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Once upon a time, if you wanted gear, you went to a brick and mortar store, tried it out, questioned a knowledgeable sales person, paid your money and took it home. If it turned out to be defective, you could return it, otherwise it was yours. We were careful how we spent our hard earned money. Then came the internet. On line retailers could undersell the local music store because they didn't need to charge tax. What always ticked me off was that people would go to the local store, try out the gear, then buy it on line. Not happy with the boon they'd been given, and seemingly oblivious to the damage they were doing, the on line stores started offering no questions asked returns. The volume they were doing made it possible to work with the lower margins that resulted from the returns. The local stores are mostly gone, and those that survive, even the once mighty Guitar Center, are pitiful shells of their former selves. There are no longer any knowledgeable sales people, just teenagers who (most of them) couldn't care less about you or the gear they're selling you. I still do my due diligence before I buy, and if, miraculously, I can find the item I want at a real store where I can try it out, that's where I buy it. Here in Colorado, if you buy on line and don't pay tax you're required by law to declare it on your taxes and pay the tax. Most don't, but I do. So, when I buy something on line sight unseen, and decide to return it, I don't feel bad about it at all. The on line retailers made their beds, the bedbugs are their just reward. That said, I buy primarily from Sweetwater*. Their sales folks may not know everything about everything they sell, but they do get basic training, and if you ask something they can't answer, they'll find out and get back to you, and they rarely hassle over returns, unless there's obvious damage. If the future of music retail is on line, we could do worse, but those who take unfair advantage are still turds....at LEAST do your homework! *I tempt the wrath of the forum mods because the business NEEDS a model of how it SHOULD be done, and those who provide that model should be acknowledged!

I tried yet, it doesn’t fit A3, maybe diagonally (haven’t tried) but it would be a total waste of precious adhesive paper... It would be an idea to make united strip and make it print to a Print Service Center

I have a few theories about why the Line6 staff have largely abandoned commenting on the Helix forum in favor of the The Gear Page. One theory is that since they have access to the membership numbers perhaps they determined that their reach is much larger on TGP. The "The Helix Hour" and the podcast have also provided additional outlets for more pre-planned statements. Also their focus has switched to newer products and those under development. Another theory is that there was some kind of Line6 directive that could of come from legal or management or even Line6 support that instructed Line6 employees that they opened the company and themselves up to more legal liability when posting on their own Line6 forum in an "official" capacity. Strictly speculation on my part, I have no way of knowing ultimately what drove the shift by Line6 staff away from the forum. Could be nothing other than there own personal preference for all I know but it seems like something more. Shame though, I do miss them chiming in relatively frequently as they used to with tips and info that only a Line6 employee would be privy to.

If you're using the Floor version into a real-world guitar cab (e.g. by way of an amp), but are using the same patch in Helix Native with computer speakers or headphones, it will definitely sound fizzier as computer speakers and headphones have a much flatter response, and thus show a lot more high end, than a guitar cab. If that's not what you're doing, perhaps post up your preset (or list of the blocks you use) and tell us what you plug the Floor unit into typically.

Guys, thank you for all the input and the quick responses it's really great to see a forum like this! I tried the Helix through my own PA and everything worked out fine. Definitely must have been something on the other end of that P A I tried last week. Thanks again guys

I invite you to try to print it and apply to your Helix and you’ll see everything is fine ;)

I think the main reason people suspect you're not genuine is the fact you don't respond to the best invitation to help you: Post your signal path and some sound files. This way people can hear what's going on and give you meaningful advice. There have been some really bad trolls in the past and people have become a bit suspicious because of them. If you really want help, give the people offering their help something to work with. Or at least tell them why you can't or won't.

Feed a pulse to your helix and record both outputs at once to your daw and measure the time difference, if any better to be sure first

IMHO a feedbacker should be included with every modeler regardless of make or model. It is the best way for IEM users to be able to get feedback and can make it infinitely easier for FRFR users as well. Not to speak of all the creative possibilities it offers in general. Depending on how the modeler is monitored, lack of proper feedback is one of the last technical barriers remaining that can negatively differentiate modeling with FRFR or IEM from using old-school analog amps. Would love to see this come to the Helix.

Normally I'd object to comments like this, but there's something just not quite right at the moment. Too many threads like these.

Made my Mission pedal return to zero (heel down) just using rubber bands.

The Helix has 4 effects loops, and I wanted to use them all to compare Friedman BE models sounds from various processors : Fractal Audio AX8, Kemper, Atomic Amplifire...and a real amp, the Friedman Runt (*), which is not a BE but is based on it. So here as you can see the first in action is the Helix ; can you guess the others ? I'm using a looper here so all the processors are treating the same signal. All are also using the Helix reverb. Apologies for the stupid riff, it's completely improvised, I wanted to have both rhythm and leads For the Friedman Runt I used a Torpedo Captor and a speaker simulation from the Axe-Fx II

Some other differences between a JTV-69S and A Variax Standard: To my ear, the Standard single coil pickups sounded better then the stock pickups on my JTV-69S. I suspect there’s veriability here, so this may not be the same for other instruments The pickup selector switch is too soft and too close to the pickups on the Standard, so its easy to hit the switch by accident and unintentionally change pickups. JTV-69S switch is closer to where it is on a Strat, and has a much better, tighter feel. Its also easier to put the switch in the right pickup without overshooting. The Standard’s volume control is also too close to the bridge pickup and too high - it gets in the way of picking for me. JTV doesn’t have this problem The Standard’s tremolo bar has a lot of play in it and there’s no way to install a tremolo bar spring - the hole goes all the way through. You can wrap plumber’s tap around the threads to solve this, but it has to be redone every time you change the strings. JTV tremolo bar is excellent. The Standard doesn’t stay in tune as well - I tend to tune my JTV once a night and it rarely changes. The Standard neck is certainly thinner and this can be a plus if you have small hands. But that thin neck seems to be much less stable than the thicker, heavier JTV neck. I find the action on the Standard changes a lot with temperature and humidity, while the JTV is rock solid. I’ve come to like the JTV neck even though I have smallish hands. The Standard is a good utility instrument. But the JTV feels more like a quality instrument you’d keep for a while.

One of the unsaid operating assumptions here is that I'm disregarding the "but bruh, different guitars, A2 vs A5 pickups, (un)wound G strings, pick materials, cable capacitance...blah blah...tone is in the fingerz" counter-arguers. It is safe to assume that if over 100 users contributed to these SOAS, that they were arguably using several different playing techniques and types of gear when producing their SOAS worthy presets. Hence, the intent of this project is to create statistically sound ranges of values, rather than definitive "best" values, because we all know there is no such thing as "best" in the guitar world. Unless were talking about Rats as the best dirt box ever, because well, Rats are the f*cking best!

Do these L6 forums have a policy about starting new accounts with new handles for the sole purpose to troll the forums? It doesn't take much effort to figure out that "northerntwang" is "ddmilne".

It used to be quite common for someone from L6 to chime in on issues if they had some insight. Not any more, apparently. Ideascale is a waste of time. It seems clear it's not factoring highly in L6's development. The top voted idea is 3 years old but is still 'in review', but in the meantime we still get a steady stream of new Marshall clones. Other highly-voted ideas are either being ignored or have actually been implemented without anyone coming back to Ideascale to mark it as such.