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EDIT: You will find my "production" script for download and up-to-date instructions on this website: http://acousticir.free.fr/spip.php?article136&var_mode=calcul EDIT: Links fixed! Check out this AGF thread for Doug Young’s demo of my IR along with my too long technical description of how my IR is generated (not required reading!). You will need headphones to hear this level of detail. Doug has previously been published in Acoustic Guitar magazine. https://www.acousticguitarforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=568631 Essentially my IR script replaces the Aura library or the Audio Sprockets ToneDexter training process with a custom IR you generate on your own. If you would like to use an HX Stomp, as I do, as your do-it-all acoustic guitar pedal, this script plugs the only missing capability in the HX's repertoire. Doug's evaluation was with a very high end Barbera pickup. The improvement of an IR is much more startling using a standard UST such as a Fishman Matrix, Fishman Sonitone, or Baggs Element. My guitar has a Schatten passive HFN soundboard transducer and these IRs even work nicely with that fairly natural sounding pickup. The Easy Way to Generate a Custom IR for Your Guitar: Email (jonfields45@gmail.com) me a Dropbox or Google Drive link to your recording. If your .WAV file is less than 25 MB it can be sent as an email attachment. If you Zip up your recordings you can include several in a less than 25 MB email attachment. Generating the IR takes only seconds in Matlab (longer in Octave). If you want, send a few recordings with different mic placements. I like 8” from the neck/body joint, but a more distant mic placement might make what is a better IR for your usage. .WAV file at least 60 seconds long Pickup left, Mic right, set your DAW for the two to be about equal in volume No clipping Try to keep your peaks within 15 dB of clipping (decent SNR) I like open position strumming followed by “E” bar chords going from F to C followed by a little fingerpicking. Play whatever you think best exhibits your playing style and instrument. I’m not sure it really matters. Doug Young’s recording was a fingerstyle tune with occasional strums. I won’t be listening to your recording so don’t worry about impressive playing :~). I will send you back three IRs for each recording. They will be at the same sample rate as the recording you sent me. The one labeled 5050 will be 50% bypass mixed with 50% IR. The IRs will be 2048 samples except for the one explicitly labeled 1024. The three most common errors users have encountered are: To forget to pan the pickup left and mic right when exporting the sample from their DAW. The sample WAV file is less than 60 seconds. If running the script themselves (see next section) they forget to enclose the name of the wave file in single quotes, or include the extension instead of just the wave file name. The Do It Yourself Way: Download the free GNU math development environment Octave and follow the installation instructions for your PC (they support Linux, Windows 64, Widows 32, and Berkeley Unix). https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html Download the Octave version of my IR generator (also attached to this post and downloadable if you log-in to this website): https://drive.google.com/open?id=1PtZmcDGo5yXbwjmHJGkhCX3uRyJDuRP- Place your guitar pickup/mic recordings in the same directory as my script jf45ir.m and double clip (run) jf45ir.m. The GUI version of Octave will open in that directory. Alternately, after installing Octave, run the GUI version and change the current directory to the one in which you placed my script and your recordings. If your recording is called mgit.wav, for example, then type the following in the Octave command window followed by a carriage return (don’t forget to include the single quotes before and after the file name and don’t include the ".wav" extension) : jf45ir('mgit') Octave will then generate four files, three IRs plus a frequency plot of the 100% IR. jf45irmgit.wav jf45ir5050mgit.wav jf45ir1024.wav FFTjf45irmgit.jpg Let me know how you make out with the IR. To my mind it is a pretty brute force implementation right out of a textbook, but it seems to produce useful results. The 1024 sample IR should be adequate for most instruments, but the longer version gives the IR better control over the low-E fundamental. I have put this script into the public domain as I think it adds important capability to a multi effects setup for use with an acoustic guitar. Most acoustic guitar solutions are hardwired feature sets including the few that implement IRs. Thanks, Jon jf45ir.m

The only effect I miss from my Vetta 2 combo amp is the tape eater delay. There is nothing even close to it anywhere else. Can someone let me know how to get this suggestions in front of Line 6? I know they have a lot going on, but I can't be the only one who loved this delay. Otherwise, I absolutely love my Variax and Helix. Going for the PowerCab 212+ soon. Thanks!

It's pointless to make feature requests in any of these forums as the Line 6 people you need to see it don't visit here very often. The solution is to go here and sign up: https://line6.ideascale.com/a/home Once inside Ideascale, type tape eater delay into the search box and then filter the search to Helix. You will find that someone has already made the request back in Feb 2018 and it has 14 votes. You should up-vote this item rather that start a fresh request where there is only you. This is the only feedback that Line 6 consider for evaluation of feature requests. Hope this helps/makes sense.

Finally, iPados 13.4 public beta resolved the issue!

Rejoice! iOS 13.4 has fixed the sonic port lightning issue!

Rejoice! iOS 13.4 has fixed the sonic port lightning issue!

Those earlier dates are wrong. The first shipment is scheduled to go out in April. That is the official statement from Line 6, and it always has been. If anything, the original date may slip slightly depending if there are any complications with the whole Coronavirus thing.

No you don’t need a DI

Thanks Coda (& Talwilkins....thats a good point on the battery issue. I've never had any problems with anything ion...but your right. I do have some fantastic rechargeables I've been using in sennheiser that get me about 2 shows on a charge over a weekend....so that makes me wanna lean that way as well. I'll look into it. I appreciate the extra info and do some more research. Thanks, cheers!

The whole point of "modeling" is to accurately model a particular device's real world behavior. Adding EQ to the device defeats that purpose. Having a separate EQ to modify that device's behavior accurately models what you would do in the real world to get a result specific to YOUR needs.

Whether there's useful information above 7kHz in a typical electric guitar signal should be completely irrelevant to the subject as the Helix is meant to be able to process plenty of other signals, as well (in fact, it's meant to be able to process/record any signals), so it should rather be fullrange. Having said that, mine is, I just checked. All signals are passed through absolutely fine (connected another interfaces I/Os around the Helix and sent some pink/white noise through it).

It's a dead/abandoned project imho. I have one, and I can't use it anymore as the iOS app it's totally bugged. I can't edit Variax params as it crash, and the app it's just very unstable, crashing randomly. I contacted L6 support, they said they know it's bugged, but they don't know when there'll be an upgrade. As for the firmware, again, I think there'll be no changes as it's a pretty much abandoned device. If isn't Helix, everything else doesn't last that much at L6 these days. Said that, I wish they stop doing devices with editing OS dependent, since that's creating an obsolete device as soon as the OS changes and makes the editing app obsolete and/or not running anymore. I'm sick of that honestly.

Here you go Brynjar: Michael.

Galera preciso de um Manual Service dessa pedaleira. Alguém sabe onde consigo? Não achei em lugar algum.

navigate your joystick to where it highlights the effect you want to assign. Now, TOUCH (with your finger) but do not PRESS the footswitch you want to assign to it. Click OK. Done.