Firstly, I am enjoying my Helix and homemade presets... I am running preamps only and feeding the Left MONO out to a Fryette 50W Power Station feeding 2 Mesa guitar Cabinets.
The reason that I use guitar Cabs and a guitar Power Amp is that I already have all of these great guitar cabs and power amps and I like to operate my guitar amps in mono... That way, my experience putting a mic in front of a guitar cab is not lost and I hear what I'm used to hearing on stage. Also, with standard guitar cabs that are facing you properly, there is a larger sweet spot in the sound-field unless you are using coaxial FRFR monitors like Atomic CLR.
>>Here's a tip when setting up your sounds and levels... setup the Helix at stage volume at rehearsal or in your basement at home.<<
Even a few notches down on the volume control changes the sound so much.
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This is how I have set-up most of my presets...
Guitar> Pitch Harmony> Fassel Wah> Vibe> Phase> Tube Screamer> Preamp> Noise Gate> Chorus> Delay> Reverb> Boost> Output
Globals are set so that the LED Rings are Normally Off and the Presets Mode Switches are on Upper Row, with four instant Access Switches on the Lower Row.
You'll see in the below preset there are multiple instances of certain blocks... explained later on...
Three of the four Lower Row footswitches are combinations of Volume Boost / Gain and Delay
I have Labeled those Switches as follows...
Boost = +3 dB Volume Block to boost a phrase within a song
Gain-Boost = +1.5 dB Volume Block and Tube Screamer for Solos
Gain-Boost-Delay = +1.5 dB Volume Block and Tube Screamer and Memory Man Delay for Solos with delay
I need to access only one of these "SOLO" footswitches at a time, but, to make it work I needed to position 3 instances of Volume Boost and 2 instances of Tube Screamer in the paths since you cannot assign one FX Block to two different footswitches.
P.S. I had to add a second instance of the Memory Man Delay also; in case I need delay without any boost.
I don't think that there is any workaround for this, I just wanted to share how I did this in case someone had similar requirements... any comments are welcomed!
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Joe