Presets for the Line 6 Helix

Requirements/Compatibility: All presets require a Helix Floor, Helix LT or Helix Rack in order to work as intended. (They will also work with Helix Native, but the tone may be altered due to the input impedance of your hardware interface.) Please note the individual preset descriptions for any other requirements, such as third-party IRs or a Variax.

Terms and Conditions: By downloading one of my presets, you agree not to share or sell copies of it. If you sell your Helix, you’re welcome to include the preset with it, so long as you don’t keep a copy of it.

Gilmour AnybodyOut/VeraL
Sounds Like: David Gilmour’s reverse wah “seagull” and Joe DiBlasi’s classical nylon-string sounds on Is There Anybody Out There? off of Pink Floyd’s The Wall. NOTE: Requires a Line 6 Variax Standard, JTV or Shuriken,
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Any Colour Synth
Sounds Like: Rick Wright’s synth leads on Any Colour You Like off of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. I recommend you use your bridge pickup with your guitar’s tone knob turned all the way down.
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Violin Synth
Sounds Like: A violin? Uses the Calcani violin IR posted at http://pcfarina.eng.unipr.it/Public/IMP-RESP/Violins.
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Faithfully
Sounds Like: Neal Schon’s tone on Faithfully off Journey’s Frontiers album. Tweaked using a customized “Superstrat” Variax preset, included with the Helix preset.
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LZ Stairway2Hevn
Sounds Like: All of Jimmy Page’s guitar parts in Led Zeppelin’s Stairway To Heaven. NOTE: Requires a Line 6 Variax Standard, JTV-69S, or JTV-69, and an impulse response of an acoustic guitar (I recommend Noodler Guitars’ HD28 AKG-C414B-XLS IR, which you can buy here).
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Govan’r
Sounds Like: Guthrie Govan’s tone in his demo of JamTrackCentral’s “Remember When.”
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LZ You Shook Me
Sounds Like: Jimmy Page’s tones on You Shook Me off the Led Zeppelin I album, tweaked for the Lester bridge pickup model on a Line 6 Variax with the tone knob rolled off between 1 and 5.
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VH Unchained 2.0
Sounds Like: Eddie Van Halen’s signature tones on Unchained off the Fair Warning album, tweaked for a Line 6 Variax. This replaces the old Van Hailin’ preset, which is no longer offered.
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Police Preset Pack
This pack of 9 presets captures Andy Summers’s signature tones on these classic Police albums:

  • Regatta De Blanc (Walking On The Moon, Bring On The Night)
  • Zenyatta Mondatta (Don’t Stand So Close To Me, Voices Inside My Head, When The World Is Running Down You Make The Best Of What’s Still Around)
  • Ghost In The Machine (Omegaman, Secret Journey)
  • Synchronicity (Every Breath You Take, Tea In The Sahara)

Most of the presets in this pack are tweaked for a DiMarzio Area T neck pickup and/or a DiMarzio Virtual Solo bridge pickup. The Don’t Stand So Close To Me preset is tweaked for a JTV Variax or Variax Standard for D standard tuning. This pack replaces the old Zenyatta Ghost preset, which is no longer offered.
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STP Plush
Sounds Like: Dean DeLeo’s signature tones on Plush off of Stone Temple Pilots’s Core album, tweaked for a guitar with a Seymour Duncan Custom P-90 bridge pickup. Includes Ignite Amps’ IR of a Framus 4×12 cab with V30 speakers captured with an SM57.
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Rush Limelight
Sounds Like: Alex Lifeson’s signature tones on Limelight off of Rush’s Moving Pictures album, tweaked for a Line 6 JTV-69S, JTV-69, or Variax Standard. Uses Line 6’s Allure 412 Cali V30 IR, which you can download by signing up at line6.com/allure.
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Pulse Cloud
Sounds Like: A pattern tremolo with stereo filter sweep.
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Gilmour Brick 2
Sounds Like: David Gilmour’s solo in Pink Floyd’s Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2. Tweaked for a DiMarzio Area 67 neck pickup in a Strat-style guitar. Also includes David Gilmour’s direct-to-mixing-desk rhythm sound, tweaked for a DiMarzio Area 67 middle pickup in a Strat-style guitar.

9/27/18 UPDATE: I updated this preset for FW2.60 to restore the footswitch colors and to replace the Simple Delay block with the Double Take block for a rhythm guitar sound that’s closer to the multitracked version on the album. The solo setting hasn’t changed.

3/3/19 UPDATE: Now updated for FW2.71.
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U2 Bad (Live)
Sounds Like: The Edge’s signature Strat/AC30 tones on U2’s Bad off of the Wide Awake In America live album. Tweaked for a DiMarzio Virtual Solo bridge pickup and DiMarzio Area 67 middle pickup in a Strat-style guitar.
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U2 Street Name
Sounds Like: The Edge’s signature Strat/AC30 tones on U2’s Where The Streets Have No Name. Tweaked for a DiMarzio Virtual Solo bridge pickup and DiMarzio Area 67 middle pickup in a Strat-style guitar.
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U2 All I Want
Sounds Like: All guitar parts in U2’s All I Want Is You, including Bono’s acoustic intro and The Edge’s signature Strat/AC30 tones and shimmer reverb. NOTE: Requires a Line 6 Variax Standard or JTV-69S to switch between electric and acoustic tones, If you don’t have one, you can use the electric tones by switching the Input block to Guitar. Electric tones are tweaked for a DiMarzio Virtual Solo bridge pickup in a Strat-style guitar.
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U2 Mystery Way
Sounds Like: The Edge’s Korg A3 riff in U2’s Mysterious Ways. Tweaked for any Line 6 Variax’s Chime (’68 Rickenbacker 360) neck pickup model.
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Gilmour Numb JTV
Sounds Like: David Gilmour’s solos in Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb. Tweaked for the Spank (’59 Strat) bridge pickup simulation of any Line 6 Variax.
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Whammy Synth
Sounds Like: Two parallel monophonic synth voices. Uses parallel paths and the Pitch Wham effect to create contrary motion. Includes two footswitchable timbres.
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Gilmour FinalCut
Sounds Like: David Gilmour’s solo in Pink Floyd’s The Final Cut. Tweaked for a DiMarzio Virtual Solo bridge pickup in a Strat-style guitar and a third-party IR that is not yet publicly available.
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Gilmour Numb MH IR
Sounds Like: David Gilmour’s solos in Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb. Tweaked for my prototype Mercury Head’s DiMarzio Virtual Solo bridge pickup and a third-party IR that is not yet publicly available.
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Dire Waterline
Sounds Like: Mark Knopfler’s tone on Dire Straits’ Waterline. Tweaked for a DiMarzio Virtual Solo bridge pickup and DiMarzio Area 67 middle pickup in a Strat-style guitar and a third-party IR that is no longer publicly available.
Price: $1.50