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*reads far too much into the phrasing*
I wonder if the success of the Helix makes a desktop version more likely - though as you mentioned a while back there's always a question of how well it'd sell.
As for the screen vs scribble strips thing, I'm glad I went Fat-Helix. Still haven't a clue how to work the thing yet - that's this weekend's job, but having labels on the switches themselves is great, especially as that's how I had my M9 (ish...)
R.
Eqd Speaker Cranker clone
Monte Allums TR-2 Plus mod kit
Trading feedback: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/60602/
Its more likely to be in that odd middle bit in Lidl.
So, just tried an LT. I've never tried a Helix before, so probably should have done so before selling most of my pedals.
Had about half an hour, effects only into a Blues Junior.
Initial impressions:- Sounds good. The Teemah! sounds pretty much like my Timmy clone, I was worried it would in some way sound digital but it sounds good like any Timmy does. In half an hour I taught myself how to set up all the switches and expression pedal with pedals and had a rummage through the sounds. Everything sounded pretty good, I'd need to tweak properly at home to get a really good impression, but at first glance it will do me well. It's really easy to use and I've got to say I'm pretty excited about getting one now. The Wah was nice, delay was cool, trem really nice. I was basically able to create the pedalboard I'd use in 30 mins with no prior use of the unit.
So it's past the ease of use and FX only into an amp test straight away. A few hundred more to raise and I'll get one ordered, but certainly trying one out has helped me let go of a few things, mainly my pedaltrain junior and power supply. I think really, the POG is the only thing I will miss that I'm not keeping.
I've not managed to produce a 12-string sound with the Helix that is anything like as good as my POG2.
[which reminds me - I will pull my classified ad!]
R.
Eqd Speaker Cranker clone
Monte Allums TR-2 Plus mod kit
Trading feedback: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/60602/
Too late, it's on ebay.
I'll get another one at some point but need the funds!
Perhaps line 6 will come out with one in a firmware update before I get round to buying another...
And at that point, I'll be selling mine
R.
Eqd Speaker Cranker clone
Monte Allums TR-2 Plus mod kit
Trading feedback: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/60602/
Really early digital distortion tended to sound flat dynamically and fizzy tonally - often with static harsh frequencies in the high end. The Helix is a massive jump away from the early PODs in this respect (I had a Flextone 2 as my only amp for years, which is basically a Pod 2 into a power section - much as I loved it the current stuff does sound better). Things like reverb and delay have been able to sound as good if not better in the digital realm for a long time - but distortion seems to be another ball game
I remember when I had my ME-5 someone telling me the drives sounded digital. They were pure analogue. It's meaningless - just a way of saying "I don't like it".
https://soundcertified.com/speaker-ohms-calculator/
That would have been excellent. I love my rack, but there's no doubt it's a big bugger and really less transportable than the floor unit.
https://soundcertified.com/speaker-ohms-calculator/
1. I agree it gets used as a blanket term for 'don't like it' possibly also loaded with a bit of prejudice.
2. I agree that some analogue kit doesn't sound great, but digital is something that has (I think) demonstrably improved over time. If we were discussing older digital units, as in the previous low-mid priced units and earlier generations (which I guess would be @menamestom 'a reference point) I do think 'sounding digital' could be a valid description.
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
Perhaps it isn't the fact they are digital, but to me all digitally produced distortion up until the latest generation of effects had a very definite sound to them. May be it wasn't the 'digitalness' I was hearing, but whatever it was it was there and it sounded shite. Cd's on the other hand sounded good straight away.
Of course analog devices can sound shite also, but somehow a nasty analog fuzz I could find a use for, wheras a nasty POD fuzz would sound nasty in a turn it off and never put back on way.