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After years of trying to make a guitar (tube) amp work as a stage monitor I finally joined the 21st century (frfr monitor) & cannot believe the difference. When I first got the Helix I used a channel switching amp (clean / dist) straight in, then 4CM (fought the noise) but Friday gigs going straight from work forced me to downsize; started using amp/cab sims to FOH, 1/4" to a Fender Pro Junior because it's small and simple; one vol, tone knob. Never could really get it to sound right, even after using a split block with parametric EQ to notch out the offending frequencies. I also tried: Blues Jr Marshall (straight in & return) Mesa Boogie " " " Blackstar EL34 10W single ended I thought what the heck, for $250 I got a small (8" with a tweeter horn) floor monitor thing and I'm blown away. Everytime I get a new amp I always break in the speaker with two things, Allman Bros Live at the Fillmore and Steely Dan Aja. When I started the Aja CD I couldn't believe my ears - it sounded better than my Stereo! So then I plugged in and played clean then hard stuff- Deacon Blues to Mississippi Queen both sounded amazing, and I haven't even considered mic/line level or EQ! Some of our songs require controlled feedback- that works too! Wish I'd done this years ago. At 66 in a cover band this simplifies my life... TL/DR: Try an FRFR monitor for stage wash if using a "real" amp doesn't work sonically. I've been blessed with some really great amps at home but for Helix this is a game changer.

It's a computer. Computers do weird $hit. Any problem that has persisted for months on end like this obviously isn't going to fix itself, and the odds of you being able to do anything about it yourself are slim to none...unless you're an engineer familiar with the innards of stuff like this and are comfortable doing your own surgery, warranties be damned, but I digress. I doubt it's a hardware problem anyway. Otherwise your options are rather limited, as is the case for most of us: 1) Back everything up and do a factory reset. 2) If you're still running 3.11, do your back up and then upgrade to the latest firmware...perhaps it's a bug peculiar to the version you're running. Besides, there's been a bunch of stuff added since 3.11 that you might want to explore anyway. Beyond that, these things just aren't particularly user-serviceable devices...at some point it's time to open a service ticket and see what they tell you.