Helix Rack Guitar Multi-effects Rack Processor Review

Helix rack

Great unit. So many options. I found it easy to learn. It has so many hidden gems. So because new options from different companies come out all time, who do they take things from? The line6 helix for one. They change things around a bit but there's a reason they take things from this product. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Don't be so quick to let go of things because… read more something new comes along. It's keeping it's price up pretty high too. Line6 updates every so often to make things sound better and add amps and effects. Recommend it.

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Excellent

The Helix is a great addition to my gear. Pretty much make any amp sound you want, especially with the ability to load your own IRs. Integrated with everything very nicely and gives you so much control. Still figuring everything out, but is already exceeding my expectations and they were quite high.

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Helix

The best thing that has ever happened to the electric guitar ever ! I've had it all and nothing has ever even come close. The guys at Sweetwater are the most awesome ever ! Tonelives on YouTube see soon

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Best Bang for your Buck!

I owned the the floor version of this when it came out, and to be honest, I didn't connect with it. I would work for a long time to get a usable tone and never really liked it. I recently got the rack version (shout out to Andrew R., who is a phenomenal sales rep!) and it is much better. I don't know if it's all of the updates that Line 6 gave the hardware over the years or what,… read more but this thing just sings! Every amp model sounds great, I play metal, but I also love math/post rock and all the way from chiming cleans to heavy heavy distortion this thing delivers. I have owned them all, Kemper, Fractal, but for ease of use, and all around tone, this thing delivers, and at a great price!

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Meets my needs perfectly...

There are a lot of ways to approach playing music. My approach is to replicate classic songs in every detail. This requires a lot of gear, because in many cases it's the gear that produced the signature sound in the songs. In the days before modeling, I had to drag one amp, one guitar and a bunch of effects pedals to gigs and do the best I could to find a sound that would work… read more for each song. Those days are over. The Helix provides nearly unlimited resources for reproducing the amps and effects in cover songs. Add a variax to the mix, and that provides a variety of modeled guitars. The internet is full of info about what gear was used in every song imaginable. Armed with that information, the Helix and variax let me create custom patches for songs, using the same amp, cabinet, effects and guitar used in the original song. It also lets me embed MIDI commands in my sequenced backing tracks so I can automatically call up everything I need for a song and execute changes at the right place in the song, without having to redirect my thinking from the song in order to stomp on foot pedals. All I need to do is call up the songs from a queue, and the sequence plus embedded MIDI tells the Helix what amp, effects and cabinet to use, and also tells the Variax what guitar model and tuning to use. I still have to be a musician, but for the first time, technology is helping me focus on the part of performing that I enjoy, and stop focusing on all the areas that are technical, not musical. Its like having a personal sound guy who doesn't need to be paid.

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