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Astonishing Piece of Equipment
I am a long time user of Line 6 products, way back to the original kidney bean POD, but this is in a different galaxy to all the previous digital modelling stuff that these guys have made. The thing looks like the flight deck of the Starship Enterprise and is built like a tank.
I bought it way back in October 2015 and I use it almost everyday as the heart of my recording studio because it is also a 24bit /96kHzUSB audio interface, and it allowed me to ditch my Focusrite Saffire. It has every option that I might need for recording just about anything. Inputs for Guitar/AUX and Mic with 48V Phantom Power, 4 x Send and Return, Ground Lift, 1/4", XLR and Phones outputs, S/PDIF In/Out, MIDI In/Out/Thru, Inputs for 2 Exp pedals plus one built in to the unit, Variax digital input. Large LCD colour screen for viewing and navigating the signal chain. 12 capacitive touch sensitive footswitches with scribble strips. Stomp mode and Snapshot mode. 8 Setlist with room for 128 presets in each.
Over 80 Guitar and Bass amps modelled along with 40 Cabinets, and 220 Effects covering just about anything you can ever need, loads up to 128 Impulse Response files, and lots of updates to the firmware which adds more and more effects eg: polyphonic pitch shifting and Euclidian delay.
Basically - it's the mutts nuts. Oh, and because I bought the hardware, I got a discount on Helix Native, which the software plug-in version of the the unit. Outstanding!
Preferred Settings + Usage:
To many and constantly changing.
Amazing bit of kit for the price.
I use Logic Pro X on a Mac almost daily and this gives full control of Logic Pro X. Amazing bit of kit for the price especially when you consider it has 100mm motorised faders. Solidly built but it's always studio based, therefore not likely to be knocked around.