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[quote name='lojo' timestamp='1507034860' post='3382888'] Ok silly me , song sounded the same on my phone In my defence I've got Chemo brain today [/quote] Fair comment actually, it did sound a bit like one long song lol Wishing you well Lojo, I've just spotted your signature too. Saying 'Hope you feel better soon' just doesn't seem enough knowing the effects of Chemo. I send my warm wishes and huge positive bassy vibes to help kick the Big C right square in the nuts.

I mainly use BIAS in my studio. Ive used it for recording bass and guitar on professional releases. I do have it on my mobile devices and that's usually for teaching or just jamming. The live stuff I am doing, at the moment at least doesn't warrant a need for it running as a plug in, but if I did I'd probably run it in MainStage off my Mac in the absence of Helix. That said, I have bought the Helix Native plug in and yes I do have Helix LT here too. The only reason why I haven't been using them (yet) is simply time. I've been so, so busy, the poor ole Helix just hasn't had a look in. You'd think as a professional musician I'd have lots of time to play eh! In terms of comparison, at this early stage it's hard to say. I think the stock sounds out of BIAS are better, simply because I haven't had time to tweak Helix. Although, the amount of people that reach straight for downloadable IR plugins for Helix verses BIAS would possibly be tell tale. The only IR's that I have imported in to BIAS are ones that I have created myself for example, to replicate my favourite guitar player's sounds. (Brian May's 3 AC30's for example is working out to be fun!) Helix modelling is very, very good though, there's no doubt about that and I will make it work because I needn't take a second device out with me when it comes to guitar duties. The hardware will take it though. It is a very powerful device, that's for sure.

Just sent some tuning keys over to Chazz. Nice transaction, no problems here! Great!

They are highlights of different songs? The title does say Highlights.

Here's the Helix used as an IEM mix controller:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d10tO2xMNE So in this case he is using buttons to select an audio sequence and this could indeed be a backing track, a pad, samples of random intro music. Being as the audio is in MainStage, well, you can pretty much trigger it to do whatever you want. MainStage is an incredibly powerful application that I have only just skimmed the surface of. For example, a fiend of mine who really is a wizard on keys dumped his multiple deck super system for a decent controller and a MacBook running MainStage which in turn also runs some essential plug ins. I use MainStage at home as an incredibly powerful teaching front end. One icon to click and I have songs ready with amazing guitar amps primed and ready to go (I use Positive Grid BIAS and BIAS FX Professional for amp sounds). Yes, he is able to start samples and stop them with the pedals and can even control the effects he is adding to his vocal microphone on top of using the Helix for his guitar tones. Each 'patch' you can save as a song name, thus the settings for each song are retained and there's so much scope for adjustment without leaving the patch. And that's what I have learned in a reasonably small amount of time and very little hands on time with the device itself. Fretmeister knows way more than I; he has certainly planted the seeds for my further study!

[quote name='MoJo' timestamp='1506893922' post='3381904'] 11.5k for the two halves in series. Strange thing is that I can't see any damage to the windings on the dead pickup or any breaks in the wires to the output. Weird [/quote] Not sure if you have tried this, but recently I repaired a USA Precision bass with no sound. It was actually the wire between the two pickup halves that had become snagged/kinked which had the break in it, not the pickup coils. Maybe run a meter over the cable lengths up to where they solder to the pickup first! It could be something as simple as that.

I appreciate that post does come across as gushing a bit, but if you'd seen the amount of rack gear I used to carry around to do the same thing... lol

£750 depending on where you shop - I bought mine on a 24 month interest free credit when it was just 700 new, so the purchase has pretty much gone unnoticed. Gotta love The Knock. Well, Two Notes use IR's and so can Helix (and my favourite modelling app BIAS or BIAS FX by Positive Grid) so the actual quality of simulations attainable are very good on the amplifier front. Very, very good. The tracking of the pitch shifting effects is also very good too and with some minor tweaking you can, as I have found so far, get some brilliant results. Any short comings are more than made up for by the routing you mention. You can run multiple signal paths, you can put effects in any order and daisy chain multiple instances of the same effect. Panning left and right or using the pedal to modulate between effects is great too. It's possible to assign one button to turn say three effects off and one on at the same time. It's possible to set up some effects (like an amp) as always on without a button, then use that switch for something else. There's a guy on Youtube that has demonstrated how to configure Helix so that the extra inputs can actually be used as an IEM mix as well, saving on having to have a separate headphone amplifier and stereo feed. All in one box. Another video I watched, a 'worship' guy used his Helix connected to his Mac. The Helix controlled MainStage to cue up specific backing tracks and allow starting and stopping of them via the pedal board rather than having to reach over to the laptop. - All at the same time as switching the sounds for his guitar too. I could go on, but the effects quality is brilliant and so are the almost endless opportunities for signal routing. With my IEMs I needn't take an amp with me at all.

