modman666

If there's one thing I miss from going totally digital it's standing facing a stack and letting the feedback howl at the end of a song (or in the beginning... or if Fripp is right, in the middle - of "Heroes") . Is there any way to do this with Helix? I have (somewhere in an attic) a Line 6 tonecore Dr Distorto which had a feedback generator - not my kind of distortion but feedback heaven. So it is possible to generate artificial feedback - do any of the distro units do this? And if not surely it would be an easy addition to the next update ?

Hi so my plan was to have the acoustic guitar and electric sharing a lead into the HX FX. Out of there L and R (via a final pan block) into guitar amp and PA respectively (either direct into PA or via a DI box). A preset for acoustic guitar would have a little chorus, a tiny bit of reverb and maybe even a Professional IR from an acoustic guitar to offset the piezo duck quack and would route hard Left. Then I could unplug the acoustic and change to electric, select another preset with distro, delay etc and that would output hard Right into my guitar amp. (I had thought about left and right inputs with two leads but I really want minimal number of leads about, they always get tangled - I did try it but it made no difference to the sound) The electric guitar into the amp sounds great The acoustic guitar into the PA sounds awful, truly dreadful, thin, characterless and quiet. Even with all the effects turned off. It doesn't matter what input and output from the HX effects I use (I've tried every combination) the sound is equally bad on acoustic and great on electric. Just putting the acoustic through the HX without any of the panned setup sounds awful. If I unplug the guitar lead from the HX effects and plug it straight into the PA the acoustic guitar sounds great, and is 3x louder (whether thru a DI box int the PA or direct) The only thing making the acoustic sound awful is it being routed through the HX effects, even with no effects in the chain, or with my minimal effects turned off. This applies to any input and output from the HX effects unit. The guitar is a Breedlove acoustic with a Baggs element piezo and preamp. It sounds great straight into a PA. Crap if the signal passes through the HX effects. I have tested the unit with a Taylor 3 series guitar and the same happens. It doesn't happen if I use a TC electronic Nova system for the acoustic, but I don't want to carry two units. It doesn't happen if I route my acoustic through discrete effects units (eg MXR chorus, TC electronic flashback) but the object was to use one box. Live I play acoustic and electric in equal measure and need to be able to switch. At the moment I am going through the PA for the acoustic (entailing another guitar lead and knots onstage) and the electric through the HX effects into my amp. .

Hi I have a HX effects, have had it for just under 3 months. It is very very velcro'd to my board. I need support but need to register the product (again, I had already done it but there was no trace on my user page) - I don't really want to wrestle with the velcro. Is the serial number somewhere in the system and available electronically, either via HX Edit or by some hitherto undiscoverd knob pressing sequence on the unit itself? For reference, it sounds DREADFUL with acoustic guitar and my sound guy refuses to let me use it, preferring a DI box, which gives a much much better sound and a much louder one. He is entirely right. it is truly awful. Unplugging it and then connecting it to the desk actually sounds like a real guitar... The guitar has a baggs piezo and preamp onboard. I also use the unit for electric so don;t want to tamper with any global settings that might affect other usage. I'm guessing it's an impedance issue... it sounds really good with electric guitar.