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#45033 - 12/12/15 10:04 PM Take "The Helix Challenge"
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Thought this was cool so I thought I would share it with you guys... I was right 3 out of 5 samples but just guessed cause they both sounded good to me. Let me know how you do.

"The Helix Challenge"
"Our goal with Helix was to accurately capture the sound and responsiveness of each amp and now we’re asking you to tell us how we did. For this challenge we have chosen a handful of the most elusive (and exciting) amp sounds to model and compare side-by-side to the original amp. You will be offered a total of five sound samples, and will be asked to choose which one you believe is the original amp. You can take the test as many times as you like, but the test is randomised, so you may get different samples each time. The guitar playing you’ll hear is identical; the guitar signal was split to both the amp and to Helix. If you want to see exactly how we recorded the samples, check out the video below.
Good luck and have fun."
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#45036 - 12/13/15 12:43 PM Re: Take "The Helix Challenge" [Re: jaminjimlp]
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i got them right....but i do have studio monitors that i can hear very clearly on. the tones were close...but there was a little extra high end sheen that the modeler added in some cases. the thicker bottom end of the distorted amps gave away which ones were the originals.

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#45037 - 12/13/15 03:04 PM Re: Take "The Helix Challenge" [Re: singtall]
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Just listening in laptop speakers, but this is one of the "tests" that I sometimes do bc really you should be able to hear clearly with them. Modeled sounds usually just sound shrilly.

The first example came through nicely, but a bit thick. A little congested, but not a "fail" by any means,

The second one, was a bit "in a coffin" sounding, but the highs resonated nicely. Very chimey. Guessing real amp there.
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#45038 - 12/14/15 08:46 AM Re: Take "The Helix Challenge" [Re: singtall]
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Originally Posted By: singtall
i got them right....but i do have studio monitors that i can hear very clearly on. the tones were close...but there was a little extra high end sheen that the modeler added in some cases. the thicker bottom end of the distorted amps gave away which ones were the originals.


I knew you would nail it cool
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#45039 - 12/14/15 08:47 AM Re: Take "The Helix Challenge" [Re: TLTD]
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Originally Posted By: TLTD
Just listening in laptop speakers, but this is one of the "tests" that I sometimes do bc really you should be able to hear clearly with them. Modeled sounds usually just sound shrilly.

The first example came through nicely, but a bit thick. A little congested, but not a "fail" by any means,

The second one, was a bit "in a coffin" sounding, but the highs resonated nicely. Very chimey. Guessing real amp there.


how many did you get right?
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#45040 - 12/14/15 08:50 AM Re: Take "The Helix Challenge" [Re: jaminjimlp]
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Every time you do the challenge it gives you different clips of different types of music.

I am really enjoying the Helix, it is easy to get tones that I like. I got that redwires mix2 and made a few cool IR's, the one I like best is the one I shared with yall called GKH


Edited by jaminjimlp (12/14/15 08:56 AM)
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#45043 - 12/14/15 09:25 AM Re: Take "The Helix Challenge" [Re: jaminjimlp]
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I got Summer's Tales and Drop C Luxury backwards, but I tried to choose the dirtier sound as the real amp because Line 6 has usually a nice quiet and sparkly clean to mid gain sound.

Line 6 is really great at those cleaner tones, and easy to spot when a lot of gain is involved, but the convolution is indeed making it hard to tell the difference these days.

I wish they would have some kind of rewards for modeling and instead of "best modeler," choose which one is the best at each amp model without any effects.
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