So you bought a Helix Stadium and now you want to record. Maybe for a church worship set, maybe for your own stuff. Either way, the other audio interface can go back in the cupboard.
The Stadium is a full USB-C audio interface. Eight in, eight out, straight into your DAW over one cable. No analog splitting, no second box, no clock sync headaches.
I’ve built a Reaper template so you don’t have to wire any of this up yourself. Download it here, open it, and the tracks are already there and routed. The rest of this post is me explaining what each track does, so you’re not blindly trusting a file off the internet.
Helix Stadium Native is on the way. Kurt Ballou from Converge mentioned it on the Garza Podcast while walking through how he uses the Stadium, and you can hear it around the 58 minute mark.
By the sound of it he’s been using it already, because he talked about shifting tones between his touring floor unit and the Native plugin inside Pro Tools at his studio. The desktop editor matches the plugin, so he isn’t rebuilding patches from scratch every time he moves between stage and studio.
About six months ago I reviewed the Helix Stadium XL and came away cautiously optimistic. Great hardware, better amps, and a pile of missing features and first-gen bugs. Since then I’ve actually gigged the thing. Christmas shows, Sunday services most weeks, a couple of conference events, somewhere north of 30 shows all up. So this is the honest catch-up, and it starts with the time it nearly gave me a heart attack mid-song.
The guitar world has spent the last few years treating capture tech like a holy war. One camp wants modelling. One camp wants captures. One camp wants to shout AI a few more times and hope that somehow counts as innovation. It is all getting a bit silly.
That is why Helix Stadium has my attention right now. Not because Proxy is already out in the wild and flattening everything in its path. It is not. As of March 7, 2026, the latest public Helix Stadium firmware notes Line 6 has posted are still 1.2.1, and Proxy is still preview territory. The Stadium Floor itself only started shipping in mid-February, so plenty of people are still in the honeymoon phase with the hardware before any of the capture stuff even enters the picture. But the strategy around Proxy looks smarter than the usual race to see who can scream capture the loudest.