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Due to the virus wreaking havoc on our community of musicians, I thought I would do something meager to give back. Here's a free gift of some of my favorite cab mixes that are unique from my offerings: https://www.drbonkerssoundlab.com/product/dr-bonkers-in-this-together-cab-pack-ir-collection/

Where are you setting permissions for all your drives?

Hi @HonestOpinion, I seem to have replied yesterday with screen shots showing the behavior, but for some reason they were removed from the thread with not even a PM to me explaining why. Let me re-post again. In the below two screen shots you will see, I try to save a preset to my F: drive folder. But after clicking save, the file is not in the folder. Now with the same preset I open the dialog and save to me desktop, you will see it saves successfully to my desktop. All my other programs save files perfectly to my F: drive, including Fractal Audio Axe-Edit, so I seriously doubt this is a local computer or drive problem, but rather it is an HX-Edit issue.

Continuing bug in HX Edit 2.80: One can only Export presets to the C: Drive on a Win 10 64 Bit machine. If you try to Export Preset to another hard drive, for example an F: Drive hard disk, HX Edit will let you hit save, but when you view the folder, no file was saved. Can you fix this in the next update? It's a pain in the butt to Export File to the C: Drive and then need to move the file in a separate operation to your music drive.

I finally jumped in the pool and was able to get my Helix Floor from Alto Music. It arrived with no issues. L6 really did a nice job with the packaging design. Right out of the box, I hooked up some phones and plugged in my Squier VM Jazzmaster SS and my Jaguar SS bass. I use those two to test any new piece of gear out because they are the noisiest instruments I own and the Jazzmaster pickups can be brutal if the preset makers go a little crazy adding mid range or treble. Really nice job with the factory presets as I could cobble together a few and do a gig today with total confidence. There's no insane volume spikes between presets on the meat & potatoes tones and the factory IR cabs are not super dark or have a mid range honk like with some other modelers I have either auditioned or owned in the past. The interface is great too, once I got the feel for the joystick. The capacitive buttons and expression pedal will seem to hold up to my clod hopper-like feet. The UI is pretty intuitive. I can't wait to get more under the hood and see how to hot rod things, but the UI does not have a steep learning curve at all. As a longtime Fractal Audio Axe-FX II owner, color me very impressed in terms of bang for the buck.

Thanks Brad, you are gentleman and a scholar. Once I have one in my posession, I will hit you up for some advice for sure! I'm shipping out the MFC-101 on Monday as I just sold it on Reverb.

I'm sorry for misunderstanding.

I can dial in sounds just fine thanks. Keeping the MFC-101 out of lost connection messages or user timeout is a whole other ball of wax to deal with, if you never had to do it. If I have to drag around a separate MFC-101 to control the Fractal from the floor anyways, why not drag around a controller with better ergonomics, scribble strips, and that can function as a backup rig if need be? The RJM Mastermind is about $200 more than the Helix at retail right now and is not even a backup rig. To use a painting analogy, some people like to make art with just five colors on the palette, others use triple that number and mix them together as well to make art. Neither method is better nor worse for making art, it's just a matter of what inspires you to make it. If it neither breaks your leg nor picks your pocket, what does it matter to you if someone "should" do it? I am just asking about the technical ability of the unit to do so, not about the artistic or moral merits of doing so.

The MFC-101 is a royal pain in the butt for a variety of reasons. Very finicky piece of kit to program and not have the connection time out. The MFC also does some strange things to the AF2 when plugged into the unit while Axe-Edit is running. If the Helix can do what I want it to do as far as control and also be a backup rig, that's even better.

I love the AxeFX2 but I think the MFC-101 frankly just blows with its implementation and editor. I am selling my MFC-101 Mark III because I am so fed up with the way it handshakes with the AF2. In some ways the Behringer with the UNO chip worked better. The way I was hoping it would work is the Helix would work as a midi controller to change Fractal preset up and down as well as Fractal scene up and down. Then I could use the other 4 buttons to control helix snapshots. The possibilities are endless, Helix drives in front of Fractal modelling, 4 amps and cabs available simultaneously to rage along, building complex Strymon, Eventide, or even old school Lexicon PCM-70 type effects by having one unit's effects feed into the other's effects. I figure for the way it is priced, the Helix floor unit is like getting an RJM Mastermind with a backup rig or an Ax-8 thrown in.

