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Hmmm, since Line6 is intimately familiar with the Stagesource, I wonder if they could put that "electric guitar" mode in the Helix so that the stagesource can maintain its full range capabilities and the Helix owner wouldn't have to do as much tweaking to all his patches. For that matter, wouldn't it be cool if we could have a "Utility Mode" in the Helix, plug a measurement mic in the mic input and have the Helix send out some pink noise to measure and create a new adjusted curve for for any speaker it's plugged into?

Which mackies? If I may ask.

I was speaking more of the folks who just want more more more amp models. Had Line6 never released the Litigator, I likely would have been just as happy. In fact, I was. There's so much tonal control that's available. I'm thankful for the Matchless and the Litigator but I was already getting similar tonalities - just not its response characteristics.

For the most part... I hate tradition! It gets in the way of innovative thoughts, ideas and discoveries. It shows a total lack of imagination by those who cling to it.

Indeed. I'll gladly pay a little extra for a lighter box. I can see no reason why these things have to be so heavy and it's ridiculous that they are in this day and age.

So stuck on the Litigator and the Matchless. Sometimes the Fenders. Can't seem to be bothered with anything else. Simple needs. Which leads me to wonder why people want more and more amp models.

The OP wanted to network them, not me.

Makes sense.

Hmmm... I hadn't heard that. I did hear that shielded cables' capacitance can filter out some of the high frequencies.

Thanks guys!

Here's my latest idea. https://line6.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Dynamics-Controlled-Crossfade/891439-23508?submitted=1

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This! The only IRs I use are for my acoustic sounds. As for the cab IRs, none of them are going to give me the control I want - Dynamically variable mic angle and positioning (in relation to the speaker cone). No, it's not available in the stock cabs now but I'm hoping it will be one day. I simply do not believe that it will be a "night and day" difference between third party IRs and the stock cabs and cannot see any reason why there could ever be such a difference. I also don't like the idea of IRs being so static. To change mics you need to change IRs. No thanks.

It's really the shielding that matters. You always want to use shielded cables when connecting to a powered speaker because it minimizes any noise that unshielded speaker cables will allow to go through to the amplification system. Shielding is not needed for passive speakers as the signal has already been amplified.

Well, not that I'd ever take it out on a gig and I don't own one anymore but my Lexicon MPX-1 did too. I do miss its reverb sound and have not found anything that sounds as sweet.

Well, speaking of that, I haven't explored it but I don't think you can use the SPDIF in/out as a Send/Return can you?

Agreed.

My mistake. It DOES have 2 SPDIF connectors - an In and an Out. I guess I was thinking of the AES/EBU/L6 Link which is just an out. In which case, it might be possible.

The Helix manual?

Not in my experience. It's one or the other. If you look at any device that can send or receive spdif signals, they will always have two connectors. Same goes for AES/EBU and TOSLINK (optical spdif).

It's an interesting idea. If only the Helices had digital inputs it could be done in combination with MIDI. Alas,they only have digital outputs. Yes they have an ethernet connector but is it reconfigurable, via software, to accept data from another Helix? Who knows? Hmmm.

Ordeal is the operative word here. If it were a simple and non-nerve wracking and dicey feeling experience, that would be one thing...

Every modeling pedal board I've owned with the exception of the Zoom G3 has had a built in expression pedal. None of them ever developed any issues and certainly none of them ever physically broke or stopped working. Ever. My Ernie ball volume pedal however, is another story.

Makes me think back about high school stage band. Our keyboardist playing a Fender Rhodes swore she could hear a delay between when she hit a key and when the sound came out of the Fender Twin.

Not in the slightest.