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Mine would be awful.
https://soundcertified.com/speaker-ohms-calculator/
Pete Thorn mentioned using a 3rd party IR for acoustic live, have you tried that?
uaing the Taylor 314 or that is available
gives boxier sound to piezos. I use it with the Mandy and my Yamaha silent (although it does just fine by itself)
In the Ola Englund test when he's playing them both through his own impulse (3:16 onwards) IMHO the Helix consistently sounded like it had more resonant upper bass/lower mids and less lower bass/sub bass. Fine if you like that sound but IME that is the area I'm fighting most with high gain playing and the Fractal gives cleaner sounding chunk down there. It also sounds closer to what I expect from a real high gain amp, especially the snap from the open notes at the end of each phrase, at least the way he's dialed it in the Helix sounds flatter dynamically.
In the Mitch video I thought the Helix Panama sounded ok, but the Rectifier totally didn't have the 'size' of tone I was expecting. There was a smaller difference in between the SLOs in Mitch's video but again I thought the Axe FX had the chunk/snap thing (really hard to explain) down a little more dynamically than the Helix.
I'd be happy with the cleans and mid gain on the Helix, but as I'm mostly a 5150/Rectifier type player I'm also happy to stick with my Axe FX 2. Between the AX8 and the Helix though I'd probably go Helix just for the flexibility, as I do need two amp models in a patch. @Drew_TNBD has sent me a couple of clips he's done with his Helix and I've always thought it sounded good, so I guess where I'm at is that personally I see no benefit for me to switch, however if I was buying today I'd definitely give the Helix a proper look because on balance it is a very capable unit.
It's hooked up directly to my studio monitors, recorded directly into reaper via USB.
This is the Soldano model with a Friedman 3 Sigma Audio IR. No tweaking on the amp, this is how it is when you load it up. Using an ESP Eclipse with EMG's, sounds the same with passives as well. Sounds similar on all amps with any gain.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bjspbemayekp3ur/Helix Test.wav?dl=0
http://line6.com/support/topic/20355-nasty-digital-distortion-with-some-amps/
It's a tad worse with high output pickups but it's there whatever.
I sit here at work fighting with tech. way more than I should have to... email, even getting PC's to work on bloody W10...when I go into the guitar room I'd like to well away from that in a very analogue space.
I'll still end up buying one FFS.
but as trouble shooting goes it's a fairly standard response
Are you saying it was fine, then you did the firmware upgrade and now it isn't? Or are you saying you did the firmware upgrade and it was fine for a while and now it isn't?
If the former then was this upgrade from V1.xx to V2.00 or V2.01? If so did you do the resets specified in the upgrade instructions? Many of the problems experienced subsequent to upgrading from V1 to V2 have been caused by failure to do the specified resets.
As an aside, I've been speaking to the head of operations at Line 6 via The Gear Page and he's been absolutely fantastic in helping me, can't fault Line 6 customer service in that respect.