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Hi Spider V Remote 2.00 does not detect my internet connection (look at the screenshot). I have this problem with windows 7 and windows 8.1 Has anyone ever encountered this problem? Would you have a solution to this problem? Spider V Remote works well on Mac OSX and Windows 10 233/5000

To use the Zuma's 9V outs with the HX Effects, you just need a way to get from a 2.1mm x 5.5mm barrel to a 2.5mm x 5.5mm barrel plug. There are a few adapters that do that, but they're oddly expensive. I found it was cheaper to combine a few Voodoo Lab cables and adapters to get there. I use the following: (1) current double adapter (1) 2.1mm to 2.1mm reverse polarity cable (1) 2.1mm to 2.5mm adapter (marketed as an L6 Adapter - this reverses the polarity, so that's why you need the reverse polarity cable as well).

Since you've said you're not a developer and hence aren't going to do this yourself, seems to me you have a choice. Either: - continue to keep this thread alive and hope someone someday will see a business case in this and develop it, or - explore your entrepreneurial self. Do your own business case analysis and determine whether it makes sense for you to hire a developer and retain ownership of the product. A key part of a business case is determining the sales and marketing channels. In this regard you may have a good answer already - persuade Line 6 that this would be a good product to add to the Helix Marketplace. That would give you instant exposure to the Helix user community with a built-in e-commerce mechanism. (And don't forget to include ongoing maintenance activities and costs in your analysis.) If that sounds daunting to you it probably would to anyone else you're hoping will pick up the torch. And then the idea will probably die right here. So, are you a budding entrepreneur?

Good to know. Consider this phrase stolen. Or maybe it's just my cover version. But I'm totally heisting it.

I did use that workaround in the past. it's a way to do it. It's way faster to recall the EQ on the spot. i want to avoid surprises when i arrive at the gig and the venue or PA is completely the opposite as described. It should be an easy feature with little memory space and cpu usage. I could name it: outside, hall, bar, high ceiling...end so on. Thanks for replying. Cheers.

Great work on the updated spreadsheet! I, too, have looked for up-to-date lists from Line 6 and really appreciate this. I'm attempting to share a modified version of it that contains a page for each category (in addition to the 'Master' list provided)... Helix 2.80 Model List

Here my updated EXCEL sheet. I haven't updated my Helix yet - so I hope everything is correct and nothing missing. Line 6 gear 2019-07-20.xlsx

Regarding the XT Live, I'm in much the same boat. I'm using a 750€ Yamaha guitar and a 350€ Roland Cube (RRP fifteen years ago - I bought them cheap second hand). I bought a Zoom G1Xon (80€), and have no trouble getting good tones from it, even on very different amps. All the presets are a very good starting point, and I only need to tweak them a bit to get them to sound what they are supposed to sound like. The problem with pedals like that though, with only an up and down footswitch, is that they need to be 100% pre-programmed for your set. So I got a second hand XT Live because it had more flexible footswitches. However, getting a decent tone out of it is much, much harder. In my case the default presets were pretty much erased by a previous owner, and I can't reset the unit because then I'll lose the modelling packs they added. But using the Monkey software I have tried the default presets out one by one and didn't find anything close to what I was looking for. Further, nothing I've downloaded from the 'custom tone' site sounds anything like it is supposed to in the description either. For example, the Randy Rhoads preset I downloaded for the Zoom is beautiful without any tweaking. The Rhoads preset I downloaded for the XT Live sounds appalling; nothing like him at all, no matter how much I tweak it. Another thing is that I can make the guitar 'sing' and 'scream' very easily with the Zoom, whereas I can only describe the XT Live as 'stable' and 'flat'. For example, I can do pinched harmonics on it, but I'm left with the feeling that something was missing. With the Zoom I make a F*** yeah' face, and on the XT I tend to look over at my amp and make a 'WTF was that?' face. I think the XT is much more sensitive to equipment, and much less versatile than the Zoom, and I find presets a waste of time. I'm sure the presets sounded good on someone else's guitar and amp, but they don't translate well. Especially the way the cabs interact with the Stomp effects. I can get a half-decent tone using an amp/cab model, but then the Stomp effects just destroy it. I also find some of the default settings for the effects completely baffling. As you say, everytime you turn the tweak button, you don't know whether you're going to get your head blasted off. And some of the default settings just don't make any sense at all - as if they were set by a Line6 tech who didn't actually play guitar. It is really, really annoying that we can't save over the default settings of the effects. It should just remember the last user setting, and I think this is the biggest flaw of the unit. I've had the XT Live for several weeks, but I've only had a few hours to mess around on it during that time. The main problem I have at the moment is that I can't play loud in my apartment. So when I set-up tones at low volume that sound OK, when I take them to rehearsal, they sound completely different (and usually really horrible). I'm going to try to find a way of spending a few hours alone in our rehearsal space, creating tones from scratch at high volume, before I give up. I only paid 100€ for my unit, so it's not a disaster if I end up getting rid of it. But I still have hope that I can find one tone that I like which will sound good throughout the whole clean, crunch, distorted, chorus/phaser, and wah range of effects. I mean, professional musicians used this unit for gigging back in the day, so it must be possible to get a decent tone out of it. I should have more time over Xmas to play with it, and will post back if I have a breakthrough or some kind of epiphany. I don't think many of these older modelling units do Metal very well though, so I may have more luck than you. This guy seems to know what he's doing, so I guess this is as good as the Metal tones get. Sounds OK, but nothing special.