cruisinon2
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If you kiddies don't go to bed, Santa ain't coming... It'll get here when it gets here. You'd think we were all unable to turn the damn thing on until the magical update arrives...
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OK, I'll settle this...you guys both drop your pants, and I'll get the tape measure.😂
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Hey man, you're ruining my righteous indignation with practicality!!! :P
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Just one? Everything is controversial around here... hell, the only thing you'll get everybody to agree on is that it should have been released already. 😉
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No worries! ðŸ‘
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I winced at that a bit myself... workarounds are effective, plentiful, and (mostly) cheap, but yelling "everybody shut up so I can tune" into a mic from stage left really isn't as option. 😂
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A New Variax Bass
cruisinon2 replied to Price010's topic in James Tyler Variax Guitars / Workbench HD
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It's only a serious issue if you choose to make it such. What it really is, is a minor inconvenience, easily remedied by stuff that you (and I suspect most of us) already own. Your clip-on tuner will conveniently follow you everywhere... no need to run back to a rack unless you want to. I've done it a million times... nobody will notice it's there but you. Or use a pedal tuner if that's unacceptable. Or go ahead and purchase something else if you can't bear the thought of having to tune your guitar by some other means...but if you had your heart set on a Helix, and pull the plug for this, it's ridiculous. It's like finding the house of your dreams, but refusing to buy it because the mailbox is ugly... and, you might find that it works just fine for you. Not everybody is screaming bloody murder over this.
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One man's "sublime" is another's "absurd". I feel for the engineers...if I had to decide which group of nutty, opinionated guitar players to placate, it would drive me to drink...especially now that the critiques start rolling in before anyone's actually gotten their hands on the product, lol.
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Yup...good show in here today. And it's early. If we work at it, we could all be completely around the bend, mumbling to the buckles on our straight jackets before lunch. Frontal lobotomies with a thorazine chaser for everyone!🤕 "I found the tunnel, Johnson! It's this way! $25 for a cigarette is too much!"😂
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Best thread ever..."please change the stuff nobody has yet, because if my assumptions are correct, you guys f#$@ed it up." Which way to the rabbit hole? I'm going head first! 😂😉
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Hey man, this is 2018..."predictive complaining" is the future. Besides, with all these pre-conceived solutions desperately in search of problems... we might never finish b1tching if we don't start early. 😂
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Hard to see knobs on JTV-89F, any mods ??
cruisinon2 replied to mileskb's topic in James Tyler Variax Guitars / Workbench HD
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Amen...tweaking for hours at a time is self-defeating. Tired ears will make you ruin perfectly good patches every time. And as for EQ, it's often more productive to get rid of what you don't want to hear, rather than adding more of what you perceive to be lacking... otherwise you tend to end up with to much of everything, and it's a mess.
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No, actually THAT is a poor analogy. You seem to be laboring under the delusion that this particular tuner is actually forcing you to play out of tune. It isn't. Don't use it. I don't, and I've lived to tell the tale. Nobody is disputing your experience. There's been enough b1tching about it, that it clearly doesn't work well for some, for others it's fine, and the rest of us are indifferent to it. I won't pretend to know why that is...but with all the carrying on, you'd think that those who find it completely unusable were somehow condemned to a lifetime of playing out of tune, merely because it's there. Don't use it if that's the case...waiting around for L6 to solve the problem for you might prove to be disappointing.
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Ever read a $hitty manual? Me, too. Just because the manual doesn't spell it out as being "officially sanctioned", doesn't mean it won't work. There are either enough ins and outs to make it happen, or there aren't... and most of the time it's the amp you're trying to pair it with that's the limiting factor. No FX loop on the amp, no 4CM...
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And the Illuminati own us all... BWUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!😂 Enjoy your Helix...
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I could be wrong, but I'll bet the engineers at BMW probably spend a lot more time on the transmissions than the cup holders...in any device that performs multiple functions, each and every feature cannot be "the best there's ever been". It's never gonna happen. Nothing would ever get finished... Now if your stated goal is to build a tuner, the sole function of which is tuning, and it still sucks when you're done... then there's a problem. 😉
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No...because Glenn didn't sell you an "out of the box" patch with factory default settings. It's been tweaked 8 ways to Sunday. The fact that it works for you at all is borderline miraculous, because general speaking nothing is instantaneously awesome, meeting all of one's expectations with no additional effort...with Helix, or any other modeler. Count your blessings, and use some of those settings as a starting point for your own patches if you like. Might work with some amp models, but not others. Modelling is weird...it's not an amp. Can't really treat it like one...
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YouTube "listen to this awesome tone" videos are a curse. And despite claims to the contrary, you'll never know what kind of post-processing fairy dust was applied in producing them. The guy is selling something...nuff said. Trying to use someone else's patches and settings to achieve the "same" tone is nearly 100% futile. He's got his guitars, pickups, monitors, ears, and fingers...and you've got yours. Everything's variable, entirely subjective, and it never works.
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Just two ways of looking at the same thing, I suppose. I just call things as I see them. As for "all in one solutions"...they don't exist. Never met one that lived up to it's own hype, no matter what the application, and I stopped expecting that a long time ago. All I know is, I doubt I'll be lying on my deathbed lamenting the $hitty Helix tuner...and if ain't worth getting worked up over then, it ain't now either. But as always, ymmv...😉
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Brand me a kool-aid drinker if you like, but I have never had any compunction about calling out policies, products, or features thereof that leave something to be desired...and for the record I wouldn't call the tuner "spectacular" and I don't use it much, but I also don't think it's the gross miscarriage of justice that it has been portrayed to be. But who cares anyway? Mine is just one man's opinion... I will maintain however, as a practical matter, that getting one's knickers in a twist over something that in the grand scheme of things is relatively insignificant, and also isn't terribly likely to change (or at least not in a timely fashion), is a waste of time. Particularly when there are other options...I don't think I've ever met another guitarist who doesn't own one tuner or another, if not several. We can all be in tune if we wish, Helix be damned. It's like complaining that the $3000 LP you just bought didn't come with any picks..."Well how am I supposed to play, now?" Or we can all keep a death-grip on the issue, rally the troops, have a Million Guitarist March on Calabasas, and double up on our blood pressure meds... Either way, the tuner is what it is.
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I'm really PUZZLED as to WHY emphasis was placed in such peculiar SPOTS throughout that whole thing...I did LIKE the cryptic ending though...THERE'S nothing like A cliffhanger. 😉
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Well I'm not getting in line to buy that thing, but this didn't make any sense to me either...
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Sometimes you gotta let things go folks. Let's face it...fixing, changing, evolving, refining, or otherwise manipulating then tuner into something other than what it is, is clearly not at the top of their to-do list. Otherwise it'd be done already. With the attention that this gets, you'd think the thing were actively preventing everybody's guitars from being tuned by any other means...I've seen people get less agitated over a cancer diagnosis.
