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I did it originally so the bass player and other guitarist if we ever find one can hear me on their side, and since the mesa 2:100 can power 4 cabs, i fugured what the hell lol. That, and if 1 is good, 4 must be better right?? Im playin a 6 string tuned down to A standard, so if your guys are 8 stringers, it probably would compliment them well I'm using the cali rectifier with the od808 boost and 2 eq's, and it definitely has a lot of gain and low end. Ive actually dial back the low end a bit when playin with the bass player so as to not fight his sound, but it does sound thunderous either way

Havent had the opportunity yet, but i will try all of them. Maybe boosting the 2204 would get me there as well as eqing the badonkadonk or panama. Either way thanks a lot!

Thanks for the replies ossianott and codamedia. I will definitely try that 2204, and if I can get close enough I will post the preset. I know i can't be the only one...there are many clone pedals for this amp, not to mention they fetch a pretty penny when they do materialize. With the mesa cabs, i have low end in spades, just can't seem to get that super saturated vh140c growl, but I've not tried that amp either. I find my ear gets fatigued fairly quickly, so after a few attempts, i quit and went back to my regular sound. Thanks again both of you, I really appreciate the advice!

My practice setup is the helix rack runnin into a mesa rectifier stereo 2:100 power amp into 4-4x12 oversized mesa cabs. I have a helix floor that is just used for recording. Both get great tones, i just wondered if someone had tried getn the vh140c sound

I hear what you're sayin, but I've heard just the amp, and it has a very distinctive sound, such that there are many emulator pedals devoted to getting the "vh140c" sound. It's a very scooped tone, and you can usually tell one. Just thought someone may have tried it

So has anyone on here tried or had any luck matching the tone of the old death metal tone from the Ampeg VH140C with their Helix? I've tried, but I've not gotten close....thought someone else on here may have Thanks for any help

Ok thanks i will do that

So I've looked around and can't find where anyone has tried to model the old VH140C solid state death metal tone, which I happen to love, with their Helix. I've tried myself, but have a very hard creating a preset to mimic any tone, and so I was wondering if anyone else has tried it, and if so, how close did they get?

I'm lost.....I've used my helix floor as an interface for ProTools 12 for a year or so. i updated the firmware to 3.15 2 days ago, restored my backup, and now if I try to open up an old ProTools session, it tells me that ProTools cannot initialize the ASIO helix and that it's not configured properly, then it crashes. I can create a new session in ProTools and the helix works just fine, so this makes no sense to me. I downloaded the latest driver to no avail, I went back to 3.11, which was my firmware before, and that also didn't help. Has anyone else run into this issue?

That gives me a few promising things to try....thanks a lot. I like the idea of not even using the preamp loop...Unfortunately, wont be next to it until next Saturday, but I look forward to tryin it Thanks again

If I'm reading your setup correctly, it seems like I'm doing the same thing as you were....are you suggesting I go from the helix outs directly to the power amp inputs? And wouldn't that be a problem since nothing would be hooked to the preamp return? The hum isn't oppressive, I would just like to cut it back a bit. I know the gain is a lot lol....it just sounds crushing tho

Is there anyone with more knowledge than myself who could look above at how I'm wired and tell me how to hook my gate up into this setup?

Ok i misunderstood. It is crazy how close their recto model is to the real thing I must say

Awesome info guys thanks a lot. Mr Hillside, if you have exactly the same setup as me, maybe you can help with my confusion as to how to hook this up. I do have a decimator I can use, just dont know where to put it. The gate in the fx loop calms my road king down very well, but this here setup is a different animal. The tone is killer, btw, you're correct. That's why I want to get this working so much. Rd2, this hum parameter...I think I tried it to no avail, but would it really work anyway if I'm not using the Helix amp, instead goin with the rectifier? Currently, I go into the Helix with the guitar, Helix send 1 to mesa Preamp input, fx send on mesa preamp to Helix return 1, and since the mesa preamp has 2 returns, I have them both hooked up to the 2 1/4 outs at the Helix. Finally, both mesa preamp live outs go to the 2:100 power amp. The mesa preamp gain is bout 9, and I'm boosting the front end with a Helix boost preset, so I know there's a lot to tame here, but does my hookup sound right? So far I've tried my Rocktron Hush twixt the fx send on the amp and the Helix return1. Also tried it between the Helix send1 to the rectifier preamp input, and both clip the sound way down. I havent dl'ed the new firmware yet, but I will since it has that new gate, but I'm still lost as to how to get this hooked up. Thanks again guys

Ground switch has no affect, also