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That's pretty much my happy happy sound
Don't get me wrong I might find a better way of getting that sound on a different amp model at some point but that's kinda my reference crunch sound.
Ps. I use to for a big fat hendrixy neck pickup sound... But you may find it a little weedy going to the bridge for AC/DC-ish chunky chords but I usually have a clean/transparent boost just to thicken it up for that and add some hair.
A compressor and some chorus will bring the base tone back to some nice clean tones
They really have got a grip of that amp for modelling
The clean is the best on the helix without tweaking. The crunch is pretty handy too.
Moved the chorus to after the amp to get it in stereo
Off to play the Edinburgh Harley Davidson annual bash
I'm off to play a wedding about an hour past Aberdeen. Kill me.
Plus I'm going to have to take the Helix in its box because I haven't came up with a board solution yet!
Have a good one mate
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looked online today at PMT music's stock (Manchester) and Helix was showing in stock ie the floor model which I wanted...so I thought rather than send off to a box shifter and buy without trying I'd nip down to Manchester as its only half an hour away and try one then hopefully come away with one under my arm....only when I got there all they had in stock was the rack mount model. Bugger. Ah well time wasn't wasted! Well, I had a good 30 mins or more (ya know y'lose track ) ) and I did like it. It was set up through some monitors and I didn't tweak any of the patches apart from gain and volume to taste....still could tell it was a digital modeller. I still reckon i'll end up ordering one but gonna have another bash with my GT-100 over my Alesis monitors to see how that excites me compared to my now little experience of the Helix.
Methinks Andertons or GAK might be getting my order mid week so I can be in Thursday to receive it when it comes.
It's impossible to see in sunlight
No idea which buttons were active or not
I had the klon, Timmy and OCD set up into my clean channel. The RMC wah and deluxe comp always on before them.
In the loop I had a script phaser, chorus, tape delay set to 350ms with about 3 repeats and low mix and Elephant delay set to dotted 8ths. Plate reverb and a high and low cut before going back to the amp (I put this in on the fly having never looked at it before, helix is so simple)
Was just a wedding and it wasn't necessarily "my" sound.... But it did sound really good.
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There's no room for an expression pedal really. Though it isn't that snug a fit.