Coryd

I 100% of the time use IRs for all my guitar presets...bass that's a different story. Most of the time I don't even use a cab with my bass presets. I think if you find the tones or artists you like, find out what cabs they use, get some good IRs of the same cabs and roll with it. To my ears IRs always sound better. Just my 2 cents. Just don't go crazy buying them because you can end up spending a lot of money and not using 90% of them. I can recommend York Audio's Mesa OS cabs, Ownhammer Heavy Hitters, and GGD makes some plugins that you can export your own creations. Also, there are a lot of good ones for free too online if you look around. Maybe try here first:

With the Helix on the board does it fit in the bag that comes with the Spaceship 80 with enough room to zip it shut? I'm thinking of grabbing a Spaceship 80 if it does. I'd like to have my wireless and my bass whammy on the board with my Helix.

Many thanks for all the replies so far! So I guess another thing is if venues have stereo XLR‘s for all guitars and bass. I mainly play at church at the moment and we run stereo there but we only have one Electric playing per Sunday. It’s been a few years since I’ve played out, but is it pretty common nowadays that most places have stereo XLR pairs for guitars to use? Good to know that the helix will sum everything automatically to mono. I was not aware of that. I think for the most part, we will all be just running our helix‘s live, and most likely won’t have stage volume with an FRFR speaker at first at least. I think it’s definitely something we have to figure out as far as the sound goes. We are going to be able to practice at a place where we’ll be able to probably just run mono but I suppose if it sounds good then it will sound good. lol. Please keep the input coming and again I do appreciate all the comments so far. The last time I played live, I had a gigantic pedal board, an SWR rig with a 750 watt head while lugging an 8x10 cab.

So I’m curious how everyone runs their helix live? I’m starting a new band and we are trying to figure out how we are gonna run our helix units live. Do most places just take a mono line out of the helix? Should we use a stereo to mono summing cable and run that mono? Again, I’m just hoping to get some input on what everyone else is running and see if y’all can teach me about this. Any and all input is extremely welcome! Many thanks in advance!