Vintage Plexi’s 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.

The pack includes 2 patches (each with SC and HB options). We’ve tone-matched both amps – a early 70s 50w Plexi and a 71 100w Super Lead Plexi.

• Mars 50w Plx WTs and Mars 100w SL WTs – These patches use the IR’s and are meant for guitars with single coils.
• Mars 50w Plx WTh and Mars 100w SL WTh – These patches use the IR’s and are 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.
  

GET THESE 70s PLEXIS IN YOUR LINE 6 HARDWARE

For these patches, we tone-matched the stock HX amp models to these 70s Plexi’s. The results are a set of Impulse Responses that completely transform the HX amp models, making the Line 6 hardware sound exactly like these amps, and the microphones, preamps, and EQ chains that we use to record them.

This pack includes 2 iconic ‘Plexi amplifiers’  – an early 70s 50w and a 1971 100w Super Lead. They are quite literally the sound of rock ‘n roll. Both of these specific amps have been modified to internally jump both channels and these patches are designed that way.

We mic’d a Bogner 2×12 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 (yellow side), 808 and a fuzz
4. Volume – mapped to EXP 2
5. Amp
6. IR (Tone Match)
7. EQ
8. Tremolo
9. Chorus
10. Delays: 1/8 delay, Dotted 8th delay, Dual stereo delay
11. Reverbs: Hall (subtle), Dynamic Hall (huge)
12. Gain block 
13. 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-ISH/BASE. This is as clean as we can get em and still capture their essence. Roll your volume knob down to get cleaner tones!
• Snapshot 2: DRIVE. Stage 1 drive tone
• Snapshot 3: ROCK RHYTHM. Big rhythm tone
• Snapshot 4: SOLO. Just a thick and prominent lead tone!
• Snapshot 5: AMBIENT/FUZZ. Clean tone with lots of delay and verb (this is a Fuzz snap on the 50w patch)
• Snapshot 6: CHORUS CLEAN. Clean tone with rchorus
• Snapshot 7: ROCK CHOP. Big rhythm/lead tone without heavy tremolo for a cool effect
• Snapshot 8: WET LEAD. Lead tone with lots of delay and verb.

POD Go:

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

NOTE: The HX Stomp patches do not include Snapshots