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Do you know which one that is specifically Jim? Last I saw, the original site where he hosted that stuff was gone, and he posted a Dropbox URL with a bunch of presets and IRs, including for that preset, but he wasn't specific about which IR he originally used.

Thanks, thought you'd probably weigh in on this. Do you need to reprocess it in some other way(s) after applying EQ, or just capture the EQd version as a .wav file and you're done? Is EQ the only processing that's valid to apply this way? Or could you for instance add some short ambience?

I'm pretty certain the 201 update reverted to the earlier pitch algorithm. Not super hi-fi, but many people found it better than what was in 2.0.

There's a thread on TGP about applying EQ to IR wave files on your DAW, and saving that as a new IR. Theory is that's more or less equivalent to applying that same EQ to the end result. Anyone know if that's right?

No hits on that at Walmart, Amazon, Best Buy, MicroCenter, or NewEgg. Seems like that particular model is gone gone gone.

Wow, cheap!!! That's complete no-brainer territory. I live my life on a laptop, which I do bring down to the studio sometimes, but I'd back up more often, and maybe explore IRs more, if I had something I could just leave down there.

No blocks continue playing across presets, including the looper. They do continue across snapshots, which is one of the very cool things snapshots give you. EDIT: Oops, no. Shouldn't talk about stuff I've never used. See next post.

The other attractive thing about IRs is that they make Helix effectively open-ended in that dimension. Double-edged sword though...

Thanks for the confirmation DI, appreciate it. Re exceeding the limit on the number of controllers, strikes me as similar to exceeding DSP limits -- don't allow pastes that won't work. As to how the rest of it "should" work, that's a bit of a trick question... In one sense, ideally it should include the settings for all snapshots defined in the source preset. That'd work well for the ephemeral backup move I tried to do, or to paste into a preset whose snapshots were laid out like they were in the source preset. That's what I sort of assumed would happen, but I can see that that was pretty short-sighted. Or maybe it should paste only the settings for the current snapshot. That'd be much more manageable if your snapshots weren't laid out the same in the source and destination. OTOH, doesn't work well for the cases where pasting settings for all snapshot at once does. Or maybe it should ask which you want when you paste? Or maybe all these questions mean copy and paste should be disabled if any snapshots are defined in the source or the destination? Or at least if the block in question has parameters controlled by snapshots? OTOH. why is this different than parameters controlled by anything else? It doesn't make sense that a pasted block should have a parameter controlled by whatever switch is in the same position in the destination preset, which may already do something completely different. I haven't checked, does pasting lose ALL controller settings?

Thanks for this Joost.

Which model HO, and what did it cost, if you don't mind my asking?

Or you could just not read stuff you're not interested in.

I hear lots of love for the studio comp, but for me (electric only so far), my ears often end up liking the deluxe one more. Compression on overdriven tones is a No in my book. You want all the dynamics you can get to come through the squash that's inherent in all that clipping. I do like some compression on many clean sounds, for general fatness, and to bring out the details in your playing. It also helps even out volume differences between pickup selections -- series/parallell/hum/single/etc.. I sometimes go with a little more gain than is absolutely clean, and maybe some sag, in addition to or instead of compression. As for your general discomfort with all this audio tech, there's no substitute for playing with it! Try stuff! There are no wrong answers! And there's no shame in using simple, straightforward patches if that's what ends up sounding best to you. Helix is a wonderful playground for guitar and bass processing experiments, you're in a good place.

Voted and commented.

Fred Flintstone it -- write it down :)

Personally, I use the editor only for backing up setlists and managing IRs. That's due partly to the ergonomics in my "studio", and partly because one of the main reasons I got a Helix was because I didn't want a computer on a gig or at a jam, so I work that way most of the time in order to be comfortable doing that. IMO, the Helix UI is so good that I'm 100% fine without the editor, actually more fluent that way.

You're not a dummy. Helix is just unexpectedly smart sometimes, the kind of smart that makes you say, oh yeah, now that I think about it, it makes sense it'd do that.

And as of now, there's no way to export it to disk, which includes saving a bundle, which doesn't include it.

I should also say that I'm loving lots of the results I'm getting, both with the stock cabs, and that one custom IR. In other words, I don't find IRs necessary for making great sounds, they're just another set of options we have for this awesome tool. FYI, if you're interested in that custom IR, I think it's posted here, and in roscoe5's collection, which I think is in Dropbox if I remember right.

I've been using the built in cabs almost exclusively, the only exception so far being an awesome custom IR roscoe5 kindly built from an Amplitube preset I had with a cool dual cab setup. I've amassed a medium-sized collection of free IRs, and every so often I take a spin through the subset I have loaded, looking for Cool Stuff. Did that a bit last night even. Result last night was the same as it's been every time so far: Takes a long time and produces nothing conclusively great. Thing is, you can't really adjust the tone of an IR beyond low and high cut. It's more like rolling dice than designing a sound, to me. Dice with a huge number of not very predictable faces. It is true that commercial libraries are better organized and more comprehensive than my kind of random heap o stuff. It's also true that if you do this a lot you'll no doubt learn something more than I currently know about what you like. I can tell you a great way to audition IRs though: Pedal edit mode. I don't use it for anything else, but it's perfect for this. Select that parameter, then use the increment and decrement buttons to step through everything you have loaded. To move a long ways quickly but not very precisely, use the expression pedal. I'm not done trying, and YMMV of course, yadda yadda, but that's where I keep landing with this.

Touch, don't press, any two snapshot footswitches, and Helix will offer to swap them.

Hah, she just went to bed and worried that I was being Stupid. She generally doesn't come after me when I'm in the "studio", which is generally a good thing...

No takers, hmmm? Snapshots are great, and so is copy/paste, but it seems on the surface like they don't do well together. Nobody knows how this actually works? Any Line 6 folks care to enlighten me?

Happened again, worse than usual, I didn't go to bed. Had fun, which helps keep me sane, kinda, but this actually isn't good for my mental health on a more basic level. Must. Resist. Gaaaaaaah!

Prototype for the CyberTwin!