The Design Architect of the Line 6 Helix Tells All! - Silent Stage Episode 3, Eric Klein

**There is a drop in audio where I muted my question at 42:30. I asked Eric if the old amps from the AxSys are still there, and how has the modeling process changed since then?** Add the podcast on your favorite streaming service here - thesilentstagepodcast.buzzsprout.com/ Check out my Sweetwater landing page for all the gear used in my studio sweetwater.sjv.io/jrLZW0

The Helix is by far the most thought out all-in-one. I've had mine for 5 years and I'm still learning new tricks and features.

Hi Steve. Just wanted to say that I'm loving this series. Eric Klein is refreshingly honest. I love my Helix Floor and I agree that pedal edit is genius and incredibly underrated. All the best and thanks again from Ireland!

Thanks, Steve for having Eric on. Thanks, Eric, for all you do, from a POD through Helix owner, with a side of Variax.

I always love when Eric surfaces for an interview or some thread of posts online. Seems like a really nice guy, obviously brilliant, and undeniably professional. He can actually make you feel good about his saying "I can't tell you anything". But we learned the general timeframe for the next firmware update - that's something. Great vid Steve.

Now that’s a great non pandering, no upselling, musician focused interview. Awesome.

This was such an insightful interview! Thank you, Steve

This is a fun watch!

Eric, indeed Cliff is a genius, but so are you! Really appreciate the product you have produced.

Eric is awesome. Thanks for doing the interview and sharing it with us!

absolutely! I'm a big amp guy and after a month with a helix floor and helix native the workflow is soo good I can never go back.

Interview with the guys who make our gear makes for great content for what it's worth. That was a scoop.

Really enjoyed this, Steve. Cemented my decision to go with a Helix product. Also, the last few minutes are just wholesome AF ❤😊

Congrats Steve on getting and presenting such a great Interview with Eric Klein. I was totally interested in everything he had to say! Here is a list of key features that I wish my "HX Stomp" had, and a number of features I don't use why and how to possibly make them usable. My guess is all of them can be done in Firmware and Software. I hope Eric has time to read the comments to your interview with him. 1. A 2nd Preset List: This would make it easier to have a Working/Gigging List of Presets, and a List for testing and experiments. 2. Looper Auto Sensing "setting" to start recording without having to press a button. This would make it easier to focus on the music. 3. Make Send/Return Jacks User Assignable so an Expression/Control Pedal could be plugged in for Volume/Wah/Parameters control. I never use the Send/Return Jacks. 4. NAM Profiles/IR Imports. I almost never use IRs, but probably would if NAM Profiles and Cab IRs could be imported. I suspect this could be a bit more complicated due to their different file structures. Perhaps this could be done in HX Edit. I don't have a clear understanding of how Line 6 Helix Architecture processes its own compatible IRs, and how much Parameter control is implemented in Hardware. I can imagine a possible generic set of "Virtual" Parameter Controls being used to modify things like Input, Volume, Bass, Middle, Treble Tones, Gain, Output. I agree, the Capacitive Stomp Buttons make the Modeler extremely efficient and fast to use. Thanks

That was a really helpful discussion, Steve. I hope your wife gets better soon and that your dog thrives! We have three rescues so I'm always looking forward to hearing how your pup is doing.

Great interview! Eric is a reference in the market. This is top notch content, Steve, way to go!

If anyone from line 6 sees this PLEASE add a simple millisecond delay control to all the send/return blocks and split functions so we don't have to add a simple delay block to fixing phasing issues 🙏🙏🙏🙏 this saves a full block space and makes it easier to for instance do parallel saturation or compression with external digital effects 🙏🙏🙏

What I'd really love to see on 3.8 are 1) a comprehensively free MIDI mapping like with NDSP plug-ins. Snapshots are a useful compromise to what I'd prefer to be able to do, which is to modulate parameters directly by assigning them to a single MIDI control change to set them each to a specific value, then modulate them differently by assigning them yet again to another but same control change to set them each to a variant value. 2) whatever pitch tracking that allows for poly pitch effects to work to be able to be engaged so as to send out MIDI note messages with pitch, velocity and note on/off set by a signal threshold so we can play external synths/romplers, and this w/out having to take up a block, 3) being able to modulate between different models within a block via some command sent by footswitch or MIDI control change, just like we used to be able to with legacy L6 gear. 4) BPM-syncable LFO, 32 step analog sequencer, and ADSR envelop parameter modulators. Wouldn't mind a Minimoog Model D synth (or maybe Minitaur), 1176LN, and Bass Microsynth models in there too with all the parameters.

I was playing with my helix a few years ago and was experimenting with what was on there. And I found the pedal edit mode. So I played with it and thought boy. This is great. Then I’d hear people complain about editing stuff and bending over on some of the videos. And I could scream at my computer saying why don’t you use pedal edit mode it’s awesome. My big hangup in the beginning was I didn’t realize on snapshots. She had to push down on the button to change the perimeter and the highlighted white. When I found that out, it was totally great after that and I love it all. And my other hangup was high cuts and low cuts. I didn’t understand why at first. But I’m 61 years old I live in a semi truck most of my life making a living and when I get home, I play with my helix. Lol I hear people complain about how bright the sound is. Well, my old two that was the problem. You could never get that mic up sound that the record sounded like with helix and all the other six I have I could get it with just a twist of a knob.so I’ve always loved line 6. And I really like you Steve because you actually go out and gig it and tell it like it is. Thanks for all you guys do. And what a great conversation.

Fantastic interview with EK. Thank you so much for this. Keep it up