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(that's code for: I went the pub instead of going straight home, and now I'm slightly hungover)
Midi switching is *instant* by the way.
I'm not massively keen on the Helix's reverse delay. It doesn't sound quite right when compared to the Timeline and my memory of the DD500 and DD7. It's a bit more choppy and less fluid than the others.
I really love the Adriatic delay. Just uber washes that sit underneath everything if you dial it in right, and I'd say it and the other analog/bbd models totally keep up with the Timeline for those vintage sounding washy pedals. The only thing I noticed is that the delay time seems fairly limited on some of the models - a quarter note at 98bpm for example isn't really a quarter note, it's closer to an eighth or sixteenth note.
Suffice to say though - loads of great delay tones in this box. When Shaun Halley says in that one a/b video he did about things being 'flavour differences' rather than 'quality differences' he is dead right.
Gonna compare the Big Sky later, but initial impressions seem to be that I could happily use most of the reverbs in a track. My reverb needs aren't as exotic as other people's can be.
Personally I'd rather have inaccurate delay times.
Another thing I noticed - when tapping the tempo whilst playing, not all delays maintain their feedback path. Some of them fall silent until you stop tapping. Not ideal imho.
Also self oscillation twiddling can sound really dumb on pedals where turning the knob too far right takes it to 10 second repeats.
The adriatic delay is the 'fuck accuracy lets go nuts ' version of a dm2.
Yep. Can totally live with the reverbs. Tweaking the high and low cuts can get you in the ball-park of any particular tone on the Big Sky. All bets are off as soon as you start adding modulation though, but yeah... totally awesome!
Interested that you find the reverbs compare well to Big Sky
I tend to have one of 2 reactions:
1. Man, I should definitely check one of these out
2. Fucking hell that sounds terrifying - stay away.
Posts like the one quoted result in the second one.
I'm genuinely torn over this thing.
do it, you won't regret it, piece of piss to use, apart from me being clever with swapping modelled preamps etc, I built 4 pretty heavy patches in a few hours and only needed assistance with getting my head around swapping above preamps. It was actually me over thinking things!!!
The modelled preamps are bang on, using the Shiva model into the poweramp of a real Shiva, I can't tell the difference swapping between the 2!!
Plug your guitar into the Helix guitar input.
Plug FX Loop 1's send into the front of your guitar amp.
Plug your amps FX loop send into the Helix FX Loop 1's return.
Plug your Helix's output into the amps FX loop return.
Press footswitch 11 to switch between modelled amp and the real amp.
I suspect I will at some point - high price of entry to find out though - and I'm unemployed, so it certainly won't be soon!
I play guitar and take photos of stuff. I also like beans on toast.
Wednesday I had it as recording interface. Thursday as a board for acoustic gig handling guitar mic and stompbox. Friday as 4cm with my pleximan.