Been playing in metal bands for over 15 years now. I play black and death metal mostly, but I teach guitar and other string instruments so i need a wide variety of sounds. The HX Stomp has been a great tool for me and the RU-vid community around it has helped shape my understanding of it. A few of your videos have helped me understand it better. Your content is good and that's what matters most to me.
Using the Helix universe for 4 years now but now I FINALLY understand those parameters. Although I wonder why "5" is the default for Hum...can't image anyone going for hum in their tone 🤔 Thanks man!
I’m a metalhead. Have been for many years played in several metal bands. In past year I finally joined my church worship team. Playing bass and electric guitar. Your videos have helped me tremendously. Thank you for what you do and God bless you ❤✝️
Thank you for taking your time to explain all this it really helped. I have used tube amps all my life but I always had someone set my amps up so never knew what they did. I have a Marshall amp for big concerts but my Helix I love it for all the amps and effects and I do take it out for open jams due to the weight issue, I am 62 so it now makes a difference. God Bless you.
Yeah hey I’m a metalhead and I watch your videos just as much as I watch Ola ,thanks for lining me out on what those tones are for and actually I like a lot of sag , very little hum ,maxxed on rip and bias and a hair over half on bias x,sounds even better than I thought it could on ENGL Fireball aka ANGL Meteor with the in house 4x12 vintage xxx Thank you 🙏 you rock 😊🎉🎉🎉😊
Great video, man!! I often tinker with those settings, but I've never clearly understood what exactly they were doing (well, except Hum) Your explanations were clear and detailed, this will really help with my preset building. Thank you very much!! I was not aware of your channel before I saw this video, I'm subscribing now!!
Nothing is worse than getting set up, putting your IEMs in, and there's a nasty hum in there....everyone going, "Who is that? Who is that!?" I didn't even realize there was a setting for hum, lol. As soon as you described it, I looked at my presets, and turned them all off. Now can reply, "Not me! NOT ME!!" Thanks brother!
Cool. Four or five settings to play with indefinitely that basically do nothing signifcant. Why would a company put “eq” settings in that aren’t actually adjustable on the amps that they are trying to model?
What is that odd looking pedal on the table? Is it a novel form of compressor? :D:D Yeah, yeah! It's a joke! I know it's a blood pressure monitor. I have a similar one myself...
Looks like someone read the manual (you found the terminology) but still has no idea WTF they're talking about. Make sure to buy some shitty sweatshirts though, thanks!!
Metal guy here. Thank you for this tutorial! You really laid out the concepts behind those parameters in an easily understandable way, and now headed to my studio to fiddle with them.
I have just gotten another Stomp, and this is the video I've needed. I've researched and played around with it all, but hearing your explanations and clips makes it much more clear. Thanks 😊 Also, just got a Reverend Charger HB and it's amazing 👏
quick resume Sag Off - tight On - Dynamic and sustain Hum off - no noise on - noise, but more frequencies Ripple (similar to hum) off - no noise on - noise but more harmonics Bias off - colder tubes more dynamic but slower to crunch on - hotter bias ready to go tubes but less dynamic Bias X off - less tube compressed sound on - more tube compressed sound
Would you know how to get the most out of the helix with any speaker? I notice a change in quality when i listen to my riffs throigh my qsc speaker compared to how it sounss through headphones in my computer. Id want it to match it
Not all speakers are the same. My advice for failing in tones for a live setting is to use as many different monitors as you have access to. This will help you hear where you might be too muddy or too bright. The best thing you can do is to dial in tones at the place you'll be playing the most. But you can't expect to sound the same on a bunch of different speakers or even rooms for that matter. That's why we have FOH engineers. Imagine watching a movie at the theater vs on your phone.
Welcome! Honestly I would look to you to tell me about live metal tones...but here is what I do know, Keep it gained up but maybe not as much as you think because it can get compressed too much too quick. I'd also look for a good IR if you struggle with the stock cabs...but with the stock cabs, I'd blend two mics to get the full range of the speak cab. Also, if you have a good bass player taking up the low end, then your guitar tone doesn't need to be as bass heavy as you think it would be in isolation....let me know how it goes!
@@HeyWorshipLeader After watching the SAG part, I noticed that it only makes a very tiny bit of difference so there's no point for me to tweak on mine.
I'd like to see these settings and how they change based on style. For example: In the video you mentioned the sag being lower or higher for metal vs blues. How would the settings change for different styles? Country vs Jazz? Funk vs Blues? etc.
@@HeyWorshipLeader I know right!? I'm a professional musician and worship leader. I play everything from Jazz and Funk to Country and Metal in addition to being a worship leader. I really like how the Sag, Ripple, Hum, etc. affect not only the tone, but the feel and realism especially when using an FRFR like the PowerCab. I imagine Jazz and Blues would probably have similar settings and Metal, Funk, and Country too possibly I'm not really sure. What do you think? I've never really seen anyone adjust these settings in a style specific way. Check out Alex Price RU-vid Channel, he does some really great work using these controls too. ttys, Master JoeDa
Thank YOU for that! I've had PODs for years and never figured that out, it's quite simple once explained like this. BTW, your "sluggish" is the exact sound of the first chord of Rage Against The Machine - Killing In the Name :D
I noticed the bias and bias x when set to around 6.2 ish for bias and 5.7 ish for bias x, it cleans up the bridge pickups high e and B strings signal or tonal output sounds. Other than that, thank you for the info. Feel like I got to get a phd in Helix floor sound building physics. Got it 3 months ago and still trying to figure it all out. LOL!
Thanks a lot, man! I had looked up those things some time ago, when I got my HX-Stomp. But latey, dialing in some new sounds, I got a little bit confused about these settings because I actually didn't notice that much of a difference (due to my rather low drive-/master settings, I suppose). So your rather extreme drive and master settings really helped me understanding and hearing the difference, especially with the rather subtle bias x settings. Best explanation/demonstration on this topic I've seen so far!
it was informative but too many specific words that i think you understand or feel but not transmited trough the video though, thanks for the video i need to take some time changing this parameters and hearing myself to get the slang!
Wham i first got it, i found a post with the explanation on these items and after exploring them and how they worked in the actual tube amps it changed the way my stomp amp sims work, they're great features and game changers
Great video! I've been wondering about these for a while and have come across a few videos on the topic, this is the most clearly explained video I've come across yet. I can see myself using the more sluggish style pretty often, but I could also see myself using the more tight style. But more importantly, I have a pretty good idea now of what each individual thing is doing so I can get a lot of different sounds using just the amp model, which in turn will probably save me DSP by not having to use compressors, other drive pedals, etc. Side note: not sure if you've ever experimented with this, maybe you have, but I found that turning the early reflections on somewhere between 20 to 40% makes for a nice sort of always on "in the room" type of reverb, so that too can help a lot with DSP or just fine tuning your tone. Thanks so much!
Very helpful video and demo of how those parameters can help a modeled Amp sound like the real thing, if that's what you're going for. I found that demo of "ripple" particularly interesting. Line 6 Helix is amazing. Thanks
