My most heartfelt thanks to Dean for the collab and just as special are all the warm and sweet comments of praise. I do truly love being able to help others be creative and get to writing and playing more music. Can’t wait for the next one!
Ahoihoi Nick! I've been a follower for a while, so it's great seeing the collab. Good work. Here's something I'd like to add to the dual cab block thing, and a little on Bias even though I think Sag and Bias-X have no real use in a MetalContext. I prefer to use two paralleled single cabs with a split crossover to control flub, so that one cab/mic produces the tighter fartless low portion of the spectrum and the other has the high end with sear and squeal or whatever silly adjectives make me feel better about my shitty playing. It also allows for a couple of blocks to be added on these paths such as time-based in the high end and dynamics in the low end. Nobody likes a bassy reverb. I mean yeah, by this point the two DSP paths start topping out and you've got to consider distributing that stuff....maybe I should comment _after_ the full vid, right? Right.
If I'm being honest, I think a large part of what makes Dean's sounds so tight and heavy, is how he treats his guitar strings as if he were a rough laborer from 1892 disciplining his kids after a long day in the mines.
well said, sir. I think he looks like such a badass when he plays. He conveys so much passion, confidence in his band, and most importantly, testosterone.
Nice. I've been subscribed to Nick Hill for a while. He helped tremendously when I got an HX stomp. Even his tone videos like the meshuggah/spiritbox tone videos are helpful for learning new things. Understanding you needed IR's before helix 3.0 seemed like an easy to understand thing but it was definitely not easy to understand imo.
16:44 He explained that the fret wrap is to prevent those harmonics. But even if he did to mute strings, what's the issue? String muting is cheating? What is this? A sport? There's this guitar technique where you mute the strings with your right hand on the neck, and shred with the left hand, is that cheating? It's not a sport!
Yeah bro, ppl be thinking that writing and recording music is like the Olympics lmao Some of the greatest guitarists use fret wraps, such as Michael Angelo Batio, John Petrucci, Steve Vai, Guthrie Govan, just to name a few. And you'd have to be hella dumb to try and call out those guys for "cHeAtInG" lol
The video editing style on this is really annoying to watch. These constant small "people snapping around" and too fast constant transitions really suck.
I’ve never heard of Nick Hill before this video. I definitely need to check his other stuff out. I always enjoy your selection of background music, Dean.
So could I use one of these through one of my tube amps, and speaker cabs, and just use it as a preamp and effects?? Like run it through the loop or something? Basically just to get multiple different amp tones without using a computer and stuff?
Absolutely, I've used mine for that a couple of times, There are preamp blocks available, plug the output of the helix into the fx-loop return, and you're golden Just be careful with the output levels
I've really tried to like the stock cabs in Helix, but they just don't cut it for me. Cab modelling, like the Helix cabs, don't sound nearly as detailed as good IRs do. I could use them for playing live, but I would not use them for recording. Line 6's cab modelling has certainly improved since the POD days, but it's still not as good as IRs. I get that convolution based processes was very CPU and RAM intensive back in the day and therefore cab modelling was the only choice, but the processors in today's amp modellers should easily be able to run some IRs for the cab blocks. The amps and effects in Helix sound great though, so with a good set of IRs Helix is an absolute monster!
Ahahaha my second digital pedal was the HD500 as well…not the x model tho. Had the Pod XT the red bean before that. Man that red thing sounded like ass lmao
Good stuff! A great follow up to this could be Fractal or Neural DSP stuff. Or Kemper I guess. But if I’m not mistaken, the highest percent of people recording at home are using Neural DSP products.
There is so much good information in this video that could have its own 20 minute video elaborating on it. Of course a tone expert would say "keep it simple stupid" when he acknowledged himself that there is option paralysis with guitar modelers and acts like its something that's BAD ... guitar tone rabbit holes are only bad when you are a producer and you're in a rabbit hole while a client is there trying to actually produce something
I struggle with this as well. I don't have the cash to buy something like Helix, everything I have is in the 100-400 CAD range, so I just have a bunch of cheap stuff that I'm trying to work with. I definitely will check Nicks channel out, though!
That can feel like a hurdle, but there are a lot of great plugins and some even free that you can apply some of these principals too. I have some videos on that very topic. I’m hoping there is something on my channel that can be helpful to you!
Very informative video! I have always struggled with getting tones I like so the video was quiet helpful for me. Will definitely be checking out more of Nick's vids. Thanks!
I made a new patch following this video and it made me value stock cabs, this sounds better than my patches with 3rd party IR’s. Will definitely play more with stock cabs and mics.
Brenden Small used a Line 6 Pod Pro to record the original Dethklok album, and I think those were some good tones. I think the older line 6 stuff gets a bad rap because it was popular with high school gets that would put it on Insane, dime the gain and scoop out the mids so thats what everyone remembers about it.
that's the cringe about it! scooping the mids out almost completely if not all the way but for me i tend to dial on my peavey amp the mids about 1-2 from the middle of the spectrum increasing it not too much.. heard at one point in time that line 6 amps particularly the spider 4s if im not remembering it wrong sound a bit too 'digital' but otherwise everything else is typically the same to adjust accordingly! 😊😊
this was excellent. I bought a Stomp because Nick showed how one can get a killer tone out of it. Most of my settings are based off of his patches that he sells (and shows you online).....and i couldn't be happier with the results direct.....and even into a power amp and cab.
21:11 Jason Sadites. His channel is basically the Encyclopedia Brittanica for the Helix. Check it out if you've got questions. He's basically covered EVERYTHING.
@@NickHillMakesMusic does he pronounce it like "Sad its?" I think he actually says his name in one of his earlier videos but it's been long time since I've seen it.
Signal path also includes the audio interface that you’re using and the DAW you use just friendly FYI! like even if you’re plugging your helix outputs directly into your sound card lol. Some people run their guitar into a mixer before their audio interface (coughME) because the preamps are better on *some* mixers etc etc and you get another level of gain staging and EQ. Anyhow tl;dr: signal path includes everything from the initial input to the final output.
i am really hesistant to get a Helix but with your presets and walkthroughs like this i'm getting more tempted to try one... i'm getting old and lifting heavy cabs/heads is getting tiresome
Nick and I are the same in the hunt for tone: we don't have a lot of experience with real amplifiers but we reference stuff we've heard to emulate our favorite sounds.
I'm still spinning in circles looking for my 1st guitar, I'm in Canada and Lefty so I'm fucked basically :( Looks like LAMusic has a JS32 lefty in stock, that's about it, shopping up here sucks, I'm almost defeated before starting.
FIRST guitar? Dude this your chance to buy a right handed guitar and learn right handed, I'm a lefty but play right handed, it saves you money, gives you more options, I really can recommend it.
