Line 6 Helix - Dialing In The Placater Dirty (Friedman BE100) 

Wow, just downloaded this preset, it might be the best sounding all purpose rock preset on my Helix. Thanks so much Jason for these great videos and making them available for everyone.

great vid again Jason ! I am fortunate to own a real Friedman and this model on the helix is super close :-)

I just want to thank you Jason for your generosity in making and sharing all these fantastic videos and tones! I just bought my Helix last week and really appreciate the information you share! Thank you! All the best! Peter

Read through the manual for the BE 100, it's only a page or two. Between drive/saturation/BE a HUGE amount of ground can be covered. One thing I love about Placater is the way it cleans up with my volume knob. Yes, it'll saturate to creamy goodness, but it also gets such a nice mid sparkle-drive when rolled back. This and the Lonestar really are the first models that feel like amps under my fingers. Would like to hear what you dial in for a nice higher-gain tone with delay and verb and how it would sit in a mix. Maybe you've done that already? You're so prolific with videos I can't keep up! :) Cheers!

Hey Jason, thanks a lot man! Followed you all the way through and got the sound I wanted. Even picked up on the quick playing and incorporated into my style.

Just spent my entire sunday watching your helix series, so much good stuff, cant thank you enough!

This amp paired with a greenback IR from Ownhammer, ML-LAB or Celestion is...amazing!

Thank you so much for doin these videos man. I really learned a lot about dialling in Helix tones from your channel. Btw that Friedman amp sounds killer!

Just so you know, I grabbed this off CustomTone and it immediately worked great with Helix Native. I'm also using a baritone. The sound is one of my favorites already. Thank you!

Jason... beyond words! Amazing chops and amazing tutorial! Thanks so much bro! Just awesome!

Great video! Really helped me dial in my settings. I own two Friedman amps and I really like this model when it's dialed in right!

very nice! love your detailed approach to tone sculpting :) also reminds me I drooled over some Godin guitars years ago, yours sound great!

The P90’s are a smash with this amp model! It really moved me!

Great video as always. I really appreciate your walk throughs. I messed with this model last night to work on an Alice In Chains preset since he apparently has been using a custom Friedman. So many amp models to use, so little time. I need to go through each amp to get an ideal EQ/setup on each and save as templates.

Thank you for these and the time you take to do them as well as freely sharing your skills. As a new Helix owner and getting the knack of preset building and tweaking your videos have become an essential training tool. Little things like the crossover split and the mic selection, placement and distance are things I would not have applied as quickly as I already have. Could you speak sometime to cab/IR level setting and if that has any actual tone implications or just another gain/balancing stage?

Absolutely GREAT video. Kudos

This is SUPER. thanks for sharing, I’m loving it 🥰. It does sounds very similar to my latest tube amp (a boutique) so it’s also facilitating my passage to helix 😀

One of my favorite amp models on the Helix/HX Stomp next to the Soldano, ENGL, Revv and Rectifier.

Very nice demonstration!

Jason, if u ever get a chance to try a smallbox limited. Not the regular, must be the limited. I think you will really like it. It’s not bassy. Has extra gain. It really is my favorite and best amp. Worked and saved for years traded up from really cheap bad gear over the years and finally got it in off white. Wildwood Guitars here in the U.S spec’d it out. It’s great. FYI I’m Using the Doug Aldrich zebra pups in my guitar. Really like them after spending my whole life using stock Seymour Duncan alnico 2s and JB’s. And SD got his start in the town I grew up in at the now gone music center. Got my first real guitar there many yrs later. A fender American Standard Strat. Read it in guitar player mag yrs after I bought the guitar. I’m in a major city now and let me count the guitar stores we have left here. Zero.

Great Video as always!!!

As always great video Jason. I just wonder whether I'll ever enjoy messing about with crossover blocks and post amp EQ to achieve the tone of the built in amp block. Why does Line 6 not compensate for some of this within the amp/cab pairing to better simulate the real amp? Maybe a video on this particular issue is in order; perhaps you could help us understand the thinking behind having inbuilt amps and cabs that are supposed to model the real thing and yet need quite a high degree on EQ, volume compensation and compression to sound authentic....

