lespaulraider

I'm working on finding a few crunchy sounds I really like. At home, I run my Helix into a Mackie board, and then into a studio power amp with reference monitor speakers. That setup seems to get me very close when I take the Helix live into boards at church. While playing around with my templates, I found a sound/chain I really liked, but to my chagrin, the cab block was turned off at the time. There were no delays, reverbs, or EQ's on at the time, other than a basic HI/LO cut set for below 80 HZ and above 10 KHZ. I toggled the cab on and off and found it sounded much better without the cab on. How can that be? Has anyone else experienced that? I would appreciate any feedback you might have on that. Thanks.

I'm buying a Helix next week. I also want to develop a backup board using an HX Effects along with my Mission Volume pedal and my Liverpool Amp. Sim. 1) If I'm sending my signal to FOH, can I put the Liverpool in the Send/Return to achieve amp simulation in that application? 2) Once the Liverpool is in the HX effects loop, can I move the Liverpool around in the signal chain within the HX Effects? 3) Will my passive Mission Volume pedal work in one of the expression pedal spots as a volume pedal? 4) Can the Mission Volume be moved around as well, or is it assigned as "first pedal?" Thanks.