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Hi there. I have a Helix Floor, an sm-58 and an FRFR Headrush 108. have a gig coming up playing some 80's power ballads, with a questionable sound person : we have 3 vocalists in the bare minimum power trio + singer band. I know that you can have parallel paths for guitar/microphone. My question is, from experience, what can I do to simplify the sound person's job, and make my on-stage experience better. For example: 1. Should I mix in my vocals into the signal that goes to the FOH 2. Not mix in my vocals, but run my mic through the chain and out the FRFR 3. In general, what should I provide as outputs: e.g.: left XLR is vocals and right XLR is guitar? Just wondering what works. In theory, I know my options, but in practice, that's another story. Thanks in advance.

On my Helix LT, sometimes the max value doesn't go past 99 percent. Restarting it fixes the issue. It gets un-calibrated somehow.

yes it's possible: You take a block and add it to your chain. Then drag it down in HX Edit, it creates a parallel path. So then you change the output of both outputs: one is 1/4, the other is xlr. And you can add any stuff to each path, however you want. What I do is have 2 identical signals go to the power amp/cab and FOH, even if it's already colored with an IR. Lots of people do it that way and have great success. For example, I played a gig and they had no xlr DI's, only 1/4 inch ones, so I didn't have to bring any adapters; all my outputs output the same exact sound: xlr, 1/4, headphone. Hope it helps.

Reported to mod. Let's see how this will be handled :). have a gread day buzzer.

Heya: Just wanted to share a neat trick on the Helix: 1. Have 2 snapshots 2. One snapshot has delay with a tap tempo of 135 bpm 3. Another snapshot had delay turned off with tap tempo of a lower bpm, for example 50 bpm 4. When you switch between the 2 snapshots, you get a delay spillover effect where it's really exaggerated. This effect is pretty useful if you want to deafen your audience with a solo that keeps trailing off. Or I use it if I have to do something demanding on the guitar, using it as a connection "glue". Hope it makes sense. I started using it a few months back, and keep relying on this trick in several songs that I play. Hope you find it useful. d.

Sorry, your majesty for inadvertently also responding to a thread. I will take note that if your majesty had previously responded, you having a guru status and all, I will refrain from commenting on such threads. LOLLLL

It is a pain in the lollipop at first, but a processor is really intended to be used like this: each preset is a different song, Each snapshot is a different section in the song. I came to this conclusion and have no regerts :) -- build a set list with your presets, all your sections are organized in similar snapshot locations. Here's my set list for my main band -- Even if some songs have no changes in terms of sounds in them I still give each song a dedicated preset.

Theoretically -- yes. In practice, I have a 10 ft cable that I bought on Amazon and it works just fine for building patches or recording.

Here’s what the hx effects doesn’t have—it doesn’t have an amp sim. Without the amp, your distorted guitar will sound like it is going into the board without an amp, like the Beatles Revolution. Here’s what you can do: Buy a pedal that emulates the sound of an amp. Put it in the effects loop of your unit. That way you can have stereo delay after your amp. I recommend Joyo products, they have a great sound. In this video I show how convincingly good it can sound, if the signal is going to an frfr from it. So there you go: add an amp sim and your HX effects becomes a Helix.

Again. I’m saying what I think Helix will evolve into. Not what I think makes sense per se, what makes it more / less pro gear-like. If every other processor around starts having WiFi, chances are Helix will do the same. If Pod Go now has built in wireless, chances are Helix will also have the same. Call it an educated guess. All companies’ designs start influencing each other. Things become more and more powerful even if you don’t need it at the moment or think you don’t. Just remember how fast you thought 56 k modems were in 2000, how you thought you’d never need anything faster.

I use the editor for that reason! Hx edit, standing desk for the laptop. Nothing better.

Im imagining what helix 2 will be like, not saying it’s good progress. For example, all cell phones will have 5G capability in the next year or 2, doesn’t mean that that’s something I want or need.

Hilarious.... Quad cortex is amateur hour karaoke equipment then... with the touch screen... wi-fi... small footprint, and buttons/knobs. bwaaaaahaaahhahaaa. Pros only use rack units.. and never ever ever any wireless systems.

