Lone_Poor_Boy Posted June 12, 2020 Share Posted June 12, 2020 I thought this thread from yesterday centered on the input pad had really great feedback throughout. Different approaches to skinning the cat. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBD_123 Posted June 13, 2020 Author Share Posted June 13, 2020 Yes, agreed. In fact I now use the gain block rather than turning the input pad on. Decibels are decibels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbieb61 Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 Off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisinon2 Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 I doesn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaschaFranck Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 I actually changed from input pad on to off (at least for the time being), pretty much the other way around from what many others seem to be doing. I started with it on after reading several comments about it to improve some things. That was before I bought the Helix. When I finally got it, I compared on/off with what I thought would be my most used amps and some things seemed to sound/react a little better, so I left it on. Ok, over time I was working a bit more with Helix Native (and other software amps), using the straight DI signal (coming from USB 7/8). And even with my hotter guitars, it's always been pretty weak - which is annoying as I have to way zoom in to visually control cuts and such. But well, that wasn't the main reason for me to turn it back off. I noticed that with my particular assortment of guitars (my absolute No.1 being an Anderson with pretty low level PUs) some of the drives would simply work better with Input Pad off, most notably the Top Secret OD (which is indeed my most loved drive within the Helix, actually delivering what I usually expect from a nice fuzz). So I checked all my patches and re-adjusted them. I found most of them to work better in the end. There's some drawbacks, though. I think some Helix amps deliver too much drive, so I have to turn their drive parameter way down or activate a volume block in front - which wasn't necessary with Input Pad on. Now, I have a volume block as the first thing in my signal chain anyway (at least on all of my regular patches), but I prefer to have as little blocks as possible switched on for a basic tone. Whatever, unfortunately my most used amp models for anything slightly driven to standard rock kinda stuff, namely the two 2204s, are affected the most. I like them a lot with very little drive (I rather add gain with some drive models), just as I did back when I owned a JCM800, and with the Input Pad off, without a preceeding drive block I need to go down as low as 1.0 or even 0.8/0.9 on the Drive parameter. I may have to revisit the entire thing one day, for now I decided to live with IP off. Whatever, ideally, there would be a patch setting allowing you to overwrite the global setting (global/on/off). And IMO it'd be even better in case there were more settings (I'd likely go for something inbetween), but that would require new hardware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hideout Posted June 14, 2020 Share Posted June 14, 2020 All my guitars have low output pickups so nope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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