BigRedX

IME it doesn't matter when in the week you order something from Thomann, if it's destined for the UK it gets dispatched late on Friday afternoon.

But the old devices don't stop working. I was using a Bass Pod XT until I bought my Helix, which was bought on the strength of the features it had at the time of purchase. The firmware upgrades since then have just been a pleasant bonus. Unless/until the new Stadium version offers new features that I find indispensable, I'll be sticking with my Helix Floor

Only if the new version offers lots of new indispensable features. There's a couple of things that look interesting, but so far the teasers have short on actual information, and I don't think what I've seen so far is going to be worth the £2k+ outlay.

Depending on how many separate channels of synchronised backing you can output along with the processed instrument that might be useful. However, just stereo isn't going to cut it for anything other than the most basic of gigs. Edit: will it also send MIDI program changes to other devices? Edit 2: It will also depend how easy it is to get all that additional information loaded into the Helix Stadium from your DAW.

I already do all of that with my Helix Floor. Preset and Snapshot changes are controlled via MIDI from the computer that runs the drums and second synth part. Selecting a song also selects the correct Preset on the Helix and then the Snapshots change in the correct place as the song plays. On some songs then Snapshots change every two bars in places which mean that if the computer wasn't doing it for me I'd pretty much be glued to my pedals for those. We have a song we're currently working on where some of the changes only last a beat or two!

It has never worked for me on either the Intel based Mac I had when I first bought my Helix or the M-series that I use now. The release notes for 3.8 firmware do say that there is a problem with retaining the global settings on M-series Macs, and TBH I have never looked at them for previous updates, so I don't know if it was supposed to work before on Intel based Macs. All I know is that it has never worked for me, since I have been making changes to the factory default global settings.

As I said on the other thread: There will probably be trickle down to smaller/cheaper devices in the same way there was from the original Helix. The teasers have left me felling rather underwhelmed. I don't need pretty pictures of the amps and cabs they add nothing to my user experience. Also a lot of touch screens don't always work for me, so unless all the those functions can be easily replicated from the other device controls that will be a major disadvantage. It appears also to be aiming more towards (more realistic?) modelling. That doesn't interest me in the slightest. Firstly because I don't know what most of the devices they are modelling are supposed to sound like and secondly because all I want are things that make my guitar and bass sound like how I want. How the device gets there is of no importance. On the other hand if Line6 have decided to include MIDI-triggered full ADSR filters and gates (as well as keeping everything from the current V3.8 Helix), then I'll be first in line for one! Additionally: For me the amp and can models are the least interesting thing about the current Helix. I currently use two, both of which are guitar amp/combo models, on a handful of Presets where they are used either for the drive sounds or because the EQ frequencies work in the context of the overall band mix. For the vast majority of my Presets I simply don't bother because generally adding an amp and/or cab sim makes my bass sound worse.

There will probably be trickle down to smaller/cheaper devices in the same way there was from the original Helix. The teasers have left me felling rather underwhelmed. I don't need pretty pictures of the amps and cabs they add nothing to my user experience. Also a lot of touch screens don't always work for me, so unless all the those functions can be easily replicated from the other device controls that will be a major disadvantage. It appears also to be aiming more towards (more realistic?) modelling. That doesn't interest me in the slightest. Firstly because I don't know what most of the devices they are modelling are supposed to sound like and secondly because all I want are things that make my guitar and bass sound like how I want. How the device gets there is of no importance. On the other hand if Line6 have decided to include MIDI-triggered full ADSR filters and gates (as well as keeping everything from the current V3.8 Helix), then I'll be first in line for one!

Unless Line6 have added MIDI-triggered filters and gates I'm happy with what I have already.

IME it makes no difference to the global settings whether I do a wipe and restore or not. Neither way has reinstated them for me. All it appears to do is add another 30 minutes onto what is already and overlong process, and the last time I did a complete wipe and restore on my Helix, it insisted on rebuilding all my Presets for a third time when I next powered up the device.

Reminded me to install the 3.8 firmware as I don't have anything important coming up for over a week. Getting a better computer since I did the last update hasn't made the process any quicker and 94-100% appears to take as long as 0-93%. The HX edit link to release notes doesn't work either. Edit: And yet again my Global setting have reverted to the factory defaults. It does say in the release notes that there is a problem with Apple M-series computers regarding this, but it also affected Intel Macs on previous updates. Hopefully this will be fixed soon, because it's very annoying and I don't always remember to change everything to my preferences until I find that something isn't working as I expected it to. And... Every time I load up Logic I get a message saying that the Line6 44.1kHz Core Audio Driver will not be compatible with future versions of Mac OS. I've just checked on the Line6 website and the installed version 1.5 driver is now almost 4 years old. I'm still on Sonoma, but contemplating upgrading to Sequoia just before next version of Mac OS is released. Does anyone know if the 1.5 driver works with Sequoia?

