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  1. gunpointmetal
    Lets hear some of those records!
  2. gunpointmetal
    this would probably work in a church setting. A loud rock club with a full FOH PA w/subs and 10k watts, you would have to crank the monitors just to get them over the room noise.
  3. gunpointmetal
    If you're using the Line 6 drivers you should be able to allow up to 8 inputs and outputs in the driver management panel of your DAW.
  4. gunpointmetal
    Reiterating, but definitely adding in mids is where you're going to cut. Especially in a band situation, the frequency range of a mixed guitar is pretty small, so in the 500Hz-2KHz you should be able to find a range that gives you the cut you need without getting in anyone else's way. I prefer to get my patches as best as I can within the individual patches rather than using the global EQ to "fix" problems across the board. I think it makes more sense to think of the Globaly EQ as a "venue" adjustment that you might need to change in different rooms, so relying on it to make the patches right might not translate very well should you need to go somewhere else with it.
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    I ended up with the Tannoy Reveal 502s when I went on my search. Needed something smaller than 8" for desk space reasons, and the Tannoy's sounded "clearer" with better low end then anything else in that size/price-range at GC. I thought the 502s had better bass response as far as clarity went than some of the 8s I tried (Mackie, KRK). Every pair of KRK's I've plugged into sound overly bright and somehow slighly boxy and hollow simultaneously.
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    How did your tones sound DI to the board when you set them up to sound right through the Friedman's? I've tried a few different things and most PA speakers are really bright compared to guitar cabs, but I always sounded pretty much exactly out front as I did through my monitors, and with a stereo pair of `12" PA speakers I could get plenty of "pants flapping". But when I've tried to used a hybrid (amp models w/o cabs to a real guitar amp/FOH DI with cab models) I would have to run two entirely separate effects chains to get the amp models and DI models to sound similar.
  7. gunpointmetal
    His tone is dated, and the Boogie's he's using are incredibly mid heavy already. I wouldn't exactly consider his rhythm tone a "holy grail" either. You can get away with a little scoop on certain amps, but saying "cut at 750Hz" is pretty much a terrible idea for any guitar tone if you want to cut through a mix and not have to be louder than God. I'm always amazed when I play with bands that still scoop their mids, crank their amps till they're drowning out the PA, but you still can't define a single thing they're playing because its all fart and sizzle. To each their own, but the OP was looking for a certain sound, and vintage metal scooped is not it.
  8. gunpointmetal
    This is how you get a crap metal tone. 750Hz is around where the body of the guitar sound is, massive bass response is the bass players job. Anything below about 100Hz, especially live, is totally useless in a "heavy" guitar tone unless you're playing by yourself. The goal is for the band to sound heavy together, not just the guitar by itself. But what do I know, I've only been playing and recording metal for the last 16 years as a main focus.
  9. gunpointmetal
    Because that's relevant, helpful, and not at all immature...
  10. gunpointmetal
    You can save yourself a lot of time and trouble just using the USB on the Helix to track/reamp guitars vs trying to use the interface for everything. Connecting it the way you're planning could work if you want to leave it set up for reamping all the time, but you're literally adding 3 D/A conversions that you don't need to to achieve your goal. With the Helix plugged in via USB, you can record your wet and DI tracks simultaneously, then just click a few hardware routing buttons in your DAW and reamp, and you've eliminated latency-adding conversions in the process.
  11. gunpointmetal
    Was the sound guy running your channels flat, or had he "pre-eq'ed" to what he's used to with you using an amp?
  12. gunpointmetal
    the Helix, as a device is 10x what the AX8 is as far as overall features. AX8 has more amp models, about 30% very redundant. Have you tried using external/aftermarket IR's with the amps in the Helix? For a lot of people, thats what makes the "organic" difference with the fractal stuff. Personally, the built-in helix cabs are more than usable and super adjustable. But honestly, the Helix has no problem, grinding, thrashing, djenting, or dooming at any given time.
