Output Routing and Cab Simulation

[andjwoo]

Is it possible to route the outputs of the helix with and without cabinet simulation - ie. I want one output to go to the mixing desk with cab simulation and another output to my backline Amp without cab simulation.

 

Thanks.

[phil_m]

Is it possible to route the outputs of the helix with and without cabinet simulation - ie. I want one output to go to the mixing desk with cab simulation and another output to my backline Amp without cab simulation.

 

Thanks.

 

Yes. There are a few ways to do it, but one way would be to put a send block before your cab block and connect that send to your amp. This means you'd have to use separate amp and cab blocks, of course, and it would mean that any effects you'd want sent to the amp would have to be before the send and cab block, so you wouldn't be able to use post-cab effects (which isn't necessarily a big deal). You could use effects after the cab still, but those would only be sent to the mixing desk.

 

There are other, more elaborate, routing schemes you could do, but those would require doubling up on blocks and creating dual paths.

[andjwoo]

Yes. There are a few ways to do it, but one way would be to put a send block before your cab block and connect that send to your amp. This means you'd have to use separate amp and cab blocks, of course, and it would mean that any effects you'd want sent to the amp would have to be before the send and cab block, so you wouldn't be able to use post-cab effects (which isn't necessarily a big deal). You could use effects after the cab still, but those would only be sent to the mixing desk.

 

There are other, more elaborate, routing schemes you could do, but those would require doubling up on blocks and creating dual paths.

Thanks very much. 

 

I don't own a Helix, I am thinking of purchasing one, so apologies if this seems like a dumb question but what do you mean by "you'd have to use separate amp and cab blocks"? I was kind of assuming that amp and cabs were separate in the helix in any case.

 

Also I assume the same method you mention would work with Impulse Responses?

 

thanks

[phil_m]

Thanks very much. 

 

I don't own a Helix, I am thinking of purchasing one, so apologies if this seems like a dumb question but what do you mean by "you'd have to use separate amp and cab blocks"? I was kind of assuming that amp and cabs were separate in the helix in any case.

 

Also I assume the same method you mention would work with Impulse Responses?

 

thanks

 

There are separate amp and cab blocks, but there are also amp+cab blocks in which the amp and cab occupy the same block. In this case, like I said, you'd have to use separate blocks for each. And, yes, what I wrote above would work with IRs as well.

[andjwoo]

There are separate amp and cab blocks, but there are also amp+cab blocks in which the amp and cab occupy the same block. In this case, like I said, you'd have to use separate blocks for each. And, yes, what I wrote above would work with IRs as well.

Thanks very much for your help