It’s been a long wait, but the highly anticipated Line 6 Helix Stadium Floor is finally shipping
The wait is over – Line 6’s Helix Stadium Floor, the latest instalment in its Helix series, has finally began shipping.
Eight months ago, Line 6 first shared news of its new Helix Stadium amp modellers. In the initial announcement, the company teased a pair of new modellers, with the flagship Helix Stadium XL Floor earning an earlier release and shipping out at the end of last year. Now, it’s the Helix Stadium Floor’s time to shine.
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While the XL model offers the most “comprehensive and integrated guitar processor ever created by Line 6”, according to the brand, the smaller Helix Stadium Floor offers a cheaper, more streamlined alternative. It scraps the built-in expression pedal, and halves the amount of effects loops, external expression pedals, and drum trigger inputs it can support to just two each.
While it’s taken a while for the ball to get rolling, the original announcement of the new amp modellers marked the 10th anniversary of the original Line 6 Helix.
A decade on, the new amps utilise a new modelling algorithm called Agoura, a revamped take on Helix’s HX modelling tech. The tech allows for more authentic amp modelling, as well as a more accuracy when modelling how a physical amp would respond to you.
Both the XL and streamlined Stadium model also have a ‘Hype’ control, allowing you to shift between “idealised” and “ultra-authentic” tone. This allows users the option of a cleaner, more digital sound or something a little more gritty and real.
The Stadium line also offers a new engine for live shows called Showcase. This can trigger MIDI changes, engage presets, and even automate lighting for your stage setup. As well as this, there’s also both WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity to store and make captures of your gear.
With its new improvements and revamped technology, Line 6 has promised that the Stadium line is its “most powerful and most flexible” Helix to date.
Eric Klein, Chief Product Design Architect, states: “Helix Stadium XL Floor and Helix Stadium Floor are in many ways a new type of product. In addition to featuring the best-sounding, most powerful, and most flexible processing Line 6 has ever offered, they can serve as performance workstations that aim to upend the way you approach playing – whether that’s writing and learning songs, jamming with friends, or controlling your band’s entire stage rig. And most of all, they’re fun to use.”
The Helix Stadium Floor is available now, with prices starting at $1,799.99. For more information, head to Line 6.
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