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Thanks for your opinions. However I still don't think the Helix EQs are very nice. Of course there are workarounds like using multiple PEQ blocks but... * I would like to use those blocks for other effects. There are only 8. Wasting one more block to just get an adequate EQ would be really a big sacrifice. * Using more blocks is a bad workflow switching between blocks to adjust parameters. +-24 dB is not much. Check out the Acoustic Sim effect in the Helix. This one is doing exactly that, even slightly more. Having the possibility of doing this using a PEQ instead of Acoustim Sim block, would be a great oppotunity of saving some DSP power for other effects. I think it would be really easy to just provide larger param ranges for the PEQ. And it would give us so much. Especially the lower band freq range would be great to have a bit more flexibility there.

I had an issue with license manager where it would not detect my hardware and I was unable to activate anything. I managed to solve this. I must also give credit to hurghanico for giving me an insight into what the issue was. Get the default.cfg file from this post. Place this file in C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Line 6\MonkeyCore\ Attached image of folder with file example. Doing this enabled me to activate my 500X, additional software packs and install them onto it.

… the piezo pickup in my old acoustic bass guitar which the previous owner implemented the wrong way so that it now sounds like crap… Yes, sometimes things are so "fundamentally wrong" that the best way to fix it is by taking unconventional measures. For the above case, apart from the parametric EQ for finetuning, I have used the Multiband Compressor to radically suppress the frequence range that I don't want to be there. It works.

I completely agree with the OP. IMHO the parametric EQ in the Helix work but are implemented kind of toy-ish. And there is the wrong implementation of the Q parameter: In the context of resonators (like parametric EQ) there is the so called bandwidth-definition of Q: Q = f_r / Δf Q (Qualtity factor; how narrow a filter is) is defined as frequency-to-bandwidth ratio at the resonant frequency f_r where Δf is the resonance width or full width at half maximum (FWHM). Line 6 uses Q = ( f_r / Δf )² which is wrong. And it's undocumented so you have to stumble over it when trying to copy eq settings from other devices.

I HAVE SOLVED IT! I put the default.cfg file from the Monkey workaround post in the MonkeyCore folder mentioned above and the 500X is now detected by license manager and I was then able to authorise it. After restarting License Manager, the packs appeared in the add-ons list. I then had the option to install the packs and after several minutes of programming the hardware, it said I needed to power cycle the 500X, which I did. THE PACKS ARE NOW INSTALLED! They show up under the model packs menu on the 500X and I am able to use them. I have told support how I did it also. Thanks hurghanico for giving me idea on what the issue is. Link to the post with the file Put the default.cfg file from this post at C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Line 6\MonkeyCore\default.cfg

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE ME FROM LINE 6 IDEASCAPE. I HAVE TRIED AND TRIED TO UNSUBSCRIBE TO STOP RECEIVING EMAILS. IT DOES NOT WORK!!!!!!! MY NEXT STEP WILL BE BAD MOUTHING YOU ON SOCIAL MEDIA!!!!!

USB creates a ground loop. Using the XLR outputs really helps this.