sammycraig

Ha! Saw this thread title and instantly remembered watching your video from Chads group. Open it up only to find the same vid! You do a good job explaining things in the video. About to try some of these concepts in full stereo with my new HX tied into the floor unit.

Would this be a suitable replacement for the adapter that comes with it? This way I could power the G10 using the same power supply that I use for my other pedals. https://www.templeaudio.com/shop/product/mod-usb-usb-power-output-module-352?category=6

Im keeping my EM-Drive and I'm about to get the MXR Reverb. Other than that it replaced all my other effects. Its OCD model is dead on point. Don't really like any of the wahs that are built in but I don't use wah enough to warrant keeping my JHS wah. I sold the JHS to pay for my Relay G-10.

I agree with the other responses on this post. However I would still buy a power conditioner anyways. Anytime you're running high end FRFR units or high end modeling units such as the helix you always want to have a good power conditioner/surge protector. I never used one until the power reset at my house fried a hole in the circuit board of my Pod Live Plus. Not only that but its great to plug one thing into the wall and have ample room for your laptop/tablet chargers and any other powered speakers you may want to run with you. I will use the Furman M-8x2 in conjunction with the SS-6B.

I agree with both the gentlemen ahead of me. Although I would say for home use and mixing 5" will be just fine. Don't expect huge volumes out of them though. And please go find a store who has a display set up for detailed testing. Our Pro Audio Director uses a great display set up so that he can properly demo the speakers for mixing and editing. Not just playing a random radio station through them.

Interesting. I can't think of any reason you aren't getting that with the helix.

One of the reasons Glen is so amazing is because he's so experienced with creating patches and mixing the sound. He tends to think way more like a sound engineer than a guitarist. And that gives him a huge advantage. Most guitarists don't really think about maximizing EQs in multiple parts of the chain or adding dual compressors before a filter. I love watching his videos of creating tones so that i can adopt some of his methods. And I constantly end up copying blocks from his patches into my own patches. One of the patches I learned the most from was his 3 channel amp patch and his organ patch. Such good use of modulation and controller assignment.

Im pretty boring about how I use mine. But I'm getting some great ideas from this thread! Kind of excited about getting some extra expression pedals.

Yup. Thats usually how I run mine. Is it just me or does anyone else love hearing that leslie speed up and slow down when you change speeds. L6 really nailed that sound.

Sounds great man. Love hearing a Helix sounding great live. And Im probably about to buy his custom artist patches. How many of them would you say you use a lot?

Make sure that you're running the cab separate from the head (AKA not a combo). With the leslie turned on and the standard cab turned off assign both to one footswitch. Then label the switch Leslie. When you disengage the switch it should turn the leslie off and the regular cab back on simultaneously.

I think Glen Delaune sells a screen cover that has some effect on glare.

Yeah. Even though I was constantly adjusting stuff It was really really easy to adjust with the helix. The edit mode was everything I ever would dream it to be.

Thats a really good thing to watch for. Couldn't you get around it by just saving the preset at one of its min or max values?

I haven't run into many issues with my expression pedal. It runs fairly smoothly for wah and perfectly for my volume. Although if I find it more comfortable I may run my wah on an external expression pedal in the near future. I remember the first time I used it live last year and I was constantly tweaking it to mix better with the band I was with. I actually found that my patches sounded way to thin and I ended up pulling my low ends up a lot. Also I had to put my reverb mix up. A lot of those changes had to be made because I was using my powered behrineger speaker as a reference and that didn't really reflect the patches accurately. Now I'm searching for a cheap powered FRFR speaker.

Ill have to give this a try tonight when I get in front of my Helix. Have you used this function in the way that im thinkiing of using it?

Our Line 6 rep brought it by the store the other day while I was at lunch. Sooooo I missed out. However my co worker (who really doesn't like wireless systems at all) was ranting about it to me. He tested it in the store with tons of wireless units going on and plenty of cell phones and it held up without any interference. The rep wasn't in the store for long so we didn't get much of an idea of battery life but for 2-3 hours a day I highly doubt you will ever have any problems with this unit.

What speakers or headphones are you running the Helix through? When I first started I was running through a stage wedge and it sounded like garbage.

I am all about the editor. For me I just love sitting back in my favorite chair and running patches from there. I can keep my Helix on the ground so that I can test out the patches I am creating. It just feels more natural to me like that.

I really do find the reverbs disappointing. Mainly because I sold my BigSky so that I could afford the Helix. I had to stack reverb upon reverb in the helix in order to reproduce just one of my BigSky settings. I may just be plain ignorant in suggesting this but what if Line 6 could create and external Helix reverb box that could be connected somehow perhaps a USB or simply running through effects loop. Not its own reverb pedal but more of a Helix extension that boosted the DSP capabilities to the point where we could run huge reverb sounds without adding an expensive reverb rack or pedal. Again maybe I'm just plain ignorant but if it worked it would be really cool.

Certain patches using more DSP take a second or two to load up whereas patches using less DSP load quicker. An unfortunate occupational hazard of DSP hungry patches.

I may be missing something very simple right now so please enlighten me. When running the leslie cab clone I can set the percentages for fast and slow and then use a footswitch to switch back and forth all while having another footswitch dedicated to turning the cab on and off. What would I have to do if I wanted to set my amp gain percentage on two different points and them use a foot switch to toggle between them. I know I can live edit that using the expression pedal but I want to have settings pre set ready to go. I would love a way to do this that I could apply to effects as well. That way of having two delays set up side by side with different settings I could just use one and change the settings back and fourth.

Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!! I just spent my whole day off editing and playing with my Helix using the new editor and my 2012 macbook pro. My one complaint about the helix has now been resolved. You guys have no clue how happy this makes me.

What I do is set up both a volume and a wah in my signal chain, assign them both to the expression pedal built in and use the toe switch to switch between wah and volume. So when I click it my wah activates (with the volume set all the way up) and when I click it again I go back to normal volume control. This works great for me because i never use both the volume pedal and the wah pedal at the same time. Then Im free to only add one expression pedal to the helix since I'm maximizing the built in expression. Although I might add another expression pedal later so that I can control both gain settings and and delay settings live (while still keeping full volume and wah control).