PeterJH Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 Hi everyone,Here is the second part of my series on the Helix. This video is a demonstration of the Helix in a studio recording with a drummer. I used the Helix directly into the mixing desk and tracked all the guitars including bass though it. I also only used the Line 6 IR speaker cabs and no third party IRs. I hope this also puts to bed the “myth†IMO that the Helix only sounds good with third party IRs. There was no post processing done to the guitar parts except for levels in the final mix. I found it quite difficult to choose which amps to use for this track as there were quite a few I could have used which also sounded great. I ended up using the Plexi for the Les Paul solo parts and the Crunchy backing parts. I used the Hiwatt amp for all the Strat parts and the JC120 for the clean chorused backing parts. The bass was tracked using the Gallien Kruger amp. Cheers, Peter. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartnettle1 Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 Nice powerful arrangement! Sounds Good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncann Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 Great video, song, songwriting, and tones. Thanks for sharing. Not sure if Helix-is-only-good-with-third-party-IRs is a myth yet, but you've certainly helped prevent that. Personally, I see nothing wrong with the built in IRs. Sure there are really good third party ones out there (and am using one for my next song, in conjunction with a built in one) but out of the thousands you might have to sift through, how many become discarded? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aepoc Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 Awesome! Thanks for making these videos. Loved the HD500X ones as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarrellM5 Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Wow Peter, really, really good stuff! Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterJH Posted January 26, 2016 Author Share Posted January 26, 2016 Thanks for the feedback everyone. @ Duncan, thanks for your comments. I do agree that there are many ways to do things but as I said in the post, the built in IRs are pretty good on their own. I don't have the patience to sift through hundreds of IRs hoping to make that little bit of a difference to the final outcome. I basically found patches and IRs that work well and got on with using them on a number of albums that I'm working on for clients. Haven't had a single complaint - only compliments on the guitar tones. Cheers, Peter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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