Piezo/magnetic into helix rack

[Jim8]

Hello..first post!

 

I have an ibanez 8 string that I am outfitting with a piezo.

 

I will run it thru a single TRS cable.

 

I want the piezo to be un-altered and the mag's to be full on helix.

 

I want to run the helix to a L2m with the L6 link. Is this possible? I basically want to run the piezo direct to the L2m and the mag thru helix but I want as few cables as possible.

 

And help will be greatly appreciated

[DarrellM5]

My EBMM Majesty can run the piezo and mags through a TRS cable.  I bought a Y cable that's TRS on one end and splits to the individual tip and ring mono jacks.  I run the mags into the Helix Guitar In and the Piezo into the Aux In.  

 

Just process the mags on path 1A and the Piezo on path 2A.  Don't add anything extra to 2A if you just want to send the unaltered signal to the L2m.

[rbum]

I will run it thru a single TRS cable

 

If that works, it's great! I have 3 Piezo-equiped guitars, where the mixed output cannot be splitted... (so I use the different outputs with two cables)

 

I want to run the helix to a L2m with the L6 link. Is this possible?

 

Yes, but it may depend on the way you like your mag sound through the L6 Link. The Link sound cannot be altered with the global eq and is very harsh for my taste. If you choose mono xlr or 1/4  for output, you could use global eq for easy adopting to different locations. Also with one cable.

 

If you really want acoustic piezo sound (with no effects) you can take the splitted signal directly to the line-input of the L2m  and use the Cinch inputs for the mag signals from the helix.

 

If you don't need the Helix xlr for FOH, there is another option, to have much more fexibilty and profit from the Helix:
Like DarellM5 suggested, use the guitar in (mag) and aux in (piezo), then use path 1A and 2A for the different signals. Then route the mag-path to xlr output and piezo-path to the 1/4 outputs. Connect the xlr mono output to the xlr input (L2m) and the 1/4 signal to the cinch input. So you have complete splitted control on both sounds which is often handy. And with snapshots or presets you can easily switch the outputs on or off or use them together in different levels. Sure you need one more cable than with the L6 Link.

 

If you need xlr, you can also use headphone out for the connection to the cinch-input (just select in globals, which output is heard in headphones)

 

I use this routing for monitorsound with a L2t, which gives even more opertunities.

[PeterHamm]

Everything you want will work, just keep the paths separate. I do this literally all the time with all my guitars.

Oh, and you'll want the "electric guitar" signal to go to the front input. The back ones don't have the switchable impedance that works well for electric guitar signals and just won't cut it.