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bartnettle1

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  1. Nice powerful arrangement! Sounds Good!
  2. The Rokets have an XLR balanced input and the POD HD has a balanced output. Low noise. The line level input on the rokets are TS inputs. On the Pod HD You will be fine usiing two TS cables one for each of the rkets Speaker cables are not what you want for your rokets as you are essentually going to the power amp first. Speaker cable is generally unsheilded and goes from power amp to passive speaker. Guitar cables what you want; shielded If you are handy with a soldering iron you can use mic cable and connect a TS jack one + the other - and also connect the shield at the send end and not connect the shield at the receive jack end. Mark clearly which end is which for future identification. Signal passes thru via the + - and the shield helps shield but not as well as a balanced Mic cable
  3. Someone else might be able to help you.(unless all are at the Helix forum) Or you can do a search as I have seen this issue and there is a fix.
  4. The main Pro choice of the rack unit is cable runs. In a Pro stage setup The rack unit goes in the rack and the run to the amps is shorter. There are no long cable runs out to the floorboard version, only midi or cat Most pros are using controllers already even with pedals in the rack. Not that I am a gigging Pro but to me the Helix is designed to be a hub capable of incorporating an exiting rig. I personally would go the floorboard version as you get the screen as you use the interactive pedals. But I got to agree on the floor what a pain. Put it on a music stand or rack and use a 3rd party foot controller.
  5. Since I bought the expansion packs have been getting into those, mostly the orange and marshal;. But I got to say, most of the amps new and old are pretty good. I often work on the amp and cab only and get what sounds good. Much as you do. Most of the amps can be gotten to sound good with some tweaks. I do my editing on the HD500 itself rarely via EDIT software. Because of my poor eyesight I cannot tell you what I am selecting half the time and go by what sounds good. In office at moment and will have to look at it when I get there with glasses on. Been thinking of just erasing all the presets as out of space and am overwriting alot. (anyone know a easier way than copy paste a blank slot. Finally though a year or so ago I downloaded a bunch of Customtone patches and found some guys make interesting patches that I'd never dream of so Auditioning some of those can reveal some Gems but only if you have the time. Remember to disregard the ones that don't work for you but even so some just need some refining to work great and often do better with an amp of your liking.
  6. You need the latest firmware update which has the Global EQ and is in the menu
  7. chordal melody opening! Interesting compositional parts! ! bridging solo parts give lots of interest.Good production too. The other track Amigo is a treat too. Well Done!
  8. While the HD500X sounds great the Helix trumps it noticeably on some and less so on others Thanks for posting the latest!
  9. Thanks for that! There is a adnomality in most of the examples; a whistling type distortion. More noticible on higher gain but not in every example. strange. Some sound compressed! My guess is clipped the converters more often then not which pretty well make this demo inconclusive due to quality loss
  10. Good thinking Silverhead! Cheers. Amp model AB no FX not even a touch of reverb or a gate. We'll live with it and hopefully your guitar is shielded!
  11. No one game? Understandable, too busy with your unit! Oh well!
  12. Hi Guys, I know that the consensus is the HeliX sounds better than the HD500X's and I can tell the HX Fx from the Pre release demos sound better than the HD's. But I'd like to hear a AB of same Amp models only with no FX. You can tell me to go and stick it and demo one for yourself but they are a long way off being here for demoing. Anyone in Sydney can steer me to one available for demo? In the meantime, you know you wanna!
  13. USB cables can be problematic and the issue is one unbalanced line often thru a polarity shift in the USB hardware controller. But first make sure you have selected on the Aux input other than "same" "guitar" and I highly recommend shielding your guitar to minimize picking up from HD, PC, and Amp. Not to mention Fluro lights Light dimmers power on same as Refrigerator, AirCon. If you can move the guitar and find that one quieter spot, definitely shield it.
  14. Here is the new leather version for thoise who don't want a monkey on your back. LOL https://www.facebook.com/SteampunkSteampunk/photos/a.119666292299.96584.19157172299/10153745085177300/?type=3&theater
  15. unlikely but even the Pros will listen to each speaker in a cab and mic the best sounding. You'd be amazed how many 4x10;cabs might have a dud speaker. (if in same room best record each one) Test the actual mic thru the HD or mic input on the amp as a vocal mic and see if it is working properly and cable as well. All obvious but check it. Along this line is the capsule and condition of the foam inside. There are mods to these mics where the foam is removed as well as other upgrades. Lastly the amp will have to be loud enough to be anything other than directly pointing at it. These Mics handle fairly high SPL; good enough for snare drums! You don't want proximity effect excepting perhaps to cut thru live not on speaker dust cap but close on the paper. Of course all a matter of taste, but a good Engineer knows the tricks to pulling a great tone and ideally you want to be able to excite the recorded Guitar in the mix. The multi FX Amp modelers are popular as the engineering has been done for you. So good on you for Engineering! I prefer dedicated Preamps like an 1073 with them.
  16. You also got s/pdif out as well which can be also be switched to dry.
  17. I really appreciate the reports and am glad the Helix is that good. I really want one.
  18. Your right ozbadman! I stand corrected! I bought my HD500 for $500 when Allan's went into receivership. Okay three times the cost! I still cant afford it but I want one LOL. What I might do is set aside a few hundred here and there and then get one. Or get another free money credit card. The one where you pay no interest for 12 months but you have to pay about $400 a month to wipe out the $5000 tp actually pay no interest. If you pay the minimum every month you pay it off for years and end up paying back twice or three times the amount. The Helix is half one of those. So about $200 a month over a year. Only thing is I already am paying one off about three debts. Maybe in 6 months can get a Helix
  19. Interesting and I appreciate the feedback on it. That last question is how would it be if the changes or improvements were done, those idea scale threads etc. It is great getting an opinion from someone who has an AxeII and a HD500.
  20. As good as Helix may be is it 5 times better than a HD 500? That is the price difference here in Sydney is $2400 retail. I just cant justify it. The Aussie dollar is crap right now. 71 us cents, For USA buyers the Helix is only about twice the HD500X CORRECTION: three times the amount
  21. Bassman and use pedal FX in front for crunch, chorus etc. or Down load some 80s clean Rock patches from Customtone and try a few out.
  22. Sounds lush tom! very good points buck! Saving all your helix preferences to a USB would be ideal for the professional Touring musician.
  23. Great explanations and sounds on the right track. May just be how they are doing it though I'd say the processing might be 32bit oversampled at 192khz and the noise filter niquist would be way above anything audible and how most converters work, but oversampled and then down samples makes sense with aliasing above the audible range. I suspect what gets regarded as fizz could very well be an artifact of the filter curve.It is not uncommon for On the Helix I think I have seen a reference of DSD but I cannot find any reference of it now in the manual and this might just be my mis perception. Nevertheless, a possibility, is the converters are DSD which is a much more linear natural sounding quality then Pulse Code Modulation. It is done by sampling 1 bit lengths at very high frequencies like 2.28224MHz or 5.6448MHz Whereas PCM works at sampling blocks of bits each from zero db to the full dynamic range of the the medium; DSD does it compared to the last bit much faster but results in a linear response much likened to how tape worked where PCM is a stepped non linear way of sampling. PCM is editable. DSD cannot but can be cut in a gap of silence. Thats it. Like tape. Korg and Tascam have produced DSD recorders. Not that Yamaha have not adopted their own. It may or not be how the Helix is working. If it was in there it would be talked up as selling point advantage. So far we are only supposing about the internal processing of the modeling. Of course the USB and s/pdif interfaces are PCM
  24. Thanks guys I am avidly reading every one Much appreciated keep em coming
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