Hello! How are physically recording this into your computer? Additional equipment / software / etc? Just ordered my first Helix basically because of this video and looking forward to playing around with it
Hey my man, I just purchased a 2014 ESP custom shop Iron Cross. I'm not familiar with emg active pickups but love the look of this guitar. What pickup height measurements do you have on your Iron Cross if you don't mind me asking? Love your tone.
Amazing tones with perfect explanation how to achieved it, not just some preset sharing A lot of guitarist or Helix user will smiled watching this Jon keep doing this great content please!
Dude this is so good! I'd love to see a deep dive on the helix mark iv vs your real mark v. I have a pretty easy time dialing in most of the other amps on the Helix, but the Mark iv is always too boomy, or too scooped, or too honky. I feel like I can dial in the real amps fine, but the model in the helix are tough for me haha
Great preset! For anyone interested you can get a similar sound on a HX Stomp just change the parametric EQ to the simple EQ and use 1024 IR instead of 2048 IR. It will all fit within the HX Stomp processing power limitations.
@@tonymartin4571 Yes you'd have to split the path. You can run both the amp models and two 1024 IR blocks, but only one parametric EQ. So it might be better to run the EQ at the end of the chain after merging the split paths.
his gear like the VH4 and triaxis are modified for him so its impossible to recreate his sound exactly, very cool video again my friend. his best sound i think was the black album when he paired his modified triaxis with the mesa IIc+ amps! just amazing! he also said that ne never used booster pedals like tubescreamer and by the way i was so much disappointed with the VH$ synergy module that i send it back to thomann..greetz from germany again :)
there are different versions, some triaxis have been modified to sound like his old rectifiers and some to sound like a IIc+. peter diezel said that it took over a year to modify his HV4s to his needs so his gear is not standard in any ways.
The great thing is that you’ll still have processor room, at lest on the MESA side, to squeeze in a JC120 amp for a nice crystal clear “Justice”-era clean tone within the same patch. I do this with my stomp, using half the processing power, so I know it works.
A tad too compressed, but it still is 90% there. Try using the 3rd channel on the Diezel, that's what James uses. The idea is the Diezel is more "open" and middy, while the mk4 handles Mr. Scoopy😂
How did you do this on the stomp. I’m having trouble making two separate paths. Or did you just split the signal into the 2 amps and then join them back together
Hi Jon...this is EXCELLENT! PLEASE do more of these for different artists/bands, or maybe just focus on different Helix Amps like the ENGL and REVV and dial them up! Great start with Metallica and James as it is probably one of the most sought out tones to this day.
I just made 2 identical live Metallica patches. One in standard, one in Eb. Using snapshot mode, my clean channel is a Roland JC120, the rhythm sound is a Mark IV Lead with the mids scooped like crazy. There’s ALOTTA mids on that amp. Then for lead I added delay and of course wah.
Diezel really has some bright weird transient hit with pick attack,in the mix its less noticeable, but on its own even with two amps i notice that. Except that i love everything about the tone you made.
Killer tones and playing as always Jon! Question: In all honesty do you find it just as easy to obtain a good sound with Helix? I had one, but had hardware issues with it and it was so much easier and faster to dial in a good sound with my Axe Fx 3. Just curious if it takes you longer to get a good sound with the Helix. I may check out the next Helix that gets released, but I'm pretty happy with the Axe 3 at the moment.
Great sound as always! Just one question, why stereo tracks? Is there some kind of benefit? I always use mono tracks and pan one hard left and one hard right.
Great question, stupid answer: it's just a habbit. You can get the same results with mono DI tracks. I've just always done it this way but it usually doesn't matter at all... :)
Man.... I've owned an HX Stomp, Helix Native and Pod Go...... Used York, OH, Audio Assualt, and ML IRs...... All tones I get out of these Line 6 products sound fizzy, flat and muddy. I also use ML Sound Labs amp plugins and I have a couple Nueral DSP trials running currently...... The ML and Nueral, no issues....sound great "out of the box".... But, the Line 6 I absolutely cannot get usable tones . I try not to use post processing as the IRs already have an eq curve from the speaker. Honestly, my best description is like I'm using a BOSS Metal Zone on ANY higain amp.....Orange, Mesa, Badonk....all sound mid scooped. I'm using Adam Audio speakers and this issue persists into my headphones, car test etc.... I just dont undertow to get a good tone out of these units. You should sell PRESETS.... alot of people would buy them lol
Hi. Did you use some kind of post processing for the demo and when you turned each amp on separately? I downloaded Helix Native, completely copied the preset from the video, took my ESP LTD Snakebyte and couldn't get the same sound. I feel like you added reverb and post equalization which was not shown in the video.
Is there a trick to this? I set it up with exactly the same settings, the same IRs, everything... It sounds nothing like this. Very scratchy, thin and bright... With no bottom end. Could it be because it looks like you're running two stereo tracks which is impossible to do live?
Great video, dude and excellent sound quality. I will never understand why people call an LTD an ESP. I own both LTD and ESP and the LTD are surprisingly good, especially for the money. But an LTD is not an ESP. It is not made by ESP. It is a licensed copy made by a third party vendor like Cort, or World Music INC. I own a lot of Ibanez Japan (aka real Ibanez) and Ibanez imports. They are also surprisingly good for the money and they are branded as Ibanez...but not really. I am amazed by this video though. I started playing as a child in the 80's and back then the gear SuUUUuuUUUUuuucked. Ever the GOOD gear was hard to play and sounded mediocre at best. That amp sounds so much like a tube amp. Technology has come such a long way from when I had to plug into a Gorilla practice amp and a Crate POS amp for the small gigs of the time as a teen. Although I did get a Laney in my late teens THEN I got one of the first ENGLs to hit America around 1990? It is so long ago the amp had "made in West Germany" on it! I sold that amp! I am such an idiot! It would be a collector's piece now. Although just about every amp now sounds as good as that Engl, back THEN that was huge dude! No one could believe my tone! Back then I mostly played old Charvels and I had a Heritage Les Paul that I also sold, as I previously mentioned because I am an idiot. Now I own A LOT of gear but I want that Engl and that bloody Heritage back! And one Charvel that I sold that also ruled. Do not sell gear, kids. You end up regretting it. Which is why I have so many guitars and amps now. I am not selling anything. Great video, dude and way to show how great the new gear sounds and it is not expensive at all! The first Engl that I bought in 89/90 cost 1/3rd as much as my CAR that I had then...and it was a nice car! Great video, dude. Love the channel. Thanks. PS ~ Active pickups suck. I know that they have a place and some people love them...but I hate EMGs. Have you tried the new Fishman? THEY are good. But EMGs...so sick of them. Thats aid I have some, as I earlier mentioned, because I am an idiot. :)
So if you did this on Helix hardware... two paths... are these settings set up now to deal with the two volume differences? Or does a Y need to be setup to be able to blend the volumes more accurately?
@@SonicDriveStudio Ok! Not sure I asked my question properly - you mentioned one amp was louder than the other... was that in the MIX or in the actual path levels in the preset itself?
Sonic Drive Studio looks like they don't do it with the fractal rigs, but if you watch the Hetfield rig rundown from 8 years ago they go through it. That's actually why I started dabbling with knock off Klons. The Mosky Golden Horse, which is like $25 on ebay is AMAZING. On the "Classic Gain" channel of my JCM2000 with a little gain on the OD and the gain on the amp cranked it's freakin 1984 again. Sounds like old Anthrax to me. You should snag one! They're a lot of fun.
