I'm doing 90s type hair metal"
Getting work? Wow. You must be pretty damn good at it then.

I'd love to do a workshop with some of you guys. In fact maybe we need to have some sort of IRL meetings with guitars and Helices. Rent a room in a pub or something. Headphones, small monitors, and a small mixing desk and four or five Helixed-up guitarists with patches and ideas.

Yes we can do lots of this stuff online, but we are, as well as artists, craftspersons. We work with our hands and our senses, and the virtual world doesn't actually convey the same quality of information as real life. Yet.

We are doing ok I could do more but we are old and get tired . Remember in rural Scotland this is still modern music

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Cabicular

It would be nice to see what other people are doing with theirs. Pity we are geographically disperate. I could probably arrange time at a local guitar store and get Paul Hindmarsh along

FarleyUK

So has anyone here got that reported issue with 2.01 and the 'chorus-y' effect?

fretmeister

I've held off from doing 2.01 because of the issues.

There seem to be a few people on the facebook group reporting different things.

FarleyUK

Yeah, I've updated and not encountered any issues so far...

Cabicular

Too close to a gig for me to risk it but I'm sure a lot of problems are caused by not reading the instructions properly
im sure a bunch more are caused by interrupts to the usb connection mid update
power saving on laptops can be a big culprit 
i always stick caffeine on my MacBook just to keep it full power during FW updates
and RTFM

Drew_TNBD

The people having problems haven't followed the instructions properly - you have to reset the unit to factory status and then re-import your presets. Then you'll have no problems.

I'm playing with a Helix right now, and have been all week. I am really impressed, but at the moment I don't think I can quite justify having an all-Strymon board, three valve amps, and a Helix also!