All modellers sound good in 2021. Unless you use a unit from 10 years ago, then it'll be inferior. You don't need to have identical bells and whistles. It's like Apple vs. Android -- both allow you to make phone calls, play music, browse the internet. It's just how familiar you are with your specific ... piece of equipment. Axe FX is a rack unit. It needs a midi controller and an expression pedal. Line 6 Helix Floor/LT is an all-in-one contained unit. Helix floor has scribble strips, and a solid heavy duty expression pedal. Do both sound good? Yes! Do both provide instant sound switching.... like there is no gap when switching between your solo and rhythm sound? Yep -- scenes v. snapshots--same thing. Can both get the same sounds? Yes! both have the same capabilities, similar hi-fi amps and effects. To make purple, you take blue + red paint. If your arts supply store does not have purple paint, you go and make your own out of individual ingredients. Same thing, if you don't have some weird specific fuzz + octavia, you go and create your own out of fuzz + octavia + eq. Etc. Quad Cortex is pretty neat...but where the heck is the exp pedal? It's missing (gasp!). You need to buy an external one. It has twice the processing power of the Helix... Wow!!! But, have I ever felt that I am running out of DSP on a Helix? Never! Does a touch screen make sense? It does if you want your piece of equipment to feel like a giant iPad. Do you like integrated buttons/knobs? They'll probably break faster than dedicated buttons, same for the touch screen. Do you like having an editor on your computer (Helix), or do you prefer to edit things on a giant iPad-looking thing that can connect to WiFi? Do you want to model your specific amp, pedals, to create a digital clone of it? I personally don't. What if you want to tweak your parameters on this digital clone.... you can't! But you can digitize anything you want with the Quad Cortex. Bottom line: rack units are .... so 1998. Why get all that if you can just get a Headrush board, Helix, Boss, Kemper board. mkay? And Helix is pretty good with a ton of power and it gets better and better. What makes you feel inspired? What looks like a piece of gear that you will use for 5 years live and in the studio, that will satisfy your musical needs, and be ergonomically ... "good"? that's what you should buy. You can recreate anything with any piece of equipment... nearly... trust me.

It's been discussed here a lot. There is no way to turn the capacitance off. With swapping of snapshots, it's highly unlikely that you can do it during a gig, because you would need to acknowledge that you indeed want to swap snapshots. The only other thing you need to be careful with is touching the tap tempo button -- it brings up global tempo settings, which is very dangerous. The only thing you can do is to be careful or get plastic button toppers by Mooer, for example. Or some off-brand clear plastic buttons. I wound up taking them off, and just using the buttons. The only other thing I use 2 Grolsch washers on up/down and Mode buttons, so that those buttons are extra-hard to press.

Have you tried phantom power on, and different gain settings?

The next Helix IMO will have: 1. quad core or 8 core processor 2. built-in wireless for guitar/in-ear/Variax? 3. touch screen/buttons that double as knobs, like on the Quad Cortex 4. wi-fi 5. be 1/2 the width and weight. Maybe it'll have a kick stand lol to raise it at an angle. That's about it. To me, in terms of sound, flexibility, snapshots, etc, Helix is more than enough. I guess having a slimmer Helix would be an added bonus.

Mission with a spring, is the one I'd personally get.

I have 2 Helixes, Floor and LT. I use them both equally. After 1.5 years, I was able to get every single sound I ever needed or will ever need on the Helix. Until recently, I used a modeling guitar to get acoustic sounds for some of my projects. But the new acoustic sim is so good, that I use my regular electric for all sounds. All sounds that you'd ever need are in the Helix. Some are difficult to tweak, some require you to convert one effect into two -- but everything is there. For example, even before the latest hot springs reverb, I came up with my own drip reverb approximation using an envelope filter with the mix turned to 15 percent + legacy '63 spring verb. That sound that I got is so good and natural sounding, that I still continue to use it, instead of the latest "hot springs" reverb. My recommendation is to ditch everything and use the Helix exlcusively.

One word of caution for envelope filter -- it works very "specifically" with a specific guitar output level. For example, if you dial it in for a Les Paul output level, it may not even get triggered completely with a telecaster. Same thing with an acoustic sim -- it's very specific to your exact instrument. One thing you can do is put some kind of a compressor before it, to level out the signal. Otherwise, the envelope filter on the Helix is my single source of frustration at the moment. It's very very hard to dial it in. It either starts getting too harsh, or not work as expected. For some reason, I was able to tweak an envelope filter on a Boss processor a lot easier.

Use several set lists. Restore your stuff to one of the free set lists. Then copy individual presets from it.

You can restore your global settings based on the backup with HX Edit. The only thing you can change with HX Edit in global settings is Global EQ. And you can make more fine adjustments with it, than what you can do on Helix itself.

Poly Wham is great. I was talking about an effect that if you play notes, Helix connecting them with a glissando effect.

Here's what I have: XLR is set to mic level. Set that up based on a discussion with a very knowledgeable sound guy. Volume knob only controls the 1/4 inch out. 1/4 inch out is set to Instrument level. This is just my personal monitor mix with an FRFR / amp. If this is not loud enough for me, I can change it to Line level. A few times when I ran a Helix into a DI box using 1/4 inch output, I simply set the volume knob at 3 o'clock. In terms of actual dBs, I haven't measured it. Just basically have it so that the sound is clear, not distorted/glitchy. And that's about it.... low........................loudest mic < instrument < line

Hey peeps. I could have sworn I stumbled upon a portamento effect in the past, but can't find it anymore. Is there such a thing on the Helix? Basically, if you play individual notes, it converts them into a glissando effect... Thanks!