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I have owned a pod hd500x, x3live, and an atomic amplifire. I have also owned many great tube amps from Mesa, Orange, Marshall, Hiwatt, Vox, and Rivera. In my search for tone I found great sounds out of all of those amps but nothing that I could stick with as my styles of music changed. The Pods gave me the flexibility but I could never get a great tone. The Amplifire gave me the tones but lacked the effects and had a slightly annoying digital artifact that I could hear as notes decayed. At first when I got the Helix I was ready to send it back after an hour. After taking some time digging into the adjustments and watching some youtube videos. I started to get some great tones out of and now that I have a better understanding of the workflow I can have a great tone for any style in minutes when I used to spend hours dialing in the hd500. The icing on the cake was learning the snapshot function. I have snapshots for each song on my bands set list and it has made the pedal dance obsolete.

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Modeling technology is a blessing and a curse. Blessing - the convenience of having a semi truck full of gear in a floor board you can take anywhere and plug into anything is something I never dreamed of when I first started playing. Curse - modeling technology is an art in itself, and requires a healthy knowledge of EQ, signal chains, and other less often mentioned aspects that many of us older guitar players just aren't used to. Even if you have used a modeling amp like a Vypyr, Mustang, or Spider before, keep in mind that those units have a speaker built in so the sounds are for the most part already EQ’d for that full range guitar speaker. Here you have a blank canvas, so you may have to tailor your EQ and signal chain to fit whatever output device you are using. The best advice I can give anyone interested in this product is do your research! Decide what you area going to be playing the board through first. PA system, Headphones, Studio Monitors, Guitar Amp, FRFR etc Then join some forums, watch YouTube, and to understand how to create usable sounds for your particular set up. I’ve seen too many threads by people who are frustrated because they can’t get a good sound. Once they were steered in the right direction for their particular set up, the majority were quite pleased.

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Thank you zZounds for shipping this out so quickly! I previously had mixed experiences with Line 6 devices. The XT stuff sounded great, but was hard to program. The HD and X stuff was hard to program and it was hard to get it to sound good. All of that is alleviated with this Helix! I compared this to the Kemper profiler and ultimately Line 6 won! The Kemper does a few things extremely well, but it does not come close to the wide range of outstanding sounds, effects, and ease of use of the Helix. The Helix is a modeler, the Kemper is a profiler. The Kemper is a set and go device. The Helix offers that plus a whole lot more. The Helix models amplifiers down to the component level, whereas the Kemper just profiles the frequency response of known amplifiers. I am having so much fun and sound incredible.

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The sound this thing produces makes this worth every penny. Unmatched tone. It takes some patience learning how to utilize features but it’s not difficult. Absolutely the best money I’ve spent on gear. Love it. Not what I’d call easy but it isn’t hard to learn and I haven’t had to call support. There is plenty of videos on YouTube and on Line 6’s website.

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I first started playing guitar at 15 and began with Amplitube and other amp sims. These tools made learning more enjoyable by allowing me to experiment with different sounds without needing new gear. It was also easier to play along with backing tracks using headphones, which meant I didn't bother my family or neighbors with noise. Ten years later, I still relied on Amplitube for recording and practicing due to volume concerns in my apartment, and I had a cheap amp and a few pedals for jamming with friends and gigs. The Helix LT addressed all my concerns perfectly, merging the convenience of physical gear with the ability to record and practice quietly while offering endless versatility. It's an absolute game-changer to have a physical pedalboard that simulates a semi-truck load of gear. It connects directly to my studio monitors in my home studio and replaced my audio interface. Additionally, I purchased an FRFR cabinet for in-person jamming, and it can hook into PA systems for gigs.The Helix LT is truly a jack-of-all-trades for musicians who record, gig, or practice. I can play at low volumes without concerns about sound quality, and I no longer have to struggle to match my songs recorded with amp sims to physical gear for gigs. The setlist feature makes this AMAZING. The software included makes it easy to organize and tweak presets.There is a small learning curve, but for me, it was mainly due to changing workflows entirely. It took me about an hour to figure everything out. I recommend watching a YouTube video to see all it has to offer.I've always focused more on my playing than the gear involved, and with the Helix LT, I don’t need to worry about amps or pedals anymore. As someone who plays guitar every single day, records regularly, gigs occasionally, It’s all I will ever need, and I highly recommend it.

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I have been dealing with little stomp boxes for 40 years, even gone rack mount FX's and hated that, so a video came up in my YouTube timeline and I was checking it out. I was like this has everything I could ever need and then some. I have only had this like 3 days and I have decided to donate all of my old FX pedals. This thing is like a Tank and will be buying a road case for it so I can just use this at gigs and D.I. and still have my sound.

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I am coming from the Pod Go (great unit as well) which had served me well but I needed more out of the unit. The Helix LT has everything that I need. The HX Edit had it's learning curve since I was use to Pod Go Edit but with some time and watching Youtube video's I quickly learned my way around. There is so much this unit can do and I like having 8 snapshots giving me many options for one preset. For example one of my presets has a clean, clean lead, crunch, crunch lead, medium gain, medium gain lead, hi gain, and hi gain lead for that one preset making it easy to play so many songs with just that one preset. The options for tones is amazing. Anything you can think of this unit can do it. If you know how a signal chain works creating presets comes pretty easy, if you do not than go to the manual or watch some videos online to get you started than you'll be creating amazing tones in no time. I would highly recommend this product to anyone.

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I purchased my Helix Lt a month ago. After finding tones for my bass (hard because the quantity and quality of the options) now I'm messing with the guitar sounds and there's no limit with this small unit. I don't need to carry all my equipment to sound good. Don't wait as I did, if you're interested, get it now. And zZounds is amazing, they have a lot of financial plans without interest and I even got delivered before I was supposed to. Thank you so much.

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I love it the delay effects are sweet

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I wish this unit was around when I was gigging it would've been A backsaver. It's a compliment to the real thing Good enough for the big stage Or the living room

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My go to programming easy board!

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I have active and passive pickups but mainly active. I was looking forward to the helix panama amp sim. I tried and tried to get a good sound with line 6 cabs and ir's. Nothing sounding good. Switching pad on ir off didn't do anything, maybe I got a messed up unit or they all suck. The effect and organizing of everything is awesome but the amp tones are horrible to me. People say mess with the global eq or put and eq before and after the amp which sounds like a lot of work to get a good sound. I want to get a good sound with the amp and overdrive and go from there. After hrs of wasted time the panama still sounded glassy and fizzy. Tried my horzo. Devices precision drive and even sounded worse so it doesn't work well with other pedals. Stick with hd, pods or firehawk for line 6 and use ir's with those with a laptop or pc. Or go with headrush, kemper or fractal audio.!

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