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I was using the "Class-A Duo" pack. It was actually really simple to audition a bunch of them - I grabbed the whole 'Summary' folder of suggested good IR mixes and dropped them into IR slots in the editor, then pulled up one of the AC30 amp models, added an IR block and used floor-edit mode to scroll through the IR slots, making note of the ones that sounded nicest.
Once you've then built your patch and snapshots, it's really simple to scroll through again to see whether a different IR suits one of the snapshot sounds better now you've changed the sound. This is actually simpler (for my way of working anyway) than tweaking cab parameters.
Went to change patch, the sound changed but the display didn't, and at that point the unit did not respond to any of the controls (buttons or footswitches)
Power cycle cleared it.
Not sure what caused it.
https://soundcertified.com/speaker-ohms-calculator/
That would scare me... for live use.
USB may have been plugged in - I'd been using the laptop editor earlier in the day - can't say for certain
The cable was plugged in, but nothing on the other end.
https://soundcertified.com/speaker-ohms-calculator/
Eqd Speaker Cranker clone
Monte Allums TR-2 Plus mod kit
Trading feedback: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/60602/
any one get any experience of Glenn DeLaune's patches/IRs ?
He's just released a 'high gain' pack that looks interesting, If nothing else just to compare how he sets up each patch.
For $25 its probably worth a punt at right?
I like the videos the Youtube channel 'The Helix Channel' does, and have grabbed a few of his Freset Friday patches - I've not bought any of his paid-for ones as they are built around particular 3Sigma Audio IRs that I don't own.
I've bought a couple of Marco Fanton's patches - one which was bundled with the relevant Redwirez IRs and one built using a default cab
Today I grabbed Glenn DeLanue's Boutique Amp pack because I was intrigued by his use of custom preset IRs. I think what he does is take a sound captured from a real amp, then play the same thing in to a Helix model, and process an IR that makes one more like the other, then bundles that IR. Taking a look at some dirty-sounding patches in a few he's using the Jazz Chorus as the base model (!) and then feeding that through the custom IR. I'm guessing it's kind of a 'profiling lite' approach.
From digging around in the different 'pro' patches, they take different approaches - some are very much throwing different pedals in the chain before and after the amp, others far more fundamental in changing significant amp and EQ blocks between Clean/Crunch/Lead snapshots.
So basically any approach works, although none are afraid to do some hard EQing or high cutting to nail a sound.
I don't know if it was harder to get a good tone in the earlier firmware or I just got better at it but I don't feel the need these days
plus you need to learn what happens when you put the delay before the cab or after the cab or in parallel etc so you can get the best out of the unit
The most useful factory presets are the templates IMO
and often overlooked
http://line6.com/support/topic/18284-latest-helix-firmware-220—march-30-2017