Helix HX FX incoming......

paulnb57

Helix HX FX incoming to a technophobe, should bounce onto the doormat sometime between 14:00 and 15:00 wish me luck!
This will be a steep, possibly vertical learning curve......

preston61

paulnb57 said:

Helix HX FX incoming to a technophobe, should bounce onto the doormat sometime between 14:00 and 15:00 wish me luck!
This will be a steep, possibly vertical learning curve......

It it's arriving between 14:00 and 15:00, should we expect a classifieds listing between 16:00 and 17:00 (allowing for an hour of head scratching) :-)

They're actually fairly easy to get your head round, even I managed it for a while, so enjoy bud, the sounds are very good on most things

Wazmeister

My advice would be to download the (free) HX edit, and watch the Paul Sadites YT vids.

Easy enough to get into though, and a superb device

Sporky

Also don't bother with the presets.

Just put together something basic yourself straight off.

paulnb57

preston61 said:

paulnb57 said:

Helix HX FX incoming to a technophobe, should bounce onto the doormat sometime between 14:00 and 15:00 wish me luck!
This will be a steep, possibly vertical learning curve......

It it's arriving between 14:00 and 15:00, should we expect a classifieds listing between 16:00 and 17:00 (allowing for an hour of head scratching) :-)

They're actually fairly easy to get your head round, even I managed it for a while, so enjoy bud, the sounds are very good on most things

Lol for that!

preston61

paulnb57 said:

preston61 said:

paulnb57 said:

Helix HX FX incoming to a technophobe, should bounce onto the doormat sometime between 14:00 and 15:00 wish me luck!
This will be a steep, possibly vertical learning curve......

It it's arriving between 14:00 and 15:00, should we expect a classifieds listing between 16:00 and 17:00 (allowing for an hour of head scratching) :-)

They're actually fairly easy to get your head round, even I managed it for a while, so enjoy bud, the sounds are very good on most things

Lol for that!

For sale yet? ;-)

Hope you're enjoying it

EricTheWeary

Sporky said:

Also don't bother with the presets.

Just put together something basic yourself straight off.

I haven't got one but the basic advice seems to be to roughly replicate your existing board so it's as familiar as possible then explore from there? 

simonk

Wazmeister said:

My advice would be to download the (free) HX edit, and watch the Paul Sadites YT vids.

Easy enough to get into though, and a superb device

You may have more success with Jason Sadites... Although I’m not sure he’s done much for the HXFX.

My advice would be to recreate your most recent incarnation of your regular pedalboard bit by bit.

Sporky

EricTheWeary said:

Sporky said:

Also don't bother with the presets.

Just put together something basic yourself straight off.

I haven't got one but the basic advice seems to be to roughly replicate your existing board so it's as familiar as possible then explore from there? 

That approach certainly worked for me.

Or (assuming you're using it with an amp) try a few of the basic drives in turn, have a run through the reverbs and delays, all that sort of thing. It does an awful lot of stuff!

paulnb57

Some Sage advice here Jason doesnt appear to do amything for the FX...
Not for sale yet!
Had a quick run through the presets, which as I expected are all a bit over the top, but shows huge potential....
Have had to stop and find a tutorial as I couldn't even work out how to bypass it to just the amp, or how to create a patch, or set a unity level, so now will rewatch all the YouTube vids again to refresh my memory as I've got a bit overwhelmed.....
Later I'll try amd create something simple, then build on it...shame I don't have a board for reference to copy!!
Hey-ho, onward and upward, how difficult can it be?

Sporky

One thing I really like on the Helix that's hard to do with most stuff is a dual tremolo.

Put in two tremolo blocks, both tap tempo, but one at half the speed of the other and lower depth.

This gives a lovely wub-WUB-wub-WUB effect that works at any speed you like.

Cookiemonster

It's pretty easy. Don't be put off. I use it with my orange amp. We record live and the sound is much better than my board was.  I really like it. I wish it had a few things but can't win then all. If they could get the pitch shift stuff sorted out. And if they could add a fuzz face that actually sounded like a fuzz face I wouldn't never need other pedals. I also wish it had a headphones input

paulnb57

I managed to create a preset! Comp-Chorus-Delay-Reverb AND ...managed to rename and save it!
Small steps..
I wish I could block delete all the factory presets....

simonk

paulnb57 said:

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I wish I could block delete all the factory presets....

Just copy a bunch of empty presets and paste them over whatever you want rid of. I’d do a full back up first though... you know, just in case.

paulnb57

simonk said:

paulnb57 said:

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I wish I could block delete all the factory presets....

Just copy a bunch of empty presets and paste them over whatever you want rid of. I’d do a full back up first though... you know, just in case.

Good plan! I love this place, full of grown ups capable of advising technophobes!

To be fair though in a few minutes Ive pretty much got the hang of the basics, its now just a matter of getting more adventurous

digitalscream

paulnb57 said:

I managed to create a preset! Comp-Chorus-Delay-Reverb AND ...managed to rename and save it!
Small steps..
I wish I could block delete all the factory presets....

No need, surely - everything should default to the last set you were using, so presumably USER 1?

paulnb57

digitalscream said:

paulnb57 said:

I managed to create a preset! Comp-Chorus-Delay-Reverb AND ...managed to rename and save it!
Small steps..
I wish I could block delete all the factory presets....

No need, surely - everything should default to the last set you were using, so presumably USER 1?

You are quite right Lee, I'm a luddite thnking out loud, due to inexperience.....

Wazmeister

simonk said:

Wazmeister said:

My advice would be to download the (free) HX edit, and watch the Paul Sadites YT vids.

Easy enough to get into though, and a superb device

You may have more success with Jason Sadites... Although I’m not sure he’s done much for the HXFX.

My advice would be to recreate your most recent incarnation of your regular pedalboard bit by bit.

Good spot !!

It really is easy to use if you start with a blank preset too... remember, all of the Helix vids are largely applicable to all models. Maybe watch the Helix Floor/LT vids too, to give you an insight.

For example,