JimBenson Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 Hi Helix folk, Last night was the first time I got to use my Helix in a playing situation with others and it faired very well. The venue was a party in a friend's garage. The other players were bass, guitar and vocals, and an Electronic Valve Instrument. (No drums.) My rig: My new pre-owned Tele Deluxe into the Helix into my Mackie DLM12 FRFR amp/cab. The patches I used I programmed myself. Even in these limited circumstances I learned a few things. Takeaways: I programed the delays and reverbs too dry. I programed the lead and crunch patches with too much gain. It was easy to control my sound (gain and tone) from the volume and tone knobs on my Tele (even though I used a compressor ahead of the amp at a 2:1 ratio). My rig sat in the mix OK with the other instruments. The listeners and the other players thought my rig sounded good. I hope scenes will be a added to the Helix functionality! It will take a while to get a feel for what settings will sound good in a live situation. I am very pleased with the reduction of the weight and complexity of my rig. Overall, I am very pleased with the Helix. Side note: On Friday I finally received my invite from Fractal to purchase an AX8. Too late. Today I replied, "Thanks, but no thanks." Now I just need Line 6 to give us a good Dumble clone model and a good Dumble clone pedal model (Zendrive or Ethos). I am reduced to begging: Please good and merciful people of Line 6, will you pretty please add a Dumble, Dumble clone and/or a Dumble clone overdrive to the Helix, please, please, please? Cheers. Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spikey Posted April 10, 2016 Share Posted April 10, 2016 Nice write up. I too wish for things like scenes, and heel down wah off, and more amps etc etc. I don't really know what good it would do for us to know, but not knowing the true limitations of what Helix is able to do yet, not knowing just how much extra memory space inside Helix is available for future add-ons later, and because Line-6 won't give out any details on any of this stuff , we will just have to wait and see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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