I just bough a helix LT. it should be here tomorrow... also, assuming it would work, I bought a pair of Presonus Eris 4.5 monitors.
later after thinking about it more, and studying the inputs of the speakers, I'm wondering if I made a poor choice.
what are you using for home practice+setting up your patches? budget is $300 MAX (I have a helix to pay off ;) )
I mainly play at home, but I also play with the church on the weekends... the idea is set my patches up at home for live use.
some ideas that I have kicked about:
Laney IRT-X
a PA speaker like the Alto TS112 or TS110
Behringer EuroLive Pa speaker (surely not the best, but the same we use at church, this way home sound could be easily matched to church)
pair of studio monitors with XLR (this was the thinng I thought I was getting with the presonus eris... but the ones I ordered do not have XLR, so I'm wondering if the patches would require tweaking to go from studio to live)
I can also bypass the cab IR, and run into the return on my tube amp, through a 1x12... but same thing as the studio monitors without XLR, I'd have to tweak, and turn on a cab IR for live.
what other budget-minded options are there for home?
am I sweating the output selection too much?