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WHERE ARE YOU!!!!!!!!! (DONT BUNCH UP THOSE PANTIES J/K)

Last year I think I was the worst critic of the Line 6 Helix.I too, couldn't get a warm tone. I blamed Line6 for a terrible product. Through a mishap at the local music store I Recently ended up renting a Helix LT. When I got it home I uploaded the latest firmware upgrade. Un-be-known to me, the previous renter had left the unit in a user mode without any patches. I thought he wiped everything out so I began making my own. To my surprise I got a usable tone. Then I thought about the last experience I had which was very bad. I soon realized that what I was running the helix through then was a fender tube amp, but this time i was running through a Boss Katana 50 on a clean channel. The Katana is solid state and somewhat Full Range. So I tried all the things the guys tried to tell me last year and it worked remarkably well. That Being said, the first thing you need to do is to set your cabinet low cut and hi limits to 80-120HZ for lows, and high cut off around 4KHZ. Then I would add a similar High/ Low Cut EQ at the end of the signal chain. Also be mindful of the gain levels you use with your amp model you choose. If your going to put overdrive/distortion ahead of or behind the amp model - less amp gain is more in many cases with the use of OD/DIST effects. So to get a nice overdrive lower the gain to get a warm overdrive breakup or rythmn gain from the amp model first,. That is, unless the amp model is going to carry all of the OD/DIST. I also would get a hold of presets like fremens best picks or the like to see what they are doing but I noticed that they are almost always insisting on the us of FRFR monitors. .An FRFR monitor like the Headrush 112 is an affordable option. I run two with my AX8 and will likewise use the same for the helix. I use AX8 live, but with my latest experience I am going to use the HELIX at my next opportunity. I dont see any issue using it live under the present circumstances. I have been able , finally, to get low-med- and high gain overdrive without the harshness. OH, before I forget, use a 10 band EQ and totally drop out anything above 8KHZ to avoid digital noise and make use of noise gates where needed.

Thank you very much!

Yeah; get a DMC micro MIDI switch. Then you can set the right switch to toggle between two modes; as opposed to cycle through all of them. Left switch tap ; hold for tuner. Also has exp input for an expression pedal; freeing up the actual HX exp input for another two button TRS switch; for FS4 and FS5.

As I said, I'm sure it's a nice instrument. And it's entirely plausible that I'd like it. But the issue for me is whether or not it's genuinely worth $2K...I realize that's largely subjective, but having been at this for 3 decades, having owned at least 2 dozen guitars over that time, and test-driving countless others, I've come to the conclusion that precious few "premium" instruments are actually worth the asking price. And as long as I can find and/or assemble an axe in the $1K-$1500 range that does what I need, and that I like just as much as something that's twice the price, I'm never gonna dump all the extra cash just so I can say "I've got one of these". As always, ymmv.

The Helix is verstaile to do this for sure. I run 2 acoustics and 1 vocal throguh the Helix and control volume on the 3 with added vol pedals instead of a mixer. Works well. The videos others have added are a great start.

I''m assuming if you were going into a physical cabinet that you weren't using a cab block with your amp block. If so you'd need to add a cab block (or two if you want multiple mic's) to take the place of your physical cabinet.

Yes same as me. whenever I load the app I have to ok at least half a dozen prompts relating to failed I cloud updates before use. Dont recall this fault before last iOS update and need a fix quickly! ps I’m still awaiting a fix for not being able to return to the app after it’s been in background mode. Locks up and again needs reloading, made worse now by the constant error messages popping up. this is bordering on unusable Line 6! please fix

I'm into my second year with Helix and I still haven't stopped marveling at how good it is. Nor am I even remotely close to having explored it all, or in all likelihood, learned how to get the very best out of it yet. So I'm endlessly baffled by people griping about updates. To me, they are the gravy on the pie. Maybe it's an age thing - I'm 53, and spent decades dealing with the many shortcomings of various amps and cabs and pedals. To have that all just... go away has been a quietly but profoundly life-enhancing experience :-)

We all know (or should be aware) that L6 is FAR from dropping development of the product. What this is about is people being pushy and rude and threatening to take their business elsewhere (BYE BYE! NOBODY'LL MISS YA!) over release schedules for enhancements that WILL get here, WHEN THEY"RE READY! THEY DON'T OWE US! And they DO understand the realities of the market. Part of that reality is not releasing buggy product just to make pushy butt-heads happy! I'm totally down with that! Rock what ya got and know that there's more coming IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME! What's funny is that, those of us who've seen this every time there's an update due, know that when it gets here, no matter what's in it, a whole new flock of butt-heads will be up in arms whining about not getting the built-in coffee-maker and the free pony!

@PeterHamm is getting great tones, look at his preset configurations for ideas. Other ideas: - don't use any amps or cabinets on your guitar signal - the studio preamp is useful as your 1st block - use a 3Sigma acoustic guitar IR to get a little more wood in your tone - get your basic acoustic git tone perfected before adding any effects - add effects as needed (eg reverb, chorus, delay, etc) - the Timmy distortion works nice on acoustic guitar if needed for leads, etc - create a separate (and similar, but no IR) path for your vocal mic - you can use a small MIDI controller/mixer that has USB MIDI-out to control your mix without stooping down (for example, a Korg nanokontrol)

Do it like this. I write about acoustic and two voice here. https://pietrosquared.wordpress.com/helix-2-voice-guitar/

There are currently no mono reverbs on the Helix. Maybe this has been answered before but I am not sure I understand why this is the case. I would think reverbs might be one of the more DSP hungry effects on the Helix and the stereo versions of effects tend to use more DSP than the mono versions. I run a mono signal path and I could probably gain back a bit of valuable DSP with a mono reverb. Is this due to the fact that the reverbs were ported over from the HD500X? Are we going to be seeing any mono reverbs in the future?

Looks like you were trying to address this issue long before me. Please vote this one up ye mono signal pathers, it deserves consideration!

Mono Spring Reverb, why not: http://line6.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Mono-Spring-Reverb/814190-23508

Gee. I don't know the answer to that question. Let me check my owner's manual(s) for you.

Yeah, it is always easier to have others do it for you than it is doing it yourself.