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Hey all. It's Ben, one of the amp/effects modelers for Helix/Line 6. After an update a while back, the tuner got a "Trails on/off" control, which allows delay, reverb, and looper audio to pass when the tuner is engaged. Also, with an update, "Command Center" was implemented a while back.This allows almost any function to be assigned to any switch in stomp mode. This includes all the controls for the looper. Check it out!

@manonthelivingroad

Жыл бұрын

The looper could get some quantization love ❤

@scandallpower

Жыл бұрын

Looks like a cool rig. Thanks dude

@yourashero

Жыл бұрын

The cartographer is crucial, Ben. Bravo to that and the rest of the work you’ve done. I think he also missed that native doesn’t have to be crippled but I can’t remember the setting to turn off hardware limitations

@premierguitar

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for chipping in, Ben!

@AudacityWorks

Жыл бұрын

Also, you don't need to tape the Main Volume knob. You can assign it to only control the digital out, which means it won't affect your XLR or 1/4" outs.

Ended up watching Nate eat that entire banana because I was too scared to break eye contact Edit: I’m definitely being over sentimental about it, but I really love that he brings Caleb’s bass on tour

@billyturk8117

Жыл бұрын

Haha dude when he showed up in frame, I literally couldn't look away.

@Jarrodpimental

Жыл бұрын

Lurking banana eating was great 😂

@billyturk8117

Жыл бұрын

@@Jarrodpimental dude was funny asf

I can’t get tired of Kurt. Hella knowledgable. Also Nate is a great plus!

@fhg8974

10 ай бұрын

A great plus?!!? Hahaha! Broooo!

Almost an hour of the best hardcore band ever plus there's a bass rig? Bring it on

Trying to get ready for work and you all drop this? Looks like I’m going to be late today…

@Keith4Childs

Жыл бұрын

😂

@Mothhole

Жыл бұрын

😂same

@vwharman

Жыл бұрын

This thing can go the moon, but it can’t go to Kroger. That made me laugh out loud, nice!

@sira.scottascot8865

Жыл бұрын

You're not trying! I know because I do the same shit. 😆

@Pure_KodiakWILD_Power

Жыл бұрын

This is your boss... so THAT'S why you were late. We're going to have a chat when you come in to work tomorrow 🤔

Great run down. Glad bass was given some time. Hope this happens more often. Also, Nate at 22 mins just eating that banana in the background was great.

@dantelamusta

Жыл бұрын

Seriously the best part of Kurt’s interview! 22:17

Great rig rundown! As a modeller user I'm often disappointed that in many rundowns when there is a Helix, Fractal or whatever it usually goes like "oh here's my entire rig, plugged this way" and that's it; so this was a nice change of pace to see the artist actually going through his preset and explaining his design idea and reasoning. Hope to see more like this in the future

Awesome to see Kurt’s rig and to see some detail about the Helix setup beyond “I use a Helix” and moving on. As someone who tours/gigs Helix regularly.. I’d love to pass along to Kurt that the giant volume knob can be disabled “in the menus” - lest he doesn’t love neon tape ;). Hopefully Helix 2 won’t have that damn thing: Long live Converge 🤟🏼

@scandallpower

Жыл бұрын

Do you like the helix? I have used line6 stuff live and I love it

Nate eating a banana at 22:30!!!! LOL!!!

@davidwaldeck8736

Жыл бұрын

Michael Myers vibes.

Nate eating a banana in the background while serious cabinet talking happening is gold. Also he is becoming Tom araya. Boss.

Chris is always amazingly researched on folks he doing rundowns with.

@jakelorefice

Жыл бұрын

I think he's just a genuine fan of most of the artists! Chris seems to have deep HC roots

@Scott__C

Жыл бұрын

@@jakelorefice Definitely, it's just cool and even they seem surprised sometimes when he pulls out some deep info.

Nate staring into my soul

Premier Guitar never fails with the rig rundowns, what a surprise this one!

Wow this guy is knowledgeable. I don't want to diss other professionals because they're obviously better than me, but Kurt knows what he uses and is eloquent in explaining the how's and why's. Good interview.

Kurt knows his shit, a true passionate gear nerd. He's incredible

Nate is my bass hero. So good to watch live, and unreal tone.

@wolvesdensound

Жыл бұрын

GREAT banana

Thank you so much for having Kurt go through his helix pedals. I've been wanting that. So many of us use modelers and it's so helpful to see how other pros are using the same gear. It's the same as going through their pedalboard signal chain and I hope you do this every time.

I could not have clicked on this faster. Love this band for 20yrs and this was cool to see. Also I love that a performance was included at the end. I hope that becomes regular!

Nicest, most down to earth people and ground breaking musicians. So awesome to see this.

My man at 22:17 eating the popsicle kinda stole the show Edit: P.S. can we get a Nails Rig Rundown, guys?

@aubreyxengland

Жыл бұрын

lmaooo so glad someone else noticed this 😂😂

@NimrodBoz

Жыл бұрын

Looks like a banana

@G.GordonMidi

Жыл бұрын

@@NimrodBoz He does sort of look like a banana

I listen to a lot of music. This dude might be one of the best hardcore guitarists of all time. Very creative, incredible technique. Does some genre blending stuff.

