The Best Effects in the Helix? Here Are Some of my Favourites

[@tossedpenny]

I love these videos diving into various effects in the unit. I think alot of us just don't take the time to really do much experimenting and it's useful to have a review just to see how many options and useful tools are actually available to us.

[@kevroyo]

Lmao I heard you sneaking the lick into that intro.

[@Alex_Martz]

I hope the next Helix update has a granular looper so we can emulate stuff like Hologram Microcosmos or Red Panda Particle 2

[@jackprice7828]

No KZbinr guitarists come up with the coolest stuff like you JNC! Amazing!

[@francescodefelice6650]

John I own the helix for a while now I never dig in to it I always use pedal but last 6 months I started to use it and with your video now I’m getting familiar with equalizing amp ecc ecc…. Im triple enjoy this system , I understand the analog pedal are amazing but this thing with little of twist nubs around is amazing sound!! I fell with single pedal driving and old school 12 cylinders car with 12 carburetor!!!with helix is everything in one box and unbelievable versatile and practical!!! Wow I will continue use this system now and for future. If you can make a rockabilly sound on this unit !! You sound great!!! Single coils pick up are alway the best for me Thanks John

[@Laoboy9]

Love this type of video, thanks! Warped Vinyl, echorec, harmonic trem, and regular trem are a few of my favs.

[@picksalot1]

Your tip to turn up the Headroom Parameter to +12dB on Delays helped me solve weird cljpping issues I was having on a Preset Delay I had downloaded. Thanks

[@saltstream]

Brilliant video John. Goes to show how little I'm using these smashing features in my Stomp.

[@jnh73]

The 3-Band Comp is so underrated - great way to tighten up the whole fretboard without making everything obviously squished. If you're looking for a standalone pedal to do this, the TC Electronic HyperGravity set in Spectra mode is the bee's knees.

[@GuiitarBilly]

Experimenting with effects parameters, a/b -ing them in mixes are seriously what takes up probably 80% of my time in doing a recording project. Oy! Ah well, no pain no gain I guess. And the end result can be very worth it. Thanks for showing us your faves.

[@CMHobbies]

Just casually brings out a new Caline without a word about it! 😎

[@angrybuzzy]

You get great tones with everything you use, JNC. But there's something about the amp tones you get with the Helix/HX that just stands out to my ear - a clarity and liveliness to the tone. Thanks for all your posts.

[@NedJeffery]

The FlexoVibe is my favourite. You have to put it after the amp and cab. And it takes a bit of tweaking to get it working without altering to tone too much. But when you get it right it just sounds so full and rich.

[@johnnathancordy]

I'll check that out Ned! Haven't really delved into it at all yet!

[@zach-jj8pc]

It's the closest I've got to the david Gilmour doppolas speakers on the hx stomp.

[@Jimmy4Thumbs]

Awesome insight into some effects I haven't played with. Thanks for sharing!

[@alexmbrenner]

Heliosphere has become my favorite along with the Hedgehog SD-9. Really love the sounds you are getting here!

[@bjarnedahlberg5361]

Thanks for the Plate Reverb & ADT tip

[@ianmara1387]

Another great episode, thank you John.

[@garrysimmons111]

As I grow older (60+ now) I find I'm more of a guitar into amp kinda player. Just a hint of reverb and delay so it's not totally dry. I use snapshots to adjust the gain on the amp from overdrive to crunch to moderate gain. Seems a waste to have all those FX at my disposal in my Helix, but unless a particular cover song requires something special, I'm not using any of them. The FX sound great when other people use them, but that's not the sound in my head.

[@johnnathancordy]

Yeh I don't tend to use all these live either - although I think that the Heir Apparent is probably a good one to have a fairly natural bit of push in front of the Amp - what amps do you go for generally Garry?

[@NedJeffery]

So what I do instead of the ADT is just have dual cab block panned full L+R, and use a different speaker in each. I use mics that make the tone match as close as possible. But just having that different tonal fingerprint makes the sound feel so much more spread and real.

