MARS 74x TM – Line 6 HX Tone Match Patches (Helix, HX Stomp, POD Go)

PATCHES

This download includes patches for Helix, HX Stomp, and POD Go. Please make sure to import the appropriate patch for your hardware – they are not interchangeable.

• MARS 74x TM WT S – This patch uses the IR’s and is meant for guitars with single coils.
• MARS 74x TM WT H – This patch uses the IR’s and is meant for guitars with humbuckers.
• NOTE: The HX Stomp and POD Go folders include ‘FX” patches. These patches include the additional effects blocks from the full Helix patch.
  

OUR MOJOTONE BMT 18w, NOW IN YOUR LINE 6 HARDWARE

For these patches, we tone-matched the stock HX amp models to our Mojotone BMT 18w amplifier. The result is an Impulse Response that completely transforms the HX amp models, making the Line 6 hardware sound exactly like our amp, and the microphones, preamps, and EQ chains that we use to record it.

The Mojotone 18w BMT amp is a hand-wired clone of a vintage Marshall 18w amp with the addition of a more customizable tone stack. Our is in a 2×12 combo with Celestion Greenbacks.

We mic’d the cab with a Royer 121 and Earthworks SR25 through a stereo Neve 1073 preamp.

SIGNAL FLOW AND EFFECTS

1. Input
2. Compressor
3. Drives: KOT (red and yellow side, fuzz)
4. Volume – mapped to EXP 2
5. Amp
6. IR (Tone Match)
7. EQ
8. Tremolo
9. Retro Reel
10. Delays: 1/8 delay, Dotted 8th delay, Dual stereo delay
11. Reverbs: Hall (subtle), Dynamic Hall (huge), Glitz (swells)
12. Output

The HX Stomp and POD Go patches cannot fit all the effects into a single patch. For those platforms, we include the amp and essential effects in the main patches, and then we include the additional effects blocks in the ‘FX’ patches. Feel free to mix and match the additional ‘FX’ blocks into the main patches to suite your needs.

SNAPSHOTS

• Snapshot 1: CLEAN. Base clean tone
• Snapshot 2: DRIVE. Stage 1 drive tone
• Snapshot 3: DRIVE+. Big rhythm tone
• Snapshot 4: P&W LEAD. Lead tone with lots of delay and verb
• Snapshot 5: AMBI CLEAN. Clean tone with lots of delay and verb
• Snapshot 6: AMBI MOD. Clean tone with retro reel mod
• Snapshot 7: AMP GAIN. Big rhythm tone with the gain on the amp turned up.
• Snapshot 8: SWELLS. Big ambient swells tone

POD Go:

• Snapshot 1: CLEAN. Base clean tone
• Snapshot 2: DRIVE. Stage 1 drive tone
• Snapshot 3: P&W LEAD. Lead tone with lots of delay and verb
• Snapshot 4: AMBIENT. Ambient clean tone

NOTE: The HX Stomp patches do not include Snapshots

CHANGELOG

Initial Release (1.0): 2022-12-08