review 110 Line 6 Helix Guitarist may 2016 GIT406.rev_helix.
LINE 6 HELIX review LINE 6 HELIX £1,221 Line 6 goes seriously upmarket with its all-singing, all-dancing dual-DSP processor-loaded Helix. Is this the future? Words Trevor Curwen Photography Neil Godwin What You Need To Know 1 What? Another Line 6 floor processor, then? Well, yes, but this is the company’s next generation – and has been four years in development. 2 So, it’s not just an updated POD or Firehawk under another name? Definitely not.
review LINE 6 HELIX 1 by a clever multi-function joystick control. Six soft knobs under the display let you quickly adjust parameters displayed above them and things are made even easier by the fact that the footswitches are all touch sensitive; you can use that to assign effects to footswitches or instantly get the assigned effect’s parameters to appear in the display. There’s even a pedal edit mode so you can select parameters with your foot and edit them using the expression pedal.
LINE 6 HELIX review 1. The Helix’s pro-aimed features are supported by a solid metal chassis and equally robust pedal treadle design, which can be used for numerous on-the-fly parameter adjustments 2. Four send/return loops allow you to integrate external effects as part of a preset. There’s full MIDI implementation, sockets for external amp switching duties plus Line 6’s Variax connection 3 3.
review LINE 6 HELIX LINE 6 HELIX 4 4. In brief, the Helix offers 41 guitar amp sims, seven bass amps, 30 cabs, 16 mics and a total of 80 effects. The outof-the-box sounds are great, while creating your own sounds is where the real fun lies need more expression, there’s provision to plug in two external pedals. Sounds This is a definite step up from the HD series.
