Separate helix outputs into recording interface?

[damonwaller]

Hey guys question here .

So me and my drummer buddy were playing with the helix yesterday and basically set it up so both my guitar and his electric drums came through the helix and recorded directly onto reaper,

 

The question is, when you have two signals on the helix , so one for guitar then the drums in the fx send , when recording on reaper is there a way to have the drums and guitar go to separate recording paths on the recording interface instead of being on one combined path so that you can then eq the tracks separately ?

 

On another note, it sounds impressive still but being able to relevel separately when mixing would be great.

Here's what we did (just a soad cover to play around https://soundcloud.com/smoke-signals-765125715/soad-suite-pee-cover-drums-and-guitar

[ColonelForbin]

Quick answer: yes! Technically specific answer, not sure.. I think you would need to set up his drums into one signal path in Helix and your guitar on another. Then define which USB sends those paths go to, IE, drum path USB 1/2 and guitar path USB 3/4. Then arm two stereo tracks in reaper, and assign those usb sends to each track (1/2 to stereo track 1, 3/4 to stereo track 2)

 

I think your dry guitar always goes to usb7, if you want to do some reamping

[damonwaller]

Ok great that definitely helps - many thanks

[aepoc]

Quick answer: yes! Technically specific answer, not sure.. I think you would need to set up his drums into one signal path in Helix and your guitar on another. Then define which USB sends those paths go to, IE, drum path USB 1/2 and guitar path USB 3/4. Then arm two stereo tracks in reaper, and assign those usb sends to each track (1/2 to stereo track 1, 3/4 to stereo track 2)

 

I think your dry guitar always goes to usb7, if you want to do some reamping

 

Yep, this nails it.  That should do exactly what you want it to, Benji.

[ColonelForbin]

I was thinking with Helix, you could go so far as to even do stuff like have the looper as a sidechain / third path, and route that to it's own recording send as well!

[damonwaller]

Thanks guys - yup it works a treat - I had forgotten to allow all the inputs when setting up helix as the audio driver in reaper. Very impressed - the thing works like an 8 track. It'll be interesting to see what kind of tones I can get from my guitar when sharing the dsp with another guitarest and bass player . Interesting idea on the looper