I designed this preset as a stripped-down version of my Bethel Music Artist Helix Floor preset. Please click the link for more demos and clips.

This package comes with two presets: the main preset with a compressor, amps, cabs, eq, and reverb, and a second preset with some effects from the full Helix floor version of this preset.

The main preset has the essential parts to capture the typical “Bethel” amp tone on the last couple Bethel records: strong compression before the amps, AC30, Deluxe Reverb, and a big cloud reverb sound. I designed this preset to integrate into your existing pedalboard as a direct solution with a couple extra effects if you want to use them. 

Footswitches:

1. Toggles the amp drive up and down, in case you want to use the Stomp in the middle of your board before your delays and reverbs, allowing you to replace a couple expensive “transparent” overdrives.

2. Toggles the decay and mix on the reverb from medium to large.

3. Toggles various settings for single coils and humbuckers. LED off is for humbuckers, LED on is for single coils.

4. Post-amp clean boost on the output block

The effects preset has a Prince of Tone (stage 2 overdrive), RAT (stage 3 overdrive), a few delays, and octave effect. It’s up to you how you want to mix and match these effects depending on how you integrate the Stomp with your pedalboard. I would recommend using your own external compressor, perhaps an external drive or two, then the Stomp with your stereo wet effects pedals in the Stomp’s loop, with the loop block placed after the EQ block.

Please read the HX Stomp notes on the main HX Stomp page for recommended settings, placement, usage, etc.

Recommended IRs: 3rd party IRs are not necessary to get good tones on Helix/HX Stomp, and all my demos were tracked with the presets as they come out of the box with stock cabs. However, if you’d like to use an IR with this preset, please follow the instructions on the Bethel Music Artist Helix Floor preset page. On the HX Stomp you will need to replace the amp+cab blocks with just an amp block, and add two IR blocks, one directly after the AC30 and one directly after the Deluxe Reverb. The 212 Vox blue IR goes after the AC30 and the 112 DRVB IR goes after the Deluxe Reverb.