Thank you for including the full bass rig with Nate and letting Kurt dive into the reasoning behind his Helix patch (his take on noise gates is priceless wisdom). They've always had great songs with a great sound.

When Kurt and Chris talk about the problems with the Helix setup, this is exactly what I've found troubling with most multifx units and modellers. They're extremely powerful for complex stuff, but have glaring oversights in unexpected places

Amazing! Been waiting for this for ages!

As someone who has been playing in heavy bands for the last two decades, and now making my first tentative steps into music production, Kurt is a massive influence. IMO, God City is the perfect moniker for his various endeavours. Thanks so much for this rundown. One of the best!

Haven't heard from these guys in a while. One of my favorite bands.

Great rig rundown ! So fun to see Kurt being all nerdy and precise and Nate being.........himself xD Freaking legends, Converge rules !!

22:18 I love how the Side Villain Character goes up like that in the middle of Conversation 😂

That part about Nate using Caleb's bass brought me to tears. As a former touring bassist, Caleb and Nate's style were huge influences on my writing and playing. That's so sweet he keeps him that close.

i admittedly don’t listen to much converge, but i could listen to kurt talk about gear for hours

Interesting that he doesn't use a Kemper since he has a dedicated pack, also props to Nate for just staring at us while eating

Fantastic video, great interview, great band. This made my day! Excellent work Premier Guitar!

@premierguitar

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Kurt is such a passionate gear nerd. I love hearing him talk shop.

Kurt knows what he's doing! Dark riff lord 💯

I used to help out Nate all the time at Guitar Center, Danvers. Always such a cool dude. I was dying watching him standing in the background. 😂

NOW I KNOW WHAT THAT MINI HEAD THEY HAVE BEEN USING IS! Seems like such a cool amp for playing with amp modeling. Kurt and Nate are kings of tone and riffs to me

What a fantastic treat y’all

I’ve never been so intrigued and so lost at the same damn time.

Finally some bass! Great Nate’s gear 🎉👍🏻

Axe to fall plus you fail me. Yes thanks, great rundown thank you guys

@premierguitar

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed

@Betweendillinger

Жыл бұрын

@@premierguitar also the live song is Axe to Fall then goes into You Fail Me. Cheers

54 mins of kurt and nate talking about gear?! I love you premier guitar

I knew this would be an excellent Rundown and it was but Nate in the background eating that ice cream?... LMAO

@premierguitar

Жыл бұрын

🍌

YESSSSSS!! 🎉 and thank you 😊🙌

Shoutout to Stefanie and Stijn in the background waliing by. Brutus deserves your ear KZread commentors!

Best band. So excited this happened

this was awesome

Hands down my favorite Converge gear was their Jane Doe setup

@duhlike

Жыл бұрын

Iconic.. Kurt's Rick with his stampede, and nate with his Ernie Ball Sting Ray.

@shaunlafountain7189

Жыл бұрын

@duhlike I think Kurt also ran a Ampeg v4 and JMP in combination while Nate bi amped his bass with the Ad200 and Thunderverb guitar head if I'm not mistaken...and of course Kurt's sick Rickenbacker

@Tyrannosaurine

11 ай бұрын

@@shaunlafountain7189 can you imagine how loud it was in front of that V4 and JMP combined? Fuuuuuuuck….

Had no idea this rundown was happening and now I only wish my lunch break was longer!

Loved to see Kurt and Nate too! nice one

I love taking the time to walk through the modellers setup rather than just ”I use a kemper… ok moving on”

This guy eating in the background 😂 classic. Also Kurt is amazing. So down to earth and I love his view on gear. I mean, I love my old 2203 and my sg’s but lately I just plug into my cheap orange super crush and we just jam a bunch of doom stuff and it sounds awesome… It really is just in the fingers. Cheers guys, love this stuff🤘🏻😎

Coverage are Lords🤘🏼need one of those GCI guitars. I love the deconstructivest shape the most wish he had one out for this. You guys should do an in person redo of the Dave Davidson rig rundown as well!!!

sweet, awesome band

I will watch anything coverage/kurt vidjios 🤙👏👏👏

Cool tone from the Helix. 2 button looper should be possible if you connect midi cable from in to out, and setup buttons to use the midi mapping of the looper instead.

@brooksrocco

Жыл бұрын

Shame we can't do that in the box-the beauty of keeping everything in Helix is reducing or even eliminating points of failure, but that definitely seems like a solid workaround! Thanks!

As a guitarist, Kurt is f***ing incredible.

YESS

I like the dude just standing eating a popsicle or something at like 22:30

Nate is excellent, seems like such a chilled out dude.

These Rig Rundowns never fail and to feature one of my al time favorite bands is just too awesome! Just wondering with their sound demos here, if that's captured from room mics or from the FOH signal? They're sounds here are killer and totally gives justice to how loud they are.

@premierguitar

Жыл бұрын

Kurt put his sound direct from the Helix into our cameras via XLRs. We plugged into the mic on Nate's Ampeg 8x10.

didn't knew anything about the guys and did not expected MachineGun Blue Sparkly cool riff i could relate 7:35 so simple yet cool in that SG sort of coolness

YES.

