Line 6 Helix 102: Effects Order and Signal Chain

I have the Helix Floor had it for only a few weeks then yesterday I got the Line 6 212 Plus power cab I don't know if I should add a cab (S) to the chain or not in Flat stereo mode any suggestions Chaf?

Parallel Effects: The greatest thing I never knew I needed.

Great video, cleared up a lot for me. I am an old player trying to adapt to the new tools

Thanks for the video - I have the Helix a couple of years and I just have very basic signal paths set up - great sounds - this helps me to go exploring now 🎸🎸👌👌

Very nice tutorial dude, thanks for sharing, it's helping to get familiar with the helix

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I need to back up and figure out where and how I'm supposed to save these things you're showing me how to create

I'm watching all your videos for the helix.....thank you for these "courses" 🤘🤘🤘

Thank you for an incredibly informative video! 🙏🏼
Is the same thinking regarding the order of effects and signal chain applicable to bass as well?

Excelent Video ! Regards from Portugal

I am using a Marshall DSL 40 amp is there a way to use the Marshall effects loop and spliting the effects from the helix that some of the effect go through the front of the amp and the other effects go the the Marshall effects loop.
Right now i am going through the front of the amp and keeping the amp on the clean channel . is there a way to use the crunch the marshall produces with out over driving the pre-amp tubes

I ha e an iPad. Could I get into a helix floor with this? I have a new helix coming soon. Thank you so much

Great stuff, Chad! Man, I wish I would have found you earlier. You are such a tremendous help and opened up a bunch of new doors for me. Thanks again.

Thank you so much for this. I just picked up a Floor and it is a lot to take in right away. This is a great explanation on how to set everything up, the rest is just setting up tones. Great video.

amazing tutorial

Here it is 18 months later and this is still so relevant and informative! Just what I needed Chad! Thank you!!

Great video. Very easy to follow. Thank You

Mr Chad im new to helix and im having a problem in hx edit when trying to import ir's from files ive down loaded in my laptop im getting a , no path found prompt , when i hit import , is there any way you know tomfix this thank you

you are a godsend chad! been struggling to quite understand this concept for weeks 😝

That helped a ton, Chad. Thanks for uncorking this beast for us.

This is incredible. Many light bulb moments had watching. I took notes like a class.

Thanks for this! I'm digging the parallel effects .

Thanks for this! I'm digging the parallel effects .

This was a great tutorial- helped me a bunch. THANKS

A big thanks for this. I have recently bought a Helix and tutorials like this make it much easier for me to learn how the thing works

New to the helix and just wanted to say these 101 and 102 are very helpful! I have one question. If I am going to bring this helix over to a buddy’s basement and plug it in to a blackstar tube combo amp to jam with him, do I want to make sure all of my presets don’t have an amp and cab setting or can I just put it on the clean channel and add amps to it. There are also several output effects loop and foot switch line availabilities in the back of my blackstar. Does anybody know the best way for sound from the blackstar to hook this helix up when I bring the helix over to jam with him?

Thanks for this tutorial 👍🏻

Great tips and tutorial here Chad. Keep em coming. Its been a bit since I saw anything new from you. All the best. you rock!!

Again, awesome stuff. And I'm sure you will agree this one is a rabbit hole that doesn't end. Or should I say a black hole? LOL And whoever that guy is that hit the dislike button sucks!

As always, equal measures of interesting and informative vid. When you spilt the first path at the distortion block, the first thing that came to mind was stacking gain pedals, particularly heir, sovereign, minotaur, scream etc. In terms of authenticity, interaction, flexibility etc, what's your take on comparing Helix with actual pedalboard layouts? Worth another vid...or is it covered elsewhere? Thanks as usual. Cheers.

Again, really helpful way to urge us to jump into the edit process - glad you're addressing the Variax integration. Can you ALSO get into PowerCab 112/212+ integration with Helix? Would using the, in my case, 212+ as the amp/cab mean that it would always come at the end of the chain? Thanks!

Great video! I have an HX Stomp with pedals, kind of on the fence about going full Helix Floor. My biggest question is:
Can the Helix Floor act as a pseudo interface/mixer for Guitars, Mics and Keyboards? HX Stomp has a dedicated AUX IN setting for the Returns 1/2, and doesn’t take any DSP to process it (unaffected by Blocks) Seems Floor has to have a dedicated Block/Path for any Send/Return involvement (e.g. Return 1/2 is Keys, output to Multi Output, USB 3/4, etc). What’s your take on using Helix Floor with external gear? Worth it or just use a mixer and/or Audio Interface?

For a future vid, something I'm interested in is finding the best practice to monitor my playing while recording. Not sure if I should run helix to my daw with cab simulation and monitor guitar solely via my main FFR monitor speakers where my full daw mix is coming out of including live guitar, or maybe somehow send without cab simulation to my cab (I could also use cab simulation from helix to the cab since my cab is a powercab that I could choose to run as FFR) while also sending with cab simulation to my daw, turning off monitoring of the guitar track in my daw while recording. Maybe I'm overthinking it, but a general "using helix with your daw" vid would be very cool. Appreciate your vids!

Thanks again for this. I learned something about the volume pedal. I had it first in the chain which isn't the way I wanted to use it. Now it's in the back where it makes sense for me as a simple volume pedal!

Thanks again Chad! Great lesson again. I imitate your actions from this tutorial in my own Helix Edit and Helix Floor. I noticed when I tried the step "adding fuzz to path A" that I couldn't choose ANY effect at all. I deleted the mod. block but even then I couldn't add the fuzz. You explained about DSP yesterday. Am I doing something wrong? Is it something in my global settings? Thanks in advance. These lessons are very helpful for a lot of beginners like me.

Great video!