Line 6 Helix - It's All About The IR's 

Downloaded your IR pack after watching your presentation, as should "every Helix user out there" the best feel I have ever had from my Helix LT. Should be able to meet any mix situation with these IR's as nothing sees to be missing from the cab sounds. You oughta be congtratulated on a brilliant product. Well done!!!

Man these sound Freaking Fantastic! I'm going to Grab them this weekend looking forward to trying them out!

I don't have a Helix but stopped by to hear that sick opening jam. Loved it. Hell, I might even get a Helix after this. Lol

Thanks a million you saved me tons of $ I bought so many effects units And it was the cab sims all along

Awesome groove on that intro!! Loved it! Nice work

The one missing element with a great or not so great impulse response once it's being used by someone else or in a different capacity is in fact the most important piece. The cabinet from which the IR was loaded from and then the one it is being amplified through, oh yeah and then the guitar and pickups and more :) First thing I do with an IR is tweak or as you said multiple times sculpt the EQ of the IR against with what I'm working with. Thats what a sound guy has to do and I like it.

The real winner here is guitar tone. We live in a truly amazing time when a cat lover like Jarrod can make awesome Impulses.

Damn man, I’ve been making impulse responses of my own cab for years for the same reason. Did it with the axefx and then for the Helix. I’m use to the way my cab sounds recorded and live so I just made an IR of my cab. Did the same thing for some friends cabs also. I always told them if they have a favorite cab they record with or use live to just make an IR of it. Last week made one using my buddies marshall head as the power amp to bake in the EL34 section and he just uses the preamp in the Helix. Anyone can make them in like 5 mins. Glad you figured out the magic.

The best IR's I've tried out of thousands of digging around and must've spent entire days searching, but the best ones are by Ryan Harvey. It's in the catharsis pack for free and also embedded in the TSE X50 amp sim. Buster from humanity's last breath uses those and his albums are super crisp, massive and modern sounding.

I completely agree with u I can’t stand profiles or captures and ir’s that r supposedly mix ready or all dialed in and then u hear them and they sound like crap! U have the helix running through your ir’s sounding like a real amp and it’s awesome!

There are so many parameters by mixing IRs or mixing cabs with IRs or just cabs.When I got to know the Helix , along with the Jason Sadites Eq and Comp settings , I love making the preset from scratch now. So many great amps too.IRs and Cabs are cool , I actually prefer the cabs now since 3.50.

That intro song tho. Wow. Something struck hard. Thank you! Video great as always too!

Yup you nailed it 👍

I’m back in Helix world after a brief visit to Kemper land so this is amazing!! I will miss that Leviathan profile tho anything similar??

Valeton GP-200 for $350 but it's tricky because you got amp, eq, global eq and manual buttons to dial in. Cool thing is, you can pinpoint 4 exact frequencies in global to dial out and set the que range...

Would love a 412 with Greenbacks or the EVH speakers on the Pod Go, if you have either option available.

I use a Boss GT1000 and I have a Dunlop 10 band EQ hooked up to the mono output jack. Then I run the output from the EQ into a crown power amp that is hooked up to my Marshall 4 12 cab. The EQ allows me to adjust the tone to sound like a real tube head. I could not get the tone I wanted from only using the internal EQ in the GT 1000. Adding the external EQ to the output gave me the flexibility to shape the tone exactly to my liking. I now have the exact same tone as an ENGLE FIREBALL 100 head without having to shell out $2000 to get it! And-no worries about tube failures anymore!

I've been watching you're Helix comments for a while now. I remember from a prior video where you mentioned the problems with the Headrush type power cabinets rather than your wooden enclosure. Does your IR pack communicate the same with an FRFR Headrush type set up? Or did you play through your IR's through your original power cab, which I think was a Friedman? I appreciate your video, and your work here. Would love to know what your opinion of your IRs are through the FRFR cab. That "Deezel Legit" is what I'm looking for! Sounds awesome, and hope that a dual Headrush type PA can replicate that same sound.

Is it possible to get these "raw" IRs in .wav format - to use with Iridium, Boss, etc.?

