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clones
Line 6 call it PROXY cloning, and it arrived in Helix Stadium firmware 1.3. It works like 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 its settings 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
You cannot change this. Put a stereo chorus, a stereo delay or a stereo reverb before a Clone block and its output is summed to mono at the Clone. The stereo image is gone, with no warning on screen.
Put your stereo effects after the Clone. Anything in front of the amp can be mono, as it would be in front of a real amp.
Two clones on one path is a full path
A Clone costs roughly what an Agoura amp costs, so two of them plus effects will exhaust the processing available to Path 1. Line 6 say so directly. Move blocks to Path 2, which has its own chip.
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