Help understanding HELIX LT output range (?)

[N-Tower]

Hey all, 

 

Yesterday I reinstalled all my music software on a new PC and discovered something interesting.. By accident, I had only enabled output 1 and output 2 while setting up the Helix ASIO driver in reaper for my Helix LT floorboard. I was recording guitar, using headphones and hardware monitoring and by accident enabled record monitoring in reaper as well. This made my tones HUGE and brought an almost stereo-like width to my patches. After jamming out for some time.. I realised my mistake and enabled outputs 1 to output 8 like usually recommended, which in turn, made combined hardware monitoring and record monitoring sound lollipope again. 

 

I have tried studying the Helix LT bible (manual), but I am not sure i completely understand what is going on here. I hope someone with a bit more technical knowledge can help me out? :-) 

 

Cheers

[codamedia]

18 hours ago, N-Tower said:

I was recording guitar, using headphones and hardware monitoring and by accident enabled record monitoring in reaper as well. This made my tones HUGE and brought an almost stereo-like width to my patches.

 

Bigger is always perceived to sound better :) 

Your accident will have introduced latency (ie: delay)....  it doubled everything you were playing and made it louder.

 

If you want the tone to begin with....

1. Add a delay and set it to a 50/50 mix. Set the delay to about 10 - 20ms...
2. Turn everything up about 3db because that would also be the general volume increase of your accident.
3. After doing this DO NOT enable record monitoring.... that will simply start the entire process over. 

[N-Tower]

Yes, i suspected this :-D It did sound a bit like a "perfect" guitar dub.. 

 

Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge!!