One parameter, multiple presets or across a set list

[JES000000]

I am not sure how to ask this question, so please bear with me.  Is there a way to change a single effects parameter across presets, or a workaround?

 

On an old fashioned stomp box pedalboard, let’s say you have a drive and a reverb.  You get sounds you like in your practice space.  
 

You are playing a show and get to the venue and the drive sounds a bit hot and bright and the reverb sounds a bit wet, so you back off both.  Works for every song, no problem.

 

Now let’s say I’ve set up multiple presets on the Helix.  I’ve got a Teemah and a double tank in all of them.  Same venue, same issue.  It seems like I would have to edit the Teemah and Double Tank settings in every preset to achieve the same thing.  Or just use one preset per set (which is more like a regular pedalboard but kind of a waste of a Line6 pedal).  How do people work around this in real life?

 

PS no I am not gigging now, but I am redoing my pedalboard.  TIA.

[rd2rk]

33 minutes ago, JES000000 said:

 Is there a way to change a single effects parameter across presets,

 

No.

 

34 minutes ago, JES000000 said:

or a workaround?

 

If you have the full fat Helix (not the HX Stomp), you may have enough DSP to use up to 3 amps. If you use the same FX in all your presets, or have enough DSP left for all the FX you use, you have 8 Snapshots to play with. Each Snapshot can choose a different amp and selection of the FX used in that preset, with the ability to control up to 64 parameters of those amps and FX. If you have "Snapshot Edits" set to RECALL, any on-the-fly edits you make will persist unless you change presets without saving.

 

How creative/flexible are you?

 

 

 

 

[JES000000]

Thanks RD2RK.  For now, I just have a HX stomp, which is great for small pedalboard stuff.  I would rather make the thread about what can be done with the pedal and how people work with it than whether I am creative or flexible enough to use it.  The answer to that is maybe, or maybe not!  

 

I'd rather hear about what real world solutions other, more experienced Helix users have come up with, besides "have everything at unity" which isn't really practical for the kind of music I play (lots of dynamics, turning delays and drives on and off, etc), and the fact that when we show up to a show, we don't always get a super long sound check to tweak everything.

 

 

[rd2rk]

10 minutes ago, JES000000 said:

Thanks RD2RK.  For now, I just have a HX stomp, which is great for small pedalboard stuff.  I would rather make the thread about what can be done with the pedal and how people work with it than whether I am creative or flexible enough to use it.  The answer to that is maybe, or maybe not!  

 

I'd rather hear about what real world solutions other, more experienced Helix users have come up with, besides "have everything at unity" which isn't really practical for the kind of music I play (lots of dynamics, turning delays and drives on and off, etc), and the fact that when we show up to a show, we don't always get a super long sound check to tweak everything.

 

 

 

 

My comment about being flexible and creative wasn't intended to be insulting, just reality.

There's so many variables, specific solutions that work with one person's setup likely won't work for others. The suggestions offered were exactly how I work around the problem you presented. I'm sure others will chime in.