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I am not a modeling fan, but I got to play one of these and I was impressed. The editor and routing setup are just about perfection. And it sound pretty damn good. It doesn't have that compressed/constricted sound PODs have. Anyone else thinking of taking the plunge on one?

Uncle E, you guys going to get some in any time soon?
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Yeah, I'm very deviously thinking about getting one in due time. It looks like it's a freaking tank, and all those displays and lights... awesome.

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I was expecting to go hohum like I do with pretty much all the modeling boxes. Kempers are great if not a bit overly complicated. But, the models on the Helix sound really good and dynamic. It still has a tiny bit of the constricted/hairy thing ... but by the time you dial it in, it disappears under the noise floor. You could probably get solid studio grade recording DI for a crap load of tones.

For live I'm not sure you could tell. At least based on the 45 minutes Ibeat on the thing it seems that way.
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At first, I completely wrote off the Kemper thinking it was just too expensive for yet another simulation.
After talking to some locals who were using it (and hearing the results), I started thinking of the gear it could replace (both live and studio), how much it would reduce my live cartage, and the convenience of recording guitar/bass. All those things factored in, (for me) the Kemper was easily worth the cost.

I saw/heard the Helix at Sweetwater's Gearfest 2015.
It was so busy... I never got to actually sit/play thru it.
Based on what I'm seeing/hearing, I'm definitely interested.
The control and FX alone are very nice.
If the models feel/respond as well as quality profiles on the Kemper, Line-6 will have a runaway success.
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This can't be the best new thing yet.
BIAS hasn't finished being the best new thing yet.
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I really like the Helix+FRFR setup. I think it's smart.

I'm actually opposed to "reamping" of which I've done with many multi-effect dsp > amp situations in the past. On my yamaha THRC the godsend is that I can record dry and wet into my daw using separate channels yet what I'm hearing is the wet signal only. Afterwards I can choose to go with the original thrc amp sim sound or having a clean signal introduce various other vst effects/amp sims. (mostly I just go with the THR and I'm happy)

I would have died for an FRFR back in my gigging days
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tapper mike wrote:I really like the Helix+FRFR setup. I think it's smart.

I'm actually opposed to "reamping" of which I've done with many multi-effect dsp > amp situations in the past. On my yamaha THRC the godsend is that I can record dry and wet into my daw using separate channels yet what I'm hearing is the wet signal only. Afterwards I can choose to go with the original thrc amp sim sound or having a clean signal introduce various other vst effects/amp sims. (mostly I just go with the THR and I'm happy)

I would have died for an FRFR back in my gigging days
I actually reamp back through real amps because sims just sound like crap in comparison. It's just too damn convenient to use sims. And in a mix, it's not a problem. If you multi-track a bunch of times, it's not a problem. But a single guitar that has to carry the song ... ick.
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Feature wise they nailed it, as a Kemper owner since the beginning I'm happy with my choice especially for the studio, but if this was around at the time and the sound and feel stacked up I would be all over it.

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afcollett wrote:Feature wise they nailed it, as a Kemper owner since the beginning I'm happy with my choice especially for the studio, but if this was around at the time and the sound and feel stacked up I would be all over it.
Kemper was on my short list for studio use. I know several people who swear by them. But, for live use I don't know how you could beat this setup if it actually sounds as good as it seems it does.
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The Kemper remote is $600.
I'd rather put that toward the Helix.
If the Amps are in the realm of Axe-FX and Kemper... Helix will be super popular.
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SJ_Digriz wrote:
tapper mike wrote:I really like the Helix+FRFR setup. I think it's smart.

I'm actually opposed to "reamping" of which I've done with many multi-effect dsp > amp situations in the past. On my yamaha THRC the godsend is that I can record dry and wet into my daw using separate channels yet what I'm hearing is the wet signal only. Afterwards I can choose to go with the original thrc amp sim sound or having a clean signal introduce various other vst effects/amp sims. (mostly I just go with the THR and I'm happy)

I would have died for an FRFR back in my gigging days
I actually reamp back through real amps because sims just sound like crap in comparison. It's just too damn convenient to use sims. And in a mix, it's not a problem. If you multi-track a bunch of times, it's not a problem. But a single guitar that has to carry the song ... ick.
In that situation I would take the amp sim out of the mix and just use the standard FX. My best live years were using a Traynor YBA clean. One setting works all night for Jazz and Blues the rest is in your fingers.

Even today I barely use anything past a crunch. I find attempting to reamp after a sim to push aliasing artifacts out over the top and it requires something like a noise gate and additional eq / multiband compression to bring things inline. I hate noise gates.
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I seriously think anyone who doesn't embrace modern "modeling" has their head in the sand

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I'm not opposed to the current amp sim technology. I embrace it. I just prefer not to send a guitar line into an amp (or sim) pre and post stages then through another amp (and or sim) to reshape (reamp) the same signal
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tapper mike wrote:I'm not opposed to the current amp sim technology. I embrace it. I just prefer not to send a guitar line into an amp (or sim) pre and post stages then through another amp (and or sim) to reshape (reamp) the same signal
reamping to me is to use a dry track, not to send an already processed track out to an amp. I can't imagine doing so would sound very good.
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