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Last night tried the Placater dirty model. That's pretty sweet, with the extra switches. Worked well with my Strat for some thicker high gain chords.
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I just hand them two XLRs and say pan hard left and right
also I use the dual cab for different speakers either sides
if you are really worried about it you can put a send and return block right after one of the cabs and give the sound guy a third XLR for a dry sound down the middle
WDW style
My Sennheisers sound great at home, they're superb fun to play through but i find that as soon as i then use my patches straight to PA they patches seem a bit bright and nasal. My IEMs (Heatwave dual driver custom moulds) are much better for dialling in the tones accurately and definitely give a closer representation of the straight to PA sound, but i find IEMs quite fatiguing and dry sounding.
So what i'm really looking for is a good mix of the two, i don't mind a bit of global tweaking when i'm at rehearsal or a venue but i'd rather not re-EQ the whole patch. Much prefer wearing full closed back, over ear design headphones.
I swapped out the Deluxe for the Texas Clean model. Not a massive change, just feels like a more powerful Deluxe (the same way say a 50 watt amp set clean never has the same body as a similarly volumed 100 watter). I’m still using four real overdrives; RC Boost -> BB Preamp -> Zendrive -> ODR1 with a Kinky Comp before and a Kinky Boost after
I swapped out the Adriatic delay which was set to 8th notes for a Dual Delay and budged the Tape slap I had set up to Path 1 to free up some DSP so I could put an LA Comp last in line before my FOH out. I left the compressor settings as is but nudged the gain down a little. It helped remove some moments of anemia and generally just gave the guitar a little nudge in the mix without having to start adding volume (I know technically that’s what I’ve done but you know what I mean)
my monitoring comes via a Fryette Powerstation and Cornford open backed 1x12 v30
if I get time today (in between watching fitbaw and getting drunk) I’ll make these changes to my other three patches:
Patch 1: everything I need to play pretty much any gig.
Patch 2: Usually starts as a copy of patch 1 but will have “special” uses setup for a particular gig for instance if an organ sound is needed etc
Patch 3: is the same as patch 1 apart from everything is swapped out for what I think are the *best* effects in a Helix and not nessesarily the ones I would use on a gig. The Cosmo delay and Grey Flanger are two such effects that appear here
Patch 4: oddball effects such as beatchop trem, fuzz and ring mod live here. Good place to be if you are needing some inspiration for recording
I also have a patch setup that uses S-Gear amp models and another for recording Mic in patch one and Bass in path 2
I also only have a few IR’s loaded; a Celestine V30 free download (even though I bought the packs) an Ownhammer greenback 4x12, a Jenson 1x12 and Mesa v30 4x12. Still haven’t settled on a blue-type and mostly just use stock cabs for that sound if needed
thats pretty much it for anyone that bothered to read
Im sure there must be but I’m currently having to physically switch off my monitors between takes which is driving me mad
(sorry don’t have my unit in front of me but I use the headphone out for stage monitoring sometimes and it is independent of the FOH
Just wondered if there was some smart Helix shortcut of doing that as I try to keep my workflow the same on Helix