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Rarely but it did happen some. When you get the feel for it after a day or so, you’ll know how hard/soft to press. The standard wh10v3 (without the mod) was almost impossible to turn on and off while sitting down. Even times when I was standing, it was hard to engage. The Wilson mod makes it so much easier. I actually sold all my gear for a helix, but I’m looking at buying another one from Kevin Wilson, because they’re literally perfect in my opinion.

@@frusciantegeartone that is interesting, cheers for the response pal

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It’s from a jam- Poland 2007 ua-cam.com/video/T5V9eaiKuxo/v-deo.htmlsi=D8hUmNJvBNrbAnXn

I will do so this evening and let you know!

Are you talking about the “line 6 voltage” or “voltage queen”. At first I tried voltage queen but didn’t like it. BUT THEN I tried the line 6 voltage and oh my… I think it may be my favorite. Seems like the gain stage and channel volume work so well together in shaping tone. I actually got Frusciante tone really quick. Like weirdly quick. Now I just need to “A & B” them to see which one is closer. But yea, thank you for leading me that direction. Will definitely do a video on it as well as a shoutout!

Indeed! I’m very happy

!!!!TURBOTIME!!!!

@@frusciantegeartone 😂😂😂

@@FarmerSlideJoeBob 😂

I agree. I sold my ds2 and all my pedals to afford a helix. While I’m really happy about the effects, tweakability, signal path diversity, and silent playing with headphones (to not disturb wife or neighbors), it does still fall short with the fuzz kind of drives. The overdrives sound really close but only get you so far, without completely understanding frequencies and how to make it sound as close as possible. That’s why I love and miss my pedals- you just turn them on, set it, and forget it.

@@frusciantegeartone ahh man I get that … it sucks to get rid of the pedals, I had to do my own cull earlier this year .. I also know about the silent playing. 4 kids. Man I don’t know how much a full helix set you back out there, but since your Frusciante focused, I’d consider adding the JFX empyrean and a DS2 ( get em used if your on a budget, although I always would try to support justin direct if ya can, super cool guy) to your board if you can stretch for one… it would complement the helix well. Everything else in the helix will have you mostly covered I think , maybe wh10 is another essential I can’t remember if you can pseudo this with helix fx.

I think you’re right. You can only get so far with digital. I think if I understood the frequencies of the ds-2 better, I could better tweak the eq on the helix. That’s what’s great about actual pedals- you just turn a couple of knobs and you’re set 😂.

No but sublime nice 😃

Returned and bought a new one. The was 40 would fix the squeak but not the calibration (digital aspect). But yea the new one works great!

You’re welcome. Just for the record, I have an updated video of a new helix floor unit and I’m very happy. It works great

@@frusciantegeartone ok, i will review, thanks!

@@marioescobar7680 you’re welcome!

Yep, I got another one and it’s perfectly fine!

I would but I have zero knowledge how to do so. I’m looking into it though.

Thanks for watching. I was a skeptic but now I’m all in.

Yea I watched Andersons comparing the helix with others and actually liked the kemper. The kicker for me was that the helix had the exact pedals I needed. (Obi wah, spin cycle, and a few others). I love that I can play through headphones while also running into stereo amps or front of house while having a volume knob for my headphones only (which would def be needed for me). Can’t imaging doing sound check, dialing in, but then when we play live the drummer kicks it up a notch and then I can’t hear myself. All I’d have to do is turn the mix on my headphones really quick on the helix while not affecting the house mix volume. Not sure if the others have that capability but helix wins the versatility trophy for me, while kemper wins the tone. I think dialing in side by side, I could get a helix to sound like a kemper. Maybe.. 😂 What type of system are you running?

@@frusciantegeartone Gotcha! I'm still running a pedalboard. I've got a princeton reverb, handwired ac30, and pro junior that I use on all my session work and any venues that allow amps on stage still. For playing churches, casinos, or any other silent stage venues, I've been using the kemper toaster for my amp+cab with my pedalboard (wet effects in the fx loop of the kemper). Just grabbed the kemper player, so that will defintely be nice not having to carry the toaster as well. I've found that kemper+pedals gets me closest to the tones I get running my board into my amps.

@@spillemusicstudios8515 wow! That’s a nice setup. I noticed that the helix dropped price by a couple hundred dollars. Makes me think a new helix is on the way but we’ll see. I’m definitely late to the game of digital modeling. So far I’m very impressed. Option paralysis is real 😂

Thank you! 🙏 Always a work in progress

Yes it’s a nice tone for sure. I just tried the Brit Plexi Jump and it sounds amazing too.