[quote name='charic' timestamp='1507020756' post='3382703'] Now all we need is for wireless send and receive in a Line6 Helix board (hoping in V2!), theoretically they could go wireless bass to board and wireless board to amp. [/quote] Or at least digital I/O between wireless and LT which would keep the latency down.

[quote name='Al Krow' timestamp='1506960171' post='3382328'] How much are we talking about for a multi-fx that can match the quality of dirt from a Two Notes or a Pike Vulcan or the clean blend octave down of a COG T16/47/65 or the compression ability of a Cali 76 or even an MXR M87? Can any of them even do it? [/quote] Well a very strong contender that I feel could do that and a whole lot more would be the Helix LT by Line 6. Give me a couple of weeks or so and I’ll be able to confirm that for sure.

Oh wait! Dirt in parallel with Compression? Why did I not think to mention the EBS Sheehan Signature Drive and Sheehan Signature Drive Deluxe? I stare at the thing pretty much every day on my own board ha ha ha!!! Ok, so technically it's clean and dirt blended with compression at the end, but that's similar. This is my favourite drive pedal ever.

[quote name='scannerman' timestamp='1506809930' post='3381330'] Yawn......😴😪 [/quote] Sorry I was boring you, it was meant to be funny.

[quote name='0175westwood29' timestamp='1506809834' post='3381329'] Cool, I have the blend on my Cali 76bc cranked so it's doing a kinda parallel comp thing [/quote] Ahhhh yes! You know me well

Mwaaaaaaaaah Nice! I tried YouTubing my name too but keep coming up with this guy that keeps talking about bass gear all the time!

I guess for completeness I should post my Dingwall thread in here.... http://basschat.co.uk/topic/310430-doods-dingwall-abuse-pictures-inside/page__st__30__p__3365419__hl__dood__fromsearch__1#entry3365419

[quote name='T-Bay' timestamp='1506805562' post='3381294'] Tc sub n up, with TonePrint it will be what you want it to be. [/quote] Just been chatting about it elsewhere and it definitely gets my vote, especially as you can adjust the EQ and add effects like chorus in to the mix. It can sound like an analogue or a crazy 50’s sci-if!

[quote name='radiophonic' timestamp='1506803649' post='3381285'] Hey Dood. I think you've just nailed exactly why TC are only 50% awesome. If they were truly awesome, you be able to share that toneprint with me rather than describing it! Toneprint: So near. Yet so far. I'm pretty sure you're right though. I have a Flashback toneprint that does exactly what I need and and I cant remember the last time i used anything else. Like stretched tape. It's just perfect with a volume pedal for harmonising with our singer. Very voicelike / theremin-ey. I could probably trade that pedal in for a mini. Someone on here has just punted me a full size one though, so if the price is right I may go full size since there's nothing in it money-wise buying new. [/quote] Yes, you have a good point there! I mean, I’d have been happy to. Even if I pulled my finger out and did a screen print of the settings that’d be a start but a faff. I feel sure there must be a way (a quick decompile of complex hex based files and a brain surgergeon level of programming expertise and everything’s ya mom’s brother Rob)

I’d love to take credit for the transaction but Alex chose to arrange everything from his end in a fashion that could make online shops look tired. Absolutely no problems and great communication too. I sold my effects unit and all I had to do was ensure it was packed super safely!

[quote name='0175westwood29' timestamp='1506800815' post='3381260'] im starting to feel like im one of the only guys who has his compressor last? [/quote] My new board will have on either end of the path doing different jobs mind, but should be a cool experiment!

I used to blend an MXR M80 with a BDDI using a Nova Dynamics as a compressor for each path then mixed the signals back together at the front end of a TC GForce.

That would be me and I’ll be pleased to give you a verdict once I’ve had some time with it, but in short: I never needed to switch modes once I built a killer TonePrint I set the dry at full on and disabled the knob altogether I tweaked the EQ of the -1 octave to make it tighter rather than subby I did the same for the -2 but in use, I never needed it given that this pedal tracks lower than anything else I’ve ever tried. So, the Mini is just as good - it’s running the same DSP. I also love that the knobs are tweakable to. I’ll probably go with Sibob’s idea of mapping the dry mix to a drive, then for me turning the -1 octave in to a -1/-2 octave blend (like a pickup blend) then figure out blending in the on board effects. Possibly the chorus. TC, you’re pretty awesome.

[quote name='Chris2112' timestamp='1505311295' post='3370938'] {snip} Precision can't do the same impression of a Jazz. [/quote] Unless of course it’s a Fender Power Jazz Bass Special - it’s close enough due to it having a reverse P pickup in the neck position and a J onboard too. It’s the one P bass that I own that is more Jazz bass than a P, yet the P pickup still does the Precision thing. Ok, I say one.. I have two!