Helix Talk

The Ampeg Liquifier has become my favorite chorus in the Helix - it's just so fuckin MOIST. I need to crank the headroom on that block though to like +7.5 to avoid clipping.
Yep, that one is at the top of my chorus list too. As time goes on and Stadium starts to get it's legs, I hope Line 6 revisits the stable of mod effects. That's one area that for my taste, there are good options, but not really any I'd consider great.
 
Retro Reel is fantastic in Helix. As good as any dedicated pedal such a Strymon's Deco.
I'll have to check that one out some day. It's not the kind of thing I immediately associate with modulation, I was thinking more chorus/flange/phaser type effects, but that sounds like it's in the family. Thanks for the tip!
 
I think he means running one path dry, and the other with the delay - then control the mix where the path ends
Right, but how do you assign a footswitch to bypass it? If you bypass it you have 2 parallel paths that are the same, doesn’t your signal get louder? Do you have to assign the footswitch to the mix instead? Admittedly I haven’t experimented with this much, I just assumed it might be a problem.

I'll have to check that one out some day. It's not the kind of thing I immediately associate with modulation, I was thinking more chorus/flange/phaser type effects, but that sounds like it's in the family. Thanks for the tip!
It could be a chorus if it had a mix knob. Or on a parallel path.
 
Right, but how do you assign a footswitch to bypass it? If you bypass it you have 2 parallel paths that are the same, doesn’t your signal get louder? Do you have to assign the footswitch to the mix instead? Admittedly I haven’t experimented with this much, I just assumed it might be a problem.
If you set unity gain so that enabled or disabled you don’t notice a volume change it would fix that - if the block doesn’t have a level parameter you could maybe add a volume block on that path as well?
 
Right, but how do you assign a footswitch to bypass it? If you bypass it you have 2 parallel paths that are the same, doesn’t your signal get louder? Do you have to assign the footswitch to the mix instead? Admittedly I haven’t experimented with this much, I just assumed it might be a problem.


It could be a chorus if it had a mix knob. Or on a parallel path.
You set a footswitch to toggle the Path B (or whichever path the effect is on) level between -60db (min) and whatever mix level you want it at (max), at the merge mixer.
 
You set a footswitch to toggle the Path B (or whichever path the effect is on) level between -60db (min) and whatever mix level you want it at (max), at the merge mixer.

For most FX not emitting noise when they're running "empty" (which would be almost all), you can as well just control A/B on the splitter. Allows one to have trail spillover in case there's delays/reverbs on path B as well. The A/B splitter also defaults to that operation once you assign a control. And you can then control the FX volume on the mixer.
 
I was looking for inspiration today and decided to start flipping through factory presets, which usually doesn’t yield much for me. However, I came across “Bill & Ted at CERN” which is a super tasty ambient patch.
 
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