ajcrowder Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 Hey guys, Had an interesting interaction last night with a Helix and HD500X. I have been using the Helix for the past 5-6 weeks with our other electric player using the POD. Levels have been great, no real issue, just that our sound guy has to push the gain on the Helix from the board a little bit to match the POD. Well last night we switched. I went back to the trusty POD and our other player used the Helix. Our sound guy said he had the Helix boosted almost 20db (if I recall) and had the POD dropped 10-15db to get the levels to match. Is there a trick to getting more power out of the Helix without it clipping? We have been running both Helix and POD through the XLR mono out. Any help would be greatly appreciated! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil_m Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 If you set the Helix's XLR outs to be at line level, you should have plenty of volume. The HD500X's XLR outs are mic level only, so I'm surprised there would be that much disparity. Where do you have the Helix's master volume knob set at? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajcrowder Posted March 31, 2016 Author Share Posted March 31, 2016 If you set the Helix's XLR outs to be at line level, you should have plenty of volume. The HD500X's XLR outs are mic level only, so I'm surprised there would be that much disparity. Where do you have the Helix's master volume knob set at? Thanks phil_m, I did double check that the XLR was at line level, even tried mic level and heard the big drop. The Helix master vol was at full blast. The week before I had tried tweaking presets and boosting the db's in the "Out" path but it just caused clipping. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil_m Posted March 31, 2016 Share Posted March 31, 2016 One other thing - you need to make sure that the phantom power is off for the channel you're using for the Helix. If it's on, it can cause a significant drop in level (it can also cause quite a lot of hiss). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajcrowder Posted March 31, 2016 Author Share Posted March 31, 2016 One other thing - you need to make sure that the phantom power is off for the channel you're using for the Helix. If it's on, it can cause a significant drop in level (it can also cause quite a lot of hiss). Ok, I will check that! Thanks for the advice, I won't know the result until after Sunday, but I'm willing to try anything :) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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