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It just sounds to me like you have a big problem with paralysis by analysis. Clearly you don't have a problem with understanding complex things given your nerdy configurations, but making music in general is not about complexity, it tends to be more about simplicity. The fact is, you don't really need to know all that much in order to be productive with a Helix. Exotic configurations and setups rarely make any kind of significant difference especially to an audience which is why you're doing this. I've been working with my Helix since it first came out in 2015, and I have done some complex things with it. But the VAST majority of what I use when I play it tends to orbit around one of two specific amps that are very powerful and flexible which are the Grammatico GSG and the Elmsley which were released in firmware 3.60. I committed my time to understanding how to configure them and what each option provides which are pretty well documented by Line 6. Beyond that I confined myself to about 5 different Line 6 cabinet configurations from the new cabinets. Just using those as the core elements I can create any of the presets I need, and I play a LOT of different styles of music. Beyond those amps and cabs the only things I use in any of my presets are a choice of three different distortion pedals which are the Minotaur, Teemah and occasionally the Tone Sovereign. Beyond that I'll usually have a Dynamic Hall or Dynamic Plate reverb, a Transistor Tape Echo (if needed), a final LA Studio compressor and a final Parametric EQ (for final finishing of the tone) and that's it. With just those components I've created well over 100 different presets in all sorts of styles. The vast majority of my presets don't use snapshots because I can get the sounds I need just using regular footswitches. There are occasions I might add a specialty block of some sort like a Twin Harmony or a Poly Capo, but almost everything is very limited, concise and SIMPLE. The important thing is that you don't need to know everything, you just need to know a few things very well in order to be productive. And you don't need to tweak sounds endlessly to get a good sound. You get something reasonable and start playing it. The VAST majority of tone comes from the amp and cabinet settings. Everything else are really just finishing touches. Get something that kind of works. Play it for a while, come back in a few hours and play it some more and maybe adjust a few settings once your ears are fresh and you'll be surprised how easily to can get sounds that work for you. For people that are "gear heads" you can fool yourself into believing that gear and complexity will make a big difference, but in the real world that really isn't the case.

I use Inst level and do Low/High Shelf -> LA Studio Comp. Setting Low/High Shelf as +24dB neutral clean boost: LoGain +12dB, LoFreq 2kHz, LoGain +12dB, HiFreq 500Hz, Level +12dB This way the input level for the compressor is high enough to actually compress the way I want it to. Works great!

For my needs, factory presets are useless. There was a factory setlist that went through the amps, which i spent about 2 days going through and deleting out the effects (or just bypassing them) and leaving the amp/cab. If they were separate blocks or the single block I dont remember. However, i literally went through all the amps in the Helix and dialed them in to various gain stages, found out what I liked that amp to do best, and saved it as a user default (not a favorite). Yes tedious, however, if you utilize the looper trick (if you dont know that one, its where you put a looper at the beginning of your chain, record your guitar and then that allows you to tweak the amp/cab without having to stop playing to adjust. the Looper is like a friend playing for you) and it didnt take long to dial in the amp variously. For your case, here is what I would do. And remember get your tools in order and it's much easier to build a house. 1) create a template. For your purpose, I would create a blank preset. Set up your typical preset flow. For me, line 1 input is guitar, line 1 output is set to line 2, line 2 output is set to -4db and multi as the output option. I would add the looper block first in the chain, and assign the bypass parameter to a footswitch. I would add an Amp +Cab Block at the end of line 1 (or first block on line 2). This allows you to add pre/post effects easily DSP wise. Save this as Template or something easy. 2) record your typical playing style into the looper with the amp/cab block(s) bypassed so you just hear the straight through guitar. I usually try to cover a variety of play styles when doing this. I'll pick some clean-ish type stuff, bang some chords, palm mute some chords as well as play a few bluesy/rock type lead passes. This lets me hear the most without having to re-record different things. 3) while the looper is repeating this back to you, activate your amp/cab blocks (if separate, do your cab block first so you dont get the raw amp sound, harsh and just ugly). You can literally start at the first amp in the helix, tweak just the usual amp settings (gain, bass, mids, treble, presence). However try to keep volumes even so adjusting the master volume (affects tone) and channel volume (does NOT affect tone will need to work cooperatively to do this. Do it now, so that your user defaults are relatively balanced, or you'll need to do this later when you create presets. remember what I said earlier about organizing tools early? 4) when you get a tone you like, there are two approaches. If you want a one-trick pony tone for each amp.....save it as a user default. Next time you call up that amp, you got YOUR tone. If you want to use an amp to do multiple tones (Deluxe, AC30 type stuff) then I'd suggest saving the block as a user favorite, you can name it as something like Deluxe Clean, Deluxe Pushed, Deluxed Ballz, lol. Again, next time you build a preset, select blocks from the favorites folder and you have YOUR tone. Those 4 steps can be overwhelming in volume, but really they are foundationally what you need to build upon further. You can do the same thing with effects and such as well. I do that with all my effects. Being in a cover band with over 100 songs available. I create a preset per song, i use my user favorites that i've saved. if I save it as a different setting, i save it as a different user favorite. Hope that helps!

Or, as Einstein so famously declared, E=Fb. And also Gus Saves.

SOLVED! Line6 Support worked with me for a while to figure this out. After performing a fresh install of 'Line 6 Audio-Midi Driver 7.6.8', and restarting my Mac (which is required), I immediately went to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Click the lock to make changes. Click the 'Allow' button next to "Some system software was blocked from loading", and then select the Line 6 Audio-Midi Driver. You only have a few min. after restarting your system to do this before it goes away. This is a huge relief to have this fixed! I hope this helps someone else.

i use d'addario NYXL0942 09-42 on my 69s... both electric+acoustic models AND mags sound super (genre: ). previously used d'addario EXL120 9-42...restringing from the stock d'addario 10s requires setup.

Yes, they are D'Addario 10's that come stock on the JTV's. Strings are really personal preferences. Very few right's or wrong's, just opinions and feel. If you go with lighter or heavier, you'll need to adjust your action and neck relief, or have some who knows how to, do it. The other thing you will need to adjust if you change gauges, or even change brands in the same gauge will be your intonation. I'd say try your favorite brand, and if it pleases you, you're good to go. I use GHS Boomer 10's on all my electric guitars, so they all feel and play about the same. Once I adjusted the intonation, I can just change the strings and then I check the intonation and adjust if need be (usually minor). It can vary from one run of strings to the next (like any manufactured product), but usually, I don't need to adjust the intonation for a new set of the same. I buy 'em in 10 packs, if I can get a deal, if not, I buy a handful of sets when I'm getting low and I happen to be at Guitar Center. Dave

Hi everyone! I came here to see if someone can help me! I was playin today through my POD Go, and suddenly lost the volume. After I cheked everything was fine (cables, guitar jack, etc) I launched Pod Go Edit (v1.30) and saw that the expression pedal (volume) was at 0% position. I tried to move it, but I had no response. But, suddenly, the pedal position started to change in Pod Go Edit even when I wasn't touching the pedal itself. This happens in ALL my presets: I start playing at 100% volume, but suddenly it goes back to 0% and I can´t change it. I've already restore the POD GO to factory and restore the back up I made earlier... but I'M lost Anyone have a clue what this could be? Thanks!

a pleasure in greeting you I wanted to ask you if you managed to somehow fix this problem with the POD GO because I have mine and I have that problem too