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Plenty of plugin companies lose traction in the market and then stop updating- I am thinking URS here as one example.
I need companies to be in it for the long term.
Same with guitar plugins, to bring it back on topic.
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Also I guess they were working on Helix instead
Quite a few companies dropped the ball with that but it was a massive change.
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Football is rubbish.
Studio: https://www.voltperoctave.com
Music: https://www.euclideancircuits.com
Me: https://www.jamesrichmond.com
Football is rubbish.
Also what are you comparing to and what sounds are you trying to get?
It wasn't clipping on the input - I will check again though.
I'd like to start with a warm but not flabby clean sound. I tried the 2204 for a gain sound as I've seen people say it's good... It feels basically unusable as there's no clarity or definition, it's just muddy...
I also discovered a couple of weeks ago that running at 96k plays a lot nicer with a smaller buffer size and works way better than the 44.1k I was using. It made a lot of difference.
I'd recommend a DI box anyway, I've got an Orchid DI and it sounds nicer than the inbuilt DIs. Plus will give all the headroom you'd need.
All I have is the free Ownhammer Mesa 4x12 one. When I select the IR it then gives two options of IR 1024 or IR 2048, then the IR select has 128 different selections. They all sound pretty bad to me so am I doing something wrong?
Should I mess with the low and high cut?
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
What about the high and low cut?
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
For instance this is mine:
Guitar -> unbalanced into Groove Tubes Vipre's Instrument DI-> balanced into Focusrite Red 8 Pre and into Helix then out of Red 8 Pre into SPL MTC2381 monitor controller -> balanced into Dynaudio BM6a monitors & Tannoy TS10 sub.
Forget the Presets- just create a new patch with an amp and a cab in it- I'd suggest an AC30 style thing- imho these are the trickiest to model
I reckon the Helix has a great AC30 sound.
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Football is rubbish.
I actually wish I'd waited a while for more updates before I tried the demo, there are some obvious improvements to be made still to how the plugin works (the resizeable window being a major one, scrolling for amp settings isn't especially enjoyable) and I'm sure the modelling will improve too. As of currently it doesn't work for me.
Ampeg SVX 2 was pretty much the nail in the coffin. It doesn't do the cool gritty/drive stuff the Helix bass stuff can do, but I can get the grit from other sources (I'm enjoying Cytomic's The Scream a lot for it's mix and HP/LP), however the clean and dynamic deep low end you can get from the V-4B model in particular is fantastic, and the GUI is preferable for me anyway. I do rate Native for bass, but the price makes it unjustifiable for me right now.
For guitars I'm not hearing anything in Native that is better than S-Gear or TSE's X50, like for like. Native does a bunch more stuff, but doesn't add anything for me when I honestly think the Axe FX high gain models are better than any of the software I've tried and by quite a margin when playing dynamics and volume pedals get thrown in to the equation (most of my transitions are via volume pedal to go between higher gain and glassier/gritty cleanish sounds).
It does mean running a compatibility layer, and it also means that I have to use a native Linux DAW (so Ardour, Mixbus or Reaper - yes, there's a fully-functional Linux-native version of Reaper now) because Helix Native only works with the non-realtime versions of WINE.
However, that's not actually a problem at all. Latency isn't increased (because WINE is only doing processing, not dealing with the audio interface directly), and I genuinely couldn't tell the difference between using Native as a plugin or using my Helix LT with the DAW monitoring. As an aside, there's definitely a smidge more latency playing with DAW monitoring when using Mixbus in comparison to Reaper.
EDIT: Oh, and when using a patch which would max out any of the Helix hardware units, Native uses around 25-28% of one of the eight virtual cores of my Core i7 6700 CPU.