StruckingFuggle

I heard it’s 5 more Plexi. (ducks and runs)

That is interesting. I run a Mobius on my board, and have never liked the sound of it when it's after the amp. Up front it sounds great. Maybe this explains why.

I was watching the advanced signal routing video, and Sean uses Send 2, return 3, and return 4 for the stereo delay. Why not just use send 3 and return 3/4? Why burn an additional fx loop? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wykAx5Voj7Y,

Yep, that helped. Thx!

I've connected my new H9 pedal in stereo to FX 3/4, and it sounds great as long as I'm using a serial path after the amp. I wanted to use a parallel path, to do some wet/dry stuff, but as soon as I drop the block down to 1B the tone changes to a 'back of the throat sound", like I've introduced some mixer/phase issues or something. What are the recommended settings for using a stereo pedal in a parallel path? Do I need to engage the kill dry on the H9? Do I need to change the mix settings on the split? Not sure what's going on there.

I thought I responded, but it didn't show up. Let me know if you decide to sell the Big Sky. The H9 sounds awesome, but I think the Strymon just fits better with the sound I need.

I'm glad I read this. i didn't know you could route the tuner output. I took loop 2 send -> polytune > Wylde OD-> return 2. Set the the turner send to "send 2", and now when I step on helix tuner, I et signal routed to my Polytune as well. So I get the Helix on screen tuner, and my Polytune. No adding blocks to patches, no wasting loops. Thanks for the idea. :)

Bought a used H9 today. Really wanted a Big Sky, but convinced myself that the H9 was the better deal. Get the thing home, plugged in to Helix, fire up the Eventide control app, and it tells me that it can't connect to Eventide's server. Try again later. WTF. So all day, Eventide's registration server is apparently down, which means I can't activate my pedal or use the control app. So while I'm marginally enjoying the default presets, I'm seriously having buyers remorse wishing I got the Big Sky. It has knobs, and doesn't require Strymon's permission over the internet to allow me to twiddle something. Line 6, take notice. Don't put this kind of licensing schema into your products. But if you do, make the availability of your licensing server known somewhere so that people aren't sitting around with hot christmas presents for days pissed off that they can't use them because "Chad, the IT guy, went to see his mom in Boca Raton and forgot to turn on the UPS before he left". Ok, rant over. The H9 presets are really good. I see why people love this pedal. I still like Strymon's verbs better. So once I've emotionally calmed down enough to make a rational decision, I'm going to trade this H9 max for a Blue Sky. I was seriously hoping that the shimmer and ghost were comparable with Strymon, but they are just "different", and not what I want. Sounds great in Helix loops 3/4. Ideally I wanted an external pedal to handle the verb and free up DSP for IRs/amps/delays. I don't like the current set of Helix verbs. Rumors abound, I know. Was hoping the H9 Max could fill in a bit where the Helix effects left off. Sounds great out of the box, but without being able to deep edit, I'm stuck until Eventide's server farm manager dries out, stops puking, and remembers where he put his lab access card and goes to reboot the registration server.

I like my Helix, but there are some pedals I still want to use. Having a single board with all the pedals is ridiculously large, heavy, and highly impractical. Cases that large are stupid expensive. So, I'd like to break it up into two more reasonable smaller boards, and use a multi-pin cable with breakout boxes to connect the two boards. I found the Planet Waves modular system, which has eight fully shielded TRS channels with DB25 on both ends. The break out boxes would have 7 TRS 1/4" jacks, and one MIDI connector. The planet waves cable would be 5 feet long, which means 10 feet of cable out and back for an FX send. The guitar signal would start on the expansion board, go into the tuner -> frequout -> Ego -> and then eventually to an RJM loop switch Gizmo with various drive pedals in the loops -> breakout box -> pw cable -> breakout box -> Helix guitar in. Do you think there will be any signal problems if I have MIDI running in the same snake as audio? Do you think 5 feet of TRS cable and breakout boxes are going to negatively affect the guitar signal in, or the fx loops? The idea would be to keep anything pedal related on a single board, to minimize power requirements. Here is a picture of what I'm planning:

Where did you get those (Moore)? I can find distributor links but no product sales.

There are so many places to tweak the signal level. Drive, master, channel volume, output, big volume knob (which may or may not be assigned to whatever output you’re frantically cranking up one song into a gig). Make sure you build in some headroom. I try to set patches such that I can increase the output by 3-6 Db live. It’s easy to turn a patch down, but if you’re maxed out with drive or master and output then it’s hard to turn up. All the Ownhammer IRs come set to -18, which leaves LOTS of headroom. I like the sound of hem set around -10, and then I have an easy 6 dB boost just using the IR level. Helix is flexible, but that usually comes at the expense of complication. Ah, the old days where I had one knob and it went to 11.

