PeterHamm

Where the #### were you when I needed you! Do you know how different my life had been. I'd be president of something today...

Turning the tone knob down on the amp (and even on some guitars in addition) has always done it for me.

I had dinner last night at a really nice place that had delicious hummus. And it got me reminiscing, as hummus often does (obviously... right...?) So I had this pedal in the 70s. It was an Electro Harmonix booster. Anyway, it sounded great, but I found out that's because it was broken inside. There was a wire loose or something. Fast forward years later and I really want to find out who has that pedal. So I went back to my home town and asked around but nobody remembered me. Or the pedal. So I went to the local music store that had closed down and now it was a liquor store. I had a few bottles of Thunderbird and slept by the side of the road. When I woke up, I had forgotten why I was there, so I checked my phone and sure enough, it was Tuesday. So this particular Tuesday I had nachos at lunch. The cheese sauce was particularly bad and I think that's what made me sick. So I wake up in this hospital in New Jersey and a really big smelly guy is leaning over me with a hypodermic. This is when I realized or remember (not sure which) that I was actually an international spy. Thinking quickly, I slipped off the side of the bed and clobbered him with the nearest bedpan and ran. I ducked out into an alley and borrowed some guys clothes. Now I have a rash. Thinking back... That little knob on the side of my Schwinn bike I had when I was 15. What was it for?

I don't believe it is. Something got hacked up.

Well, the oscillation is probably the challenge isn't it. If you don't want that oscillation, the solution won't work for you. If you do, that's awesome.

I was SOOO tempted to keep that one.

No... BUT... Morningstar MC6 will let you switch between 6 snapshots while leaving the Helix foot switches for other things, so you can do what you want, somewhat, just not with Control. Simple MIDI.

Your plan is sound. Pun intended.

Actually, that might not matter if you run mono to the board, as it sums to mono anyway. It's when you run stereo to the board that you can run into a problem. Rule of thumb for me, no stereo, ever, unless I'm the only guitarist in a trio.

THIS... is HUGE! DO this people.

You could find someone who wants to trade their rack/control for a floor...? They're out there.

Glad we’re helping!

Sure... Just make two tracks, one dirty, and one clean, and move the audio file to the track you need it on for that section of the song, when recording...

I spent YEARS just thinking that the guitar has to always sound best full up on volume and tone before I saw the light.

For recording. USB into the computer works great and I no longer have any other interface, as Helix is all I need. For live, I never ever ever use a digital connection. They're too fiddly. No way you can tell the difference in a live room environment. In fact, I never use the XLR out to FoH. Because if the sound guy has to spend time listening to me belly-ache about how he has to worry about the impedance, level and phantom power issues that I have, he won't have time to make the band sound good. So... I use the 1/4" out to a Whirlwind DI, to the house. There is never any issue with that, and it sounds just the same.

1. I do make different presets for my Tele vs. my dual-humbucker LP-style guitar. 2. I often use the "wrong preset" and sometimes it works very well. 3. Most guitarists don't seem to be aware of a very handy device that is built-in to almost every single electric guitar ever made. There's actually a volume control ON THE GUITAR... Wow. Wacky. for the record, I create my patches with that control at about 8 (where I think it sounds best), so I can go a little either way on any patch. 4. First character in each preset has a one-letter code telling me which of my guitars it was written for. It's especially helpful to me, because I go two-voice all the time, and the piezo pickups in my guitars all sound a little different.

Most people don't even notice, though... hee hee...

An amp with a regular guitar speaker... turn off cab sim. An amp with full range speakers... turn them on.

One size doesn't fit all, so that's cool. Enjoy whatever it is that you use. Just still trying to figure out why the look of an editor is of such paramount importance. The idea with Helix Editor was so that the screen of the unit and the screen on the computer would be as similar as possible so that you could go back and forth easily. Having a cool picture of a Tube Screamer in my display on the computer and something that's just a block on my Unit doesn't make as much sense as keeping it the same from a usability standpoint, so that going back and forth is easy. (I prefer using the Helix Hardware for about 95% of my editing anyway, it's so easy). I don't remember Gearbox being such a bad product to use, but oh well...

You must keep phantom power OFF on the board you are connecting Helix, too. It can not fry the unit, but it will make it sound awful. The easy solution is to just use the 1/4" outputs to a DI (or two) and then to the system. It sounds just as good unless you use an awful DI, and keeps the guy at the board from having to worry about input level, impedance, and phantom power. If the sound guy has less to worry about with your signal, he will make you sound better...

Not the best place to ask, but I don't recall that HD 500 had phantom power for the XLR input. Don't have the manual anymore so I can't check.

It is in globals. Click the three lines, then "footswitches". It's the second knob where you select which layout you want.

The default should be on for that but the answer is yes.

It was designed to operate just like the front panel as much as possible, and it does. I have bad eyes and have no problems seeing it on my MacBook Pro. imho, you are incorrect. That said, the best software out there like this is definitely Axe Edit, so I'm not saying it's the best or anything. But it has never gotten in the way of what I want to do. More concerned with it doing what it needs to and the sound coming out. Both happen.

Um... disagree... a lot...