jiagap
Inspired
To quote Mr Petty: "The waiting is the hardest part." Checking my emails several times a day and reading this forum looking for clues when my name will be up on the list. Aarrgghh.
I found a local guy who offered to let me come over an test out his Helix. So I did. It was pretty impressive on several levels... bells and whistles. Better than the HD500x I had for a few days, but it still had hints of the fizz on the higher gain settings that so turned me off from the HD500X. I am sure I could live with the clean sounds and the delays, reverbs, and modulation effects, but the overdrive pedals were not as impressive.
I started hearing complaints on the internet about sqweekie pedal, difficulty in updating firmware, and the one I was observing blanked out in the middle of tweeking and had to be rebooted.
Also, while the routing and squibbles are cool, I question the knobs ability to hold up after a year or so of tweeking.
Anyway, I watched several YouTube demos and almost went over to the dark side. But I am back, impatiently waiting for my name to come up on the waiting list. Many years ago I had the Boss GT8 when I bought an Ax Ultra - it was night and day improvement.
I found a local guy who offered to let me come over an test out his Helix. So I did. It was pretty impressive on several levels... bells and whistles. Better than the HD500x I had for a few days, but it still had hints of the fizz on the higher gain settings that so turned me off from the HD500X. I am sure I could live with the clean sounds and the delays, reverbs, and modulation effects, but the overdrive pedals were not as impressive.
I started hearing complaints on the internet about sqweekie pedal, difficulty in updating firmware, and the one I was observing blanked out in the middle of tweeking and had to be rebooted.
Also, while the routing and squibbles are cool, I question the knobs ability to hold up after a year or so of tweeking.
Anyway, I watched several YouTube demos and almost went over to the dark side. But I am back, impatiently waiting for my name to come up on the waiting list. Many years ago I had the Boss GT8 when I bought an Ax Ultra - it was night and day improvement.