Helix Talk

@James Freeman
Your old tip about exploring (very) low master volume levels, too, has been very important for me and in many cases my sounds improved thanks to that adjustment. In my Italian (language) I'd say that this way the amp sound is less clogged up, but maybe the usual word here is "less muddy bass". Thanks for your tip!

Anyway, sometimes it's not very clear to me what I should hear following your suggested test:
"The easiest way to find the squish point is to set Treble and Presence on 10 and Mid on 0, then slowly turn the MV from 0 up until you hear the poweramp starting to squish, that's the point. This trick works with real amps and accurate modelers (Fractal, Helix, etc..)."
Since I suppose that the master level coming from this test will always be the same for each Helix amp sim, could you tell just 2-3 examples (amp1 master level x; amp2 master level y) so that I can understand better what I should hear replicating the same adjustments with my Helix?
And what do you mean exactly with that "squish point"? Does it mean that with higher master level (over the squish point) we just have no more clean headroom or even less pleasant distortion?
 
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I saw Vernon Reid is using multiple Helix units.

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I got to see them live this week. Really great show. Doug's Spector and Trace Elliott rig was just *muah*

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Fired up the Divided Duo today, and had a blast. Clean to edge-of-breakup to rock riffs-land. This is such a wonderful model. There are many spots in the knobs that make my bridge humbucker sound more glassy and kerrangy, with that single coil bite, and still sound full-bodied and bright on the neck single coil. Tone+Cut+Presence seems like a really unique tone stack to play with! And drive 1 and drive 2 help dialing in 2 completely different flavours to the table, with drive 1 bringing in more warm, low mid, mid tones into play, and drive 2 bringing in the more scooped frequencies into play.

I then fired up the WhoWatt 100 (HiWatt model), cranked up the master and drive and wow that model sings. I know people feel the newer models are "better", but I have to disagree (in my opinion). I think older models are just as good.
 
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