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I have some gigs coming up where I'm playing in a duo. The other guy is playing bass and a drumpad through a Boss RC-505 looper. This is all going right to FOH. We'll have floor monitors. Since his signal is going straight to FOH, do I need to use my FRFR on stage? I would have left main out to FOH and right to FRFR. What should my volume knob be set to? I've seen some people say 6, but I've seen others say 10. Anything else I should be aware of settings wise? I've been searching this forum and reddit and finding a lot of contradicting info. Just want to make sure I have all my ducks in a row before the shows.

HI there, I got my Helix few days ago and until yesterday I was in exploration mode using headphones. It was very cool to hear some of those amps behave and feel like real tube amps. Thumbs up. It was a pretty good sounding with some patches, and I expected to get somewhat similar results with my real tube amp. Yesterday I decided to give it a try with my AC30 amp, and PA–both tried separately. So, this is where my story begins, or any other newbie story. A little background. I use to use my pedals and mic the amp when playing live (when necessary). It aways felt too cumbersome to have multi fx pedals. They are cool and should be easy, but I used to spend hours (with GT 10) trying to edit sounds on it instead of just playing my guitar. This was true until I saw Helix. I really fell in love with simplicity of editing, and all the options of using it together with both amp and PA at the same time or take it to studio. 1. So, last night I tried hooking up Helix directly to Normal channel of my AC30, and sound was pretty harsh. I was watching some Glenn DeLaunne videos and in one of them he said that it was fine just to plug it in front of the amp and use it that way. The result wasn't really pleasing. The sound came out as harsh digital, with some ice pick highs. Some patches were more usable than others, but that was the overall feeling. I was playing Gibson LP Traditional + (all stock). 2. When I plugged it in the PA result was pretty different. Everything sounded too low, and bassy. I used the same channel on my board where I used to mic my amp. I know that I will have to work on the EQ a bit on this channel but it wasn't even close to what I expected. I tired turning off subwoofer completely but that still didn't get me a good clean sound. Today I bought Glenn's Custom Patch Set for Helix, and I will give that a try and see how does that play with my setup. Anyway, I'd really like to get some help with direction on what to do to set it up properly for both practicing and gigging. My goal is: To be able to get nice sounds out of Helix using my AC30. To be able to get nice sounds out of Helix using my PA. To use Helix to record into Logic X. To be able to take Helix to studio without a need to lag my super heavy AC30. How do I get there? Do I need to decide between using AC30 and PA and just take that route? If I use it PA, do I need to have a good monitor (in ear or floor–I have Behringer's Powered 250W monitor)? BTW My PA is Presonus Studio Live 16.0.2, set of EV ELX112P, and EV Powered subwoofer. Guitars are '59 Tele Hot Rod reissue, Gibson LP Traditional +, and Gibson LP Traditional with Floyd Rose. Sorry for a long post, and I appreciate you reading this far, let alone helping me out. :) Peace.