Line 6 Helix

trolley

Had a go on one yesterday.

And it was quite good - bearing in mind I was using all the presets as supplied through a PA.

The Pull Me Under presets sounded quite close - and very usable. And a quick play with the Harmoniser showed it would be good enough for what I use them for.

So, out with the Roadster, mini amp gizmo & G Major 2?

Quite possibly

fretmeister

Anyone got any good EQ settings to emulate an always-on half-cocked wah?

I once had the MXR Q Zone Kerry King pedal for just that but it disappeared. It's probably in a forgotten about box in the loft, but it was excellent.

John_A

fretmeister said:

Anyone got any good EQ settings to emulate an always-on half-cocked wah?

I once had the MXR Q Zone Kerry King pedal for just that but it disappeared. It's probably in a forgotten about box in the loft, but it was excellent.

Can you not use a Wah model and set it to a fixed position?

fretmeister

John_A said:

fretmeister said:

Anyone got any good EQ settings to emulate an always-on half-cocked wah?

I once had the MXR Q Zone Kerry King pedal for just that but it disappeared. It's probably in a forgotten about box in the loft, but it was excellent.

Can you not use a Wah model and set it to a fixed position?

Well fuck.

It's early. Or late. Or this was a test from the Line 6 product support undercover unit and you have passed!

Congratulations! Your certificate will be on display in the appropriate office in Alpha Centauri.

meltedbuzzbox

My curiosity has got the best of me... My helix arrives tomorrow.

PJH

Hi everyone,

I've finally managed to finish Part 3 in my series on the Line 6 Helix. This video demonstrates in detail how I created the patches for Part 2 in the series.

 

I've had a lot of requests for a "loud, clean" patch with lots of headroom. I think that I've come up with a patch that should work well in that regard. It works particularly well with single coils. Incidently, the "intro music" that I made for this video was also created using this patch.

 

I've also shared my settings and thought process in creating my Plexi "crunch" patch. The video shows how well this patch works with humbuckers and single coils without changing any settings.

 

Lastly I covered the Jazz Rivet patch that I used in Part 2. This is quite a "lush" clean chorused tone that works with Les Paul type guitars as well as single coils.

Cheers

Peter

Teetonetal

@PJH those are some great sounds. Will have a go at creating the, later...

FarleyUK

I've just ordered an external expression pedal (because why not). Thinking of using it for pitch / whammy, but curious to know what everyone else uses theirs for?

fretmeister

FarleyUK said:

I've just ordered an external expression pedal (because why not). Thinking of using it for pitch / whammy, but curious to know what everyone else uses theirs for?

Mixing different signal paths to add verbs & delays depending on how much I need at the time; drive levels. Speed on rotary / vibe type FX.

Cabicular

Wet Dry and feedback

So delay and mod pedal modifications

I use the onboard for volume boost

in retrospect I should have done it the other way around and then I could use the exp for wah

johnonguitar

I've got my external expression set up to control mix for delay. I have a tape delay set to 350ms and an Elephant Man set to 1/8 or dotted. I use one switch to go between them and the expression pedal to control the mix... Heel down being no delay.

If that makes any sense

PJH

Teetonetal said:

@PJH those are some great sounds. Will have a go at creating the, later...

Thanks. It'll be interesting to hear about your results.

Cheers.

Teetonetal

PJH said:

Teetonetal said:

@PJH those are some great sounds. Will have a go at creating the, later...

Thanks. It'll be interesting to hear about your results.

Cheers.

Well, I created the patches last night. It was interesting. Far as I could tell, they sounded exactly the same (as you would expect) and I was really happy with all of them. Got gigs over the weekend, but will try and record something on sunday and post back...

johnonguitar

Wait a minute.... The expression pedal has a toe switch?! Wtf? That's what I get for not reading the manual

Sporky

Indeed. Usually it switches the expression pedal between being EXP1 and EXP2, but you can assign it to other stuff too.

johnonguitar

Sporky;1134423" said:

Indeed. Usually it switches the expression pedal between being EXP1 and EXP2, but you can assign it to other stuff too.

Hmm that's pretty cool. I have it setup as a wah just now, and my external expression pedal controlling delay mix. I have two delays setup to toggle between with one footswitch and just use the expression to turn them off in the heel position. Think I'll use my new found toe switch to add a whammy to proceedings!

Sporky

How do you do the off-in-heel-position thing? I miss that from the VG-88 and haven't worked out how to do it in the Helix.

TimmyO

PJH said:

Hi everyone,

I've finally managed to finish Part 3 in my series on the Line 6 Helix. This video demonstrates in detail how I created the patches for Part 2 in the series.

 

I've had a lot of requests for a "loud, clean" patch with lots of headroom. I think that I've come up with a patch that should work well in that regard. It works particularly well with single coils. Incidently, the "intro music" that I made for this video was also created using this patch.

 

I've also shared my settings and thought process in creating my Plexi "crunch" patch. The video shows how well this patch works with humbuckers and single coils without changing any settings.

 

Lastly I covered the Jazz Rivet patch that I used in Part 2. This is quite a "lush" clean chorused tone that works with Les Paul type guitars as well as single coils.

Cheers

Peter

Cracking vid :-) 

johnonguitar

Sporky;1134442" said:

How do you do the off-in-heel-position thing? I miss that from the VG-88 and haven't worked out how to do it in the Helix.

Mix set to zero lol.

Sporky

Can that be a hard switch at heel down then?

I feel proper-thick if it's possible and I couldn't work out how!