Huge Dilemma, SWAP OR NOT |
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Huge Dilemma, SWAP OR NOT |
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Apr 24 2017, 12:25 PM |
Thanks Mertay,
I'm have some that I bought for the AA, and a free Cenzo Townsend one from Celestion. I actually thought about buying the whole Vintage30 pack from Celestion. It's a shame you can't buy a "pick 'n' mix" pack from them. Cheers -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Apr 24 2017, 01:08 PM |
I have a friend who used redwirez for a very long time then switched to celestion, if you find a company that you like then %99 of the impulse part of work is complete
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Apr 24 2017, 09:10 PM |
Well it came and it is a beast. I was surprised how big the box is See the pic below.
It isn't as snazzy looking as the original but I don't mind as I don't need the extra I/Os of the original and it is also not over that "mental hurdle" of being over £1000 Anyway, it is a big box of tools and will take a while to grow into. I've had a play, not got a sound out of it as quick as the AA, it's much more in depth, I'm going to take it easy for a while but I do think I'll be able to get rid of my GT100 very soon. This post has been edited by Phil66: Apr 25 2017, 11:36 AM -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Apr 25 2017, 10:53 AM |
Super congrats! Start with the freebie packs and then move up from there I'm sure you will find something you like!
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Apr 25 2017, 07:10 PM |
Mine came preinstalled with this
http://line6.com/support/topic/25218-helix...update-out-now/ And a nice little gift in the box too. It took me ages to get this into Photobucket, it kept telling me the file was incompatible, then I realised I was trying to put a jpg into Soundcloud This post has been edited by Phil66: Apr 25 2017, 07:29 PM -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Apr 26 2017, 08:12 PM |
Well a couple of days in and I'm still getting to grips with the basics. I'm not letting it take too much practise time though.
Straight out of the box, the raw guitar tones aren't as "good" as the AA (see HERE) but I'm 100% I'll be able to dial some in. The effects on the AA were hard to get to grips with, the Helix is more pedal based, as I'm used to with the GT-100, the delay block on the AA had about 35 knobs to mess with. At the moment I'm getting a bit of option paralysis too The Helix is a humungous box of tools. I still think I've made the right choice long term but for out of the box tones the AA beats it Back to my pressing and guessing and turning and learning Here's a Vai tone from the free patch exchange. See what you think compared to the AA https://soundcloud.com/gmcphil-1/ftlog-helix This post has been edited by Phil66: Apr 26 2017, 08:56 PM -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Apr 27 2017, 08:01 AM |
The AA one was done by the factory, the Helix was done by a user so maybe therein lies the difference I will keep that as a template though.
I know the Helix will do everything I need, the AA was great for guitar tones and the presets were pretty good but manipulating the effects was much more involved because there was just one delay block for instance, everything was in there to get what you need but it required knowledge, a lot of knowledge on how the delay works. Also I wanted some weird effects for the creativity workshops and I can't be doing with lots of pedals and cables. I know it's for me, I just didn't expect to be so overwhelmed with the options I had an ir of a 5150 2x12 cab blended with a Marshall cab but it won't fit in the Helix, it says out of memory. It's over 2000kb but the AA took it without an issue. I can see me ending up with the Helix and an AA in the loop, or the other way around -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Apr 27 2017, 01:51 PM |
Hey Phil! Congrats on the new device! It looks so good and inspiring!!
How do you feel the tones? Are there new samples to check? -------------------- My lessons
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Apr 27 2017, 02:33 PM |
Working on a Jack White one for the lesson, tried to mimic the settings from your Pod HD500 but it wasn't close. I'll post it here tonight, I'm not far off but I don't know how to get it closer. The big thing is the ability to recognise effects within the tone.
Cheers -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Apr 27 2017, 08:15 PM |
Thanks for looking Mertay It won't accept it though. It just says "Out of memory error" .
UPDATE: I just went back to the site to ask them about it and spotted a Helix version The site is HERE I've just found a factory preset called 4d Love Of Steve which I assume is what that user had used to create his 4D Love Of God patch. Here it is. Excuse the playing, cold hands https://soundcloud.com/gmcphil-1/factory-4d-love-of-god Here is a Jack White patch that I'm trying to match to THIS lesson. https://soundcloud.com/gmcphil-1/jack-white-gab Any tips would be great. Thanks -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Apr 27 2017, 08:39 PM |
By memory it doesn't mean the ir space is full on its drive?
Cool, subtle finder moves can passing through is a good sign |
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Apr 27 2017, 09:15 PM |
By memory it doesn't mean the ir space is full on its drive? I'll get back to you on this I think there must be a certain size allocation for each ir Cool, subtle finder moves can passing through is a good sign Sorry mate, I really don't understand what you mean Cheers -------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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Apr 27 2017, 09:44 PM |
I wouldn't either I mean subtle finger moves were very noticable, with such drive on processors (even pedals) usually its doesn't get noticable.
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Apr 27 2017, 09:54 PM |
At the moment I'm kind of missing the AA but I'm also glad I didn't keep it because I know this thing will be incredible. Apparently Richie Castellano used only a Helix for the last BOC album
-------------------- SEE MY GMC CERTIFICATE “Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in instalments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.” Israelmore Ayivor |
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