Blastronaut 1333 Posted November 12, 2022 Share Posted November 12, 2022 Like I say, I honestly think the impedance thing is pretty overblown. In the analogue world it mostly only rears its head if someone wants to put a univibe or something in front of a fuzz face. Otherwise just put the FF first and be done with it. Tone suck is mostly something else like cable capacitance, either from having 20 true-bypass pedals in a chain or just insanely long guitar leads. Usually you can just stick a buffer in somewhere and it's problem solved. Tones on that video sound really good though. Shame he didn't roll off the guitar volume a bit and show that off, that's half the magic of the Fuzz Face. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14011 Posted November 12, 2022 Author Share Posted November 12, 2022 I updated my helix this afternoon and @Gemmill sent me some patches. Jesus wept...this thing is off the scale. It's hard to explain how good it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blastronaut 1333 Posted November 12, 2022 Share Posted November 12, 2022 Seen this that answers my question on how it handles Fuzz Face clean-up, fucking hell that quite impressive. Think this is the full Helix rather than the stomp though. Bit surprised looking at the list @Tom posted that there's no real Tonebender patches. Somebody needs to start a petition to get at least the mk1 and 2 added. Would've expected to see the Super Fuzz and Tone Machine, but I'll let them off with the SF since I'm sure the Boss is 90% the same thing. Other than that it looks a pretty nice collection of fuzz modes and if there all as decent as this FF demo they've knocked it out the park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14011 Posted November 12, 2022 Author Share Posted November 12, 2022 All of the helix patches are the same man. The cheapest piece of gear has the same firmware/capability as the most expensive. Only difference is the physical pedals you activate. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blastronaut 1333 Posted November 12, 2022 Share Posted November 12, 2022 10 minutes ago, Tom said: All of the helix patches are the same man. The cheapest piece of gear has the same firmware/capability as the most expensive. Only difference is the physical pedals you activate. Ah fuck, the more I read about it the more I think I might want one. This is a shite state of affairs. How's the "Deranged Master" patch compare to your Rangemaster? Don't hold back like I'll no take offence. I'd expect at least a lower noise floor and wouldn't be surprised if they've tamed it a bit so it's slightly less bright than stock Rangemaster treble frequencies (which I think everyone bar maybe Brian May modded theirs to). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14011 Posted November 13, 2022 Author Share Posted November 13, 2022 I'll have to investigate that! I still use the rangemaster as it's at the front of the board and the Helix is at the back. So = Wah > Rangemaster > Steel Singer > JHS PG14 > JHS The Kilt V2 > Helix Stomp > Ditto Looper Ive taken the TC Electronic June-60 & Keeley Caverns off the board for the Helix. The June 60 is great btw but there's no room for it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blastronaut 1333 Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 9 hours ago, Tom said: No room for it Just build/buy a bigger board man! Paul Gilberts homemade pedalboard is fucking hilarious but if that's good enough for him it's good enough for anyone. Mines are all loosely inspired by the IKEA pedalboard hack and it's probably the only area I think I've got the upper hand on Gilbert. Good to see you're still getting use out the RM, genuinely would be interested to see how it compares. Boosts are still too underrated if you ask me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14011 Posted November 19, 2022 Author Share Posted November 19, 2022 First time on the Glitch Delay. Endless fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blastronaut 1333 Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 2 hours ago, Tom said: First time on the Glitch Delay. Endless fun Just looked that up out of curiosity. Sounds exactly like Adebisi Shank. 👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blastronaut 1333 Posted November 19, 2022 Share Posted November 19, 2022 Speaking of Adebisi Shank, Lar was an absolute wizard when it came to guitar pedal insanity. Pretty sure he was mad for the line6 stuff and Id be amazed if he's not on the Helix bandwagon, whatever he's doing now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44900 Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 @Tom don't know if this is of any interest to you. Helix Native is on sale for 49 dollars for registered owners of Helix products. It's basically full Helix but as a plug in on your DAW. Must be a black Friday sale thing that they're running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlbertSmith50 12 Posted November 23, 2022 Share Posted November 23, 2022 (edited) Anyone says this is bad I'm taking ya mother and sister out on dates. This dude is a LEGEND. Remember the name - Stevie Ray Vaughan and (RIP) Edited November 23, 2022 by AlbertSmith50 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 42459 Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 Never heard of him. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14011 Posted November 24, 2022 Author Share Posted November 24, 2022 On 22/11/2022 at 13:56, Gemmill said: @Tom don't know if this is of any interest to you. Helix Native is on sale for 49 dollars for registered owners of Helix products. It's basically full Helix but as a plug in on your DAW. Must be a black Friday sale thing that they're running. Hmm interesting! I'll give it a look! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blastronaut 1333 Posted November 24, 2022 Share Posted November 24, 2022 22 hours ago, AlbertSmith50 said: Anyone says this is bad I'm taking ya mother and sister out on dates. This dude is a LEGEND. Remember the name - Stevie Ray Vaughan and (RIP) That thing in his hands is doing some really weird things to his face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew 4762 Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14011 Posted December 3, 2022 Author Share Posted December 3, 2022 I would have had one but it's USA only Looks great tbh but it's euromillions stuff. However my Les Paul is similar with the bareknuckle PG Blues in there. I have a 60s slim taper neck however... I do enjoy watching Trogly however, it's good background stuff when it's something you aren't crazy about and fascinating when it's something you are interested in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44900 Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 Right, who's getting one first? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinRobin 11282 Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 1 hour ago, Gemmill said: Right, who's getting one first? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 42459 Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 2 hours ago, Gemmill said: Right, who's getting one first? What’s the suction like? Is it bagless? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14011 Posted December 20, 2022 Author Share Posted December 20, 2022 How much? Meanwhile my cousin is building a multi fix unit it with a raspberry PI. Super interesting to see it he can pull it off 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blastronaut 1333 Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 Nice one! Point him to the diystompboxes forum it goes awry, they'll get him back on track. I've got a few old RPi's lying around, remember briefly looking into it for effects years ago but all the good projects were for Arduino. Apparently Arduino had significantly better AD/DA converters than the RPi but I'd imagine the newer Pi's have caught up by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14011 Posted December 21, 2022 Author Share Posted December 21, 2022 Yeh I'm not sure exactly how he's going to do it but he's looking to include a touch screen which will be nuts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44900 Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Turns out Josh Scott has been using a Kemper on all the JHS videos for the past year to see if anyone would notice. No one has noticed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blastronaut 1333 Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 On 22/12/2022 at 07:10, Gemmill said: Turns out Josh Scott has been using a Kemper on all the JHS videos for the past year to see if anyone would notice. No one has noticed. Ha. Always found it hard to dislike Josh despite all the weird and wonderful allegations levelled at him. Like him even more for this. Top tier (and mostly victimless) shithousery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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