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The reverbs on the Helix are definitely not crap. They're just limited to bread and butter sounds, and sometimes you want a bit more. Saying that though, I've only ever used a dash of hall or mod reverb for the past 9+ years anyway!! So I'm probably just over-thinking the possibilities and not really taking my actual needs into account!
On the upside it makes it more entertaining to create more interesting reverbs using the parallel routing and adding in other FX on just the trails and having external feedback loops and so on...
I now just have the helix in it its back and a wireless receiver and expression pedal in the pocket.
It's great and I can live without the ancillary pedals I had wired.
The only thing I miss is a separate wah (I have issues using the Helix one)
Basically I need: volume pedal, wah pedal, expression pedal for morphing/textures/oscillations.
We use the L2ms as monitors so the Helix sits under the overhang of that
Still doesn't protect me from Pinball wizards falling over the monitors or dribbling beer jugglers but I'm fairly robust at booting them away from the stage
To be fair Helix looks pretty water proof.
When i had a G System I could let punters fall on it just for punsihment
I think it's waaaay chunkier than sheet steel. Really thick chunk of aluminium.
@Cabicular. Can I ask what it is that you don't like about the Helix wah?
its just I use that pedal for a volume boost so when I switch the wah on it's deafening
its the dual use of it I can't get to work out for me
@Cabicular. Thanks for the rapid reply! Good to know the wah is OK.
On a conventional pedalboard, I tend to use a clean boost pedal for lead breaks. Can that be done on the Helix... or is the vol pedal the only way?
so you go activate a clean boost
or bump the channel volume or bump the gain or bump the mids or all of the above simultaneously!
personally I like to vary the amount of boost I need for solos as it changes from song to song and gig to gig.
I put + 7db on the exp pedal which gives me options
Thanks for the info.
I wondered if I could have a footswitch to switch between exp1 and exp2