Mitch Baker
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Thanks everyone, great to hear from you all!
Helix, on the other hand, never gives you a bright switch, so I figure they just settled for a brighter alternative. Who knows, though; perhaps Line 6's capturing method simply tended to make them brighter, or the eight amps I compared coincidentally turned out to be all brighter than the Fractal. But I think the flexibility of having a bright switch is MUCH preferred, in my opinion.
I forgot to mention this in the video, but my theory is that since Fractal includes a bright switch on every single amp model, and it often defaults to "on" when you select an amp model, Fractal kind of suggests to you that you have a choice between two levels of brightness to compensate for pickups or IR. That's what I was trying to elude to by engaging the bright switch on the SLO and 5150 portions, but failed to mention.In your comparison the Helix was always brighter. Have you isolated whether this is due to generic differences in the modelling, or does the IR implementation also play a part?
Helix, on the other hand, never gives you a bright switch, so I figure they just settled for a brighter alternative. Who knows, though; perhaps Line 6's capturing method simply tended to make them brighter, or the eight amps I compared coincidentally turned out to be all brighter than the Fractal. But I think the flexibility of having a bright switch is MUCH preferred, in my opinion.