Selling my Helix Rack/G90 and moving to a floor unit

[hal3001]

So, I've had a Helix Rack and floor controller for quite a while now and I love it but one giant pain in the butt is having so many cables going back and forth between the rack unit and my pedalboard.  My current set up uses a BeatBuddy, Infinity Looper, ProCo Rat, Helix Control, ProD2 DI, and two mission pedals.  I ended up running 2x MIDI cables, 3x TS cables, and power from the rack to the board, then two XLRs from the DI to mixing board.  It's just a bit too much to deal with when moving everything so I think I'm just going to move from a rack to the floor unit where I can just run everything at the board and either run just one XLR out from the helix or keep my DI set up.

 

So after all that, my actual question is other than not having wordclock in (which I use for recording but I can live without it) is there anything else that isn't on the floor that is on the rack or any other gotchas that I might be over looking?  My wiring setup would probably be the same. Send/Return 1 <-> ProCo Rat (or another other pre amp pedals), TS main left -> Infinity Looper -> DI -> Mixer, and BeatBuddy -> DI -> Mixer.  I can't see any reason why that wouldn't work.  I may end up bringing the looper and BeatBuddy in via send/returns and just sending the whole thing out XLR but we will see.  The beatbuddy was introducing a lot of noise when trying this with the 15ft cables rack->board->rack. 

 

Also, I was thinking about using a G70 with this setup.  I assume there isn't anything different than using the G90?

[VirtualGuitars]

So, I've had a Helix Rack and floor controller for quite a while now and I love it but one giant pain in the butt is having so many cables going back and forth between the rack unit and my pedalboard.  My current set up uses a BeatBuddy, Infinity Looper, ProCo Rat, Helix Control, ProD2 DI, and two mission pedals.  I ended up running 2x MIDI cables, 3x TS cables, and power from the rack to the board, then two XLRs from the DI to mixing board.  It's just a bit too much to deal with when moving everything so I think I'm just going to move from a rack to the floor unit where I can just run everything at the board and either run just one XLR out from the helix or keep my DI set up.

 

So after all that, my actual question is other than not having wordclock in (which I use for recording but I can live without it) is there anything else that isn't on the floor that is on the rack or any other gotchas that I might be over looking?  My wiring setup would probably be the same. Send/Return 1 <-> ProCo Rat (or another other pre amp pedals), TS main left -> Infinity Looper -> DI -> Mixer, and BeatBuddy -> DI -> Mixer.  I can't see any reason why that wouldn't work.  I may end up bringing the looper and BeatBuddy in via send/returns and just sending the whole thing out XLR but we will see.  The beatbuddy was introducing a lot of noise when trying this with the 15ft cables rack->board->rack. 

 

Also, I was thinking about using a G70 with this setup.  I assume there isn't anything different than using the G90?

 

I have a Helix Floor with a G70 and I absolutely love them both.  I also have two Mission Engineering pedals, two Marshall tube amps (7 cable method), and two studio monitors, so I have cables going all over the place.  Sometime I wish I had the Helix Rack instead.  Just food for thought.

[nbiglin]

I have a helix floor and a G10 for wireless. Suits all my needs, and the Helix backpack makes it super easy to carry everything around. Granted, I'm only doing small church gigs, but I'm the quickest in and out, can carry my entire rig and guitars on my back and hand, and still have a hand free for a drink ðŸ˜