Not my experience at all. My band has 3 hour practice sessions where the NUX system is running continuously for at least 2 and half hours with status lights still on green by the end of the session.

According to the Burns Website the scale length is 25.5" which IME is a bit short for a decent bass tone. Also the Burns neck for their standard Bass VIs is a bit on the narrow side (although not as bad as Fender/Squier) and you would definitely want it wider for the additional octave strings. Confusingly the website says it's 55m in the description which would probably be about right, but only 49mm in the specifications. Plus a 55mm wide nut would result in a near parallel string path unless the pickups and bridge had been modified for increased string spacing all the way. It's alll very confusing. The Barracuda Bass VI had standard guitar width pickups and bridge which wasn't great. I'd certainly be interested in one of these with a 30" scale length and a suitably wide neck, and overall string spacing.

The band in question had a very dense sound and the two guitarists would want to hear an on-stage mix that sounded as close to the recording as possible. OtOH I was quite happy so long as I could hear the drums so I could tell I was in time and the vocals so I knew where I was in the song. Being able to take the bass guitar out of the foldback certainly helped with the on-stage clarity for the other members.

When I was still using my RCF FRFR I'd often position it at the front of the stage but "firing" across so that the rest of the band also got the benefit.

0°F is actually the freezing point of brine, not water.

The other two members of my band are almost a foot taller than me. Even glam rock platform boots wouldn't get me up to a comparable height. The only band photo we have where our heads are all level is one where I am standing on a step and the other two have crouched down slightly...

Could be re-titled 20 reasons not to play in a pub covers band. Playing in originals bands I've only encountered two of them. The late payment with numerous ignored requests for the money, that was eventually honoured about a year after the gig. The promotor in question had a reputation for being bad at paying and we are unlikely to do another gig for them. Also the load-in/out in the rain or, in the case of the UK, snow. Doubly awful if you are a band with any kind of image that involves hairspray. All the others make me glad that I don't play in those kinds of bands to that kind of an audience.

The Terrortones used deps on numerous occasions when we were going through our seemingly endless cycle of replacement guitarists and drummers, so that we didn't have to cancel important and/or lucrative gigs. Deps for originals bands come with their own set of problems. Our main one was getting the replacements to dress appropriately. While we didn't expect them to get leathered up (although it would have been great if they had) even a simple instruction like "wear black, no obvious band or brand logos and no trainers for guitarists" appeared to be difficult to follow. The other problem was that we would have to change the set so that we had decent recordings of all the songs for the dep to learn which often meant dredging up back catalogue that we hadn't played live for ages and consequently we only knew the songs slightly better than the dep. On the whole while the deps were mostly competent, only one of them had the right vibe musically and we eventually offered him a permanent place in the band. The rest made us glad to get the proper band member back playing drums or guitar. One drummer in particular managed to mess up playing our single, which was our best-known and most popular song. Therefore when we got an unexpected encore we decided to play it again to make up for getting wrong in the set. Then he managed to mess it up a second time in a different way! I was even dep'd for one very important gig that was doubled booked with the covers band I was also in at the time. I had to lend my replacement a 5-string bass so that he could play all the songs and he had several rehearsals with the rest of the band. I've seen video of a couple of songs from the gig and it seems that he spent most of the set with his back to the audience. I vowed that wouldn't happen again and was one of the many reasons why I quit playing in the covers band.

Wall Warts are fine for pedals so long as they can be mounted on a pedal board and never touched again. The problem that I have with is that the low voltage plug is non-locking and the cable easily damaged compared with an IEC connecter cable.

I wouldn't make the case a snug fit. If you look at the equivalent ABS rack cases there is built-in air space all around the actual space for the rack units. The last time I built a wooden rack case I used 2" PAR batons for the bracing. This was mainly because the case was 14U high, but it had the added advantage is giving an extra air space all around the equipment for the air to circulate. For your two units you probably don't need this much, but since it looks like a permanent installation rather than a carry case, I'd add as much extra width as you have room for and try and get at least a 5mm air gap top and bottom.

We donated a load of art (paintings and limited edition prints) which didn't fit the decor any more and which we didn't have room to store, to a local charity shop. The following week a couple of them turned up on the site of the local auction house and subsequently sold for a few hundred pounds each. I sometimes feel a bit guilty about some of the stuff we off-load on the charity shops, so I'm glad they were able to make some decent money this time.

As someone who is considering buying a mini as a general purpose back-up computer what happened?

Most of my synth parts are created using the Retro synth plug-in. If I need more control over the sound than I can get with that, then ES2 or Alchemy will definitely do what I want. All of these come as part of the Logic Pro install. No need for any 3rd party synths at all.

The "adaptor" shown in the OP is to allow the use of an external PSU fitted with a Euro plug. Unless it offers some way of locking the PSU in place by more than just the plug pins it is technically against trading standards for it to have been supplied for use in the UK. IMO external PSUs are the bane of the audio equipment world and ones that require adaptors doubly so.