I would try the tweed bassman with either the twin or deluxe reverb cabinet. I have worked on a few hot rod deluxes over the years and they seem to be much closer to a bassman circuit wise than to the twin. Then I would choose a cab in the Helix that matches the speaker configuration of your hot rod deluxe. Whether you have the 1x12, 2x12 or 4x10 version.
Also, I would probably even look at doing something like this to get closer to the sound of your cab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8Qrt-Q79U4
After watching that video and trying out the suggestions, I have been having a ton of fun with the stock cabs.
The Hot Rod Deluxe is much more bassy than a twin or deluxe reverb. I might be tempted to do the two cab thing as in the video above, with a 1x12 for the deluxe reverb type sound mixed with a 4x12 to get the lower end of the Hot Rod Deluxe added in to taste.
Okay, so I added in two gain blocks without adding any gain. I one to each of the two foot switches I was using for the AC30's reverb and tremolo. I then hit the switch to turn on the amps tremolo and then set the gain block corresponding to that switch to on. Now the lights come on when I engage the Reverb or Trem.
It is nice that the Helix is so flexible that I can work around the situation, but I really hope they introduce a way to control the led state of the footswitch assigned to ext amp controls.
thanks so much for the input! You guys got me going in the right direction for sure.
