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Thanks Jack! Very kind 😊

Yes, works on Apple silicon macs 👍🏻

It really is! Enjoy :)

I really enjoy them, it feels good to play too.

omg fauxllow up. it gets even better.

haha yesss, if just 1 person responds to my stupid puns it makes it all worth it! 😂 thanks for watching!

Thank you very much!

Nevermind Im just blind. I found it

hah, nice one, yea the ordering of the models is a bit weird I must say!

Thanks! Agreed, it's a great really good model and showed just how committed l6 are to improving. I think the litigator with pedals is still my go-to for the stomp as I've found the clean a little easier to dial in than the gsg. What do you use for clean?

@@DavidBeebee yes the Litigator is a great choice also...present in several of my presets. For really clean I go either to the Jazz Chorus model as it really is clean (an amp I actually have experience of)...not as pure but also good at cleans for me is the Cali Texas Ch1 which I think is a Mesa Boogie. But even 7 or so years into Helix and Stomp playing I still find new sounds from amps I've barely touched before.....just a great platform.

L6 don't do themselves any favours with the presets or stock block settings, however when dialled in I really don't think it's night and day difference. I guess we're all diferent, I've just downloaded the UAFX plugin versions to try and 'out the box' really not digging the sounds or feel, but like most gear these days, I'm sure its great when tweaked. The feel of the helix is also hugely affected by the input-z setting. Before changing this to always be 1M I was getting a terrible 'rubbery slippage' feel, which may be what you're referring to. anyway,s thanks for watching and giving your thoughts!

IME the Helix sounds as good (or bad) as the user dialing it in

Pretty much, I think the big dividing line in the sand with the more recent stuff is how good it sounds out the box without the twiddling n tweaking. Fractal is most definitely king of the hill here, but even with this, L6 has improved somewhat with some of the recent amp models. Thinking of the new jcm800 in particular.

@@DavidBeebee Agreed on the 800 for sure - that's become my favorite amp model in the Helix hands down! IMO the newer stuff like the UA pedals tend to be a more curated experience, but not necessarily leaps and bounds better. If you just want conventionally-good tones quickly and easily, it's great IME the Helix is just as 'accurate' as the best digital stuff out there. but Line 6 has taken a 'warts and all' approach to modeling (outside of their idealized original amps, which are excellent) and given so many options for tone shaping, so it's possible to get sounds that are 'bad' if you don't know what you're doing. But on the other side of this coin, you actually also have a much wider range of possible tones as a result. Addressing the OP commenter, I kinda hate this notion of the 'digital fizz' thing people talk about, because if you mic a real amp with an SM57, it's actually quite strident usually and the Helix reflects that very well. Most great amps have quite an open top end that actually a lot of modelers don't quite get right, but Helix does better than most at achieving that 'air'. This high end that exists in a lot of amps people read into as "digital" or "harsh" in a modeling environment, even though amps create those frequencies, too. So I think a lot of modeling companies actually artificially smooth that stuff out since guitarists sometimes don't know how to manage it (even if there are literally dozens of ways to dial it out with the various EQs, filters, amp controls, cab controls, etc) To each their own, but it's wild to me that people dog on the Line 6 stuff still. But for all of the reasons I mentioned above, I also get that, more so than something like the UA pedals, you get as good of results as you're capable of dialing in. Not everyone has spent time in studios mic'ing cabinets and hearing themselves on the other side of the glass through monitors in an actual band mix. And IME the Helix nails that experience

@@jakestewartmusic brother, I have IRs from York Audio, OwnHammer, MLSounds. I've played guitar professionally for over 15 year. I play Jazz, Fusion, Rock, Funk, Metal, Classical, Flamenco, Brazillian, and every other genre. I have hundreds of presets, not only made by me, but also bought from a variety of people. Do you really wanna imply that I sound bad? Or my presets? I have real amplifiers that I mic in my studio and I've recorded guitars in professional studios, hearing my miced guitar on a band mix. Who do you think you are to question others like that? Have you ever even tried a real amp? From what you say it seems like you never did, and you just speak from what you heard on the internet and/or somewhere else. I've mic'ed my amps for recordings plenty of times, with different mics and positions and tried all that before I start speaking. I feel like you only had Helix as an experience and nothing else and you are defending it as if it was your son. Chill out, it's just a machine. Also, you were kinda rude for no reason. And it doesn't seem you know much about what L6 is good or bad at. You should go inform yourself.

Cheers picksalot, and thanks for your thoughts, that's interesting I often find the louder I take modelling the harsher the highs seem to get. But yea, I'll try it out. Ta'

Thanks! :)

Yep I know about setting the clean on the UA. I still find it quite lacking as compared to the Fm3 clean. Agreed, the UA cabs are somewhat better than the stomps, but the feel I've managed to dial in pretty similar tbh, and yea getting the right power supply in the amp type was key to matching that. I'm not entirely sure I agree it takes that much noodling to make it compete. I also found both the UA and stomp to be trickier to dial in when disengaging the PAB and using the tone stack. thanks for your input and watching :)

It's my Fibenare Roadmaster FB custom. Incredible boutique hand made guitars from Budapest. :) Thanks for watching.

