dave_bass5

Yeah, he seems to live and breath Helix. Here you go. He has said they are mostly for the Stomp. I’m not sure whats in this. I dont think its everything from his website. https://www.dropbox.com/s/nec011d71crykiu/DRT2020.zip?dl=0

Jon also posted all his patches in one zip file a while ago.

With the drops outs maybe, but the.systems like the Xvive seem to be using quite low quality chips so sound quality will suffer, although not always noticeable I guess.

I ‘think’ there has already been a thread or two on this. I keep trying my best to watch it, i think they are outstanding musicians, but just cant seem to stick with it for more than 30 seconds at a time. Joe Dart is amazing at what he does, but the word ‘bland’ keeps coming to mind. Again, amazing musicians, but the music is a bit all over the place for me. To me its a case of playing as many notes as possible because they can. Guess that’s the genre they are in though.

Must admit at home i do seem to get more dropouts with my Boss WL20 (and 20L when i had it). More than with my Xvive in the same position. For gigs and rehearsals the Boss is fine though. Must be because i tend to play at home close to my router. My guitarist uses Xvive and he doesn’t have cut outs. What i don’t like about the Xvive is how it effects the low, quiet notes. I rarely use a rig at home but last year i got a few new cabs so tried them out at low level at home. Each time i used my Xvive (as that’s what i use at home). Playing a quiet (as in plucking softly) a low F# or G produces a buzz/noise on those notes as they are dying out. It’s definitely the Xvive as swapping to my Boss or a cable eliminates the issue 100%. It’s almost like the cab has a lose screw vibrating. Now i dont use the Xvive outside the house.

Comes from years of being a stand up comedian. Thats the bass player way lol.

Just thinking the same. Wish I still had my Jack Casaday bass now, i could also put the tabs on it 😂

Not a huge PF fan, although ive heard a lot of their stuff and love Pulse. Never really noticed Guy using an Octave pedal before these videos. Just not paid much attention I guess.

Finally, playing bass like a real bass player 😁

And more boutique pedals as well, not to mention whole rigs lol.

Yes. It’s close enough. No different to most of the sim’s. Not trying to convince to to like it,. It’s an acquired taste, just though it worth hearing it like most of use use it rather than how most use it when they first get it (myself included). In fact if you turn the blend right off it just becomes an EQ, so can still be useful sometimes.

I remember you saying you didnt try It with the blend down. Just thought it might be worth givIng that a go to see if it sounds more to your liking.

Don’t forget you have a BDDIv1 in the HFX. You could do your own tests, with the updated info you have about the BDDI. You might find the BDDI isnt as bad as your first time around.

Yeah, spot on. I meant in relation to the non DI version though. They aren't the same with the bite turned off.

I cant remember off hand exactly what the deal with the Bite switch, but IIR with it in replicates the non DI VTBass. I might be wrong, but its not quite a simple as one has the button and the other doesn’t. There is also the second gen VTBass which had the speaker defeat button added. Agree though, for me the VTBass DI was the best of the lot. I hated the MK1 pedal when i had it, but i didnt give it long enough. When I borrowed a mates one i fell in love with it. The features on the DI were the icing on the cake. I do feel that unlike the BDDI, the VTBDI doesn’t need the blend to be usable. I dont think i ever used the blend backed off, where as with my BDDI’s the blend is never higher than 10 o’clock. .

It’s not a cache issue as it happens on 3 different iOS devices, but yeah, it’s definitely a browser issue. With a keyboard attached there is no issue jumping in and out of the quotes, but without it once the curser is in there there seems to be no way of getting out out, not even using the iOS keyboard shortcuts.

Got tickets the week before lockdown to go and see Melissa Etheridge next month. They were an early birthday present for my GF

Cheers. You can move the slots on the Pod Go, so the plan is to have it at the start. The advantage of using the fx loop is it’s there anyway. I had planned on using the Rochester, but that will take up a block, so for now I’ll use the Becos. This will help me get a bette feel and understanding. Hard to use my ears when setting things up with headphones for live use. It also means it’s closer to my old pedalboard which has a micro Thumpinator at the very start.

Got a question relating to using a Comp with the Helix (or Pod Go). As much as i like the new Rochester Comp it would be a shame not to use my Becos, especially as I love the visual indication from the meter. As I’m still finding my round Comp I find it’s helping me adjust things. As the Pod Go has an effects send/return in every patch, i thought i might use this and run the Comp in, at the start of each patch. This saves me using the Rochester and taking up one of the 4 slots. This I assume will enter the path after the HPF/noise gate and Global EQ, which i quite like the idea of. Obviously running it before the Helix will mean the compressed tome will go through those. Ive tried it with my Stomp and it works fine, but I’m not sure if that is better than running it before the Helix. I can only use headphones a at home so cant really get a true indication of whats better. I do like the idea of the HPF first in the chain. Any comments? What i do like is that the Becos is so small it will actually sit on the Pod Go rather than on the floor (I’m not using a board), and I’m hoping I can take a feed off the Line6 PSU for it.

Always a relief when you spend money to fix an issue and it fixes the issue. Play away......

Nice one. Good luck with it.

Here’s a cool feature the Pod Go has. Create a basic patch and you can save this to all the blank presets with one action. Makes creating multiple patches with similar effects much quicker.

Cheers Bas. Luckily my Stomp is still hooked up to my PC so I’ll give it a go in the morning. Oh, just noticed its a PDF. Thought it was the patch itself.

Thanks Bas. I’ll give it a go tomorrow. Never tried to getting a synth patch with Helix before.

Yep, it was just a rumour that some put round on TB Because they miss understood what was happening. I think it was mentioned around the time the 2.9 press reuse was put out, that 8 blocks would be available in the future, but some took it to mean with the next update. One or two people posted that and it spread.