jessegile

Thanks gunpointmetal, rd2rk pointed out that the dry signal was all good above and it made sense as soon as I bypassed the volume knob...I had a oh man I'm an idiot moment...thanks for the extra clarification though I do appreciate it! ...and as dumb as this sounds I now know that digital 0db is not analog 0 db...I literally thought 0 db was some universal thing for some reason...

Thanks, after I wrote that and actually started setting levels again...I realized that they were independent. Over thinking it. Thanks for the redirect though...that was almost another rabbit hole.

rd2rk, thanks for that! I was confused about the 0 db on the speaker and trying to attain unity on the helix...I also forgot about re-amping, thanks! So, the answer is they are two different beasts...essentially. I should probably have a patch for live and a patch for recording...Again, appreciate the help!

So, I know there is a lot of information on here for the issue I'm trying to sort out but...well, there's a lot of information on here...anyway...using the Rack... I was getting my levels all set between the guitar, the guitar with a clean channel and the guitar with a dirty channel...I noticed that my input signal was really weak in Studio One and Reaper so I started digging around on the internet to try and figure out the proper way to boost the dry signal before dealing with leveling blocks...then I noticed the output level on the output block(block?/end of chain?)...I gave it about a 6db boost and my dry signal was coming in between -12 and -6...so then I got all my blocks set so that they are all leveled in between that range... My questions are: Do these settings translate over to a powered speaker as well...I'm playing through a k12...can I assume that the 6db boost isn't a bad thing?...or should I put everything back to zero and start the process over again? As I said before, I know that there is a lot of information here so if this question has been beaten to death; would someone be so kind as to show me to that thread or another source of information that could help me answer the question for myself? Thanks in advance folks!