Thank you for the review! Now I know who the real Homer is. Now listening to your song. Interesting guitar tone, I like it. What’s the story behind that? Nice song. My lyrics are usually vaguely, or not obviously Christian. I don’t want to scare off the Satan worshippers too quickly. 🙂
I’m not sure what I could appropriately say about the guitar tone because it was one of those STFU and start playing moments. It was mainly a Fender Deluxe emulation on my Helix with a Zen Drive emulation and it was set in a way that it gave me a grungy tone that I just recorded in Logic. I didn’t even know what tempo it was in because I had everything set up in Smart Tempo mode. I just kept playing until I was done and hit the stop button and then built the entire song around that guitar (which is somewhat neat because the tempo varies and the pauses follow the guitar).
That “Homer” t-shirt is the inspiration for my pose in that picture.
I can’t readily admit that the intent of this song was blatantly Christian. If anything, I summed this one up to one of my “beautifully depressing” moments. then again, there are some characters that are rather depressing. LOL!
I wondered if your guitar tone was Helix. I used a PodXT for several years, along with a Bass Pod (which mostly died), then got a Bass PodXT. I have used Helix Native for the last ~1 1/2 years. There is a new version of Helix that just came out, but it seems like it doesn’t work right with Mac OS Catalina that I have now. I did not download it, because it did not mention Catalina compatibility (but the older Helix Native works, strangely). Some people tried it with Catalina and it did not work with the latest items on Helix Native. I show up on the Line 6 forums at times.
The main guitar on the track is a Helix/PowerCab combo. To me, that plays like an amp. My supplemental rhythm guitar track is Helix Native on a dry guitar track that I tapped off of the Helix while I was recording the main rhythm track. I often record a printed and a dry track at the same time, and do multiple takes. That way, I can select a different take for each track.
The majority of us in the music/audio production community are staying on Mojave until there’s a need to upgrade. By that time, it will give the major music software devs a chance to ensure everything is working right with whatever OS flavour of the year is. Until then, there’s no need to break a working setup. I’d rather focus on music than fixing my system.
I was content with my older iMac and Mac OS 10.11, but that iMac’s monitor started having major issues; though I wasn’t going to fix it because that iMac is at least 10 years old, so I got a new iMac this month and Catalina came with it. Several years ago I reverted back to an older Mac OS because after I went with a new (at that time) Mac OS and a lot of my plugins did not work right yet, but I lost all sorts of stuff in the process. I thought everything was backed up, but it wasn’t. At least Catalina has been out for a while. A couple of people on the Line 6 forums upgraded to the latest Helix Native & they said it works OK with Catalina, but I’m leery so far.
IMHO, the latest versions of Helix and Helix Native are well worth updating. There are a lot of great features in there now. One of my favourite new features on the Helix itself is the ability to mix stomps and snapshots on the same patch.
Maybe I will try Helix Native 1.9 after I complete a song I am working on. I have spent dozens of hours getting my existing software (I own many plugins) working, I haven’t verified everything is working properly yet.
As always, they added some new amps and effects along with the cool features. I’m going to try them out. I was quite happy when they included the Zen Drive and Tone King emulations.
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