Line 6 Helix

fretmeister

Oh, and add a smidge of drive. Turn up the gain until you can hear it... Then turn it back down a gnats.

Just to (hopefully) make it sound alive and give a bit more harmonic content.

kjdowd

I have been particularly enjoying the leslie emulation on the helix of late, particularly after having it pointed out that it should be used as a cab/IR rather than an effect. it's rather marvelllous.

Sporky

fretmeister said:

Oh, and add a smidge of drive. Turn up the gain until you can hear it... Then turn it back down a gnats.

Just to (hopefully) make it sound alive and give a bit more harmonic content.

Done. Not actually tried it yet, but my "standard" patch now has 19 blocks in four signal paths. That's perfectly cromulent.

matt1973

kjdowd said:

I have been particularly enjoying the leslie emulation on the helix of late, particularly after having it pointed out that it should be used as a cab/IR rather than an effect. it's rather marvelllous.

kjdowd said:

I have been particularly enjoying the leslie emulation on the helix of late, particularly after having it pointed out that it should be used as a cab/IR rather than an effect. it's rather marvelllous.

As well as or instead of a standard guitar cab ir?

fretmeister

When I listen to isolated bass tracks, I'm always amazed at how much drive is used even on tunes that sound completely clean when mixed.

guitarfishbay

Could you provide some examples of what kind of tracks you're talking about @fretmeister  ?

I've tended to be impressed by the amount of fret buzz/clank that a lot of rock players get away with.  The Sansamp/Darkglass grit sound seems to be about emphasising those frequencies I find.

Cabicular

Listen to the iso bass for whole lot of love
There is a lot more going on there than I thought

guitarfishbay

Yeah just took a listen.

I also found this playlist of 145 isolated bass tracks so that will be me busy for a while. 

kjdowd

matt1973 said:

kjdowd said:

I have been particularly enjoying the leslie emulation on the helix of late, particularly after having it pointed out that it should be used as a cab/IR rather than an effect. it's rather marvelllous.

kjdowd said:

I have been particularly enjoying the leslie emulation on the helix of late, particularly after having it pointed out that it should be used as a cab/IR rather than an effect. it's rather marvelllous.

As well as or instead of a standard guitar cab ir?

Instead of. I have it in a few patches and assign a footswitch to toggle between it and the standard IR (set the IR as active and the leslie as inactive, then assign the footswitch to both so that it will toggle between). 

Sporky

One thing I've not quite been able to work out is how to force the lit/unlit state of a footswitch how I want it. In theory I should be able to set the switch to on or off, then set the bypassed/not bypassed state for each block controlled by the footswitch.

In practice, some bypassed/not bypassed states seem to have influence over the lit/unlit state. This confuses me.

matt1973

Sporky said:

One thing I've not quite been able to work out is how to force the lit/unlit state of a footswitch how I want it. In theory I should be able to set the switch to on or off, then set the bypassed/not bypassed state for each block controlled by the footswitch.

In practice, some bypassed/not bypassed states seem to have influence over the lit/unlit state. This confuses me.

I've have the same problem. The button seems to attach its lit state to a particular block in some sort of hierarchy that is, as yet, a mystery to me. Hitting the bypass button as appropriate would be the instictual fix but that doesn't appear to work.

Sporky

At least it's not just me. It doesn't seem to have to do with whether most blocks are bypassed or not, nor which blocks are bypassed, nor what sorts of blocks are bypassed.

As you say there must be a logic behind it, but I haven't yet worked it out.

kjdowd

Sporky said:

One thing I've not quite been able to work out is how to force the lit/unlit state of a footswitch how I want it. In theory I should be able to set the switch to on or off, then set the bypassed/not bypassed state for each block controlled by the footswitch.

In practice, some bypassed/not bypassed states seem to have influence over the lit/unlit state. This confuses me.

If you repeatedly touch the footswitch it will cycle through the various effects assigned to it and be lit/unlit and whatever colour as appropriate for that effect.

kjdowd

kjdowd said:

Sporky said:

One thing I've not quite been able to work out is how to force the lit/unlit state of a footswitch how I want it. In theory I should be able to set the switch to on or off, then set the bypassed/not bypassed state for each block controlled by the footswitch.

In practice, some bypassed/not bypassed states seem to have influence over the lit/unlit state. This confuses me.

If you repeatedly touch the footswitch it will cycle through the various effects assigned to it and be lit/unlit and whatever colour as appropriate for that effect.

This does mean it is just as easy to accidentally set one of the other effects as the primary, as it were, and it will adopt that bypass state and colour instead!

matt1973

Actually I think I may have sussed it - the lit state seems to attach itself to the block that was created last. I think.

kjdowd

^ See comment above, If you touch footswitch (but only touch it, don't press or click it) it will cycle through the assigned effects.

matt1973

Ahh so it does, youre quite right.

Sporky

kjdowd said:

If you repeatedly touch the footswitch it will cycle through the various effects assigned to it and be lit/unlit and whatever colour as appropriate for that effect.

Ah-ha! Thank you!

That's actually very simple when you know. Duh.

kjdowd

Sporky;1013754" said:

kjdowd said:



If you repeatedly touch the footswitch it will cycle through the various effects assigned to it and be lit/unlit and whatever colour as appropriate for that effect.





Ah-ha! Thank you!

That's actually very simple when you know. Duh.

I'm just regurgitating stuff off other forums and passing it of as wisdom

Sporky

Works for me.