Yea live mix is a good test!

Thanks for the kind words, watching and subscribing!

Thanks for the kind words. I think we do whatever works, there's plenty of unorthodox approaches I take that work for me. When you find a piece of gear that works and a workflow to match, thats the important thing! Thanks for watching :)

Povvo is English slang for poor. So PovvODS is a Dumble ODS for those that can't afford the real deal. Like basically everyone! Niche daft jokes in thumbnails make me chuckle.

It's my high fibre diet! 😅 thanks Joe :)

@@DavidBeebee - haha.. spilling your secrets!

Good luck on the journey, and thanks for watching and subbing!

Thanks for watching, much appreciated! Cheers

you're welcome, thank you for watching.

:) glad that was helpful Dave, yea it was a real humbling game changer for me in my development. Amazing how fast the brain shuts off when not saying it out loud haha

Thanks for watching, glad you found it helpful :)

Cheers Andres, the journey is important :)

Yep! You can get my presets linked in description :)

You’ve hit the nail on the head with regards to fractal. If one can get over the cost and potentially scary user interface, it really up to the user how deep to go. Either way the tones are incredibly good. The fractal factory presets are shockingly good and present a well rounded overview of the core amp tone capabilities of the devices. I sometimes wonder if there’s a perceived complexity about fractal that isn’t entirely warranted. I really, really like the tones UA have got in this enigmatic pedal, but it’s 1/3rd the cost of a whole fm3 (which gets you 300+ amps in addition to the dumbles ), and isn’t actually solving the simplicity problem given the kinda janky app interface implementation. Still, as I say on the vid, it’s encouraging there’s another company going to this level of quality and detail on the core tone. We’re all winning I guess, well maybe not the wallet 😂

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You’re welcome, thanks for watching!

Thanks! Re: the changes for Android solo, I’ll put it on my todo list to add the progression in :)

@@DavidBeebee thanks! However I think that for start I'm gonna attempt to copy 1:1 of your initial solo, as much as I can learn it by ear and eye and as fast I can play. It's so beautiful. I always have pentatonic parachute, but for this magic progression it woudl be to bluesy 😁

Thanks mate, ye just a lingering cough now, sounds worse than it is! Enjoy the weekend!

😅🎸🙏🏻 rock it!

You have been visiting all videos related to this pedal, including mine, trolling and whining about it. It seems you are obsessed with it, and copied and pasted the same text over and over again in every single video. Morover, RUclips filtered you as spam in my channel, since you used all kinds of foul language. Still, you make a fool of yourself and also an ignorant in the subject. UA spent a lot of time with ACTUAL DUMBLE AMPLIFIERS in order to produce the Enigmatic. If you know more, why don't you just post about it, open a channel, and share with us your endless and superior knowledge about Dumble amplifiers? Have fun whining all over the internet while nobody knows who you are.

Yea, I felt that was important to stress, I don't really know if I even like REAL Dumbles, but whatever the character is the models and captures are going for, I generally dig a fair bit.

You too!!

@@DavidBeebee 🙏🙏🙏🙏☕☕

Thanks! for watching and commenting… and listening to the new TGHP, good to be back to it 😊👍🏻

thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts :)

Hope you enjoyed it!

Thanks for watching 👍🏻 the demo/ads are useful too and have their place, I just wanted to go at this as neutral as possible given I’ve got no relationship with either. Personally I just am a fractal fanboy though so still hard 😂

Interesting, yea I’ve heard similar comments from others about the ox box connection, and again, it’s a great device for the basic intended purpose.

Makes total sense. I could get on board with all the app stuff if it worked reliably but it’s so frustrating to hold important features behind a door that doesn’t open 30% of the time.

To be fair I also don’t think my preference is to setup a d style like many people would, I really like the glassier lighter gain bounce that they tend to do well.

@@DavidBeebee I think you sound great, and the Steel String Singer is often played with lots of jangle and chime. It's not that, it's that the Enifmatic just doesn't sound full enough to be a Dumble.

True. They have something very social in their cab tech, that FAS doesn’t have. Noticed that first when using the Lion. It’s like a certain amount of compression, not just an IR.

I’d be interested to know what about the cab tech is different than an IR? In this pedal it surely just seems like a fixed IR snapshot? I thought putting it through the same cabs would be a fairer way of direct comparisons, but I do spend a fair amount of time auditioning the stock cabs later in the video. They’re very good, but yea what am I missing with regards to the ‘Oxbox tech’? Cheers

@@DavidBeebee UAD have their own IR tech. A conventional IR is a tiny snapshot of audio that acts like a fixed filter, whereas the UAD tech is dynamic and simulates the behaviour of a speaker cone behaving differently as it’s pushed harder.

Haha cheers Michael! Much appreciated. But I’ll never be close to the video making machine that is JNC!