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Received the screws I ordered and I’m happy to report that they fit perfectly.

Nope. Possibly a slight misunderstanding on my part - yes, generally you should have the polarity set to normal. Although when running parallel paths it is possible when using some circumstances to have blocks that may create the phase anomaly and then I think that is when the polarity switch is required -(AFAIK Line 6 have never fully explained it’s function). From something I read over on Sweetwater (credit to Craig Anderton)- Choosing Inverted for the B Polarity parameter may give useful effects when the output is mono, but it could also create a thinner sound — listen and decide. Although, I have not had a look at this preset so it was just a guess that maybe some other time based effect was causing a phase cancellation. If the ping pong sounded thin and turning on path B polarity fixed it, then it seemed to indicate a phase issue. IIRC - way back prior to v2.7 there was an issue with a couple of amp models had reversed polarity and when used together in parallel paths the would create phase cancellation, especially when the Path B mixer block was engaged. Oh, hum - one more beer then time to sleep! :-)

Hi, First up, re: “lightly touching” footswitches to have them react is perfectly normal - they are capacitive footswitches. See page 7 of the HX Stomp Owner’s Manual. Second - using GarageBand with your Stomp. Connect it to your MacBook Air using a USB cable, and connect your powered monitors with the TRS cables to the 1/4” Output L/R sockets on the back of the Stomp. This should give you latency free monitoring from GB. Use the Audio MIDI Setup Utility application on your Mac to select the Stomp as your audio interface. There is a whole section in the Owner’s Manual describing the basics of using USB audio on page 55. link: https://line6.com/data/6/0a020a418962611d636e7c51b/application/pdf/HX Stomp 3.0 Owner's Manual - Rev D - English .pdf Here’s a video from the splendid Nick Hill giving the basics with an M1 MacBook Air. He is using Studio One as the DAW, but the principles described are the same. Hope this helps/makes sense.

Note that with modelers now supporting IRs, and a good selection of acoustic body IRs available from various vendors, it's possible to get pretty good acoustic tones from piezo pickups without having to use a Variax.

Then it's doable, but you need to be able to map the MIDI note driving the kick to a continuous controller. An easy way to test this out is to turn off Helix hardware compatibility in Preferences. Then, use a keyboard's sustain footswitch (controller 64) as a controller to trigger the compressor. My favorite for this application is the Ampeg Opto Comp. Trigger the Compress parameter, with Min Compress at 0.0 and Max Compress at 10.0. Every time you hit the footswitch momentarily, you get the pumping effect. Adjust Release to taste. (If you want to keep hardware compatibility enabled, choose a switch controller other than 64 that Helix doesn't reserve as a global controller.) I haven't tried triggering from note data, though. Ableton Live can use Max routing to trigger CCs from notes, but I don't know what can be done in Logic. However, MIDI Solutions' hardware Event Processor can map just about any MIDI event to any other MIDI event. You can download the programming software without buying the unit to see what it does. Or just contact the company and ask them if it will convert note data to continuous controllers, they've always been helpful in the past. Once you map the kick drum note to a continuous switch controller and map the controller to the compressor, you should be good to go. Again, I do this with a footswitch. So, I know that you can achieve that sound, but I haven't gone through the process of converting a MIDI kick drum note to a switch controller. Hope this helps! In any case your question helped me, because it was a reminder to include the "footswitch pump" tip in a future revision of my Helix book :)

Hi there ! Did you have to update firmware/software, after changing battery? Were you getting the " address error" before you changed the battery? I am ok with backing up my tone patches, but dont see that line 6 has the firmware/software update available on Line 6 Monkey or on there support page. Thoughts?