Awesome! Thank you so much! Guess I’ll do an updated video thanks to you!! 🎸

@@frusciantegeartone Yeah I mean I think you should just experiment with those Marshall Major substitutes and choose the one you like the most. If it was the plexi bright then feel free to stick with that one

You’ll be happy about the next video! 😆

@@frusciantegeartone I'll of course!😂

Very well said 💯. Even chasing a tone that you want can place you in a box too. Sometimes I surprise myself playing on a weird distortion setting I wouldn’t normally play with and come up with something totally organic and unrecognizable. Thank you for your thoughtful comment. 🙏

Yessir! Thanks man. I really need a proper setup instead of recording with my phone 😂

Yea I have no complaints about the plastic.

@@frusciantegeartone thanks!

You are correct. They can be great and absolutely horrid 😂. Just depends on what you play live. All in one pedals are great for studio and live situations. But a small pedalboard with the essentials is failproof (usually) playing live.

I like your logic. 😂 But there are people that do better than original artists. For example Joe Crocker’s version of the Beetle’s song “with a little help from my friends” is usually thought of to be so much better than the original track. I like John better but it’s interesting hearing people’s thoughts.

@@frusciantegeartone John is the king of melody and writing memorable solos. Forever my goat. Josh was solid though.

Currently working on material! So much to dive into, I may have to start with basic tone and work up to patches and effects.

@@frusciantegeartone I can't say that I've found a lot of JF enthusiasts that have taken the plunge with modelers. It should be fresh (or 'froosh'!) - looking forward to it!

Ironically some like Josh better! I was interested to see people’s opinions and sure enough there are some who prefer him. Of course I think Frusciante is better!

Thank you! It’s my favorite as well!

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Not really needed if playing through dirty channel of amp, which I’m playing through in this video. Now if I was playing a BSSM set, I’d def use a compressor. But not really needed in my opinion. Have you watched any Dave Simpson videos? He goes in depth about fruaciante’s tone and compression. He also doesn’t use a comp either. I did have a yellow compressor by mooer on my board for a while as an “always on” pedal but didn’t seem worth the real estate so I sold it. I’m now playing through a helix. May do a video on compression A/B to see the difference on dirty amps vs clean amps with compression

That’s one way to look at it!

Thank you for that. I actually sent it back and ordered another unit. So far, it’s amazing! I can’t complain besides the switches being so close together but I’m sure I’ll get used to that!

Thank you 🙏

So good to hear!

Me too! Fingers crossed 🤞

Also maybe the reason your pedal wont go to zero is that bolt might be to tight. GL

I actually sent it back and got another one. It works perfectly! So happy. I’m just learning to use it now which is pretty easy but I know it can go really in depth of tweakability but I’m keeping it simple.

Soon! Very soon! TURBO MODE!

@@frusciantegeartone Yeaaahhhhh🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Yea I actually sent it back and just today got another one in the mail. I spent the afternoon building a “by the way” era preset. The wah pedal works this time. O squeak and the pedal actually goes back to 0% instead of farting around at different inconsistencies like the previous one. One thing I changed this time is expression 1 on the helix is wah and expression 2 is wah. This may have helped with the issue I was having but it wouldn’t have helped doing pitch shifting. But yea I’d love to hear or see your RHCP setup. Are you running dual amps? I keep having the dsp issue running two amps (hard panned L&R) and not being able to have effects after dual amps.

From what I remember it was chromatic. Noise gate works well. I don’t have the m13 anymore but I loved it. The tap tempo/tuner foot switch gave out on me but easily fixed by decompressing the spring that activated the switch. Basically stretched the spring because it had been pressed so many times that it stayed compressed.

@@frusciantegeartone thank you!

Never thought of it that way, but you are correct. Pedals are simple, yet complicated in certain setups, but have worked so well for so long. We haven’t had digital modeling as long so it’ll be interesting in the future to see if people stick with one or the other. I actually had a dream last night that I bought another Helix and had the same issue 😂 ☠️. As far as amps go, I know people are talking about shortage of tubes but I have a “trans tube” peavey amp, and the tube switch on the amp really does create that tube sound. Heck, even a small, cheap compressor pedal can sound like a tube amp. Digital world sounds great but I can feel the difference, either in latency or incorrect settings. Either way, it’s complicated and/or not as good. Plain and simple