imoldcraig Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 About a year ago, I decided to take the plunge into the digital world and I bought a Helix unit and a nice poweramp that I used to power a standard 4x12 speaker cabinet. I don't play out often (virtually never currently), but I just like the sound of a loud guitar amp when I am at home in my basement. While I really liked the setup for about a month, I started to miss the character of an actual tube amp or just real amps in general. I play a lot of metal (black, doom and the occasional death metal riff) and I could not get the Helix to give me the tones I wanted. I sold the Helix, rebought some guitar pedals (Strymon pedals, an EHX HOG and many others) and eventually bought three amps: a Peavey VTM 120, a Sunn Beta Bass and a Roland Jazz Chorus 120. Now, I am seriously considering coming back to the Helix, but in a different context. I am going to sell off all of my pedals, except my Boss HM-2 clones, and keep the amps and run the Helix in the 4CM primarily through my VTM. I also have options for recording, since I have little experience in that area, with the Helix and I feel like it is an overall better tradeout. While I definitely think the Helix has usable amps, it is the routing options, interface and updates that are really causing me to come back. Now, I've also learned that Helix has released versions of a Darkglass pedal and Sunn bass amp! So, this is anyone's chance to talk me out of this plan, or buy up some Strymon pedals and get a good deal on an old EHX HOG ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylotan Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 I play black and doom metal and I'm quite happy with the Helix so far. I'm feeling the lack of HM-2 and MT-2 simulations in the Helix, but I figure that I can experiment with the Centaur and Rat sims for now - and who knows, maybe one of the Boss pedals will make it into the next update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyfirez1 Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 just use the rosen digital audio IR's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willjrock Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 For my personal needs, this is not an application i like with helix at all. Tonally, all the amps sound pretty much identical through a poweramp and cab. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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