Getting Hi Gains To Sound Good

[Steverts]

I've had my Helix for 3 weeks now and am not able to get my hi gain presets sounding great. 

 

I have programed the gig I am doing (just under 2 hours of music) using versions of the Soldano lead channel (and the cabs that are in the factory presets) for most of my hi gain sounds. They sound pretty good through my Yamaha MSR 250, but not through the headphones and XLR to house, where they tend to sound a bit digital. Kind of fizzy/fuzzy and lacking an "in your face" quality. It makes me question the quality of the speaker simulations.

 

(I did discover, in trying to remedy this problem, that the noise reduction has a bit of a tone suck quality. Removing NR from my presets helped the quality of the sound.

FOH is taking the left/mono XLR output. 

 

Is there possibly a global EQ setting that you all might use to remedy this?

Or might I have some setting incorrect.

Or could I be encountering some kind of phasing problem with FOH just taking the mono out or internally?

(Which would not explain the headphone signal also being poor)

 

 

My cleans, which are mostly tweaked Matchless sounds are fantastic. 

 

Thoughts???

 

Thanks

[Rocco_Crocco]

I set my global eq as follows...

 

low and mid and high gain

0.0

 

low cut

90hz

 

high cut

6.0khz

 

 

For cab settings, I also do...

 

Low cut

72 hz

 

6.9

 

 

I borrowed these settings from others and they helped remedy the problems you described.

 

They get rid of fizz and boom, and allow my guitar to sit well in a live band mix. Good luck.

[roscoe5]

Assuming you are using Helix cabs and not IRs, try a mono parametric eq block after a dual cab block using different mics in each cab.

 

There are a few factory Helix presets in the 055-070 numbers in the Factory 1 setlist that can be good examples.

 

This can help IR'S too though.

[njglover]

The speaker sims are thought by many to not be that great, but you can fix that by applying the EQ as suggested above or by adding some IRs. In particular, I rather like the Ownhammer Mesa Boogie 412 IRs, they work really great for heavy drive tones. And they've even got a selection of those available free, so there's really no reason not to try it. With that, I really like the Solo OD amp for lead work and the Dual Rec for rhythm. I've managed to almost perfectly replicate my real Dual Rec.