Just got a helix rack to use as an fx processor with my Friedman BE Deluxe.
I noticed that when I put it into the loop, there is a very definite increase in midrange - even when there are no blocks in the path and the global eq is bypassed. Maybe just the buffering in the helix?
By comparison, I have a strymon timeline and big sky that sound utterly transparent in the amp’s loop. These pedals have an analog dry path and mix the wet returns from the digital processing into the dry analog signal.
Maybe I’m doing something wrong. I welcome any ideas you all might have.