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electric proddy probe machine
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Ok, dumbass question coming up.
What's the 4 cable method?
electric proddy probe machine
My trading feedback thread
electric proddy probe machine
My trading feedback thread
The pricing is interesting. I'm not sure about Kemper prices in the US but in Europe it's going to be going up against the Kemper. Thomann are £1076 (today anyway) on the Helix and £1117 on the Kemper. You would obviously need to buy some kind of foot controller for the Kemper which you wouldn't for the floor version of the Helix. The Kemper Remote is quite pricy but for the price of a FCB1010 with the UNO chip the Kemper is only going to be around £150 more. It's got to be good enough on sound that it can compete with the Kemper if it's going to succeed.
Okay.. so they're pretty old... but it does tell you something... if you ignore price, ignore cult of personality, ignore brand names... and just listen to the sounds... make your own mind up. For me? The HD Pro has the better ENGL model, the Axe FX II had the better Recto model. The Axe ENGL has a very nasty high-frequency response that I don't dig, where as the Pod seemed more balanced. But the Pod Recto model sounded uber-flubby in the low end for some reason, whereas the Axe sounded more balanced.
Similar story for this one:
Point being... Line 6's HD amp modelling can keep up with the Axe FX II. I don't see why the HX modelling wont either.
I'm not all that interested in how close these things get to the original. I just want a box of good tones. If it does that then sign me up because the features tick a lot of my boxes.
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Personally I'm also in the rather it sounds good than accurate camp. The Axe 5150 nails it for me, I love the tone and the functionality I get with the unit. Yes there are loads of other options but 9/10 it ends up being the IR that makes the difference once you've got the right amp sim. Through my cab I am more than happy just using the Peavey 5150 model for all my gain sounds.
Interesting comparison between the AFX and Pod. I'd have to agree that there is very little between them on the particular settings in the video (although I appreciate it tells us nothing about how they feel to play live).
The Helix certainly grabbed my attention. It looks amazing and seems to have the right connectivity and ease of use. On whether I would buy one and use it live though, I'm undecided. I use tones from the lighter end of the spectrum quite a lot, and I'd need more convincing than Sweetwater managed, that the Helix can deliver these.
Personally, I would not get too concerned about overall processing power, if you think about the power available when the M series effects came about (which were generally pretty good), power has gone up massively. Although they will use much of the power for the amp sims I still think the effects designers will have much more to play with. I think nowadays the power is there and it's more about having well designed algorithms. If anything the M series were more let down by the analog implementation and this is one area the top digital guys have got it right, quality convertors, buffers and analog components ensuring nothing is lost from the core sound as it passes through the system.
I think this is relevant from the Neunaber website:-
Sample Rate — bigger is not necessarily better, especially once you go beyond the frequency bandwidth of the input signal or of human hearingBit Depth — nearly all digital gear is at least 24-bit these daysProcessor Speed means little when most digital signal processors can do several parallel operations simultaneously. In addition, an elegant, optimized algorithm will often perform more efficiently than a poorly-coded, inelegant algorithm on a faster processor.You can only really know for sure when you hear it for yourself and play with it for a while. DSP concerns then are replaced by whether your ears like it and whether they have covered all the operational niggles that other effects units have (tap tempo implementation, patch changing etc)