Clones
The Stadium can capture your own amps. Here is what that means in practice — and the mono rule that catches everybody.
Line 6 call it PROXY cloning, and it arrived in Helix Stadium firmware 1.3. It is the Stadium’s answer to the capture features on competing devices: you play a test signal through a real amp, the Stadium listens, and you get a block that behaves like that amp at those settings.
Once made, a Clone behaves much like any other Amp, Preamp or Distortion block. You can set your own defaults for it and save one with your settings as a Favorite. No earlier Helix can do any of this.
Any physical amplifier, preamp, amp-and-cab combination, or distortion pedal, at whatever settings it is on when you capture it.
Four, and no more than two on either path.
About the same processing as a full Agoura amp model. Clones are not a cheap block.
Mono, always. Any stereo block placed before a Clone gets summed to mono.
1.3 and later. Earlier Stadium firmware has no cloning at all.
Every Clone is mono
This is not a setting you can change. If you put a stereo chorus, a stereo delay or a stereo reverb before a Clone block, its output gets summed to mono at the Clone and the stereo image is gone — silently, with nothing on screen to tell you.
Put your stereo effects after the Clone. If you need something in front of the amp, keep it mono — which, in front of an amp, is what you wanted anyway.
Two clones on one path is a full path
Because a Clone costs roughly what an Agoura amp costs, two of them plus effects will exhaust the processing available to Path 1. Line 6 say so directly. The answer is not to economise — it is to remember that Path 2 is sitting there empty, with its own chip.
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