kevinm213 Posted April 27, 2025 Share Posted April 27, 2025 After 7 years of not playing guitar, I'm excited to get back to playing and I bought a Helix and a Stomp XL recently. However, I found out with Custom Tones that there's hardly any patches and/or tones for covers like there used to be for all line 8 products? Now, if I want a cover tone, I have to pay for something I used to obtain for free with my Firehawk. I don't have the time to sit down and try to setup a preset with my ear to play a cover, I'm not a pro. And between my full time job and reserves I don't have that kind of time. If anyone can provide me with a learning curve or any advice it would be greatly appreciated. BTW, calling Line 6 has been total agony. Cheers! Kevin M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulTBaker Posted April 29, 2025 Share Posted April 29, 2025 In my experience, the tones from Custom Tones or even that you can buy are very hit or miss (mostly miss). I know you said you don't have time, but make time and build your own. You really will be glad you did. Jason Sadites, John Nathon Cordy, and Steve Sterlacci are really good at explaining how to get a good tone. Jason was the first I looked at and is very good and VERY in depth. Maybe too much sometimes imo. However, he has a nice basic template that you could start from and then tweak to make it yours. Cordy is great mainly because I love the way he plays guitar, so very smooth. His patches are very smooth as well. Steve will show you some great tips and tweaks to use.... and they all keep posting new things as they learn and as new Helix stuff comes out. Good luck with your journey.... it really is worth the work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bababhaiya Posted June 23, 2025 Share Posted June 23, 2025 The free cover tone landscape for Helix and Stomp XL isn't as abundant as it was for older Line 6 products. While CustomTone might have some, explore the built-in presets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred2515 Posted October 6 Share Posted October 6 On 4/28/2025 at 1:56 AM, kevinm213 said: After 7 years of not playing guitar, I'm excited to get back to playing and I bought a Helix and a Stomp XL recently. However, I found out with Custom Tones that there's hardly any patches and/or tones for covers like there used to be for all line 8 products? Now, if I want a cover tone, I have to pay for something I used to obtain for free with my Firehawk. I don't have the time to sit down and try to setup a preset with my ear to play a cover, I'm not a pro. And between my full time job and reserves I don't have that kind of time. If anyone can provide me with a learning curve or any advice it would be greatly appreciated. BTW, calling Line 6 has been total agony. Cheers! Totally feel the frustration with the lack of free cover tones these days and how hard it is to get useful help from support when you’re already stretched thin. Balancing a full-time job with trying to get back into guitar leaves almost no room for sitting down and building presets from scratch. While looking for work options that might open up more free time in the evenings I found a good variant and have actually used it myself when checking driver positions. Hope the community shares some solid free patches that get you closer without all the extra hassle. I’d probably avoid buying presets for every cover and start with the stock presets that are already close to what you need. There are also a lot of Helix users sharing free presets outside CustomTones, and once you learn the basics of tweaking an existing patch, it’s usually much faster than building one from scratch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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