![]() If you don't tend to use your guitar's volume knob very much you may prefer Kilrahi's setup or even putting the volume pedal in front of the distiortion/overdrives as it will change not only the volume but also the amount/tone of the distortion effects and the amps/cabs. Also setting up the volume pedal right before the delay/reverb means it acts primarily only to affect the overall volume of the preset while the the volume knob on my guitar continues to serve its usual purpose of providing more push to the initial signal which drives effects like distortion/overdrive as wells as the amp/cab harder and changes the overall tone of the preset. One of the significant aspects of Kilrahi's signal chain or the one I use is that the volume pedal does not kill the tails on the delays or reverb when your ratchet it down and lets them finish naturally. That way I don't change the tone of the amp/cab when I work the volume pedal. I set up the volume after the amp/cab and right before any delays/reverb. This is almost exactly how I tend to set up my signal chain with one difference. Guitar > compressor > overdrive > volume pedal > amp/cab > delay > reverbs. However, I would do it this way more often than not: Long and short is Helix is a modeler for the inventive and active player You would think some of this chain would not work well but based upon the FX & settings I chose it does. Guitar -> boost -> wah -> distortion -> gate -> preamp -> EQ -> delay -> amp only -> modulation -> comp -> cab IR -> boost -> modulation -> vol -> loop -> XLR out to PA. I have tried everything suggested and here is one more I have tried but not the end by any means The Helix is a truly interesting modeler in my experience. Or do you have to think of it like a real pedal board, where the amp comes last? Please help.Īll the suggestions and feedback are very valuable here. My question was, does it matter where in the signal path I place the amp or cabs? Does it make a difference? Everything I’ve read or watched, people just seem to place it somewhere in the middle. I’ve been watching tutorials and and reading forums. I just purchased a helix like a week ago and I’m starting to get the hang of it. I think you can lose a lot of creativity if you confine yourself purely to the physical world of pedalboards and amps. And harmony effects can have atrocious tracking before an amp in many cases whereas they sound much tighter right after the cab or even between the amp and cab. Certain things like phaser and chorus effects can produce significantly different tones when placed before or after the amp. It's that way due more to technical limitations in many cases which aren't present in the studio environment.įor example, in the studio reverbs and delays tend to be more toward the end of the signal chain, but in some cases something like a spring reverb may make certain amps have a more authentic flavor if it's placed between the amp and the cabinet(s). Not everything on a pedalboard is necessarily optimal for getting the sounds one hears in many recordings. It's also more in line with how Line 6 has represented the Helix signal chains. It may be more effective to think about how things would be laid out in a studio session than on a pedalboard simply because it opens up a lot more possibilities than one would have on a typical pedalboard and amp situation. Guitar>Compressor>overdrive>volume pedal>delay>reverbs>then straight into amp. Okay, so far from what I’m understating so far, it basically like a normal pedal board chain?įor example, this is how I normally have my pedal board chain ![]()
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