Teh intarwebs.There, internets is the problem. It is heavily infiltrated by the deep state. If you search the interwebs instead, that's where all the secret knowledge is. And it's always right and always true. All the time. Every time. I know this is so. One of the Teletubbies told me so.
They shoulda named it Helix Animal Style.
Hold the squirrels, hold the alias, some amp requests do upset us. You can’t have it your way, at Model King.
I could just put it on every patch. It belongs in global though because what if you have to tweak it for a venue or foreign recording situation?
Helix pretty much nails the pickup loading behavior of a fuzz face along with the volume knob cleanup behavior. I’m comparing against a half dozen fuzz faces I own. They’ve had the pickup loading all the way back to PodHD. I’m not saying their model is indistinguishable but the interaction seems correct to me.
This would bug me if I did a global EQ like that - how do you get a true representation of what the amp sounds like when creating a new patch?
Sorry I just said that name was excellent.. and think putting all the “older” helix stuff in a supposed revamped engine unit is a lot like the gt1000 having the older amps and only putting a few x amps in it… when the x amps are clearly more dynamic… too many people here are so biased it’s weird
What are you hearing below 80Hz and above 15kHz? Are you running the amps without cabs??
Why do you need to cut below 80Hz and above 15kHz? Are you running the amps without cabs??
I’m just joking, but that argument does work both ways.
Can’t disagree with that
I mean, using it as a way to pass time is probably your best way to use it.
For sure. With the cab I currently use with the AC30 model, I use no low cut and only a moderate roll-off above 10K just to tame the extreme highs. I could probably get away without high cuts for that particular set of sounds, but with most other cabs I have some kind of low and high cuts going because it needs it. No rules. Just cut what you need to.
Definitely tangible information in both of the ranges. The usefulness of either is debatable, but if guitarist start doing things because of useful it is musically, there goes half the gear market.
When hd500 was out and then helix released it was pretty much a whole new engine and tones and effects… remember that? Touted as new modeling as well…
An open E6 string has a frequency of 82.41Hz. The low cut on your global EQ has a slope of 12dB/oct (IIRC), which isn't very steep. So cutting at 80Hz will already affect your low E string in a noticeable way.
