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The Peavey switches channels using a relay. The relay is engaged when connected to a voltage. Peavey uses a negative supply voltage to do that. I don't own a Helix and haven't seen the circuit board but AFAIK Helix uses a transistor based open collector circuit to switch. I would be very surprised if this isn't done with an NPN transistor. Unfortunately to switch negative voltages you'd need a PNP transistor.

Need help with this. When I run through in ears the sound is not the same as through FRFR. Lose touch and sustain. Should I set up a new set of patches for when using in ears and send through AMP OUT? Any other global settings to be aware of that could cause isses?

Hi there. I just got the Helix yesterday. Many other units and keyboards have a way to lock all the presets and controls for live performance. When the unit is "locked" for live performance, the musican cannot accidentally adjust any parameters in the heat of the battle. Boss MS-3 has this lock feature if you press and hold the "save" button for 3 seconds: all knobs and mini buttons become unresponsive, until you unlock the unit. Does something like this exist in a Helix? PS: yes I am quite clumsy, and have to play a complicated set that has frequent sound changes, and the last thing I need is to accidentally start editing my patch during an important solo while people are holding up their cell phones .... or something :) Many thanks in advance, d.

We are going in circles lol. There is no way to turn it off. The capacitance is always enabled. And that menu always pops up when touching the tap tempo/tuner button. For such a serious and global setting, I still don't understand why it's so exposed. I never want to change how my delays operate during a gig.

You can touch the tap tempo button and the tap tempo/per snapshot/per preset setting pops up. As a matter of fact, I own 2 Helixes, and during regular rehearsals, I constantly see the tap tempo setting flash, probably due to static electricity or whatnot on the floor. So it's not having to press the menu button. My question is -- why? why do you want to give users an ability to tweak this stuff on the fly? Why can't you disable the capacitance of the switches? Lock that stuff up.

I don’t know about that... I can’t recall any multi-FX processor that ever had any sort of prompts like that for changing various settings. Usually, you just set them, and that’s that.