I currently use a Digitech Drop. I’ve tried several of the pitch shifters, and the Drop has the lowest latency and least coloration. It’s not even close to perfect, and I usually only if for learning songs that are 1/2 step down and playing the one or two songs in a live gig that have to be in Eb. Any more than one or two and I’m detuning a second guitar. All of the pitch shifter effects introduce artifacts that sound artificial. Period. They absolutely affect the way the guitar sounds and feels. Sometimes you can live with it, but it crosses the line very early for me. At some point the processing will be fast enough and cheap enough to make it work, but it’s not there yet.

Let Pete tell you about a backup solution for $299. :)

I have the EP boost on my board. The three pedals I haven’t been able to give up are the EP, Drop, and my Möbius. I’ve been A/B’ing the new kinky against my EP, and I like it. Not ready to pull it off my board yet, but it could happen. Really digging the Kinky, Minotaur, derailed.

Yes. I have a bunch of simple patches that only use one path. I’d be willing to dedicate one proc to a great verb.

This question has come up a couple times. Some people love the optical trem, some people love the minotaur. Lately I've been using an actual EP Boost going into Helix. Especially for single coil patches. It helps smooth out the volume differences between my humbucker and single coil patches. I've been doing a lot of A/B'ing of the Minotaur and the EP Boost. I can get close to the EP sound, but there is a just a little something in the mid-range that the Minotaur just doesn't quite match. The board I've built for my helix has some room for extra pedals (mobius, drop, polytune, HOF reverb, and the EP), so i'm ok with having the extra junk. If I needed a very small rig, I'd be ok with just Helix and using the Minotaur block. My Mobius has a vintage trem patch that is just barely thicker than the Helix optical trem, and I've really enjoyed putting that at various places in the chain. It fattens things up much like the EP, but in a different way. Again, if I had to use a smaller rig, the optical trem gets the job done for less.

I looks good! Mine has a Möbius, but I think I’m going to add the timeline as well. Love the Strymon stuff.

Awesome.

Lol. I'm a server-storage developer, and may have been known to bring home a few IEC cords and extensions of various lengths. :) And cable wraps that come with rack rails. Maybe.

No Möbius? Come on, man. Thou shall roll the holy trinity of Syrymon. Helix sounds great. Helix with strymon effects in stereo sounds awesome. Inspiring. I only have the Möbius now, but end of year bonus is coming. Timeline and Big sky are on the list. Shimmery chorus, Ice delays, cavernous verbs, can I get an hallelujah? And the worlds easiest midi controller to push it all into useable chunks of sonic smashmouth.

Cool patch, I grabbed it. I really like how it cleans up with volume. Sounds very authentic. I had no idea his tone was that wet on one side. I remember being surprised that his guitar was panned so hard to one side, but I don't think I paid any attention to how the verb was so drippy and panned to the other side. Sounds a bit weird on it's own, but playing along with some jam tracks it slides right in and sounds great. The infinite hold thing is cool too.

I searched Ideascale, but didn't find anything similar. So... https://line6.ideascale.com/a/idea-v2/911164 .

Having finally upgraded to a computer from this decade (late 2015 mac), I'm just now getting into using the Helix editor. Is there a "footswitch" view? I know you can toggle individual blocks on/off, but is there any kind of view that shows the footswitch/scribble strips? Can you edit the scribble strip names in the editor? Scrolling through the presets I noticed there are several that use footswitches to affect routing, or toggle multiple effects. Is there any way to push a footswitch from the editor?

I made a little progress today. If I go into the preferences and select Helix as both the playback and record device, then I start getting audio at the channel strip. There must be something in the Studio One routing matrix that doesn't like having one interface as the input and a different interface as the output. Although, this is exactly how I had it set up with Logic when I was using OSX Lion. It works this way with Garageband and Audition, and several other audio programs on the Mac right now. Maybe there is some bug in Studio One that prevents it from routing audio if there are two different interfaces?

That was the first thing Presonus support asked me to do. Done and done. Still no audio. Super frustrating. They've looked at all the screenshots and say it's Line 6. I'm considering just taking the Audiobox 96 back. A couple weeks ago I upgraded to a 2015 mac running High Sierra and unfortunately my version of Logic won't run. I'd have to upgrade ($199). So I bought a Audiobox because it came bundled with Studio One for $99. But if Helix won't work with Studio One, there is no reason to keep it.