Hi guys !
I have a question.. I use Native since it's out, and this things make me go for a Helix. I'm a bass player only. I love this piece of gear, really! To play in my DAW with a headphone, or in a FRFR cab, it's perfect. I'm a "no amp" guy, and want to do everythin with my Helix. The sounds you can get with it are pretty convincing to me, but i'm so bad at it... Everytime I go for a new patch, the tone I get is so bad (for my taste). Not a gear problem, I am the problem. I can't make something balanced, it's either too much distortion, too much high, too much low etc...
The tone I'm for are quite "complicated". I mean, it's not Bass "into amp and let's go". I take the route of players like Justin Chancellor/Billy Sheehan/Geddy (I don't speak about their tone, ut the way they achieve it) who split their rig in 2/3 paths.
My bass is a Warwick Thumb (German made), so no problem with it also... No it's just that I can't make good patches.
Am I the only one, who can't stay on a patch I made, for a long time because after a 2 hours play I think it is so bad? Have you got tips for me? I know the CustomTone is here, but for bass there aren't so many preset, and most of them aren't absolutely not close to what i'm looking for.
I also have solid knowledge about gear/audio etc... I understand what I do, I know how to use high-pass, low-pass, splitting signals, keeping clean low, distroting only the mid/highs etc...
I'm just... bad in the creation of my tone.
Until today, the problem wasn't a real problem, because with one amp and 2 pedal, you have to do only with what you have. But with the Helix and AAAAAAAAALL the possibities, I can't stop on anything more than 2 hours.