  13. gunpointmetal
    It also sucks that smaller companies are the only ones noticing we want this stuff for the most part, so they are already forced to be upmarket since they don't have the extensive resources someone like L6 or a major (Marshall, Peavey, Mesa) amplifier maker has to produce the stuff at a lower cost. I still think L6 is kinda lollipopting the bed by not having something below the the StageSource/Firehawk 1500 price point for amplifying modelers. I tried one of those Gemini 2x12 and it sounds great, if you don't want to be very loud (compared to a standard 2x12 guitar cabinet). My cheap Mackie PA speakers put out more juice and, to my ears anyways, sound reasonable close to as clean. If L6 could put the Spider V 2x12 cab/amp with some EQ DSP and some pro connections, drop the modeling, and sell it for the same price as the full Spider combo, that'd be ideal (for me).
  14. gunpointmetal
    If its 200W w/DSP and all that routing, its probably about 130W (maybe). Unless you're also playing through 8" guitar cabs, there is no way its keeping up with a full rig in W/D/W set-up. I'm the wrong guy to look into this, though. Pretty much all of the "guitar-centric" FRFR stuff (Gemini, Atomic, Friedman) 'cept for the FireHawk 1500 seems overpriced, underpowered, and over-advertised.
  15. gunpointmetal
    $400 for a 200 watt 8" PA speaker seems..... ridiculous.....
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    Helix Vs. AX8

    gunpointmetal replied to chuskey's topic in Helix

    I haven't played the AX8, but other Fractal units, and they can be made to sound just as fizzy and undefined as the Helix can be made to sound, just as the Helix can be made to sound big a rich and tight as the Fractal stuff can be made to sound. If you think amps don't fizz or have high-end artifacts, you've probably never actually put your ear by the speaker.
  17. gunpointmetal
    Definitely the most easily navigable multi-FX I've ever used. I think I had tones I was digging about 5 minutes after powering it on the first time.
  18. gunpointmetal
    This is one thing I think modeling has pointed out to A LOT of players, even seasoned guys. If you're dialing in your amp with the speakers blasting past your knees, what sounds good to you, is going to be GARBAGE going into a microphone at speaker level. Modeling is essentially showing you what you tone sounds like "out front" right at the source, and that throws a lot of people. Even when I was using standard guitar cabs with various modelers, I'd dial in my tones sitting on the floor about 4' in front of my amp so I could hear what the sound guy/microphone were getting. OT: hopefully the OP gets it sorted because the Helix is amazing.
  19. gunpointmetal
    ^ I was just going to mention this. Make sure you Helix App matches the firmware version to start with. The newest version of the app won't work with older versions of the firmware. And once you get it figured out, download Chrome or Firefox so you don't have all the stupid internet issues that internet explorer/edge have constantly.
  20. gunpointmetal
    Every modeler I've ever owned (going all the way back to the Boss GT-6) needed different settings to sound "right" through different playback sources. Volume and proximity play a HUGE role in how sound is perceived. That being said, Helix, for me anyways, has been the easiest to go from studio monitors at home to PA speakers and in-ears at a gig with minimal tweaking between patches. Of course my in-ear tone isn't as amazing as it would be if I built it just for those headphones, but the sound out front is massive and the monitoring tone is more than acceptable. There is a possibility of an impedance mismatch between your inexpensive cans and the Helix headphone amp. If I plug my earbuds straight into it they distort before the volume even gets to a decent level, same thing with my $20 Sony over-ears. My AKG headphones sound very, very, very close to what I get out of my monitors, just a little more brittle due to proximity.
  21. gunpointmetal
    Girls, girls, put your big kid pants on and get over it.
  22. gunpointmetal
    You have to adjust your tones for your playback source, for sure. If something is truly (or close to) FRFR, it will give you exactly what you give it, just louder. My tones I build in my studio monitors or headphones at home sound pretty not great through a loud system. But the patches I designed for loud use, sound like I would expect them to.
  23. gunpointmetal
    Who cares?
  24. gunpointmetal
    mine usually sits are -14 in Reaper. Never seem to have any issues with the noise floor or anything. Digital recording doesn't require the same type of levels as analog.
  25. gunpointmetal
    Having a bar that moved from one side to the other to show pedal position would be super cool.
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