[@lancenunez8252]

I’ve found good results by putting delay 100% wet, reverb 100% wet followed by a stereo spreader (200% wide) on path B. Works like a wet dry wet rig with the verb/delay on the outside and dry signal down the middle. Ballpark Jeff Buckley Hallelujah tones.

[@rossanoevangelisti3642]

Thanks John. Very useful for me.

[@amitguindy8708]

thank you Jonathan !

[@Paralung]

Nice Stratomaster. Or Jazzcaster or whatever. Sounds awesome.

[@Johnherold121]

Interesting to see other player's favourites. Mine are Dhyana Drive, Ampeg Liquifier, Optical Trem, Heliosphere, and Dynamic Plate. Also Dual Pitch with -12 and +12 for that Pog thing. Edit: forgot the Legendary Drive as an amp, not as a drive pedal

[@johnnathancordy]

Ooh - nice choices. Glad we share the love for the Dynamic Plate!! I will check out Dual Pitch - is that one of the older pitch ones or is it poly?

[@Johnherold121]

It's one of the older ones. I have to play Jon Lord's hammond solos on guitar for couple of Deep Purple tunes (Burn & Highway Star) with one of our function bands, and I use the Dual Pitch for those. Intervals at -12 and +12, both volumes full, mix at around 50%, into a high gain solo tone. It's killer.

[@ksharpe10]

Wow brand new K-Line?? Merlin Cordy our Expert in the HELIX RHEALM. Thank you Magician!!! err, Musician!!!!

[@bangdude5630]

Legacy Pitch vibrato is my favorite . It is supercopy of vb2

[@billlangly7806]

I get a lot of milage out of simple pitch at -12 on a parallel path with like 10-15ms delay. Makes for a cool alternative to an octave pedal and has more of a live feel to it. Might run it through a bass amp if I can spare the DSP on the preset.

[@ekuzy]

@JNC ctrl+1/2/3 to quickly switch snapshots

[@kylefletcher8489]

Hey John! Is that a new K-line Del Mar? What pickups did you have put in? Looks and sounds killer!

[@johnnathancordy]

Hey Kyle! It is actually - Chris at K-Line asked if he could send me one and I felt it'd be rude not to..Charcoal Frost, and it has the K Line Signatures in it! I've got an introduction filmed for it but haven't got around to making the full video yet!

[@ACBats]

Is it possible to use the glitch delay to get something similar to the sound in “Be Enough” by Ariel Posen? He uses a Chase Bliss Thermae for it (I think!)

[@keithb5612]

I would like to hear your take on the UAFX DEL-VERB pedal delays/reverbs compared to the Helix. Cheers

[@riesse6726]

Could you make a video about your presets? These are cool but so many folders and no instructions. Sorry but could you please explain? Eg. Do i open the zip download or google drive. Where can I find your fav effects preset? TY

[@TechyTimM]

I'd be curious to hear how this sounds with the post-amp delay and reverb processed on a split channel L/R and the dry-ish guitar in the center so there's kind of a wet-dry-wet thing going on. Nice effect picks. Thx!

[@jjdubois6101]

ADT vs dual cabs with different speakers panned hard with one set with 23ms delay?

[@ekuzy]

Really cool ADT implementation! It sounds like two guitars. I think you can do the same with pitch modulation?

[@DandoMusicGroup]

is this directly from hx stomp into DAW or does he use other preamps pre HX stomp?

[@frankiewalnuts]

Are these in the google drive folder?

[@johnnathancordy]

I need to add it in - I haven't just yet as I'm looking after Elodie!!

[@RyanMcQuen]

WHAT IS THIS NEW K-LINE?? 👀

[@handyc77]

I tried to replicate this with my Schecter Reaper Elite which is just a super strat. And I couldn’t get it to match. Huh.

[@sebrura]

Personally I chose the FM3 cause it’s the most professional of them all.

[@ToneDeth.]

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[@lyricbread]

9:37 What do you mean by “folding over” @johnnathancordy ?