Helix First Impression

[regalpierot]

I have the unit about 24 hours now so just a few hours playtime. I have to say I sat on the fence for a long time on this one. I'd owned a few Boss and TC multi effects untis over the years and finally ditched them for a board designed with good quality individual stomps (Strymon, Eventide etc). Finally started to realize that individual pedals, great as they can be are impractical if you rely on a large enough board of them and have to transport them much. I also found that playing out, any non preset based pedals you either live with the same settings through a gig or try to knob adjust accordingly between tracks which I goofed more often than not. So back to looking at a single unit. Lots and lots of research and I went for this over the Kemp and Axe (interface driven).

 

So happy with the results, it really is the next generation to me. I was concerned because much as I've loved the Line 6 stuff over the years, emulation to me even at the POD and Amplifi range just isn't there yet. But this unit is on another level.

 

Only feature I really wish it had (fingers uber crossed that an update in the future might gift, assuming the hardware can do it) is the ability to even store one loop so it can stay in memory even after unit off. And total dream would be being able to export it as a .wav to pull over USB into a daw. If it had that, I might just marry it :)

[Jugghaid]

It's kinda funny to me the different added features that each player would want if they had a blank check so to speak. Those would not even occur to me as I don't even use loopers, but would really be cool nonetheless. I have gotten a lot of very good ideas just looking at ideascale and the added features different player request.

 

And yeah, the modeling is light years beyond even the HD400 I bought a few years ago as is the user friendly interface.