I am getting closer to being able to pull the trigger on a Helix Floor model (not LT). I was wondering if there was a for the Helix to send Midi Program changes and scenes to the Fractal? Has anybody done it and can give me some info on how to do it? Also, is my Fractal EV-1 expression pedal going to be compatible with the Helix? My dream is to be able to use the Helix 4CM with the Fractal sometimes and just have it control the Fractal other times, and just use the Helix other times by using a blank preset in the Fractal as a pass through, so that once I have it wired up, I don't have to physically rewire everything any time I want to change what interacts with what. Is this madness?

Hey that's totally cool. Once I have enough saved up in the fall to get a Helix, I will make a series of videos about this very subject of managing IR's in the Helix. Thanks so much for your support and the great feedback.

Thanks so much for the awesome support from this community. I am truly humbled.

Available in a variety of WAV formats. Come see what the fuss is about with my ir files and why you should try them out.

Amazing to see. Billy has been a big inspiration to me over the years.

Thanks so much for that, I really appreciate it. Also, thanks so much everybody for all the support.

Dr Bonkers Soundlab LLC is happy to announce we have a new bass cab impulse response pack available: Dr Bonkers Bass Cab Classics Volume 7: GeekRB 4X10 Bass Cabinet IR Collection based upon a Gallien-Krueger® 410RBH™ 4X10 Bass Cabinet featuring the original proprietary 4 X 10 inch cast frame woofers with heavy duty tweeter. Two capture lengths were featured in order to historically preserve this cabinet digitally, 200ms & 500ms. 15 mics were used in this pack to generate 16 cab mixes (8 with tweeter mixed in, 8 with no tweeter mixed in) & 272 single mic files, each with a power amp baked into the files and with the power amp removed from the files (per capture sample length). WAV file pack supports the following sample rate/bit depth combinations: 96 KHz/32 Bit, 96 KHz/24 Bit, 48 KHz/32 Bit, 48 KHz/24 Bit, 44.1 KHz/32 Bit, 44.1 KHz/24 Bit, 44.1 KHz/16 Bit. Each sample rate has the same above amount of files. As a reminder, I also have for sale the following cab packs on my site with sound clips (see site for more details on each pack): * Dr Bonkers Bass Cab Classics Volume 1: APFLEX 1X15 Bass Cabinet IR Collection based upon the Ampeg® Portaflex™ 1x15 (with tweeter) PF115HE Bass Cabinet. * Dr Bonkers Bass Cab Classics Volume 2: AGI 8X10 Bass Cabinet IR Collection based upon the Aguilar® 8x10 (with tweeter) DB810 Bass Cabinet. * Dr Bonkers Bass Cab Classics Volume 3: SBB 8X10 Bass Cabinet IR Collection based upon the Ampeg® 8x10 SVT™ 810AV Bass Cabinet. * Dr Bonkers Bass Cab Classics Volume 4: BIGRED 2X10 Bass Cabinet IR Collection based upon the SWR® Super Redhead™ 2X10 bass cabinet with Horn Tweeter. * Dr Bonkers Bass Cab Classics Volume 5: TRAEL 1X15 Bass Cabinet IR Collection based upon a Trace Elliot® 1x15 TE1518™ Bass Cabinet featuring the original 15 inch Celestion® bass speaker. * Dr Bonkers Bass Cab Classics Volume 6: AGI 1X15 Bass Cabinet IR Collection based upon a Aguilar® 1X15 DB 115™ Bass Cabinet featuring the original proprietary 15 inch cast frame woofer featuring a 95 oz. magnet. This may also be of interest since it's like a dual use guitar and bass cab: * Dr Bonkers Guitar Cab-Oddities™ Volume 4: POLY 1X12 Guitar Cabinet IR Collection based upon a 1980’s Polytone® Mini Brute II™ 1 X 12 Guitar or Bass Amp Cabinet. This cabinet included the original Polytone® Proprietary 12 inch Speaker for Guitar and Bass. To learn more about these impulse response packs and what makes my stuff different from others who are selling ir files, please message me. Thanks for your time!

