Using external stereo reverb

[strabes]

Hello everyone. 

 

I'd like to use a boss RV-6 with the helix. I replaced the reverb block on my preset with the "Send/Return FX Loop 1/2" block and that works fine. 

 

However I'd like to run the boss reverb in parallel as I'd like to avoid as many rounds of AD/DA conversion (for my dry tone) as possible. Thankfully the boss unit does have analog dry through but just sending my dry signal out and returning it is another AD/DA conversion that I'd like to avoid, plus it prevents complete loss of signal if one of the four cables I'm currently using fails.

 

The boss unit can do killdry but that requires plugging into the B input only. See the boss manual, "Outputting only the reverb sound."

 

Can I do this using this method?:

1. keep using the "Send/Return FX Loop 1/2" block in serial
2. remove the cable going from helix Send 1 to input "A" input on the boss
3. return stereo from the boss into returns 1 & 2
4. turn the mix on the helix "Send/Return FX Loop 1/2" block down to 50%.
5. Footswitch turns on and off the send/return loop block

This method appears to be working but I'm not sure if it's the best way to do it as I might be losing half of the stereo information from stereo effects before it due to only sending mono to the boss. But I do have the fx loop mix at 50% so that stereo information is still being kept with my dry signal, just one half of it won't be reverberated by the boss unit. Is my thinking here correct?

 

The other idea I had is:

1. split the helix signal into a parallel path
2. on the parallel path mono send block into the "B" input on the boss unit
3. on the parallel path Stereo return block (reverb signal only)
4. Footswitch turns on and off both the send and return blocks 

Disadvantage of this method is it takes 2 blocks instead of 1. 

 

Please help, thank you!

[strabes]

Anyone?

[radatats]

couple of questions.  What amp or PA rig are you using?  When you say dry signal it sounds like it still has some effects on it?  Do you just mean 'no reverb' signal? or do you have a separate dry mono amp signal and a parallel wet stereo signal?

[strabes]

couple of questions.  What amp or PA rig are you using?  When you say dry signal it sounds like it still has some effects on it?  Do you just mean 'no reverb' signal? or do you have a separate dry mono amp signal and a parallel wet stereo signal?

 

Thanks. By "dry" I just mean "no reverb". Running direct into PA with XLRs, monitoring with IEMs. At home I just plug my IEMs into the headphone jack.

[tommasoferrarese]

I think your best option is keeping the wet ratio on the RV6 to 100% (effectively killing out the dry converted signal) and setting up the best mi ratio only using s/r block send and return parameters.

With the reverb as a late fx in the signal chain, you're going to lose part of the stereo field, and you'd lose it on one of the most spacial fx.

Just go completely wet on the reverb and mix it in with the Helix.