Line 6 Helix Stadium Hype Check

[Monkey Man]

Yeah, Helix Rack exists pretty much because we just... always made rack versions, not because they sold particularly well (at least when compared to floor-based units). In today's economic environment, we have to make more purposeful road map decisions.

Jury's still out. Many of us really want to make a Stadium Rack, but it's about convincing our bean counters and we need to bring receipts that we're accountable to.

Thank you for clarifying DI and for joining too... albeit 10 years ago.

The way I see it, if it is to be considered an option for "serious" recording, a rack version must be brought to market.

Heck, some extra floorboard sales could even result from peeps' seeing it racked-up in "pro" studios.

If there's anything to be said for optics and hype, it wouldn't harm that area either IMHO.

 

[JerEvil]

Plenty of advantages to having something racked; if a whole band is on IEM’s and going direct it’s a HELLUVA lot easier keeping all that shit in one rack so you’re not running cables all over a stage going to a mixer, just one or two patch ays for FOH and monitors and setup is a breeze.

Running just a MIDI cable to a pedalboard with a couple controllers on it gives a lot more safety than having the actual modeler itself on the floor where it can get stepped on and shit spilled on it.

You know how small MIDI controllers are now?

Look at that Morningstar MC6 in the center bottom-

I’d much rather have that on a board in front of me than my full on FM9 or even my FC6 board where I actually had to plan out and practice switching and making it to the expression pedals in time to use the wah/whammy. I had to add an additional footswitch to my board just to ensure I’d be able to get to the expression pedals after switching to a lead preset because the length of the FM9.

Yep. We have our own in-ear rig (X32) in a rack and yep, midi controllers are small and powerful these days.

But don’t try using logic here… it’s forbidden!