Line 6 Helix

Bod

Digital_Igloo said:

Helix/HX 3.15 is now available. CLICK THIS LINK AND READ THE RELEASE NOTES!

What an amazing update for only 0.4 of a version increment!  Looking forward to trying this out - thanks!

menamestom

Loads to play with there, looks a great update!

TimmyO

Ooh - loadsa delays and verbs for my HX FX… 

guitarpolo

This looks good. Anybody know if/when a Pod Go update will follow?

Digital_Igloo

guitarpolo said:

This looks good. Anybody know if/when a Pod Go update will follow?

Don't quote me, but I reckon sometime this spring.

carlos

The new amp is great, very versatile. Lower Drive and HP Filter, and raise Mids and it's a beautiful clean amp. Metal Zone 2 pedal does that sound exactly, better than the Heavy Metal 2 IMO. Out of the new delays, I really liked the Criss Cross, it sounds good out of the box. Same for Heliosphere. A bit underwhelmed by the Shimmer, I think it has potential but needs tweaking. ADT might be one that goes into almost all patches, but with shorter delays than default. I know several pros have used multiple amps with very short delays between them to thicken the sound, e.g. Shawn Lane.

markslade07

carlos said:

The new amp is great, very versatile. Lower Drive and HP Filter, and raise Mids and it's a beautiful clean amp. Metal Zone 2 pedal does that sound exactly, better than the Heavy Metal 2 IMO. Out of the new delays, I really liked the Criss Cross, it sounds good out of the box. Same for Heliosphere. A bit underwhelmed by the Shimmer, I think it has potential but needs tweaking. ADT might be one that goes into almost all patches, but with shorter delays than default. I know several pros have used multiple amps with very short delays between them to thicken the sound, e.g. Shawn Lane.

@JohnCordy has just done a great vid on the Shimmer reverb...very useful, as I didn't like it out of the box either, but some tweaking gets it much nicer

https://youtu.be/o9Ts2ty-0iI

Clecko

The Ventoux amp is fantastic! Had to watch the Jason Sadites dialling in video to get my head around the controls, but I love it. I stuck his free, single snapshot patch on this morning and it's a real player's preset. Also took the opportunity to stick a few other patches on and have also found that the Dumblesque 2 and - particularly - Stereo Kellen patches are superb. 

I've said it before, but I can't believe how much development Line 6 push out for free on these units. I've found my Helix feeling like better and better value since I bought it a few years back. I've become a total fan boy. 

Bidley

Adding the guitar pad to the input block is a great move! Easier to change if you use multiple guitars.

What another great update.

AsterixTG

Agree about the new amp - took the Sadites free snapshot, stuck my basic FX on (I use hardly anything - delay & phase) and a Tube Screamer 808, or whatever it's called, - sounds epic. Really responsive too, rolls off nicely.

Changed cabs to the 4x12 celestion 25s too - bit more punch.

Closest I've got to the sound PhilX uses in his Sabbath Drills video

duotone

AsterixTG said:

Agree about the new amp - took the Sadites free snapshot, stuck my basic FX on (I use hardly anything - delay & phase) and a Tube Screamer 808, or whatever it's called, - sounds epic. Really responsive too, rolls off nicely.

Changed cabs to the 4x12 celestion 25s too - bit more punch.

Closest I've got to the sound PhilX uses in his Sabbath Drills video

Is it this one? : https://line6.com/customtone/tone/5702926/

AsterixTG

duotone said:

AsterixTG said:

Agree about the new amp - took the Sadites free snapshot, stuck my basic FX on (I use hardly anything - delay & phase) and a Tube Screamer 808, or whatever it's called, - sounds epic. Really responsive too, rolls off nicely.

Changed cabs to the 4x12 celestion 25s too - bit more punch.

Closest I've got to the sound PhilX uses in his Sabbath Drills video

Is it this one? : https://line6.com/customtone/tone/5702926/

That's the fella.

duotone

Cheers @AsterixTG ;
Will try it out when I do the update.

mudslide73

My Stomp inexplicably lost it's USB connection halfway through.. I had to factory reset then restore. I think it was because I used a different USB port to last time. Very worrying when it was frozen on the boot up screen.

I know we all know this but: take loads of backups!

AsterixTG

duotone said:

Cheers @AsterixTG ;
Will try it out when I do the update.

Cool - I think I upped the gain on the 808 to 8.0, tone 7.5 - and removed the low & high cuts on the cab (he always does those in the final eq iirc)

TimmyO

markslade07 said:

carlos said:

The new amp is great, very versatile. Lower Drive and HP Filter, and raise Mids and it's a beautiful clean amp. Metal Zone 2 pedal does that sound exactly, better than the Heavy Metal 2 IMO. Out of the new delays, I really liked the Criss Cross, it sounds good out of the box. Same for Heliosphere. A bit underwhelmed by the Shimmer, I think it has potential but needs tweaking. ADT might be one that goes into almost all patches, but with shorter delays than default. I know several pros have used multiple amps with very short delays between them to thicken the sound, e.g. Shawn Lane.

@JohnCordy has just done a great vid on the Shimmer reverb...very useful, as I didn't like it out of the box either, but some tweaking gets it much nicer

https://youtu.be/o9Ts2ty-0iI

I watched most of that earlier today @JohnCordy has done a brilliant job on it. I honestly just get scared and run away with these blocks that have 6+ parameters but seeing that has emboldened me :-) 

John_P

HX stomp related rather than full helix but I figure this is the best place to ask.     

Is it possible to change the footswitch colour for different presets or snapshots?     
Looks like it is fixed as red for presets and white for snapshots but it would be very handy to have the switch show which snapshot is selected by changing colour. 

Jota

John_P said:

HX stomp related rather than full helix but I figure this is the best place to ask.     

Is it possible to change the footswitch colour for different presets or snapshots?     
Looks like it is fixed as red for presets and white for snapshots but it would be very handy to have the switch show which snapshot is selected by changing colour. 

You can change colours of Snapshots and names of the Snapshots.

While in Snapshot mode, hit the Action button and you should have those options. (I don't have the unit with me right now)

You can also do it on the HX Edit.

John_P

Another hxstomp related question - given the limitations, what amp modells are people using to give a clean and dirty sound in one preset?   

Ideally I'd like to use snapshots to change the amp model but it struggles to do that so has anyone found tow that go together and still have capacity for an od pedal, delay and reverb
 or have you found an amp model that sounds ok with clean and higher gain sounds that I can just change the drive?  (most seem to work well with one or the other)

Jota

John_P said:

Another hxstomp related question - given the limitations, what amp modells are people using to give a clean and dirty sound in one preset?   

Ideally I'd like to use snapshots to change the amp model but it struggles to do that so has anyone found tow that go together and still have capacity for an od pedal, delay and reverb
 or have you found an amp model that sounds ok with clean and higher gain sounds that I can just change the drive?  (most seem to work well with one or the other)

I'm using the Plexi Brt model.

I'm not going high gain. i'm doing clean and a little over AC/DC dirt. I push it with a PoT for lead parts