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I'd be very surprised if you couldn't use it like that. Considering how many people would want to use it like a multi-effects processor it would seem completely counterproductive to stop them ("No! you're doing it wrong! sell your amp and plug your GT-1000 straight in to the PA!")
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
Most people wouldn't place a floor unit such as this straight on a stage floor. They'd use a pedalboard. I managed to gig a GT-3 for a long time with such a PSU. If legions of floor units with external PSUs were getting smashed up, I've not seen them on Ebay. Equally if the connectors were so flimsy and prone to breaking whilst under warranty, wouldn't we have seen it online? When it comes to Boss gear with external PSUs, I've not seen the same coverage of breakage in the manner of, say, Line 6 footswitches.
I'm pretty sure you will be able to do that.
And actually given it has the DD500 / RV 500 / MD 500 sounds in it, it should be very competitive for that purpose.
And, lest we forget, that's nearly three times the cost of its predecessor.
And lest we forget a similar price jump from HD500x to Helix. Which doesn't have spillover.
HD500x in 2013 £429 http://www.musicradar.com/reviews/guitars/line-6-pod-hd500x-585453
Helix in 2016 £1211 http://www.musicradar.com/reviews/guitars/line-6-helix-636847
More to the point, if you have to use this with a pedalboard in order to save the PSU from breaking, then the size and weight reduction is meaningless because it'll likely make the whole package heavier than the competition.
The sensible thing to do is just to carry a spare power supply (weighing about 900g each, again negating the weight saving); it's an irritation, and will probably void the warranty if you don't get the Boss/Roland one, but probably simpler.
- The Helix has solved the spillover problem with snapshots (which I actually prefer to low patch-switching latency now, even though I initially thought it was stupid).
- It's more reasonable to compare the Helix LT to the HD500X, given the similar feature jump from the GT-100 to the GT-1000. That makes it £349 -> £685 (using current prices). Also, the Helix is £999 now
So the weight saving: you carry a spare PSU in case the normal one break. So what do you do with a floorboard with an internal PSU in case that breaks? A second Helix won't exactly be portable.
Personally I would use a board with this just as I wouldn't stick a FX8 or Helix on the floor of a gig. Several hundred quids worth of digital gear sat on a floor with sod all protection? No chance. I totally take the point about weight but I don't think people generally go for these kind of floorboards because pedals are too heavy. It's more about simplicity, no more patch cables, no more daisy chain cables etc etc.
Again where are your sources for the maths.
https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?posts/25687597/
GT 1000 weight 3.6kg
https://www.thomann.de/gb/line6_helix_guitar_processor.htm
Helix weight 6.6kg
Nobody knows what the PSU weighs but even at a kilo, and with two of them, that's still lighter than a Helix, and still smaller too, assuming Drew doesn't mind me posting this mockup.
The LT was a secondary product release some time after the original launch.
We have no way of knowing what other products Boss has planned.
It does kind of feel like the Helix users are looking for ways to justify why this can't be as good as a Helix, and nobody has really heard it yet.
With as much as we know, on paper it is looking good and particularly strong for effects, IMO anyway.
Are you really going to argue that the likelihood of an external power supply failing - cables included - is the same as the chance of an internal PSU failing?
FUCKING YES!
This trumps everything else for me. As long as it sounds decent, I can live with everything else.
Trading feedback here
I really like the look of this, and generally I prefer Boss effects to those on the Helix (never really took to the Line6 stuff personally), and in amp sim terms, the Katana is excellent and much raved about here. This could be really good.