plunky

Super preset...many thanks! Princeton is also now my favorite amp in the helix. When I tried the clean 1st snapshot of your preset tonight it reminded me of Neil Young`s guitar sound on "On the Beach", with it`s beautiful, slow solo. The reverb space just sounded similar to my ears somehow, so I jammed along to the BT. Just wonderful! Im using a strat on the treble pick-up too, so nothing like what Neil played on this track (Les Paul or Gretsch). Still, works for me! Thanks again! plank

My tip: it really requires quite a forceful press on the toe to invoke the wah...for days I was just being too gentle with it, and was frustrated like you that I just couldnt get it to work. Then in anger I really toed it hard and then it all worked. YMMV!

I agree with the suggestion of Datacommando. Those MBritt patches were PERFECT for me when I was starting out on the Helix LT, ooo over a year ago now. MBritt is actually a Kemper guru and only did this one pack for the Helix. The pack is aimed at the more "traditional" guitar player, i.e. not metal or shred styles. There are a couple of good demos on Youtube, you will see that they are simple basic tones aplenty, nothing too wacky! Having bought this pack, I selected just 3 presets as a base, and am still using 2 of those today as my core sound with my band (rock and pop covers). What I love is that each patch doesnt only sound good on my studio monitors here at home, they sound just as good through an FRFR at rehearsal with a 5 piece band. YMMV. cheers plunky

ok ok ok forget question 2, it says main outs are TRS, which can`t be XLR, can it? Duh! I still think the manual needs to be amended to include TRS as a possible output cable for the 1/4 " output. cheers

Thanks for all replies, but in my first post above I copy-pasted from the manual and highlighted the extract in red for clarity. That text is not ambiguous, it explicitly says "Use unbalanced TS... to connect to your...FRFR speaker(s)." No mention of TRS. 2 things are still unclear to me: 1. Where does that text from qwerty42 come from? It contradicts the manual. 2. What are the "L & R Main Outs" in qwerty42`s text? My LT has 2 x XLR outs and 2 x 1/4" outs. I use the left XLR out to connect to the mixer, and as already explained, I use the left 1/4" out to connect to my Yamaha DXR12, needs a TRS in my case. So which of these are the "L & R Main Outs"? cheers

Hi All I`ve been plagued by buzzing noise with my LT into Yamaha DXR12 (FRFR). When Im not playing there is an annoying buzz coming constantly from the DXR12. When I rehearse with the band it gets drowned out, so Ive lived with it for the past couple of rehearsals. But enough is enough, Im not going on like this - Im warning you, I`ll go straight back to my real amp and pedals if this Helix thing isnt working out! I haven`t sold any of my expensive analogue setup yet; Im giving the modelling world a chance first... I tried changing the mains point to other sockets in the room, engaging the ground lift on the LT, buzz definitely still there. I then moved onto checking my cables by replacing each in turn with spares; nope, I`ve still got that buzz happening. Today I replaced the TS guitar cable which runs from the 1/4" out (L) of my LT into the DXR12 with a gold-plated TRS cable. Boom! No buzz at all. Sorted. I just took a look at the LT owners manual, which states: 1/4” OUT Use unbalanced 1/4" TS cables to connect to your guitar amp, FRFR speaker(s), studio monitors, or other playback system. When using a single amp or speaker, connect only the LEFT/MONO 1/4” jack. Well Im now using a balanced TRS cable here and it solved my buzzing problem completely. Perhaps this little nugget is of use to someone else out there.... cheers plank

