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Looking forward to plugging direct into PA.
With acoustic, bass or guitar!!
- Home recording with amps and IR's and effects
- Pedalboard with my real amp
- Vocal effects
- Capturing guitar DI's and reamping
- Midi controller for all my gear - including midi capable amps
- Looper for when I'm testing out other single stomps
- Command centre for my entire rig
What pedals, out of interest?
Something like the LT would give me so many more options for filling out our sound while he's fucking about out front
I just can't bring myself to do it until I get a load of live players on here going "it's mentally easy to use live and adjusting stuff on the fly is as easy as normal stomps"...................................,.
Also, I keep thinking that it's the way forward but then I plug in my rig, remember it sounds damn good already and I wonder, if it ain't broke then why fix it?
I know the helix would be physically lighter and (the main attraction) have more toys on it to play with, but is this possibly too many toys, more than are really needed and enough to distract from the job -which is to make a good sound live, rather than fiddling with pedal settings all the time?
Did I ever change the order they were routed on my board mid-gig? No
All I ever did was slightly tweak maybe a level, gain or mix or delay time control.
I can do that just as easily on my AX8, literally bend down, press a button for whichever effect I want to adjust and all the parameters I would want are assigned to easily turned rotary knobs just like they would be on a real pedal. Even better, I can assign an expression pedal to pretty well any parameter I want, giving me instant on the fly control at the rock of a foot. And that's on an AX 8.
As noted by everyone, the Helix interface is even easier so I really think your concern is a non-issue, and that's coming from someone who used to think along the same lines.
Like a previous poster i tend to do more rhythm and heavy lifting as the other guitarist is our singer and i am sure it will give me a lot of flexibility esp as we do covers from gary numan to the cult as well as a few keyboard songs. The helix def covers what my pedals can do and more.
Keeping my pedals - TU3 - Thorpy Warthog - Keeley TR2 - Keeley Mag Echo - EHX Pitchfork - TC spark all running of ciocks power supply