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I'm not used to hearing a miced up cab as my core tone
It sounds and behaves in a very unnatural way for me
Fine for FOH but onstage I want it to sound like a valve amp
It would be different if I was using IEMs maybe but even back in the day when I was on big stages I had the sound guy make me a monitor with a couple of celestions in it ... Just for guitar
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
And it sounded better than that ..
Demoing a pedal is pretty easy; demoing a unit with what, forty amp models and a hundred effect models?
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
vs the GT-100.......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq1MNqR3CT4
now I'm not suggesting the GT-100 is better or even as good...but in the right hands one does or can sound better than the other just based on the player making the gear sound good. Our fave guitarist playing a lil Peavey practice amp would impress us and likely make us want to get one of the little Peaveys because he made it sound really good. a guitar noob playing through the same amp would sound terrible....same again if we now do a Helix!
I use a lot of FX ...
Spring - phaser - clean/crunch - heavy dist - looper
Octave down - whammy up - flanger - delay - chorus
Delay controlled by exp 2
Volume 0 to +7 DB on exp 1
I have an external wah and a crunch pedal
The other 3 patches are variations of that core set up with some buttons re-assigned for harmonies (and key changes) or specific synth type effects
The gt100 wouldn't cut it
Not sure what you have going on there that the GT-100 can't do with the same amount of external pedals ? And even so....if you had to do it over 2 or 3 patches of what consequence would that be ?
Don't get ne wrong - I'm definitely a Helix fan and likely to get one soon, just having now played on one for about 45 mins and due to them not having stock in of the floor unit at the time I've been able to cool down from the high, dig out my GT-100 that I'd not used in ages plug it into my Alesis M1 Active monitors and get very similar sounds to what the Line 6 Presets were getting me when I tried...hence why I'm holding back on buying one for now, but odds on temptation will get the better of me soon enough.....
that said most of my favourite sounds are usually from simply guitar rigs. The core tone of a good setup is a good valve sound. With a real amp live you have this. The FX I tend to use sparingly as icing on the cake. But the cake itself is always the core tone of the amp + analogue drive pedals...guess I'm old school in my tastes when it comes to toanz.
Before I tried the Helix some guys where on it before me and I was having a good listen they were playing with the metal sounds mostly and it sure did sound good - but definitely like a multi fx processor or a metal pedal rather than a real amp. Then I was hearing someone else a few feet away plugged into a JVM combo with just an SG and even before I saw what was producing the sound I knew it was a real amp. Summit about the real thing that as of yet no modeller does quite so well.... IMHO anyway.
Can you assign one footswitch to do multiple things?
Can you have more than 10 fx running in the background? (I always have the Klon on I have 3 different Eqs and the compressor running)
Can it take XLRs out straight to the desk for FOH?
If it can do even half of that then I'm impressed
well, if spead over a couple of patches then very easily. But even without thinking about it....
manual mode - 6 pedals each with their own FX + expression set as volume then wah when you stomp on it. So there's 8. Then there's an extra FX loop..if you want to chain another external 10 pedals *being silly of course then you can indulge your madness. And you can also add another expression pedal or extra footswitch. But in the real world of real guitar TOANZ who on earth would really want all that on at once and expect a good natural tone ?
Can you have 10 buttons at a time? No it has 6 pedals (not counting the exp and ctrl pedals of which you can add one of each externally.
Can you assign one footswitch to do multiple things? YES...well you can with the expression pedal and accl pedal anyway.
from http://www.bossus.com/products/gt-100/
"New Tonal Possibilities with the Accel Pedal
A new dimension of expression is available with the Accel pedal, which enables control of multiple parameters simultaneously, as well as time-variant effects such as Feedbacker, S-Bend, Twist, and more. Experiment with creative combinations of parameters and bring dynamic new sounds to your performances by interacting in real time with this cool pedal."
Can you have more than 10 fx running in the background? (I always have the Klon on I have 3 different Eqs and the compressor running)
looking at the chain in my GT-100 on a single patch there are 14 FX not all are on but that's cos I got taste lol...I could turn everything on if I was mad enough....
Can it take XLRs out straight to the desk for FOH? No I doesn't have XLR outputs. Just a left (mono) and right jack outputs along with USB.
That's well over half so you should be impressed what £309 can buy you these days! And as for sound quality show me any demo of the Helix and i'll find 2 that match or better it! (on youtube). Just for fun n larks.