caledoneus

Helixi?

2 hours ago, Kilrahi said:

 

That's just one of many things I love about the Helix. There are many ways to get to the same solution, and they all have their own advantages and disadvantages. This one uses an extra block, but especially when you're just starting out it's easier to visualize.

true enough.  :)  I've only got the HX effects, and do this set up pretty often to toggle between different drives or delays (ect).  But realized you could use two of the same block to toggle different levels of an effect.  Setting the parameter to snapshot and changing snapshots would use less blocks, but might be harder to switch quickly unless you have practice tap-dancing a pedalboard. :)

set up 2 blocks with the same verb (but the different settings) then assign them both to the same switch with one on, and the other off.  Then when you hit that switch it will toggle between the two

with HX effects, since it does not have a XLR out, you would still need a DI of some sort to make the acoustic sound right. Maybe set up your acoustic presets to run mono out of the left output and run that to a DI to the board, and have your electric ones run mono out of the right into the amp?

I think the Platauex (cant spell) reverb has a shimmer to it...

Power output level is right then (I'm pretty sure).  Could work, but don't know if it would for sure.

what's the output of the power supply?

I'm guessing probably not... Doubt it has enough juice

some a pretty good, some are kind of meh... One of my favorite effects (Dimension Chorus) is only in the legacy effects, so there is that.

I'd like to see some more bass-centric effects added... I'll back your idea... lol

I'm pretty sure that MIDI can be programmed to do that, but can't give you a 100% answer (haven't dug into the MIDI capability at all yet)

is it on all patches, or just a certain one?  I had something like that happen but it only happened on one preset.... never actually figured out what the issue was with that preset, but deleted the preset and no more problem

14 hours ago, phil_m said:

What would the FX loops be if they weren't blocks? I think the ability to bypass them via footswitches or snapshots is important. Maybe there's some other way they can be represented graphically without changing their behavior, but I guess I wouldn't want to sacrifice functionality necessarily.

Fair point to make.... Maybe they could make it one of the options in the global preferences (or whatever they call them).  Let you set up the FX loops to either function as blocks OR as "always on" type loops... 

I'd have to fiddle around with mine and see if what I'm about to say is right, so don't hold me to it at this point.... ;)

But I think that you could given that it has 2 inputs.

add it to the idea page...

Maybe they'll do it

the default mode for the delays is Milliseconds as opposed to the subdivisions.  Unless you have it set to  1/4 note, 1/8 note (ect) the tap temp won't affect it.  

lol.  

That's pretty funny

So, I tried this out last night, and it works like a charm.  

Set up a volume pedal at the end of the chain, then in controller assignment set up a footswitch as momentary and have the minimum volume be 100 and the maximum 0.  Then when  you tap the footswitch you can use it as a stutter/ killswitch/ ect.  Very cool.

Since I set this up, I'll start the voting. :)

Here goes

Distortion    Mine is the KBW... has a really good tone I think

Fuzz    for the Fuzz effects, I really like the Legacy Fuzz Pi.  I think they did a good job of catching the sound of the Muff

Dynamics  This one is easy for me...  Kinky Comp.  use it on most of my patches. Great effect

Filter    For filters I really like the Obi-wah...  

Modulation   Dimension

---flanger/phaser    favorite here is the Barberpole effect in the legacy effects... 

---tremolo/vibrato    the 60's bias Trem is my favorite here probably.

---chorus/univibe    This one is easy for me too...  Has to be the Dimension chorus from the Legacy effects.  Too much fun

---ring/ rotary     Probably don't have one here, as I don't use them much, but the pitch ring mod is kinda cool so we'll go with that

Delay      Cosmos Echo

Reverb     Glitz is amazing

Wah       weeper is a good one (prefer my Ibanez WD-7 to the ones in HX)

EQ          Low Cut/ High Cut is pretty handy

Pitch/Synth     the Twin Harmony is pretty nice sounding.

So, I figured I'd put together a little game to share our personal preferences, have a little fun, and maybe have a little competition.  Here are the rules

from each category you can pick ONE effect that you consider your favorite/ go-to effect for that category.  You can choose from either the Helix or the Legacy effects, but only one or the other per category, not one of each for a category.  You don't have to explain why (but you can if you want). And at intervals I will tally up the votes for each category and post the current leader/ winner.  Categories are listed below!

**note**  I put fuzz in a category of its own, b/c, lets face it...  fuzz is it's own category. :)

**note** for the modulation section, I actually split it up into sub categories just because.  You can either pick one overall, pick one per category, or both ;)

Distortion

Fuzz

Dynamics

Filter

Modulation

---flanger/phaser

---tremolo/vibrato

---chorus/univibe

---ring/ rotary

Delay

Reverb

Wah

EQ

Pitch/Synth

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

I use mine for electric, acoustic and bass with no issues.  Should work great for you.  Only problem I've had with mine is the belt/strap clip breaking off.  Put it inside of a cellphone case now and clip that to my strap...

battery door hasn't cause me any issues (though I can see where it could if you weren't careful).  The belt/strap clip, however, is totally worthless.  Just saying.

still haven't had a chance to try it out... been a busy weekend... lol 

16 hours ago, rd2rk said:

Guitar>CB535, etc>HXFX Input>HXFX OD,Dist, etc>Send/Return(FX Loop)1 Block>HXFX Send1>Amp Input>Amp FX Send>HXFX Return1>HXFX Delay, Reverb, etc>HX Output>Amp FX Return

 

Pay attention to the Input/Output Level settings in Globals (see pages 21/39 in the manual).

 

If your cable runs are long and you detect "Tone Suck", use Buffer Pedals.

Yeah, what he said.  If you find that the tone is getting thinned out throw you a buffer (or a pedal with buffered bypass instead of true bypass) in the chain (Usually works best at the end of the chain right before amp).  

If you go into the signal flow section you can assign any of the blocks to any of your footswitches.  You could technically have all 9 effects tied to one footswitch (though that would be silly).

Just go into that mode, and assign both reverbs to the same footswitch with one on (in signal flow view) and one off.  Then when you stomp on that footswitch it will turn off on and turn the other on.  I do the same thing on some of my presets with two different drives (so I can switch between them without tapdancing)