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I'm not an amp purist, I have 3 pedalboards and spares. Start with your amp at the volumes you use it. What's missing? The max you need is cleanish dirt volume boost and reverb. You can add after that but those are the core sounds and the simpler the better.
Yes a helix or digital or multi will do everything but can you adjust it on the fly? I have a gigrig mki I don't use much. Try digital or multi and make sure you can return it if it's not working in a band situation. Do you sing as well cos that's really going to mess with your tap dancing.
Any changes should make life easier.
I guess once one has more available options, one may be drawn towards them, but for me parallel paths seems like a future thing if at all.
Another question for the Helix crew - I have read a bit about this but interested to see how you approach it - how do you handle being able to go ampless sometimes and use an amp other times (Helix just for effects)? Would you duplicate presets or use snapshots in existing presets to turn off the amp and cab?
I know there's the third option of using the Helix preamps but am trying to keep the question simple. Although I think in this case I could run a split at the end of my preset and have the 1/4" jack to the amp with no cab sim and the XLR to the PA with cab sim? Then the same preset would work for both.
Or perhaps I could do the above with the amp and cab blocks in the split? But then what about effect after the amp or cab? Does one even put effects after the amp and cab? In a pedalboard and real amp scenario, one doesn't, but this is all different.
Head already exploding but still not put off!
For post-amp effects I would run anything stereo, which isn't much. Delay if it's a dirty amp sound, ambient reverbs if I'm trying to soften the dry cab feel. I think with the extra DSP on Helix Proper you could actually just double any post-amp effects you wanted to hit both outputs and then adjust them for amp sim and real amp accordingly.
I'll admit I do have an slight fascination with trying to squeeze every bit of functionality out of a single patch when my issue could be solved by just going to a patch per song model. I like the challenge though.
It would be exactly the same principle for virtually all modellers.
im guilty of it too but flipping eck what’s happened?
I used to do whole gigs with one guitar and amp plus two pedals and one of them was a tuner.
You'll then know if the DSP can provide all your options.