Helix HX Cabs - Non-Hybrid Option?

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I'll probably get bashed for this, especially in the shadow of such a great 2.00 update, but here goes...

 

Posted to IdeaScale

http://line6.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Non-Hybrid-Option-For-Helix-Cab-Blocks/830352-23508?submitted=1

 

Develop a Non-Hybrid option in the Helix Cab blocks to use the full impulse responses used to create the Helix Cabs, at higher processor penalty.

 

I envision it would be similar to the way we can select 1024 & 2048 samples in the impulse response blocks.

 

I feel compelled to ask this, knowing that Line 6 likely has full impulse responses of all of their mics and cabs, and many of us have shown that we are often willing to pay the 2048 sample IR processor penalty.

 

3rd party company IR's and capture / processing methods can really be that much better, if at all, than Line 6. And certainly no way that my hack IR's could be better. I know Line 6 would probably never release the original IR's, nor would we want to sift through them at the file level.

 

As I go back and forth between IR's and Helix HX cabs, I really want to wrap my head around why I and others often prefer IR's. My general feel is that IR's are full and open and Helix cabs are boxy, especially in mid to high gain sounds.

 

I think back to one of the first Line 6 Helix blog articles I read, Helix Hybrid Cabs and What The Heck Is An IR

http://line6.com/helix/blog.html

 

"For instance, in some modeling devices (Helix and the Fractal Axe FX, for example) the factory speaker cabinets are created using impulse responses."

 

Maybe there is just a "Hybrid" blanket on some fantastic Line 6 IR's.

 

I would certainly prefer to use the Helix Cabs. For functionality, they cant be beat.