glideman

Yeah, you know you've hit a game winner when your prime product is $1500 and you can't make them fast enough to keep them on the shelves.

Gone baby gone

It's just amazing how huge the demand has been for it to still be hard to find regularly in stock. Quite a few months now that it's been on the market! Wow!

I could have sworn they just had June 15th on the site...

I thought the mania might have died of enough for supply to catch up to demand by now. LoL! I think Sweetwater has the Rack and pedal in stock, but I checked there and several others for the floor unit, and heck no... June 15th estimates for stock arrival. I'm sure glad I bit the bullet a long time ago. Shudder to think if it broke, though. Might pick up an AX-8 eventually to have as a backup and an occupational change of pace... Either that or a second Helix. Hehe.

Good Lord what a pile of pedals!

I had about every commercial Profile known to mankind... I found myself trying to tweak 100's of profiles the whole time I had my Kemper Rack. It was almost TOO much to choose from... I may grab another one again for the studio, though. Just hated having a pedal plus a rack.

With ya, bud! Tubers have been collecting a LOT of extra dust here lately. Haven't really missed my Axe FX II XL+ or my Kemper Rack, either. Great pieces of equipment, though! Mostly don't miss that extra pedal to lug around plus a rack. hehe

I have used most of his either straight up with just a few tone tweaks, or as templates for most of my presets so far. They are at a minimum great starting points.

You buy them, download, unzip into a folder, and then drag them in from the editor. Love my G-Del presets!

Nice!

I do the same as theKennyG

Again!

Yeah... tube boy actually wanted me to loan it... I told him he was lucky I let him record with it. LoL! Still can't believe he used it over his amp and pedal board rig...

I had my Helix in my drummer's Pro Recording Studio the other week. A tube amp snobbish friend of ours brought his rig in to record a song for his new fishing guide TV show. He heard me screwing around with my guitar with some Zhangbucker custom wound pickups into the Helix. Didn't know what I was playing through. Set his rig up and the amp in the closet. I left early and left my rig in the studio. The next afternoon after work, I stop by the Studio and Tommy is playing around with the mix. Turns out Joe used my guitar and the Helix to overdub every single track except the slow intro solo. He didn't want to try to recreate the feedback he got on the lead, so he left that one alone. So basically 95% of his song is my guitar and my Line 6 Helix. He ended up asking if he could borrow the Helix for his final gig with one of his bands. I told him I would have, but since they're not exactly in stock very much at all online or local, I couldn't take a chance on something happening to unless I was gigging or unless it was in the studio. I have a feeling he may be ordering one of these puppies now. I haven't found myself missing my Kemper Rack or my Axe FX II XL+ either (and I am in NO WAY bashing them. They were great, but the elimination of a separate controller pedal and the just as good tones of the Helix spelled their departure). The problem I'm having is I'm playing so dadgum much when building patches, that I can't seem to finish getting my full set of gigging/recording presets finished. Making me too lazy to tweak because I'm enticed to play so much more. LoL!

Love your efforts!!! Great website!!!

I must not edit enough... I have yet to crash the Helix floorboard version...

I smell a clue...

Finally got to listen. That's pretty groovy there! :)

I think scenes type capabilities would really sell a few more units... That and a few more really nice amp models and cabs. And of course the heel down wah disable. LoL

You sound like the same similar opinion that I have. I had a Kemper Rack, Axe FX II XL+, and a Helix all at the same time. A few weeks later I sold the Kemper and the Axe... Only because the Helix gave me just as high a quality tone without the extra chore of toting an outboard controller/MIDI pedal around. LoL! They're all similar, yet different, but high quality tone generators! It's really down to feature preferences and subtle nuances at this point in the game.

I took Glenn Delaune's jumped plexi patch and ran through every single amp cab using every single mic at the 1" position. It's unreal how many different tones you get with one amp model without ever touching the amp settings. Yes, some were not good, but I had a crap ton of very useable and quite a few awesome sounding tones. It was a very eye opening and educational exercise! Now I get to do it with the rest of the amp models. LoL! That should be a day an amp at a minimum in the afternoons after work. Proves how powerful cabs/IR's are!

Heel down deactivate!

Look on the bright side, too... You don't have to back up your presets before you do your first firmware update and editor install since it will occur as soon as you take it out the box. It will be the last time that's the case. LoL! :)

Oooooohhhh. Would be much appreciated! :)