jeremytabor

In fairness, I gigged with it for the first time last night, and it ended up sounding great! I think a lot of my problem was not adjusting things with a full band, plus the signal i sent to FOH was dialed in very warm with a nice ribbon mic on the cab block so mixed in with my stage sound from the 2x12 things sounded very nice. The sonic interaction of the other instruments playing with the amp seems to have a significant effect on my ears that makes all the difference. I hadn't played with the Mark IV model, but dialed one in this morning per your suggestion and it does sound very nice! I dialed back the gains a little, my desired tone is what I'd describe as heavy rock, some nice heavy saturation but not full bore distortion. I'm going to tinker some more with it as my B amp in my chain. I'm an Andy Timmons fanatic (the man has perfect tone) and I know he uses the Mark IV a lot. Thanks for your time and suggestions!

Hi all!! I'm a new Helix LT user, running into a Seymour Duncan Powerstage 170 into a Mesa 2x12. I have tried so many things to get a good loud and high gain sound and just can't. Preamp models, full amp models, eq blocks,etc, they all sound super glassy and harsh and thin. I've messed with master volume, bias, bias x, amp eq, eq block with no luck. Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated, before I just give up and return this thing.