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My head said brake, but my heart cried never.
Get a second hand Helix. Keep your pedals for now. Learn how to use the Helix. Set it up to get close to your pedals. This will take you a few weeks. You think you’ve got it. Then, like climbing a mountain you discover it was only a ridge, and there’s more on the other side. You will reach a point when you decide one of two things. Either “I can’t stand this pfaffing around” and sell the Helix for what you paid for it; or “I don’t need all those old pedals” and you sell them for more than the Helix.
Your second problem is on stage sound. Some people find it difficult to let go of 4x12s and hot valves. They are great for the guitarist. Everyone else either finds them unhelpful, or doesn’t notice. In a covers band you need to think about what the audience hears. Ditch the large amp. DI the Helix, and use a small amp or powered speaker. Face it to you rather than the audience.
I'll see how I go and what decisions I come too, and update the thread accordingly. The appeal for me is the ease of it all, and one rig for all options, home, rehearsals and live. Plus the ease of storage, flexible sounds etc.. The biggest downside for me is spending that much on something that although will probably stay at £800+ for a while will one day be worth zip. Winds me up, but that's no different to most things these days!
Anyone have any idea if Line 6 have any plans to update the Helix. By which I mean a newer model, or if they keep the same lines for a while?
My head said brake, but my heart cried never.
With 2 loud amps on stage (pub floor) everyone on one side hears guitarist A and vice-versa, the vocals get lost which is a good job because the singer cant hear himself and they are out of tune etc etc.
I too love the feeling of standing in front of a 4x12, but I'm 25% of a band and keeping me happy shouldn't be priority over ruining everyone else's night
My head said brake, but my heart cried never.
My head said brake, but my heart cried never.
This was a bit of a bugbear with the Amplifire to be honest, so I wondered how it was with the Helix. Cheers!
My head said brake, but my heart cried never.
My head said brake, but my heart cried never.
My head said brake, but my heart cried never.
....but from reading this thread it seem that you are GASsing for a Helix and so that's probably the best solution for you.
My head said brake, but my heart cried never.
I've found that Amplifire fx are good provided that you are happy with the basics and invest some time in getting them set up.
I've actually got down to 5 presets with varying levels of gain. 2 clean, 2 dirty and a solo boost. Ive set up the effects i need on those and it works for me. I like the simplicity of it.
I used to have a pod xt which had more effects 'models' but found i didn't use most of them.
And before that i had a 2 channel mesa and an Arion sch-1
I also have 4 extra effects I can get to on the second mode screen. This is stuff I rarely use (Tremolo, Phaser, Slap back Delay, and a switch setup to turn the HBE channel on the Friedman amp)
Thats about all I need.
The reason I didn't keep mine was largely that I found I missed actual pedals from a tactile point of view. Turns out I actually really like the "thingness" of single stompboxes, and I enjoy the experience of shopping for them, trying them, building them etc. Combined with the pitch-shifting really not being up to scratch and it didn't quite tick all the boxes. I reckon once they've got pitch-shifting up to Whammy standards I'll be very tempted to try another
And the ability to swap pedals in and out, there's a choice of 24 drives to start with, how many options does anyone need