Hell yeah

YES

Big man!

HELL YES

This guy has great advice, especially that you don't need a magical pedal like a Klon. What's weird is how we got here. Imagine Hendirx's rundown, a wah, fuzz, octavia, vibe, amp

Does anyone know what gauge Nate's strings are?

MAD 😮

That moon/Kroger line was great

Gonna have to try out a quilter on my 80s road ready boogie 2x15. Cheers bro

I really hope you guys did Frail Body too ♥️

I love the Helix line of products. I own a Helix LT, an HX Stomp XL and Helix Native, and I love them very much. Good sounds, awesome interface, and tons of options, but it's nuts to me that Kurt says that his Helix is reliable. I've had all sorts of footswitch malfunctioning problems and am down to my second Helix LT unit (original was replaced after of a fabrication error of the expression pedal). The Stomp I also had to send back for a footswitch fix. I love those products but it would be awesome if Line 6 would do something about the sturdy-ness of those products. Great interview once again, PG!

@HARTYNMUGHES

Жыл бұрын

Possibly luck of the draw? I’ve gigged with my floor 3 nights a week for 2 years with no issues.

Finally First Act getting their shout out for the design.

42:29 - Kurt Ballou is a legend

love how much security is enjoying them playing. haha

Can we have the other rig rundown band also?

kurt rips! nice seeing Tomas in the background

@badjon

Жыл бұрын

then nate with the banana lol

the best bit is the story about joining Converge, that Nate tells 😂😂😂😂

This is awesome! I thought that Nate was The Terminator for a moment.

Is there anything special with those dummy plugs? Or are they just 1/4” male mono to RCA female adapters

I had this Crate amp that I had for 20+ years. Not sure on the model, but it was all transistor, but with two tubes working the pre amp. It had an effects loop that I never used. I tried hooking my Big Muff to the effects loop to see if I turned the loop blend knob down, could I get muff dirty with no hum. It didn't work, but I accidentally left it set up and realized I had more power and beef to my tone. So I just used a six inch cable that went from effects out to effects in. It kept that amazing tone! I used it forever and it became my sound. Unfortunately I would notice some heat building up above the Fx loop. Nothing too hit. But less than a year of that and the amp kicked the bucket. After years of use and abuse, it decided to die onstage at my then bands last show. Anyway, now after all that, I was wondering if anyone knew what was happening? Such an odd thing to occur. But after hearing about this Quilter, maybe it was a happy accident. Not sure, but happy to share the story and ask for any info on why this happend. Thanks!!!

Nate eating a banana in the backgound at 22:20 is hilarious

at 10:59 Stefanie Mannaerts from BRUTUS :)

Would really love to know why Kurt uses the Overdrive 202 instead of the ToneBlock 202 if he's just using the FX loop.

@yomuthabyotch

11 ай бұрын

he said he will use the quilter's preamp if the helix goes down.

Not a huge fan of having the security at the front facing the crowd. I know it's kind of common, but I feel like this is the first time I've seen it at a venue like this one.

HAHAHAHAH Nate waiting his turn patiently in the back 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Let's. Fucking. Go.

Can't wait to see these at Arc Tangent and explain to a stranger in between songs that is silence because the Helix tuner mutes the output and not the input

Kurt and I are similar build. Im a. It taller. anyways, my custom guitars all have even wider nuts than the 1 and 3/4 inch nuts…or around 44.5mm. That felt awesome years ago, but I took a chance and went even wider with a 46.5mm wide nut and wider spacing. The bridge is also roughly 4mm wider total than a standard 6-string and the strings are spaced further apart accordingly. THEN, I thought well maybe I need a thicker neck too to feel totally comfy…..so I ordered some foam and carved mock-ups….1” thick is only on like older gibsons and fenders as far as I could find for electrics. And 1” or 25.5mm is thick as hell. BIT, it wasn’t enough ….honestly I could tell it wasn’t optimal. So in the end I went with 31.5mm-33.5mm - first fret thickness and 12tj. This was life changing….seriously life changing. First time I was fully comfortable on a 6-string….and again, I play obnoxiously technical death metal guitar….not dad rock bullshit lol. For decades necks have imo gotten way the hell too thin….to where it’s interfering with our hand anatomy.

@Tyrannosaurine

11 ай бұрын

“I play obnoxiously technical death metal, not dad rock bs” Have you consider that there are plenty of musicians that think what you do is endlessly boring and derivative and every bit as unoriginal and stagnant as manufactured pop music and would classify it as “bs”.

Toasted maple neck. Cool!

Man that crowd really showed up to have absolutely zero fun

Kurt looks and talks like he's explaining his new birding setup.

Nate! We need demovids back!

I love hearing a gear monster like Kurt saying that the gear isn't important, and that a good show comes from connection over gear fetishism.

38:43 "It's not very exciting..." then plays the exact sound that I think about when I think about metal and hardcore bass.

DEMOVIDS!

Hoping you got frail body & Brutus on. Lowell from frail body plays some sick guitars.

this guy, Nate, this guy