You bought a $1,000+ USD modelling unit that was marketed to you in some way. Someone has relevant content that is priced at $0.99 USD that users may find useful for that unit. That does not seem to be spam according to accepted definitions of the word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam If you are not interested, then your clicking and commenting on the post that is clearly marked as a teaser would seem to be counterproductive and further waste of your time. I make a heavy investment in order to provide new sounds in a different way to a community of players. Please pardon me for wanting to recoup that considerable investment by getting the word out about my stuff to people that otherwise not be able to find it easily, in order to afford to bring more new sounds to the community.

Some more positive feedback or reviews about my impulse responses in this thread: Who's cab IR's sound the best to you?

The Helix is so good for bass, I am planning on getting one soon. The Helix is really stellar for bass and I say this as a current Fractal Axe-FXII user. If you are worried bass cab varieties, there are a bunch of us that provide third party ir's for bass cabs that work well with the Helix or Firehawk.

Hi, Did you get a chance to try out the cab ir's? What did you think? I do mostly bass cab ir's and really oddball guitar cab ir's because I find most ir producers only stay in the guitar cab land of Marshall, Fender, Mesa, etc. when there is a whole world of other sounds out there. I decided to produce a Marshall guitar cab set of ir's so that guitarists had sort of a baseline to judge my quality, mic selection, technique, cab selection so that they might try out some of my more unusual guitar cabs in terms of what the ir world currently produces. I am a young shop, but I'm quite real. I just stopped selling my first 2 exclusive sets of well received bass cab ir collections through Fractal Audio's site (after being on sale for 1 year) because I wanted to also serve the larger modelling user base of Line 6 and others who use WAV files as impulse response files. If you have any questions on my stuff, I am more than happy to answer them as long as they are not about the type of room I use and other trade secret type of knowledge. Thanks again for your support -Dr B.

Cool. :)

Wow, as someone new to this community that is trying to let people know about something that may help them in their tone quest as other providers have done here, thanks for the hearty and warm welcome.

Have I lost my mind? If you read the FAQ on my site, you know that I was not interested in capturing Marshall cabs because there were so many ir's of them already on the market in so many different varieties. However, my friend's cab is the best sounding one I ever came across. It was loaded with the original Celestion G12-80's when we opened it up and checked the codes on the speakers. That made me change my mind about offering ir's of this cab, but there are still quite a few G12-80 loaded cab ir's on the market. What would make you try my guitar cab ir's like so many bass players have tried and liked my ir files? I will give you extreme value for your hard earned cash. If you order the wav file pack, I have priced this cab pack at under $1.00 USD. My hope is you will try this out and will feel safe about buying my other guitar cab packs. For more details, please message me. Each of the video links has more details regarding how each demo was recorded, but rest assured there was no additional track processing or double tracking of guitar or bass.

Besides Bass Cab Impulse Responses, I am now happy to announce that I am offering guitar cab ir packs in WAV format. Dr Bonkers Guitar Cab-Oddities™ Volume 1: LaVie 2X12 Guitar Cabinet IR Collection is based upon a Norlin-Gibson-Moog Lab Series L5 with 2X12 cabinet. 3 mic positions using 17 mics captured both with the secret reference power amp as well as using Mic+Di method. 6 mono Choice mixes, 6 stereo Choice mixes, 6 mono HypeReal mixes, & 6 stereo HypeReal mixes. Dr Bonkers Guitar Cab-Oddities™ Volume 2: ALOHA 1X6 Guitar Cabinet IR Collection is based upon a vintage 1959 re-branded version of the Supro® 1606, also made by Valco®, manufactured for the Oahu Publishing Company of Cleveland Ohio. This cabinet included the original 6 inch Jensen® Blue Label Special Design speaker. 3 mic positions using 17 mics captured both with the secret reference power amp as well as using Mic+Di method. 6 Choice mixes & 6 HypeReal mixes. Sound samples to come later, please check the samples tab on my website portal. Explanation of HypeReal files may be found on the Why Dr Bonkers? tab on my site. If you have any questions, please let me know.