LukeFRC

For anyone who cares (and @Owen who will humour me) I solved it! It's fixed and works!! Test at home: plug into mini mixer with headphones, low signal lots of noise... my 3 year old daughter has the cans on.... "Hmm maybe it's something in software settings?" I think - go to plug USB cable in and BANG the signal jumps up giving my 3 year old a fright (her hearing is fine) so first problem is that something on the USB port was doing something odd... seems to be fixed. As Jean-Luc suggested asked the Demon to go elsewhere, he's now made up home in my wife's hairdryer. Will deal with this problem later. Took to church, plugged in.... it works but the XLR outputs are +4dBu and the preamp on the desk needs to be set at about 0db, maximum 6db ... so if we plugged in and it hadn't been turned right down that would explain the noise too.... Then the noise floor is pretty high, experimenting (I've not been involved with the tech at church) so some random cable extension is putting a load of noise in the signal, switch that and bingo we're ok! Still can't play the bloody thing myself but hey ho!

I had no idea what this thread I got a notification was about .... so had to remind myself... but very much approve of that colour choice... I wanted to get my Lakland refinished a similar colour, I was going to go for something similar to MINI's British racing green IV metallic In other green colours worth looking at BMWs Isle of Man green would be interesting....

Didn't I make a comment last year about you getting a stingray, and you said you wouldn't?

My 1982 L1000 didn't have shielding... it's not something Leo seemed to do much of.

out of interest - what are you doing with 6 bands of parametric Eq?

You've got Global eq which is 3 band with LPF and HPF and presumably the same in a parametric eq block? If I needed 6 point parametric I would use two eq blocks next to one another.

Reminds me of this

We should have a game where someone posts a synth bass line or something and then everyone try’s to get as close as pos with a helix and then shares the patches

go for the one that sounds the best

Take a break for a bit.

so I'm def not a synth bass person. I really haven't really dabbled, but there seems to be a fair few synthy type things added for those of us who are never going to buy a Future Impact or whatever

I think the reason why they haven't really developed the bass cabs is that most people seem to move towards using IR. Bass amps though... The XT live had: Acoustic 360 - On Helix Aguilar® DB750 - On Helix Alembic F-2B - On Helix (Alembic is a fender preamp design so use the Fullerton Normal I think) Ampeg® B-15A - On Helix Ampeg® SVT - On Helix Eden Traveller WT-300 - Not On Helix Fender® Bassman® Combo - Kinda on Helix, you've got two channels of a Bassman Fender® Bassman® Head - Kinda on Helix, you've got two channels of a Bassman Fender® Dual Showman® - Not On Helix Gallien Kruger 800RB - On Helix Hiwatt® DR-103 - On Helix Hiwatt® 200 DR - Not On Helix Marshall® Major - Maybe - there's 4 different Marshall amps most with multiple channels Marshall® Super Plexi - On Helix with two channels Mesa/Boogie® Bass 400+ - On Helix with 2 channels Polytone MiniBrute® - Not On Helix Sunn® Coliseum - On Helix SWR® SM-500 - Not On Helix Versatone Pan-O-Flex - Not On Helix Vox® AC100 - AC15 and AC30 but no AC100 Line 6® Classic Jazz Don't know what this is like so... Line 6® Brit Invader Don't know what this is like so... Line 6® Super Thor Don't know what this is like so... Line 6® Frankenstein Don't know what this is like so... Line 6® Ebony Lux Don't know what this is like so... Line 6® Doppelganger Don't know what this is like so... Line 6® Sub Dub Don't know what this is like so... Line 6® Tube Preamp On helix like studio preamp Bypass def possible Plus the Helix has... . SVT bright channel, Mesa M9 carbine Pearce BC1 - two channels and jumped SVT-4 I would respectfully suggest that apart from something in the SWR/Eden type sound the Helix has more useful amp models for bass....

Looking good - I've got issues with needing a switching jack (and it still not working) with mine but I'll fix it. It's beginning to look the part (and can set up nicely)

Someone will probably meantion it’s synth stuff lacks a bit, but helix is quite good for bass, lots of guitar stuff too but bass stuff is there. ideally it would be nice to have one or two more bass amps on there, EBS HD , SWR or trace Elliot or something but apart from that I’m trying to think what it’s lacking.

Just so many delays and reverbs now- and interestingly some synth type stuff in the legacy section

I though they would be slowing down but it lust took me 15 min to read the release notes!

Nah @Al Krow plays 5 strings

Such a shame that none of your fellow BBfans live in that little place.... (somewhere near Raynes Park zone 4 )