Those running Helix floors: do you worry about damage front-of-stage?Īlso: My only end-use scenario for this is direct to house. However the price of the rack unit, controller, and a couple of expression pedals is substantially higher than the straight floor unit and an extra expression pedal. So another question if I may: How robust is the Helix floor? My gut says to go with the rack so the brains of my rig are not down front where it gets kicked/jostled/spilled-on-by-drunks. That puts me at about 85% sold Axe-Fx is too pricey and too fiddly, and I'm not crazy about certain aspects of the Kemper.
#Software lag switch rack full
So if I'm understanding this: I can create as many as eight different full signals paths within a preset, save them as snapshots, and switch seamlessly between them? Now we are cooking with gas. Can the helix do what I need, or do I have to look elsewhere? I get that from the POD one would expect the helix to be more capable. The point is, if I'm switching from clean with verb, ducking delay, and tremolo to dirty with slapback and a phaser that needs to be one button. In my opinion the boutique pedal thing is pure marketing hype and the only place you should see single-function analog stompers is in a museum. One of the main reasons I went with a midi controlled rack rig when I started playing for a living was to get away from that. The solution generally floated is to use one preset per song and use it like a board full of stompers. Reading reviews I'm seeing a potential showstopper: reports of as much as a full second of lag time when changing presets. It actually sounds pretty good, but I'm going to be upgrading to something a little more high-end in the near future. I'm going speakerless now for a variety of reasons (A bad back for starters) and as a stopgap bought a used butt POD XT and an FBV mk ii floorboard. I've been running a midi controlled rack rig for my entire working life since around 1995.