Line 6 Helix

Paul_C

Sporky said:

It's probably worth pointing out that Fret and I have been conversing on this subject, so I can reveal that RoDM5 will involve two Helix Racks, 6.5kW of amplification, and a rotary subwoofer.

One of the expression pedals will be devoted to controlling the phase of the moon.

he's downsizing ?

Sporky

In Top Trumps terms yes, but the cabs are all CF folded horns so we're anticipating a 25-26dB increase in SPL. Also a flat frequency response from 20Hz down to DC.

fretmeister

Sporky said:

It's probably worth pointing out that Fret and I have been conversing on this subject, so I can reveal that RoDM5 will involve two Helix Racks, 6.5kW of amplification, and a rotary subwoofer.

One of the expression pedals will be devoted to controlling the phase of the moon.

Moist.

fretmeister

The most power I've had before was from a Yamaha P5000S.

That was very loud but the cabs I had at the time, womderful sounding Hartke Pro2200, would have been destroyed if I had cranked the amp.

Sporky

I would love to hear slap/thump bass through a rotary sub.

monquixote

Sporky said:

I would love to hear slap/thump bass through a rotary sub.

Is it a Trident sub?

Sporky

I was thinking of the Eminent Technologies TRW-17, but your idea is good too.

http://www.rotarywoofer.com/index_files/front quarter view3.jpg

fretmeister

What the hell is that for?

Sporky

It's a sub-subwoofer.

The blades are articulated by a power amp. It starts working at around 20Hz and gets more efficient as the frequency drops - right down to DC.

Popular in very high end home cinema (you've not felt an on-film explosion until you've experienced one of these) and for theme park stuff - you can create upsetting infrasonic stuff and also use it in haunted-house type things to blow doors open. Lovely, if somewhat ridiculous, bit of kit.

guitargeek62

Is anyone else finding the fuzzes to be a bit uninspired so far? There's a good range on there, but they all seem a little too tame compared to what I was expecting/hoping for - that said, I usually have that issue with fuzz so maybe they're 100% accurate and it's just me that's broke?!

Sporky

I have reproduced my old discrete pedalboard setup as a Helix patch and it works very nicely.

However, I would like a better interface to the looper, so I'm thinking about building an Arduino-driven footswitch that puts out MIDI cc messages for start, stop and so on to save going in and out of looper mode. Probably five footswitches. I think I can also then use a spare input pin on the Arduino (with a bit of surrounding circuitry perhaps) to create the expression control I wanted - take a feed out of Send 1 and use it to drive the pin, get the Arduino to generate an envelope from that and then send that envelope information out on another cc so that it can be assigned to any parameter. I've found a bundle with a pre-programmed Arduino (Miduino?) and MIDI shield so just the metalwork to do.

The kit also supports 5 pots so I could add a silly number of extra expression pedals too.

http://www.midikits.net/foot_pedal_USB_assem/foot_switch_pedal_USB_assem.htm

Cabicular

guitargeek62 said:

Is anyone else finding the fuzzes to be a bit uninspired so far? There's a good range on there, but they all seem a little too tame compared to what I was expecting/hoping for - that said, I usually have that issue with fuzz so maybe they're 100% accurate and it's just me that's broke?!

I thought they were a bit full on. but I'm not a fan of fuzz at the best of time so have left well alone

Sporky

I don't think I'd describe the Industrial Fuzz as "tame".

Sporky

Recently I have been unexpectedly enjoying the TS model into the Plexi model.

Still haven't managed a very good bass sound. Not even as good as Micro POG into Keeley compressor. I think I'm missing something.

kjdowd

I have recently been enjoying the soldano inspired amp models. The crunch is particularly good.

Digital_Igloo

Sporky said:

Recently I have been unexpectedly enjoying the TS model into the Plexi model.

Still haven't managed a very good bass sound. Not even as good as Micro POG into Keeley compressor. I think I'm missing something.

Wait, you mean a tone for bass guitar or bass emulation from a guitar? Currently, Helix has no polyphonic pitch shifting like Micro POG, so that's not surprising. Try the new Pitch/Synth > Simple Pitch block and play single notes—that'll probably get you closest.

Sporky

Bass emulation - only needs to be good enough for looping. Probably needs some EQ - I've been using the simple pitch block and some compression.

Mkjackary

what, this is over a grand with silly great processors and such, and there is no polyphonic octaver???

The hardware not up to it or is it too much of a reasorce hog or just not got round to making one yet?

siremoon

Mkjackary said:

what, this is over a grand with silly great processors and such, and there is no polyphonic octaver???

The hardware not up to it or is it too much of a reasorce hog or just not got round to making one yet?

Iirc "We have bigger fish to fry" was the exact quote when this question was raised elswhere

Sporky

And to be fair a lot of functionality has been added in the new firmware releases, so it's not like they're not busy doing something.