PeterHamm

Is there a sound guy? Does he know what he's doing? If so, perhaps let that guy do the EQ for you to sit in the mix.

I wonder how much different will this sound than simply using an amp block and a cab block separately the way it is now? I'm not saying it's a bad idea, I just wonder how much different it will really sound.

He is trolling...?

maybe, but the effect is close enough in my experience so far. Go Amp -> Spring reverb -> cabinet... it sounds like it should.

This right here. Never... ever... ever... use the amp+cab blocks. ALWAYS separate them... It's like having an FX loop in your amp almost.

You...? NEVER stupid. Always interesting, though...

U do this on your computer in the Helix application (Librarian, now editor). There is a tab for Impulse Responses, you literally just drag your file to the slot you want it in.

The obvious is never obvious until it's obvious, though. So... no, not stupid...

If you need more settings than you have in one setlist for any given show... you have other problems... ...jus' sayin'...

And if you're playing live in a room with reverb, don't add hall or room reverb to get your sound bigger. It just mushes it up. I only ever use special FX verb live, mostly particle and octo, with a high mix. I like the particle verb in Helix better than HD 500, but I admit, I think I liked the Octo in HD 500 a little better. but just a little.

That's surely what it is, and for the record, it happens on the Rack, too.

Before I used the Rack/Control, I disagreed, but now I think you're right. The look on stage is WAY cleaner for me now than it was with HD 500. Easy to set up and yes, the only cable right by me is that ethercon cable (I'm not wireless, but my cable isn't a big huge deal.

IR Reverbs are really long files. Much longer than the IR loading Helix does (1024 or 2048 samples), so no. Not verbs.

So, there it is, one update per month isn't enough for you. Okay, if that's your metric for quality, maybe you should simply go with the product that has the greatest frequency of firmware updates. (I kid, I kid... but...) When I see loads and loads of updates, I have to wonder what they got wrong that they have to keep putting them out, or why didn't they finish the one before so that they don't have to make me constantly stop what I'm doing and update. That's the other way of looking at it. I don't want updates until they are finished and compelling, and I don't want to have to change the way I do things very often. The sheer quantity of updates won't determine usability or sound quality or any of that. What would be the difference between adding 5 new amps and 7 new FX and 3 new compelling features in the next year... in 6 updates total... vs. the same additions in 12 (my guess is they'll be closer to 12)? Answer? nothing. I think you're only posting about how company A should adopt company B's business model in this regard. It has nothing, as far as I can tell, to do with making it better. If Cliff starts releasing fewer updates, but adds the same number of compelling new features in a given period, I doubt many of his users will just jump ship and go with Kemper if they start increasing the number of updates.

Actually, no, because they don't update the manual each time (too expensive to update it in every language they produce it in). The manual has not been updated. In this age of tablets and laptops and such... a non-printed manual makes gobs of sense. That said, first thing I did...? Printed it out and put it in a little binder. Then I lost it 2 days later and didn't look for it because I didn't need it... so go figure.

I can understand why some might want it, but I'm with you.

So the NINE updates in way less than a year so far isn't enough...?

I was hoping for more like 12... (just kidding...)

I put up my 2-amp patch audio sample on my Helix article. One of the amps goes from real clean to REALLY gritty PLUS you can add extra grit with a Timmy. The video is uploading now, and will probably be functional before noon Easter Time. The patch is already uploaded to the link in the article. Don't know if it'll help, but it can't hurt. https://pietrosquared.wordpress.com/helix-2-voice-guitar/

You CAN crossfade between two amps, but some amps have awesome cleans and amazing dirt both, particularly, my "big 3", the Matchless Jump (THE AMP!), Dr. Z and /13. The Z and /13 were in HD 500, too, and I used them a lot. WAY more useful on Helix. I might make a patch to show this off for y'all.

Yes, but the real question you should have asked is... The answer is no.

beat me to that punch.

I have a bank of patches for each guitar, basically.

That is dead easy, though. simply have the EXP control the output level of the amp or add a volume pedal to the chain of each. Then, one of the volume pedal blocks goes 0 - 100 and the other goes 100 - 0. Done.

Yeah, it will sound weak and shrill.