From my attempts at going back and forth between the Rabea NDSP plugin and my Helix, it's quite obvious there is multi band compression happening after the last enabled block of the plugin. When I enable the EQ block of the plugin, there's this blooming pop, as if it hit some kind of compressor at the end. There's also some kind of smoothing happening on the high end somewhere along the fx chain. I can recreate this on Helix by putting a multi band compressor block after the cabs block and targeting the highs with light compression at around 2k and pulling that band down by 2.5dB or so.
Pulling down the highs makes me think of what we hear naturally when standing and a cab is on the floor. We hear more lows and mids than the highs when compared to a close-mic, which is exposed to way more highs.
In any case, at least with the Rabea plugin, the amps' behavior is very unnatural and yet extremely pleasing to play and listen to. Funny how that is for me.
Pulling down the highs makes me think of what we hear naturally when standing and a cab is on the floor. We hear more lows and mids than the highs when compared to a close-mic, which is exposed to way more highs.
In any case, at least with the Rabea plugin, the amps' behavior is very unnatural and yet extremely pleasing to play and listen to. Funny how that is for me.
i misread that the wrong way around...
