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AxeFX killer?
I wanna play on one!
http://www.line6.com/helix/

tell me when you be mine....tell me quando quando quando.....

Interested!

$1499 USD....
That's a lot of money for a bit of gear with the Line 6 logo on it.

Am very interested to see what it's like.

Yeah, it'll be interesting to know more about it. Line 6 have really built themselves into the affordable niche in the market, but this is definitely pushing towards premium pricing. Does look very cool though.

Looks professional.

Oh, that price....

But I only just decided to go back to amp and pedals!

That looks like the proverbial "do everything" box. That looks slick as feck. Also like the fact that it was all about the UI, which is always a struggle with these things I reckon.

Hmmmm... if the amps sound good, well bugger me days.

slash-ed wrote:Yeah, it'll be interesting to know more about it. Line 6 have really built themselves into the affordable niche in the market, but this is definitely pushing towards premium pricing. Does look very cool though.

I suppose the question is whether they're expecting it to take on Fractal. If so, they're still undercutting them by a decent margin I assume (not knowing anything about Fractal pricing in USD). But then, they're still Line 6 (or L6Yamaha?), so there's a marketing disconnect there already.

Bloody slick website though!

This is indeed designed to be an Axe-FX killer.

They have ground up redesigned the way they do modelling. (i.e. this models in more or less the same way as an Axe FX.)
It's got a shit-ton of DSP horsepower, the feature-set is just wild, it LOOKS amazing..... and it's 2/3 the price of an Axe.

I'm pretty excited about this. If it sounds HALF as good as it looks on paper (and I'm confident it will), we're gonna sell a ton of these!!!

hamo wrote:I suppose the question is whether they're expecting it to take on Fractal. If so, they're still undercutting them by a decent margin I assume (not knowing anything about Fractal pricing in USD).

The Fractal FX8 is US$1350, it doesn't have amp modelling though. They are planning to a floor unit with amp modelling called AX8 in the future, but my guess is the Helix will ship before that.

We're expecting shipping in September (fingers crossed)

Went to website on my MBP and it said "Please rotate device to portrait perspective.".... fail.... it's a fucking high resolution widescreen you mongs, not a mobile device... Even less interested now

sopachrga wrote:That's a lot of money for a bit of gear with the Line 6 logo on it.

Ouch bro. Hurts me it does. I still have my Vetta II, cost twice that

NZRS_Matt wrote:We're expecting shipping in September (fingers crossed)

Sweet so can Dave bring one along to gearfest on Saturday?