Line 6 · Helix preset

Purple Badness

For Purple Rain, Let's Go Crazy by Prince

All credit for the research on this to Paul Glover, who has a video on YouTube laying out Prince's pedal chain from research he did (youtube.com/watch?v=uGNLXnvU47I). I took Paul's basic ideas and made them my own. It's a 2 amp setting, and FS8 cycles through Clean (Soldano Clean, delay with a higher feedback and lower mix) and Crunch (5150 plus Noise Gate and changes the delay feedback to be lower and the mix higher). Across the top you have Vibrato (all Paul), Flanger and Trinity Chorus (summed to mono) - engage all 3 for a total Purple sound. The Valve Driver adds girth to both clean and drive and the OD9 is a lead boost with more gain for the solos on both Purple Rain and Let's Go Crazy. Thanks again to Paul for all of his work, and if he puts his patch up here, check it out - it sounds great in his video, which you should check out too. The Crunch channel is NOT a gentle tone. Prince's wasn't. Frankly, you could use this for some screaming metal solos if you wanted to. It's an all-around rock sound.

Created by chrisjw5