slipper_man

Hello, I'm using the Helix floor, and really happy with the sound I'm getting for my electric. I've been struggling to get a good sound for my acoustic which is equipped with a LR Baggs Anthem. Specifically the signal is really weak and low level. I'm having to start off with chaining multiple gain blocks all turned up full (about 4 or 5 in a row), and even when I do this there is a lot of hiss in the signal, and I can get distortion but the level is still not as loud as when I use my Radial PZ Pre. The LR Baggs pickup is lower output than a Fishman, but I've not usually had a problem. Questions - which input should I be using? I've tried a Return and an Aux, but would the Guitar input be better? (I want to be able to have acoustic and elec plugged in at the same time and switch the source for different presets). How can I tell which blocks are distorting and where? Would be really helpful if a block would indicate when it's clipping somehow. Any advice to help me get this dialled in would be great. I'd then like to use a preamp and some delay/reverb, as well as the looper for my acoustic.

Hello, I use a guitar that has acoustic and electric outputs. I can see how I could set up Helix to have two separate paths for these, and route them to separate outputs. I'm wondering if it's possible to use the looper on both paths, even if the paths were mono? I sometimes do the same thing with vocals - loop a guitar and a vocal a la KT Tunstall/Ed Sheeran etc, and again Helix looks ideal, but from reading the manual and watching demo videos I can't see for sure how I would do this, since the looper is just a stereo block. Could you advise how to set up the routing? Could I have two separate paths and then have a Merge block just before the looper with the paths panned hard left and hard right, and then split them again afterwards? I guess the ideal would be to be able to run multiple looper instances, but if there's a workaround then I'll be happy anyway.