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I use 3rd party IR's for all of the GDL/Fremen patches as I find the one they come with (be it their own or using on board cabs) sound a little off.
I use the db in the IR's ( I use Ownhammer) to even out things
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I play guitar and take photos of stuff. I also like beans on toast.
Plenty of people have success with the built in cabs but I think they take some dialling in I found third party irs a shortcut to some very good sounds.
Just make sure all the levels are set correctly for 4CM - line/instrument etc and you should be good to go.
Try the free Ownhammer Mesa 412 packs, it's really good and transformed the Helix for me anyway.
it makes you treat them differently
A Matchless DC30 is terrifying and you tend to play quite gently until you dig in
The modelled version I seem to play it harder and just turn it down but unless I give it a tonn of Volume it sounds totally different
I thought he Helix didn't have the same dynamic range but it does .. I just had to turn it up to the same kind of level
most of my patches use the SLO clean model and then drive pedals for the different levels of drive
I feel the same way as you. reliability issues I had aside, I felt I was always struggling to get a decent tone that I was truly happy with, third party IR's or not. I've gone back to the Kemper now, it really is the cream of the crop when it comes to amp tones. I think it said something that, a few rough demo's aside, I never felt I'd be happy producing decent quality recordings using the Helix on it's own.
Now as a top draw effects unit to use in conjunction with an amp, that's a different matter. Nothing better out there at the moment in my opinion.