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(ie ramping it right up)
The monitor mix needs different Eq than the FOH
I do sometimes have problems where their is only one Eq but then I just take another output and send it to another channel for the monitor mix
the cymbals wash over the high frequencies the bass drum and bass take all your low end and if your tone is mid scooped but the time you get the volume to a point you can hear it the bass and treble frequencies are through the roof
The speaker is working over time trying to deal with the low end despite the fact that no one can hear it over the bass and it starts to struggle to recreate the mid range
cut off everything below 80hz you don’t need it
and over 6hz if you are using it for backline
Use more mid heavy amps like the epic
put +6db on en exp pedal (however you fancy although I use three output block to save dsp)
and ride it when you have bits that need to be heard
Anytime me I try it I end up getting burned and don’t go back again unless it’s totally necessary.
wait, I remember actually playing one gig through a Fly Rig straight into a wedge that actually sounded great. Hmmm. Must be user fault, more trial and error needed I guess
The last time I used Helix (three gigs) without an amp on stage it was coming back to the monitor from the desk per the sound guy. Didn’t matter what we done it just disappeared. And I mean it was DREADFUL. Was some semi-expensive D&B job as well
I usually run to FOH and use a proper guitar cab for monitoring. Seems to be the fail safe way to do things.
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he is trying to Eq it for out front and you are trying to Eq it for the wedge. Everyone loses
if that happens then take another line out to the desk and have him pull the fader down but just Eq it for the monitor mix
Now I haven't read through all 195 pages on here so apologies if this has been discussed, but I would ideally plan to use it straight into the PA and then monitor using in-ears, so no real amp, no real cab, no wedges etc. Anybody use it like this and how does it work? (Good, Bad & Ugly please!)
Nothing to do with the Helix I just wasn’t enjoying playing like that anymore and the constant hassle with sound engineers when we weren’t using our own PA and the extra setup hassle when we were.. It’s not for me on the amateur circuit.
Having said all that, I also stopped taking an amp to gigs a year ago too.
I now just use the Helix on its own. The upsides are portable, you can hear yourself better as you can have a lot of guitar through the wedge without killing everyone on stage.
everyone else can hear you better as they can choose how much guitar they want (rather than relying on loudness and proximity of your amp)
Out front it sounds stellar unless the engineer is a fool (in which case you are fucked anyway)
Downsides
You are at the mercy of the quality of the monitors
I use L2s in our own PA and they sound great but some of the wedges I’m given are less than that (some are better)
As mentioned above, if the mixing desk doesn’t have seperate EQ for the monitor signal you can get a monitor feed that is EQd for the big speakers which rarely sounds good in monitors (work around above)
But you can go full stereo and even wet dry wet with only a backpack worth of gear.
the routing and automation options are superb (so multiple fx on and off with a single footswtich)
any option on any amp or Fx is expression pedal or footswitchable
The upsides far far outweigh the down
I must say I like what I've heard tone-wise from the AX8 more, but the price of the LT is too good and gets too much praise to be ignored.