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I've enjoyed the free Vox IR and have been keeping my eyes peeled for the release of the full pack, haven't seen it pop up yet. When will that be out, and are there more smaller cab (1x12, 2x12) IR packs on the horizon?

I've got to take this back, although I'm rather confused about it. When I encountered this I tried different amps, re-started Helix, re-loaded the IR, even went so far as to re-extract it from the zip file, and the bizarre chorusing was present no matter what. But only with the A30 IR. Tried it again today, and the bizarreness gone. Sounds great in fact. :blink:

I spent some time with the Allure Tweed, the A30 and the Deluxe (which I take to be a 4x10, a 2x12 and a 1x12 respectively) last night. The Tweed and the Deluxe were very good to my ears, the A30 however was not so much. It was a bit bizarre, it had almost a chorusing effect about it that I found very distracting. Haven't played with the others yet. I've been auditioning IRs like it was my day job recently, so I'm just putting them into the system...

The capacitance feature is the ability of the switch to react to your touch. I personally think it would be worth it though, assign bypasses manually in exchange for stomping the correct switch. Thanks for posting them, I'll be taking a look!

Outstanding! I think I'll have to have that. Now to figure out whether it makes more sense to buy it or complete the Big Box and get it for free... Thanks for the info!

Definitey, for the reasons jbuhajla points out. If you want to change how much of your signal is going through each of the IRs, do that at the split using an A/B. 100% "A" will send everything to the top IR, 100% "B" will send everything through the bottom IR, and in-between you can balance between the two however you like.

Can MixIR export an IR of your mix? In otherwords, can you have two IRs in parallel in MixIR and then generate a single IR of the combination that could then be loaded into Helix?

I don't happen to share your assessment of the Helix reverbs, but I am glad that you found a functional workaround that gets you the sound you're after.

I think you're mixing and matching your F's and R's in the acronym, which is maybe misleading you a little bit. The first "FR" is "Full Range", which is where your 80-20k (or whatever it may be) comes in. The second "FR" is not "Full Response", it's "Flat Response". Significant difference. Speaker cabs inherently color the sound they are reproducing by hyping some frequencies while diminishing others. It's what we hear as a cabs "signature" sound and is why we bother with all of these cabinet IRs. The extra money in an expensive FRFR speaker is going toward significant R&D in design and construction to reduce that coloration to a minimum. With a guitar modeler the result is that your IR sounds like the cab it was captured from, as opposed to sounding like that cab being played through another cab. As to your question of whether FRFR is required for Helix, I think not. It's all in how you use it. FRFR is one way among many. I happen to like it :)

It's a great time to be alive.

Sounds pretty good to me!

This news puts many questions in my mind, looking forward to the official announcment and details!

I haven't purchased any, but I did notice in the discount code description that is was for "single cabinet" IRs, which I took to mean that it didn't apply to the bundles...

If interested, there is an Ideascale submission for multiple series/parallel splits per path, vote it on up! http://line6.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Multiple-splitting-options-for-Path-A-and-B/833936-23508

That was really excellent! I kind of forgot that I was supposed to be analyzing the guitar tones and was just enjoying the music. Which is a good thing! I was having some difficulty figuring out why your name was familiar to me, finally placed it from some demos on Ownhammer. Good stuff, thanks for sharing!

Why it's different I don't know, but I know that the spring reverb (regular spring, not the '63) and the bias and optical tremolos only sound "right" to me between the amp and cab. The nice thing is you can try stuff out in different spots in the signal chain without it being an hour long pedalboard re-build. Move things around and see what your ears tell you!

Pete Thorn Demos are always bad for my wallet. Always.... I've already got a mountain of IRs that I've only scratched the surface of, but these do seem intriguing...

Yes! That would be a most welcome piece of functionality...

Maybe a guy in a Mars Volta cover band, haha! I have run out of slots in front of the amp when doing the "wall of cabs" where the amp is on 1A, 1B is dedicated to a parallel split after the amp feeding into 2A, and there is a dual cab on 1A (after the split) and parallel cabs on 2A and 2B. Not really out of slots so much as slots rendered inaccessible by the requirements of the routing. And an amp+cab block would not be of any help in that situation. So not really relevant to this particular discussion in the least. But there it is...

I think the only real advantage of the combined blocks would be saving a slot if you're short on real estate. For my part I often like to have stuff between the amp and the cab, and I often like to have cabs in parallel, so the combined block is not a good option for me.

Good stuff! My thoughts go to the Twin Reverb, probably the "VIB" channel, probably set fairly hot. With some of the cleaner amps (the Twin and the Gibson EH-185 in particular come to mind) I've found that it can be hard to get the tone I want and still have sufficient output. I've had good results using a gain block or compressor after the amp to bring it back up where it needs to be. Or, if you have your amp on path 1 and your cab(s)/IR(s) on path 2, you can use the path 1 output block to boost it back up. When you find the tone recipe that does it for you, do share!

I can't get enough of the Litigator for gritty tones that clean up with picking dynamics or the volume knob, and the Bassman has been my go-to for Fendery cleans since day one.

This thread was my bible for a long while. I still consult it often.

Merry Christmas!

My thought on this is that, if there are fewer threads regarding amps/cabs with Helix than there are for FRFR, it's only because less of them are being started by the forum members. Which is just an indication of the level of interest among this specific group. If you'd like to see more threads discussing Helix with amps/cabs, start a thread and begin discussing. If this thread had been titled "Who's using power amps and cabs with their Helix?" you'd be having the discussion right now. And I'd be reading it with great interest, even though I am myself an FRFR player. I don't see why it should need to be stuck in a different sub-forum.