Line 6 Helix Rack potential purchase question???

[deckard1]

Hello,

 

I’m thinking of purchasing a Helix Rack unit but I don’t need a lot of the inputs and outputs it offers. Does the Helix Rack sound identical to the Helix Stomp unit? Or is the Helix Rack of higher quality sound wise? 
 

Thanks. 

[HonestOpinion]

On 4/5/2021 at 1:37 AM, deckard1 said:

Hello,

 

I’m thinking of purchasing a Helix Rack unit but I don’t need a lot of the inputs and outputs it offers. Does the Helix Rack sound identical to the Helix Stomp unit? Or is the Helix Rack of higher quality sound wise? 
 

Thanks. 

 

They should be of equal sound quality. The Rack does have twice the DSP so the Stomp's number of blocks available to use will be halved and routing options will be more limited. You will have significantly fewer switching, and as you pointed out, I/O, options. The new Stomp XL is also out now as you are probably aware with more switches. It essentially has the same specs as the HX Stomp.

[PierM]

I do have both, Rack and Stomp. Tone is the same (but DSP is the half, so you cant do same double path things as the Rack), but Rack is still a different beast, for everything but tone. Stomp can be a PITA for patch editing/creation, as well for accessing sub layers of features and commands. I'd say, unless it's a very basic patch, the Edit software is kind of mandatory for Stomp...:)

[CraigGT]

If you don't need all the ins and outs then the LT might be a better option.

[deckard1]

Thanks so much for the replies.

 

Decided to get the Helix Rack after all. It arrived yesterday. Still learning the ropes.