cruisinon2
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If it makes you feel any better, I've never run the master volume wide open on this, or any other similar device... why? Because having zero headroom sucks. There are a thousand ways to raise or lower a patch's overall volume, or to level the volumes between different patches, and everyone is free to pick their favorite. But if need be, I want to be able to make slight adjustments up or down on the fly, just by grabbing the master volume knob....it's perfectly feasible to set things up so that this is possible, and your tone needn't suffer as a result.
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In my experience, very little can be done about obsessions without medication...;)Besides, a good storm-off sprinkled liberally with righteous indignation is always funny...you could almost hear the door slamming (or was that the tremolo?). 😉
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"Mmmmk?"...😂
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I'm not sure what this means exactly, but if its a hardware issue, and one or more boards need to be replaced, then there probably isn't much you can do. A fried board is a fried board...
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No...it should be set to instrument. If you set it to "line" the interface is expecting a much hotter signal than a guitar can deliver, and you'll have to crank it to hear anything.
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Exactly my point... unless he's roaming through the crowd on a wireless, how has he determined that what the crowd is hearing needs improvement anyway? Nobody in the crowd benefits from stage volume... because nobody beyond those standing a few people deep directly in front of the stage are hearing anything but the mains anyway.
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This is just plain silly. "The sound guy could get better balance for the audience..."? What does that even mean? The sound guy has a bunch of incoming signals from various sources... his job? Balance them. He's got a fader, and EQ for everybody. What possible difference does it make whether the signal hitting your channel is coming from a mic-ed cabinet or a modeler? His task is identical either way. He either has ears and knows how to mix a live band, or he doesn't. Your bass player can't hear you. A legitimate gripe, but one that is solvable without forcing you to have a backline amp. "Quiet stages" are the new normal in lots of venues these days. This is a guy who's been doing things the same way for a million years, thinks there are no other viable options, and has no interest in embracing technology or learning anything new.
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1) You can put anything you want in the FX loop 2) Yes. 3) Depends on how much of a tube snob you are...;). Seriously tho, I think Helix is excellent at responding to playing dynamics...better than most other modelers I've used. But if you've been a tube amp devotee for 40 years, I won't swear that you won't feel a difference...I suppose it'll depend on your individual technique, and the style(s) of music in question.
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It's hard to say, and it'll depend largely on the speakers and/or headphones in question... one combo might jive better than another. I use a Stagesource L2T as a floor monitor live, and run straight to the PA... as the L2T is essentially a PA speaker itself, I'm usually "in the ballpark". But at home I'm almost always playing through a pair of JBL LSR305 monitors (I love stereo delays, lol)...but with only a couple of exceptions, patches that sound good through the monitors at a reasonable volume are not terribly useful when cranked through the L2T. I've got live patches and home-use/recording patches... keeps life simple. If you go the monitor route, the 305's are excellent, have good low end response given their size, and won't break the bank... but if you're really intent on being able to use the same patches in both places with minimal adjustments, then you may be better off getting one powered PA speaker/ monitor that's similar, if not the same as whatever you're using live.
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I've been using the Scarlet 2i4 interface with Native, and have no issues...if it's you first time with Helix, and/or modelers in general, it's much more likely that you just haven't hit on a combination of amp/cab/mic sims that suits you yet. You gotta mess around...usually a lot...at the outset. Think days to a couple of weeks, rather than hours. Modeling is a little weird, and there tends to be a bit of a learning curve.
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Yes. If you can get the same tone out of a rig...ANY rig...at a nice comfy "neighbors won't call the police" volume, vs. gig volume, leaving all the settings the same, then salúd, you're the first man in history capable of doing so, lol. ;) At a minimum, a tone that sounds balanced at low volume in a quiet room, when subjected to a large increase in volume, tends to produce an overabundance of bass and screechy high-end that weren't perceptible at low volume. It's how our brains work...it has nothing to do with playing through a tube amp vs. a modeler with FRFR speakers. Perceived loudness of different frequency ranges varies drastically with volume, regardless of the source. We all suffer from it. So yes, you'd end up having to re-tweak all your patches... sometimes substantially depending on the circumstances, every time you go back and forth between different listening environments. But obviously it's not as simple as twiddling a few knobs on the front of your tube amp. Most guys end up with one set of patches for home, and another for gigs... otherwise you're stuck constantly fiddling with everything. Personally, I have no intention of trying to do deep editing of multiple patches before every gig or rehearsal. That would flush away all the convenience of having a rig like this.