Oh dear, reading these interchanges after adding my first post here, I see the thread completely lost its way and has become a battle of words, who said what, what do they actually mean, I know more than you, etc. Peoples peoples peoples lets go back to respect and opinions and suggestions, like a good forum, as I really want to benefit from all your inputs, and I still have my volume problem with the LT, and I need to get it sorted before our next rehearsal on Thursday! As a mature (50+) player, I come from the "strat and a Fender twin" old school. My guitar teacher back then was John Perry from the Only Ones (who had a hit single with the Hendrix-inspired "Another Girl Another Planet"), he used this simple setup to amazing effect, no pedals. His Twin would be set quite loud, 4-5 level at least, and his strat would be set at volume 6-7 on the guitar. This was his "rhythm" tone. When the solo came, he would use his little finger to turn the strat volume up to 10, which substantially increased the volume (and gain/sustain) of his sound. This made the solo jump out of a live mix, but as soon as the solo was over his little finger would ALWAYS move that guitar volume pot back to 6-7. I guess today`s soundman doesn`t often get a player using an old-school technique like this and would be alarmed at the substantial jump in leveIs, but I saw it work perfectly night after night, in both small and large venues. I considered John to be a consummate professional, and I was able to learn this technique, although I never learned to play like him, alas! It`s clear that with a Helix LT we are in a different era of guitar, with hundreds of great effects and amps available with one stomp, not just John`s rhythm and lead simple setup. But probably cos Im new to all this (< 2 months with my Helix) I have not yet mastered the tricky matter of matching levels on my presets and snapshots. Im not at all in control of the sometimes massive changes in volume which take place when I stomp, most serious of all I don`t yet understand HOW to best "tame the beast" on the fly, i.e what to do when there is a drastic change in levels after hitting a stomp/snapshot/preset. So far, I just fall back to John`s trusted technique of controlling volume from the guitar, but that doesn`t always work properly, resulting in having to turn my strat volume down to 2-3, which frankly sounds crap! Measures taken so far today in the light of this thread: 1. Global settings XLR output uncoupled from the big volume knob on the LT. Our singers will thank you for giving their in-ears a constant volume, regardless of what I do with the big knob. 2. Create 5 or 6 presets in a new setlist, with my favourite patches which should cover all my basic needs. I really don`t need more (another important lesson!). 3. Match levels of stomps and snapshots inside each of these presets, so that they are all fairly similar in volume. 4. Intend to add a stomp to each preset which I will label "solo". I will program this over the coming days, giving a gain block a try, but also adding a master volume change on the amp block as an alternative stomp, and then seeing which I prefer. I cant help thinking that if I better understood how the built-in expression pedal works for volume changing, that would be another solution to all this. I will persevere with that one too and revert after next rehearsal. Thanks for all your constructive inputs!!! cheers plunky

Newbie LT user here; thank you for this enlightening thread. Im using my LT into a Yamaha DXR12 for rehearsals with a 5 piece covers rock band. The 1/4 inch Line out from the LT goes to the DXR12, acting as my amp in the room, whilst a single XLR out goes to the mixing board which is then forwarded in the mix to our singers who use in-ear monitors, as well as for recording rehearsals into Studio One. So far Ive had 4 jams with the band using the LT (I used to use an analog pedalboard into a Matchless Clubman 35) . Im really impressed with the tones of the LT/DXR12, particularly using MBritt`s Helix pack. However Im really struggling with volume levels, and have not yet understood how to use the LT properly controlling volumes on the fly during rehearsals. I switch snapshots or presets mid-song, and there is sometimes a massive change in volume - in either direction! e.g. Im chugging away on rhythm and volume is fine, stomp on the LT for the solo, and either I blast the ears of our singers, or I disappear in the mix. Then I`m lost... So if it goes too loud, I quickly turn my strat volume right down, but down at 2-3 it obviously loses all its character and sustain. And if my solo is too quiet I stoop down and quickly turn up the big volume knob on the LT. But that then messes with all the other presets/snapshots, so I tend to end the song with my strat on volume 2 -3, frustrated and confused... Of course one solution would be to use the LTs expression pedal to control volume, but Im not used to playing with a volume pedal or wah, and even though I can see a volume block in a preset in HXEdit, sometimes even a couple of volume blocks in the same preset, I find that rocking back the expression pedal on the LT changes nothing...Yes I did read the manual about using the expression pedal, nonetheless I am finding it hard to understand how to make the volume block (or blocks) work on the treadle. YouTube has not shed any light either :-( In this post Ive understood what you are doing: backing off the output block volume by 4 or 5 decibels, and using that as a base to set the big knob level on the LT. But how are you then boosting levels on the fly? Are you creating a stomp for the output block at 0 db and just hitting this stomp for the solos? Or are you using the expression pedal, and if so, how to make it work??? Many thanks for any enlightenment and yes, great forum! cheers Plunky