Hey Jason, when you checked the meter at the start of the video and boosted the output block, can you elaborate more on what you were doing here? Awesome videos, keep it up! 🤘🏻

Thanks so much ! This really helped !

This video makes me want to look at my LT to see if I need to do an update...

Pair the Placater with the matching Freidman 412 IR by 3 Sigma and you are cooking with gas. Adjust high and low cut as required...loving them on my Helix.

Hi Jason you got me hooked to your videos they are very helpful. Got a preset for the nylon multiac? Would be very interresting

Hey Jason....I have had my Helix for just over a week now...its been a bumpy ride, but thanks to your videos,I have been able to get some great sounds...The routing is throwing me for a bit of a loop.. I have a question....I am using my Helix Rack thru a pair of Yamaha HS7's...I want to do a wet/dry/wet configuration....If I bought a 3rd monitor for the dry center channel, would this work??Do you think it would sound good??I have seen people use a real amp for the Dry channel, but was wondering if it could be done with a 3rd powered monitor with the same results??I don't currently have a real amp(bought the Helix instead)...so I was just wondering what your thoughts were on how to accomplish this, and how it would sound??Thanks again for your videos....I swear I would have sent this thing back if it wasn't for you....

I have a BE50, like you have realised - it's really dark. I use it on settings very close to where you have concluded with the treble and presence both around 7-8.

I'm new-ish to the Helix. Where do you normally have your big Helix volume knob set? I normally have it around 1 o'clock. Is this more of a set it and forget it volume adjustment, then use the software to adjust volume? Thanks for the help!

Friedman "seems" to be a lot like the old plexi Marshalls with a nice tight grunt. Just the way that I hear it. I am with you, don't care for C45 or Saturation. Fat is pretty cool.

The gain blocks....I was wondering what purpose of them was... So the top you increased and you mentioned anything above 650hz??? Where did that number come from? Great videos BTW

Have you considered creating these dialed in amp patches for sale as a group a' la' Glenn? I would rather pay you for your work than just download them.

Could that Y crossover split be used at the beginning of bottom path so that one could blend 2 cabs or irs ? Or does it have to be right after the cab on the top path? Thanks again for another insightful video .

Hi, I’m not understanding you crossover setup, is there a video where you explain what you are doing here?

Great sound, easy, fast, awesome, thanks Jason!!! Could you dial something for an 8 string guitar? please!! Greetings

Maybe you can help me. I'm a new helix owner and am having a hard time getting decent tones out of it. I'm using jbl slr305s through xlr. Just about every patch I download or build manages to sound dark and thuddy and harsh at the same time. The only good tones I've managed to get so far are with a plexi bright or a panama with a rat in front on mild settings. The rat tightens up the gain and makes it come alive and sound just like I'm sitting in front of a tube combo. Even though this has worked an amp like the panama shouldn't need a pedal to make it come alive. I feel like there must be some global setting or something I'm missing, but it's been a chore so far to coax good sounds out of it. All the clips I hear sound nothing like my helix. I just tried your be100 patch and it sounds dark and thuddy with no sizzle. Wish I could figure out what i'm doing wrong.

Saturation seems to squash the sound sound a bit.

Hey Jason! Thanks for your work! I am trying to make my Placater work with my 8 string Ibanez M80M, would you mind please look at the settings? Thanks:)

Would someone mind explaining how the split/crossover with the gain blocks is different than just adding a simple lo/hi shelf eq block?

i think u achieved a usable tone, but i feel that its not respecting the real amp, learning how to use that model i realized that the bass was the trouble i just set it at 2 and work from there without any eq or cutting frequencies, i also feel that the tone its too compressed and lacks dynamics due to the extra make up! great video though thanks!

the dahk side

Why do you look like a disappointed dad when you're playing :/