I heard the difference in the impulse responses in 5 seconds 😊

stupid question but can these be used with an axe fx FM9? guess not but i'd definitely give them a try

Hi there, I've downloaded your new invective preset to try the IRs. I was a huge fan of the ML soundlab Marshall IRs before and I never felt they were designed mix-ready, rather than realistic representations of the real cabs. They definetly sounded better than the old helix cab blocks to me. After a couple of hours comparing your IRs and my previous favourites, I have to say that yours feel and sound so much better. Congrats and thanks for making my helix feel like a new product. I wonder why other companies choose to create their IRs too mid focused and “compressed”? Is it really easier to mix them in a DAW? Is it more convenient for a sound engineer to work with them live? I have so many questions 😂

It would be interesting to see you put some older modelers through your new IRs and see if it makes them relevant.

I've been playing helix for.a.year and I love everything about it Except that issue you talked.about here with it sounding like a blanket is over my power cab at times ,I've even went back to running 4 cable method to my tubed amp to go back to playing through it some , so im rushing home from work to try some of you irs , im praying I can find the magic your discussing here , wish me luck and if I do THANK YOU so much

Forget the IR that riff was insane

I'm confused. All these are for Kemper, QC and Tonex. Or do I just pick an ir pack and it will work with a Helix? Forgive me, I'm new to the multi effects amp modeler pedals. I don't own one at this time but will soon. Mostly doing homework on how it all works.

I wish you could blend the two depending on the room.

Anyone used these with clean / edge of breakup / od live tones??

In order to play out and get things compact I’ve wanted to use the Helix for more then effects. I would get so frustrated with these “highly recommended” IRs and everything was just so f-ing sterile. I’m so excited to start working with these and doing the tweaking myself to taste. When money gets tighter and tightest and RU-vid fills with salesman after salesman it’s so great to listen to some wisdom from a real player who is passionate about truly helping out your community rather then score the easy buck.

Are any of these preset packs better for “rock” and not metal?

How can I find your product on marketplace?

Man what you said here Is exactly what I've been experienced all this time: have a bunch of IRs but everyone on the them just gives me strange feelings and I Always go back to my cabs. Is It possibile to get those IRs also for Torpedo captor o other platforms?

Ever since the latest helix update.... I stopped using all IR's. Way easier to tweak the tone I am after especially the dual cab capabilities. You can save them as favorites and treat them as your own custom IR's. The issue I have with other IR's is that they are tuned for a guitar with different pickups, different pickup heights... different playing styles etc... Same reason I don't buy anyone's presets.....complete waste of time and money.

How can a person buy them for other hardware?

Selling irs of your cab for helix?? I’ll buy it

I just ordered one of your presets from line 6. Payment is completed. Will i get a download link or what?

Damn... Your IR sound WAAAY better lol. It's not even close!! Will these just work in modelers, or will they work in my DAW (Reaper)? I've been really struggling to find IR's I like. Not knowing much about it, I've kinda been going round in circles. This must be why! I'm looking for a 4x12 (preferably oversized, but beggars can't be choosers) loaded with Greenbacks (if you have both the 75, and the 55hz models in separate cabs, I'll have them both. If you have a 2x10 Greenback in an open backed cab, I'll grab that as well) Any recommendations, that list looks massive lol. Again, they have to work in my DAW, because that is where I'm using it. Thanks in advance, and great work!

Killer sound. Been using the Helix for 6 years and at least for me the weakest point of it is the amp sounds. Now that I own a Quad Cortex I know for sure that the Helix is behind in that department.

I started diving in plug ins and Its recently just for some practicing on tamed volumes. NOTHING compares to playing in front of the amp. The plug ins and IRs tones are great and dead cheap comparing to the real thing, but the real thing is the REAL THING. Can you tell in a mix? Can you tell on a blind test? WHO GIVES A SHIT. You can tell when you are plugged in and play for sure. Amps move air, and that cannot be captured, that thumbing feeling you get when you play in front of an amp and a cab is something special.

I purchased the TW ESSENTIAL IR PACK for $29.95 this evening, but I'm at a loss how to use them. The instructions from line6 are somewhat generic.

I always thought same thing you are saying I really never liked them

There's a difference listening to a solo guitar verses hearing it in a mix. When I'm listening to guitar alone I have more lows in the sound, but once you mix in a bass and drums it will sound flubby. So I'm guessing that "honky, hollow, thin" tones preset are to fit in a full mix. Your only samples were solo guitar riffs. Should have tried it with backing tracks 🙄

dude I HATE the lo/hi cut filtering technique....why would you delete 10-15% of your guitar tone so the kick and bass can sit better? This is a 1970s technique, it's 2023 and we have millions of plugins and tools now and 5.1 surround etc.... We need to rethink this deleting of the tone with the hi/lo cut filtering, it's DUMB