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I'm trying to get a volume swell effect triggered by a momentary switch.
Basically the switch should toggle between two levels but with rise/decay time.
Is that possible in the HX?
 
James Freeman said:
Did you try Autoswell with momentary bypass assign?
It goes form silence to full volume though.
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That is what I try to replace. It's cool, but it is triggered by my playing which is imprecise and fails to trigger the swell some of the time.
I want a pseudo-volume pedal swell triggered only by my foot.
 
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DieSchmalle said:
That is what I try to replace. It's cool, but it is triggered by my playing which is imprecise and fails to trigger the swell some of the time.
I want a pseudo-volume pedal swell triggered by my foot.
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How about a volume block that's tied to an expression pedal, allowing for switchless action, if you mod it with a spring it'd even go back to zero when you lift your foot back off. That's what I would try... although it might be overkill.
 
Sascha Franck said:
Quite some things to make up for confusion. Basically, ""FRFR"" speakers, PA speakers, headphones and studio monitors are all the same. At least they're shooting for the same result (namely "FRFR") and it's way less about the difference between the individual "types" but a lot more about the difference between brands and quality.
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I'd say the goals of each are different though. Studio monitors and headphones are for monitoring at low to moderate volumes while PA cabs are meant to be able to get the sound to the audience at a loud volume.
 
laxu said:
I'd say the goals of each are different though.
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Yes and no. The main goal of all of them is to reproduce the entire sound spectrum with full dynamics, so, in a nutshell, ideally all of them are supposed to deliver "FRFR" performance. The reason that some of them aren't doing that is either situational (typical floor wedges often have a setting for more pronounced mids, consumer monitors sometimes tend to sound loudness-button-ish, some headphones come with corrections to accomodate their use cases, especially IEMs, etc.) or due to financial limits - but in the end, they're still supposed to deliver a complete impression of whatever is played through them - as in total opposite to anything running through a guitar cab.

And btw, I also don't get the article's distinction between "FRFR" and PA speakers, the latter apparently also including floor monitor wedges, whereas in the paragraph about "FRFR" we're finding this:
"FRFR" stands for Full Range/Flat Response, and they are typically wooden cabinets that look like real guitar cabs,
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That is just weird. "FRFR" was a term used before modeling got popular and before people were going to kind of imitate the stage feel (and look) of a guitar speaker through fullrange systems. Typically, people would use the term "FRFR" trying to classify/index floor monitors - as opposed to those monitors deliberately shaping the sound for better stage performance (see above, as in at least sort of enhancing the mids). For the other mentioned systems, once they're past cheap consumer level, "FRFR" (at least as much as possible within certain financial boundaries) is a given anyway, so it doesn't even need to be mentioned. In fact, "FRFR" isn't even a certain "class" of monitors, let alone one that's merely limited to guitar player use. It's just describing an (idealized) condition for many different monitoring systems. The fact that the term got popular within the guitar amp modeling world doesn't change anything with that.
 
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Sascha Franck said:
That is just weird. "FRFR" was a term used before modeling got popular
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Yup.
Sascha Franck said:
The fact that the term got popular within the guitar amp modeling world doesn't change anything with that.
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I see many "discoveries" touted by folks who apparently haven't been paying attention. I won't use the acronym, because it has become associated with so much misinformation and mythology.
 
I've this silly idea, a new feature for our beloved Helix, somenthing intended for live use.

The idea is being able toggle between two different blocks assigned to a footswitch by long pressing the footswitch.
Not somenthing I'd use while playing but between songs.

I know, know, you can save different presets but I believe that would be awesome to be able expand the number of effects at your disposal without the need to maintain several presets. :love

I mean we all have a block we use in one or two songs in the entire setlist. Imagine your self simply long pressing your, let's say, phaser switch and voilà! a flanger appear for that only song where you need it.
 
HotRats said:
I've this silly idea, a new feature for our beloved Helix, somenthing intended for live use.

The idea is being able toggle between two different blocks assigned to a footswitch by long pressing the footswitch.
Not somenthing I'd use while playing but between songs.

I know, know, you can save different presets but I believe that would be awesome to be able expand the number of effects at your disposal without the need to maintain several presets. :love

I mean we all have a block we use in one or two songs in the entire setlist. Imagine your self simply long pressing your, let's say, phaser switch and voilà! a flanger appear for that only song where you need it.
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Knowing myself I’d accidentally long press while being distracted by either a comely audience member, or more likely, the TV with the Seinfeld rerun at the bar.
 
HotRats said:
I mean we all have a block we use in one or two songs in the entire setlist. Imagine your self simply long pressing your, let's say, phaser switch and voilà! a flanger appear for that only song where you need it.
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A limited form of Fractal's “channels" would achieve this.
 
I’ve been playing around with putting real drives in front of my HX Stomp instead of using the internal models. I’m not finding it to be the “a-ha” moment other have. Any thoughts on approaching this different or is it just how it goes. I’m using a Sparke Drive and a Klone.
 
HotRats said:
I've this silly idea, a new feature for our beloved Helix, somenthing intended for live use.

The idea is being able toggle between two different blocks assigned to a footswitch by long pressing the footswitch.
Not somenthing I'd use while playing but between songs.

I know, know, you can save different presets but I believe that would be awesome to be able expand the number of effects at your disposal without the need to maintain several presets. :love

I mean we all have a block we use in one or two songs in the entire setlist. Imagine your self simply long pressing your, let's say, phaser switch and voilà! a flanger appear for that only song where you need it.
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You can assign multiple fx toggles on the same footswitch.

Let's say you have a preset where you have both Flanger and Phaser blocks. You'd make a snapshot where Phaser is enabled, then by pressing your multi-footswitch it would swap between Phaser and Flanger being enabled when bypass of both fx is assigned to the same footswitch.

I get it wastes a snapshot and is a bit complicated but I think that would work with the current system.
 
laxu said:
You can assign multiple fx toggles on the same footswitch.

Let's say you have a preset where you have both Flanger and Phaser blocks. You'd make a snapshot where Phaser is enabled, then by pressing your multi-footswitch it would swap between Phaser and Flanger being enabled when bypass of both fx is assigned to the same footswitch.

I get it wastes a snapshot and is a bit complicated but I think that would work with the current system.
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I think that works if the Phaser or Flanger is always on, but how would you manage toggling the effects on or off.
 
ragingplatypi said:
Knowing myself I’d accidentally long press while being distracted by either a comely audience member, or more likely, the TV with the Seinfeld rerun at the bar.
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I push the wrong switches all the time, lol.


Foxmeister said:
A limited form of Fractal's “channels" would achieve this.
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I'm not familiar with fractal products but yeah, it's cool they can do that. Is a great feature in my opinion.

There's more available dsp power than foot switches, especially if you use it for fxs only and it's a kind of waste.

I can load probably twice the fxs I'm currently using in a single preset because fxs without foot switches are basically useless when playing live.

The other solution would be having multiple foot switch pages, something I've suggested several times.


laxu said:
You can assign multiple fx toggles on the same footswitch.

Let's say you have a preset where you have both Flanger and Phaser blocks. You'd make a snapshot where Phaser is enabled, then by pressing your multi-footswitch it would swap between Phaser and Flanger being enabled when bypass of both fx is assigned to the same footswitch.

I get it wastes a snapshot and is a bit complicated but I think that would work with the current system.
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That would work for a single switch/single couple of fxs and you can't have both off though
 
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