JimGordon Posted November 24, 2023 Share Posted November 24, 2023 The Vitriol Crunch model no longer totally farts out like a broken fuzz pedal when you increase the gain (either pre or post) above 7. It's still a bit tubby sounding and not that tight, but it sounds about how you'd expect the channel to sound after hearing the real Invective crunch channel in videos. In other words, it's usable without having to put the Horizon drive in front of it to cut the bass frequencies going into it. Thank you to the team for fixing this, and ignoring people who say "what's the big deal? it sounds cool broken!". There's a difference between keeping around something that is "souding different due to the underlying modeled example having an issue" (like the original Rat), and completely jacked up, like the VC model was. You can always stick a fuzz in front of the Vitriol if you want that sound again, anyway. On an unrelated note, is there a reason why no one puts a sticky/announcements anymore for new firmware releases on this page? It doesn't make sense for newer users who might not know about places like Gearpage (and the endless threads about the next update) to not be alerted to the new updates before connecting the Helix to the internet for the auto-update. It also makes no sense PR-wise. Just curious.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
datacommando Posted November 25, 2023 Share Posted November 25, 2023 On 11/24/2023 at 6:12 PM, JimGordon said: On an unrelated note, is there a reason why no one puts a sticky/announcements anymore for new firmware releases on this page? It doesn't make sense for newer users who might not know about places like Gearpage (and the endless threads about the next update) to not be alerted to the new updates before connecting the Helix to the internet for the auto-update. It also makes no sense PR-wise. Just curious.... As you have already realised, there are no Line 6 staff here, and only very occasionally do they visit these forums - (See the “sticky comment” in the black banner stripe at the top of this page entitled “Welcome to the Line 6 forums”). If you think it’s bad in here, you should check the Helix Native forum. The last mention of an update in there was from Digital_Igloo (Eric Klein - Chief Product Design Architect at Yamaha Guitar Group, Inc. / Line 6 / Ampeg), way back on January 25th 2018. It’s like the Land That Time Forgot! in here. Hope this helps/makes sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimGordon Posted November 25, 2023 Author Share Posted November 25, 2023 I knew that Digital Igloo only rarely pops in here. I guess I'm just puzzled as to why up through the 3.15 update they had notices of the new updates, and then suddenly stopped. It just seems odd that they wouldn't want to keep potential buyers and new users aware of the new features they add. I bought the Helix when I did (in mid 2019) after seeing the announcement of the planned new features for version 2.8 on this page, and saw that the Helix was clearly a continually improving product (when it was first released, the dearth of models kind of turned me off- no Mark series Mesas?). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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