Lazzinazz

It turns out I had a fundamental misunderstanding of how a hi cut works causing a disconnect between what I was hearing and what I thought I should have been hearing.

Thank you! That explains what I'm hearing. Through frequency generators I have found that I can hear above 20kHz. The theoretical upper range of my 30 dollar earbuds is 24kHz. However, I'm not sure what the response is like because I don't have any other speaker setup to compare it to. Now if only I could a adjust the target frequency, db cut and ratio to my liking...

I guess my point is that it sounds like either I am hearing above 20khz, and I can hear a difference between cutting above 20kHz and not (which just seems really unlikely from a human ear physics point of view) or there's something more that is happening other than simply cutting above 20kHz . I am more curious if anyone else has noticed this and has more insight into what I'm actually hearing happen. Never in my life have I ever made a tone in the last 10 years based off of anyone else's ears or even attempted to emulate anyone else's tone. My point is that my initial reaction was "Ok, the difference between off and 20kHz cut is pretty drastic to me, the only way I can see getting a compromise between the high cut off and set to 20kHz would logically be a higher high cut." However, based on how I understand the physics of human ears, it just seems really unlikely that I should be able to tell.

Wow I was tired when I wrote this! Anyway, I'm only 24 and I've always thought I've had very acute hearing, however, I can't imagine there is a very large amount of harmonic content being processed post 20kHz. It almost sounds like the helix may have issues (Not as in a bug, more as in a general digital signal processing problem) recreating these extremely high transients due to the nature of processing higher frequencies and the DSP power required. I'm curious as to what exactly I am hearing. To my ears, I enjoy hearing it with the 20khz cut more than without but it almost sounds like a slightly higher limit would satisfy my ears. There's just too big of a difference between off and 20kHz for me not to wonder about a higher cut range. I just can't imagine me hearing being that good though.

Hey everyone! First week after buying a Helix and man do I just smile from playing with this thjng. One issue I've found is that I recently decided to experiment and I threw on a high and low cut.(I have never used the high and low cut or the cab high cuts before this point) When I change the high cut from off to 20kHz I hear a drastic difference in the upper transients of my patch. If I set both of my cabs' high cuts to 20k, I don't have this drastic difference. Are the cab high cuts not true high cuts? Is there an issue with the low and high cut and it is not actually cutting at 20kHz? Im super confused haha