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I am using it 4CM just now but tonight as I have the place to myself I want to try it direct to PA. What do I do?
I have the manual here to read up on again but didn't expect this window of opportunity so any advice on what to do?
I think paths/routing will be the area I need explained - monitoring on my cab (altho that will colour it?)
I can just hear it thru the PA for now I suppose - that's the thing I want to hear the most - how an audience will hear it - FRFR is a way down the line but it's where I want to get to.
Ta!
Split the path after the amp, but before the cab. route the cab out to the XLR -> PA and the 1/4 out to your cab via an FX send, you might want to put an EQ block after the split to the cab to roll off some highs
Credit to @cabicular for this idea
Take a split before the last cab and send it to the 1/4 outs
Or you could put a send and return block anywhere you want and send that to your monitor
I disable the volume knob for the PA and only have it affect the 1/4 outs
The amp onstage was more a psychological barrier (same with the drive pedals in the loop). Now the only other things on the board are a wah and my wireless receiver
I managed to find the volume control on the amp this time so no major structural damage was done.
Some observations:
The amp models are better. Well done @fretmeister - far more punch and welly and a much richer sound when compared to the preamps. I found you have to watch the drive setting - too much and it's hiss city. On that note, trying it this way with a cab with a tweeter, I found it sounded much better with the tweeter off.
The SVT model is better than Ampeg's SCR-DI pedal (which is the SVT modelling they use in the PF500/800 series). Adding in some sag and hum really brings out the Ampeg flavour.
The Mesa models are exceptionally good. I like them a lot. Mucho goodness. I'm an Ampeg tone kinda man at heart - I would usually use a blend of the B15 and the SVT - but found myself going to the Mesa models a lot whilst practising last night.
Having now played with EQ pedals I'm liking them both before and after the amp models. Ive not set up a compression that I like yet - suggestions gratefully received - but I haven't spent a lot of time on that yet.
The B7K model is superb - but I need to spend time getting a proper blended signal in. I want to play with multiple paths to get that bit right.
Mostly though, I'm glad I spent time playing with it as a complete front end/preamp solution for live - the EICH preamp is very good indeed, but I can see myself using helix into the power amp direct quite a lot...
When I've got a mo at the weekend I'll sort out some of my bass patches to send to you.
I've got a few main ones that I use, a simple "anything" sort of patch, a Cliff Burton (ride the lightning era) patch, a mental Billy Sheehan shred thing, and the basis of my Rig of Doom, but that needs an external pedal too.
https://soundcertified.com/speaker-ohms-calculator/
I like the GK800 model - needs more tweaking, and I'm not sure if I like the "boost" control yet, but it's getting there.
I'm half tempted to get another smooth hound wireless and stick that in between the Helix and the amp to make that wireless too... but maybe that would just be overkill
8ms for the first unit, and another 8ms for the second.
You'd start to notice that.
https://soundcertified.com/speaker-ohms-calculator/
I shall have to stick to good old tethered wiring.
Just wait til wireless power comes out - Power Over Oxygen ftw!
The only reason I stopped it was that I started running stereo
I was gonna just start with some of the templates then built a few presets myself.
Thanks
Cant wait, havent felt like this since I asked for a SNES for Christmas.
Nice Looper Jam at the end too.
its really annoying
i don't know if it is because he spends all day with it or if he just has a knack. He's been able to get sounds out the pod HD500X where I couldn't get that to work for me at all
@Digital_igloo You really ought to get him to do some tone tutorials. He demos the unit, in terms of sound, better than anyone.