jttaylor87

Again, I know I’m resurrecting an old thread, but it’s the most related. After diving into this with just the Helix, I was able to create a passable bass accompaniment to strummed /plucked guitar chords by using the frequency crossover split block. It takes the frequencies below a given hZ and sends them to one chain, while those above go to the other. Set around 200 hZ it does a pretty good job of sending fundamentals from the 5th feet of the D string (G3) to the “bass” signal path. You still get most of the regular guitar sound through the “guitar” path. Since it’s mostly the fundamental you’re getting on the bass side, it lacks some of the pop of normal wound strings, but with the guitar overtop it adds a great bass sound. I may upload the patch later for reference.

@cruisinon2- I feel you man! My understanding of the original post was that he wanted just the two low strings to be separately effected/octaved as bass notes. The Bass9 has a feature called "split bass" that does just that via polyphonic tracking, and splits the effected out to a separate jack from the dry guitar out. The OC-5 has a similar feature called "lowest range" that applies the octave/bass effect to only the lowest note in the chord being played, and also allows splitting of the dry (guitar) and effected (bass note) output. Either of them would require To clarify - I plan to do this in the effects loop of my helix, but not because it requires a parallel path from the helix chain. It's rather so I can pull it in/out using a footswitch and set return 1 to the bass path and return 2 to the guitar signal chain. You could do the same thing in front of the unit, but would have to set the "returns" as the input to your parallel paths (at least on an LT, you could presumably use the aux in on the Helix Floor for the parallel chain). Hopefully that helps!

I know this is an older post, but a couple new pedals have come out since. Boss OC-5 or EHX Bass9. I’ve been trying to do this with my Helix, but am just biting the bullet and putting a Bass9 in the effects loop.