Helix Floor/LT/HX/Stomp/PodGo/Stadium/XL owners' Club - Tips, Ideas & Patches

[Wombat]

Yes, but I’d be very surprised they will want you to like your helix more when the want you to spend £1,500 on a Stadium?

[LukeFRC]

If you have a patch on the HX stomp with both Left and Right loops on, and they are bypassed

 

And you plug in something to one, but leave the other unplugged. 

And then try and use say the left one, with the right one unplugged.- HX stomp goes a little bit crazy and does all sort of noise, like feedback or DC in the signal or something.

 

 

And if you've just built a pedal and are testing it - and get the sound of electrical pain coming out - of course you're going to spend 2 hours tearing your hair out trying to work out what you've done wrong. 

The answer is compete the other loop with something, or delete the other loop block. I guess it must be the ground connection it's after. 

 

but year - that was a crap evening!

[LukeFRC]

5 hours ago, tauzero said:

It does seem about due

In my dreams they add a couple of more bass amps,  SWR/eden type, or trace/ashdown, a couple more preamps with a console style and then a load of the moogerfooger effects. That would make me happy. 

[Wombat]

For the above two threads there is a line 6 bug forum and an ‘ideascape’ might be worth posting in. Again I reckon they will be concentrating on Stadium but who knows 🤷‍♀️.

[Greg Edwards69]

To be fair, at the Stadium announcement event, Line 6 confirmed that they would continue to develop the current hardware for the foreseeable future - they're still going to manufacture and sell them. Obviously, their main focus is launching the Stadium and adding promised features, but I don't think it will be too long before the current devices are shown some love.

[Wombat]

Would be great, but as a L6 user since before HD, in my experience we’ll get another update after the Stadium furore has died down. Possibly one after that then they will expect you to move on.

The other side of that of course is that technology develops and hardware will have to change. It’s not like we are faxing set lists to each other anymore…

[warwickhunt]

Just thought I'd comment/praise that I like the ease with which you can send a signal to different outputs/sends/headphones and set up the means to control one or both outputs with the onboard volume.  Very useful as I'm about to do an acoustic 'style' gig (with a Bass Uke) and I want a signal to send to my personal monitor (volume controlled from the Stomp) and a separate line to the FOH, which isn't affected by my Stomp onboard volume adjustments.  Oh and in my other band I need to to send path A (dry) to an output and path B (effected) to effects send, in order that I can run a stereo / bi-amp (signal split at my frequency choice onboard the Stomp) dual rig; very useful for adding a bit of grit/drive to the top end of my 12 string bass and retaining the bottom end unaffected.  

 

Yep, pleased with how this Stomp is working out.

[sonicaddiction]

Hi,

I posted this a Helix bassplayer group on FB, but will try here also.

 

I have a couple of questions about the amp and cab modelling. I just want to preface this with mentioning that I’ve hardly played through any of the real versions of these amps neither directly nor miked up so have I no physical reference. Yet I find the behaviour kind of odd.

Also, I’ve mostly played through a Fender Mustang bass with kind of low output, I think around -36dB when looking in my DAW with the clean DI signal through USB. Also, it’s so low the LA Studio Comp doesn’t trigger even with the lowest threshold.

 

1. Should the default values of the amp+cab blocks result in significant gain increase? When using for instance the Woody Blue has a gain increase of around 18dB and the normal SVT of around 10dB iirc. This makes it kind of hard to compare amp sounds and you have to re-gain everything after it when trying out amps.

 

2. Even with my low output the input level into the SVT Bright block, and to a slightly lesser extent the SVT Normal, makes it distort heavily. Is this the goto sound for this amp? Also many of the other amps sound very distorted until I lower the Input gain. I’ve even tried activating the input pad but they still distort. Is this the intended behaviour?

 

3. Most of the cab-sims create either a heavily mid-scooped sound or sounds like throwing a heavy blanket over the cab, draining loads of definition. Is this how miked up cabs are supposed to sound?

 

4. I’ve always tried to gain match my blocks so that there’s not noticeable gain difference when activating them. Is this a good general approach or do I want to boost my signal to a certain level and try to maintain it? Exceptions of course are when you want a switchable gain boost…

 

Thanks in advance and sorry if this has been asked before!