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I played Matt Schofield's guitar though his amp ...and I still sounded like shit.
You made it sound like it should be unnecessary which it isnt
Added an EQ and boosted the highs further, especially around 4K and 8k.
IR was fairly dark but had a good midrange. Those settings won’t make sense for brighter IR’s.
But I like what I’m hearing!
I heard a little birdy say Plini done this entire EP with Naitve, you know if that's true Ross?
I play guitar and take photos of stuff. I also like beans on toast.
I've heard/seen that fact somewhere too. Possibly not all the album, but a fair chunk of it, and all the bass tones from my patchy memory
I play guitar and take photos of stuff. I also like beans on toast.
There are lots of good suggestions on here, which aren't immediately obvious to the average guy. Imho.
2. 3rd party impulse responses are a must. The onboard cabs are fine and offer a lot of tweakability, but it can be just another rabbit hole to fall down. I’ve used Celestion and Ownhammer IRs, both are good, Celestion have a bit more top end detail and resemble more what you would expect to hear back over the monitors in the studio without any processing on. The Ownhammer sound a bit more massaged. Depending on what you are after, either could be made to work but one may be preferable to the other.
3. High and low pass filtering is a must. Try using the inbuilt ones in the IR or speaker can block or adding a separate EQ block after. There is a difference between the two as the dB per octave roll off is different. Depending on what you are after one may work better than the other. As has been said, high pass somewhere around the 80 to 100 hz mark, low pass somewhere between 6 and 9k. My personal preference is to get the amp/amps sounding as close as possible before switching on the high and low pass filters for the final tweak. This also means that the patches behave a lot more predictably if you hook them up to an external power amp and cab.
4. Listen with your ears not with your eyes or your expectations of how something should behave. The eq on the amp blocks doesn’t necessarily behave like you would expect a real amp to in my experience, though it could be the case that it perfectly matches the specific amps they are modelling. In terms of controlling top end harshness don’t be afraid to set treble and or presence at zero or very close to it. The same applies to the gain settings, less is sometimes more.
5. Embrace what the Helix can do that a real amp can’t or couldn’t without a pretty elaborate set up. In terms of improving the feel/realism of your patches try mixing in low level short delays and reverbs into the chain after your amp blocks. A short single repeat delay or a small splash or verb mixed in at 5 or 10% is not something you could pick out necessarily as being there but when you turn it off you will notice that it’s missing. It’s a feel thing as much as a sound.
6. All of my patches have two amps, one on each chip (internally) or line on the display. I them bring the signal back together at the for a single IR. One is usually set cleaner, the other slightly dirtier. My thing is edge of breakup sounds and this works great for that, maintaining clarity while getting gritty.
7. The modelled dirt pedals in the Helix are fine, but for overdrive stuff try using an amp preamp block in front of the amp block or even changing the drive and eq settings on your amp between your snapshots.
8. The Helix plays really well with other pedals. Hit the front of it with a real dirt pedal of choice and be surprised how much your modelled amp behaves like a real amp. All of the onboard effects are usable but they are not necessarily the best in class, try adding modulation pedals into the loops on the Helix, set the pedal to 100% wet and then blend in using the send amount on the Helix.
Annihilators latest 80s inspired thrash cd is too.
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i found IRs to be loads more faff for zero improvement.
IRs have their place but they're not essential.
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