First gig with helix

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Played my first gig with helix last night. I'm just thrilled. Mostly used the AC30 top boost model with my tele and the amp tones sounded so good in my IEM mix. I've  been a kemper user for about a year so I'm well acquainted with modeling and monitoring with headphones, etc. Picked up the helix to see if I could downsize one step more and I couldn't be happier, except for the reverb sounds on the helix are just ok, not mind blowing. But that's a small price to pay since I don't do a ton of ambient stuff. 

 

Definitely going to have to start making presets for each song though as I do use a lot of different delay/reverb sounds and I don't have time to adjust them between songs. 

 

It's so nice to have an all in one solution rather than lugging a separate amp and pedalboard several times per week. And I don't have to worry about pedalboard audio or power cables failing, having too many AD/DA conversions, latency, running 3 cables on the stage for FX loop, etc etc. I'm just using my shure wireless GLX-D directly into the helix. 

 

And the I/O and routing options are insane. 

 

The capacitive footswitch thing is just fantastic. Total paradigm shift. 

 

A couple of my buddies were very impressed with the tones, but were really skeptical about line6. I think the biggest thing holding back Helix (if you can even say it's being held back) is the Line6 name. People are used to decades of crappy line6 modeling, and it's going to take a long time to overcome that. 

 

I do have a question about stereo reverbs. Right now I'm splitting my signal to two cabs and routing those to the L/R XLR outputs. If I want stereo reverb, do I have to put the stereo reverb block before or after the split to the two cabs?

 

Also, is there any way for me to be notified via email when there's a helix firmware update?