Greg Edwards69

It's sad, but it's been on the card since the original owners sold up and cashed in. My local was the OG Pmt in Southend. I went there a bit, but I was never a fan and felt dirty doing do. Something bout the way they ran the business felt off, and their face-to-face customer service left something to be desired. Not to mention some of the horror stories I'd heard about their guitar setups. I used to quite like their original tiny shop, but they got too big too quickly IMHO as the "professional" bit in their moniker went out the window and successfully put their local rivals out of business by targeting the budget end of the market. Eventually, they simply didn't stock the things I was interested in and wanted to try. When they sold the business, the original owners retained the Southend building itself and charged the new owners an extortionate amount for rent. So the new management simply closed the store. It surprised me, but to be honest I don't miss it. There's other local shops I miss more - such as Honky Tonk - who PMT effectively put out of business.

I sold my G10s wireless and replaced it with a far cheaper Lekato unit for this reason. I don't need anything more advanced for the gigs I do.

From what I saw in the presentation, there's a DAW-like view for song stems that you can freely mix as you see fit. I think I saw a separate mixer feature as well for all the ins and outs. I assume you would be able to assign stem tracks to different outputs to make this feature truly useful.

But now you don't need the computer. It can all be done from within the HX Stadium, backing tracks, automation, even DMX lighting. Heck, you could probably run the whole band through one device.

Line 6 stated in the live stream that the price of the Helix Floor, Rack and LT are going to be heavily reduced by a couple of hundred dollars. I would assume this will affect the used market price.

The reason I'm excited by the Anagram is that it does pretty much everything I do in my Helix LT in a Stomp sized package - saturation or not (although I'm sure it will come). The Stadium's are built upon a very mature platform, and are more powerful than I need (not to mention bigger). The Anagram is astonishing for a v1 product, and I'm sure it will only improve over time if Darkglass stick to their promises. If anything, it shows Line 6 what people expect from a refreshed Stomp, if they make one.

I watch a bit of the live stream, and it seems to me that Line 6 have done something unexpected and are launching a premium, higher tier product rather than direct replacements for the current generation of hardware. It also sounds like the current hardware will continue to receive support and development, although how much and for how long, who knows! For me, I am looking to repair and/or replace my ageing LT at some point. I bought it over 6 years ago and it's showing signs of age that need addressing, such as burnt out expression pedal sensors, one of the encoder switches is tempremental and the screen has started to develop a blue line. I will likely get it fixed in time, but I am getting tired of lugging it around. The Darkglass Anagram seems on paper to be the perfect solution of me, at least it will when promised features are enabled. I'm hoping with the newly revised pricing on current HX hardware, the replacement parts might get cheaper, although I doubt it. It's a great time to be a guitarist and bassist, that's for sure.

IIRC, from what I know about wifi routers, 2.4 GHz has a longer range than 5.8 GHz but is more prone to interference from channel overlap. 5.8 GHz is cleaner in this respect. It's also worth bearing in mind that both frequencies are used by wifi and Bluetooth (in the case of the former), so subject to environmental influences. I always try and remember to put devices such as phones and tablets into airplane mode if there are problems. I remember playing at one venue that had a wifi extender plugged in next to me on the stage that was interfering with my 2.4 Ghz wireless. I turned that thing off and cured the problem instantly.

As long as you have realistic expectations, you should be fine. Gigging with one of these is akin to a high powered 1x12 bass combo, such as the Markbass CMD121 mentioned above. If you can gig with one of those, you can gig with a high-powered 1x12 PA speaker. I gigged for several years with a Headrush 1x12 speaker without PA support, before going direct to PA with IEMs, and I used a markbass 1x12 cab with different heads before that.

Back at the Cow & Telescope last night, one of our favourite haunts. Bit of a mixed one. I had developed a cold with a cough a day or so before and had a weak voice before playing. It was totally shot by the time we finished - good job I was only singing backing vocals. We really struggled with sound as well. We pulled up the the previously saved mix and it sounded muddy, a dull - like blanket over the speakers. And the bass drum mic was ringing badly. I couldn't work out what had changed. So during soundcheck, I ended up pulling a load of ≈100hz out of the bass drum mic, pulling low mids out of the mix and adding a bit of presence. It sounded better and good enough to get through the gig. But it wasn't until we got to the second or third song in the first set that I realised the frequencies around F# were getting rather excited, but it was too late by then and just had to muddle through until the break when I could look up the exact problem frequencies, (92.5hz and 185hz) and notch them out. Started out second set and the problem was still there but not as bad. No-one in the audience seemed to be bothered, but it was bugging the hell out of me. Just as we started the the third song in our second set I noticed the hpf switch on the DXR12 in front of me was set to off i.e. full range. I should be set at 100hz, so I quickly flicked it over and the problem disappeared! Oh well, lesson learned. I usually check the volume setting on the speakers as these usually move during packing and setting up, but I never thought to check the switches. I quickly checked the other one and that as 120hz. So both of them were wrong. Annoyingly, I remembered this morning that our mixer has a feedback filter that we've not tried using yet - we've barely scratched the surface of what it can do. So we really need to investigate this feature and learn how to use it properly. I probably would have cured this issue instantly. Otherwise, it was a good night. Some of the regulars, some friends, some who had come especially too see us and a big birthday party who wanted to have a good old boogie, which always livens up the atmosphere. I was done by the end of the night though. Not feeling 100% took it out of me. But I was glad I packed some vocal zones and a hip flask of single malt.

I think, but I'm no expert in such matters, that's what the Line 6 Updater software does.

Great suggestions all round. I'll add "Jagged LIttle Pill" by Alanis Morrisette.

That doesn't sound right at all if he/she was just performing a software update. Tell them to download the Line 6 Updater and try again. This is different to doing it through HX Edit. More of a nuclear option! I've had to do this once when HX Edit's update process failed, due to my laptop going to sleep partway through. If they still don't have luck, then they should raise a support ticket directly with Line 6 who will walk them through several resolution options.

They're supposed to be enabling audio over USB soon as well. This would be useful for many modern devices, such as smartphones and tablets, that no longer include headphone sockets. It would be handy if it could supply power over USB too, to charge up a device at the same time.

I saw this pop up on FB yesterday, too, and then disappear, along with his personal account. There are a couple of threads over on Talkbass—some people think this might be an AI-generated fake/scam. But as I said on there, whether it's genuine or not, we should take it at face value—the guy might really be suffering. His words concerning his wife are particularly poignant. Also, we should not be too quick speculate. We have no idea what contracts are in place between PJB and the Chinese manufacturer. Phil or Wendong could be the one at fault; we just don't know. All we do know is that someone, somewhere, might genuinely be going through a major crisis, and they need support.