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Presonus...meh Stick with the big boys...JBL, Yamaha, etc. No matter what you buy though, setting up patches on one set of speakers at bedroom volume, then trying to use those patches live through a different set of speakers at gig volume is often disastrous. Perception of tone varies drastically with volume, even when using the exact same speaker(s). If you're not setting up your patches at or close to the volume at which you intend to use them, things tend to get messy.
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Yeah, don't do this...it won't end well.
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With the exception of serious bugs and malfunctions, it's never about "need". It's about "want". Gimme, gimme...fast and free.
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The same as the last 2483 "hints"...wait for it...NOBODY KNOWS! YAY!!! Actually, I take that back... those who do know, ain't talking. Ever.
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Getting lost in a live mix is far from a modeler-specific problem. 99% of the time it's the result of EQing things to sound good at a nice comfy living room volume at home (often playing by yourself, then finding those same settings useless at stage volume with other instruments. This can happen just as easily with a combo amp and a couple of stomp boxes, as Helix + FRFR. You need to dial in your patches at or close to the volume at which you intend to use them, otherwise you're likely to find yourself vanishing from the mix at higher volumes, when competing for the same sonic space with other instruments.
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Yup...just like every other company on earth. And when they cease to be profitable, they go away...then none of us would have these toys to play with anymore. Now where's my free stuff?!?!?!?! ;)
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R&D costs money, and $500 ain't happening...the powers that be have said more than once that if it weren't for manufacturing contracts still in place from years ago, even a unit like the HD500X would cost upwards of $650 if it were released today. I seriously doubt you'll ever see another $500 unit. That price point is a dead end for them.
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What Yamaha Pacifica was the donor for variax standard?
cruisinon2 replied to Don_'s topic in Variax Standard
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My bad, he wasn't the OP. But "PlickBadger"'s post have clearly been deleted. By whom shall forever remain a mystery...
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Simple...the OP deleted his posts. Now it reads like one of those stupid "chose your own adventure" books with a few chapters ripped out. ;)
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Volume and Tone Knobs Reversed
cruisinon2 replied to sbolech's topic in James Tyler Variax Guitars / Workbench HD
Some day I'd love to meet one of these magical people. Assuming of course that we can pry them away from their pot of gold at the end of the rainbow...;) -
As I said the other day, proclaiming the demise of an entire product line merely because it's out of stock at one retailer is more than a little premature. There's nothing unusual about a retailer running out of stuff. Even Amazon, the Disney of online retail, runs out of $hit once in a while...
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I rest my case....
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What Yamaha Pacifica was the donor for variax standard?
cruisinon2 replied to Don_'s topic in Variax Standard
Here's a hint...the Standard is an $800 guitar. They're not gonna stuff the fancy Variax guts that took years to develop and fine-tune, into ANY model of Pacifica, and then sell it to you at the same price that the guitar would fetch all by itself. You do the math... Ruminating over every possible outcome, and trying to devise a method to determine whether or not you'll like the neck of one guitar by playing something that you assume to be similar, is a colossal waste of time. If you want to buy a Porsche, you test drive a Porsche...sliding behind the wheel of a BMW won't answer any of your questions. With factory produced assembly line instruments, quality/fit and finish is a crap-shoot anyway. You can have two identical guitars with consecutive serial numbers, and one might be perfectly playable while the other one is firewood. Most of us were in the same boat initially. I'd guess that 2 out of 3 (or perhaps more) Variax owners rolled the dice and purchased online because they couldn't find one anywhere. It is what it is. Buy and try... it's the only way to get an answer. Comparing apples to oranges won't help you decide whether or not you like coconuts. Either way, it's not a life altering decision. It's just a guitar...if you don't like it, send it back.