DunedinDragon

I have no problem sharing my setlist, but given that we're a biker church I'm not sure they'd be of much use in a conventional service. LOL

My opinion is that after reading all they have to say about what they do my reaction is, "so what?". What's in it for me at $500? Given that's the price I paid for a HD500X and I knew all the great benefits I would have with it, I still can't cite a single, objective benefit I might get from this investment...other than negating my warranty.

Download the latest. Your best bet is to download the latest HXEdit program which will automatically download the latest driver and Line6 Updater. Then use the Line6 updater to dowload the latest firmware and you're good to go.

The main difference between modelers in this range is the proficiency of the person using it to able to precisely dial in the tones he wants. Technically both will do whatever you want. You just have to know what you're dong and know how you want to set your rig up to get the sound you want. Neither of them is simply plug in and play. Both require you to be knowledgeable about how to build a signal chain. If you know what you're doing both will sound great. If you don't know what you're doing both will sound bad.

Given that snapshots are directly related to the specific blocks being used (specific amp, specific pedal, specific cab, etc), it seems you'd be better off simply making a copy of the patch and modifying it. But no, you can't copy a snapshot primarily for that reason.

As an owner of 5 DXR12's I guess I qualify as something of an expert on them. In terms of the "treble-y" sound, what setting and inputs were you using with your phone and with the Helix? You didn't mention what settings you were using on the DSP contouring options. If you have the speaker sitting on a stand or not in a floor wedge position and have selected the "monitor" D-contour selection, that's going to cut the bass quite a bit which is fine if it's on the floor in a floor wedge situation due to bass biasing buildup, but not so fine if standing upright. What I would do to check this speaker is to select the OFF position on the D-Contour selection and turn the HPF (High Pass Filter) off as well and check the speaker on a table top or stand off the floor. The last time I bought two used DXR12's this is the setting I used and simply plugged in a decent stage mic in the #1 input set to MIC level and made sure my voice sounded normal. To check music I would connect the DXR channel 1 set to LINE level to the L/Mono 1/4" out on the Helix and connect the Helix to your PC via a USB cable and play music from the PC. If wanting to play music from your phone I'd use an adapter to connect it to the RCA plugs on channel 3. If you're standing too close to the DXR the horn can be unpleasant and accentuate high frequencies to you ear. Back away from the speaker at least 5 feet to get a decent feel for the sound. As far as hum, it's natural to get hum if your using a multi prong AC outlet and have your speaker turned on but your Helix turned off. This is due to grounding differences and goes away as soon as you turn on your Helix. I personally have my stage DXR and Helix in the same multi output AC outlet and turn both on at the same time from the power button on the outlet. In this type of configuration the DXR should be completely silent unless there's some issue with dirty power or bad AC wiring. If you have your contour switches set as I specified above the DXR will tend to have more bass as it's assuming it's not working in conjunction with a sub-woofer and will take over some of those duties. In terms of high end, as long as you have some distance between you and the speaker you should get pretty decent flat response. A flat response however may sound like too much treble if you're used to running your Helix through a standard guitar cabinet. I normally adjust my presets at the very end of the signal chain with a parametric EQ using a high cut between 7 khz up to 10 khz depending on the guitar, amp, cabinets/IRs, and mic usage. Hope some of that helps....

Are your speakers connected directly to the Helix or are they on the PC? If you want zero latency you want the USB connection to only receive the stream and use the Helix to play back the stream and play your guitar through speakers attached to the Helix.

Other than Helix Native on a PC, there's nothing announced and likely won't be until it's released or within a week or two of being released. That's just the way Line 6 (as well as most gear manufacturers) do things. No one wants to give away their competitive advantage to their competitors ahead of time.

I expect you can see there's a theme developing here regarding the importance of decent quality speakers for use with your Helix LT. There's a reason for that. I'm sure you've watched some great demos of the LT and have some level of expectation about getting the same quality level of capabilities. But you can be assured in every case you've heard that those sounds were produced on some fairly decent quality, most likely powered speaker systems. Most likely some form of full range and flat response powered speaker system because that's the only real way you can take full advantage of ALL of the capabilities in the LT to the greatest extent possible, and those types of highly engineered systems won't come cheap. I'm sorry if this comes as a complete surprise to you, but it's not a secret about any of these type of modeling systems regardless of manufacturer. Many of us spent almost as much on our speaker systems as we spent on the Helix itself. That's how important this is. I might suggest making do with your headphones (if they're quality studio headphones) until you get the lay of the land when it comes to what type of speaker will best fit your situation and put together the funds to get something that will allow you to take full advantage of the capabilities you just paid for.

I think it would help to know what kind of setup you're using as that's the most likely culprit in all of this.

Mine has been in constant use for two years and other than one problem with the selector on the joystick and a mic preamp that was broken when it was delivered everything has worked fine and continues to do so. Granted I don't use my headphones on that unit all that often, but no other notable problems. You do realize the warranty was extended to 2 years. I opted for the annual extended warranty as well on my unit that just went over two years in February. Line 6 has been very quick to fix everything under warranty and I really depend on it every single week so the extended warranty is worth it for me.

I have a link to a rehearsal video in my post above.

I make extensive use of the Twin Harmony in a lot of different songs. I always place it after the amp and cab (IR) and have never had a problem even with higher gain signals. In fact in one of our songs I use it with a HiWatt that has a Teemah in front of the amp throughout the song. Then when I do the lead I kick in an additional 808 screamer and it sounds great. The link below goes to the band's facebook page where we have a video from a rehearsal with this song. I'm using the mono version of the harmonizer on and off constantly throughout the song including the lead. Assuming you have the key and scale set correctly and that's not the problem, here's the settings I use for this particular song on the Twin Harmony. Voice 1 scale: 3rd, voice 1 level: 8.8, Mix: 41%, Level: -1.0 db, voice 2 shift: 0, voice 2 level: 5.3 https://www.facebook.com/SalvationSaloonPosseBand/videos/1817996698523974/

Here's the things I would check. Check the Ins/Outs in the global settings and make sure the USB in 1/2 Destination and USB in 1/2 Trim settings are correct. Try using a different USB cable to make sure it's not the cable, make sure you're not using a USB hub, and try changing to a different USB port. If none of those things fix it, then I'd open a trouble ticket with Line 6.

If you've selected the Helix as the current audio device on your computer, it should just work. No special configuration required, assuming of course your headphones are plugged into the Helix.

It's not really clear to me what you're asking here because it's not clear how you have things setup. Are you are using the Helix direct into your DAW via the USB and you're not using the PreSonus audio interface at all. Where are your headphones plugged in? The Helix or the computer? What I'm really confused about is when you say you don't want to hear the guitar when you're recording, only the source tracks from the computer. How are you listening to the guitar? Are these tracks you're listening to coming from pre-recorded tracks in the DAW or some other source such as a YouTube video or an MP3? Most often if people are using the Helix as the audio interface, it's the only audio interface to the computer. Therefore the speakers and headphones are connected to the Helix. If just practicing with an MP3 or video, that simply plays through the Helix on the speakers or headphones right alongside the guitar. If recording a guitar track on a DAW you typically listen to the previouslly recorded tracks on playback from the DAW (through the speakers or headphones on the Helix) while turning off the source playback on the track that's being recorded so you hear the originating guitar signal, not the recorded signal post processing That way you don't hear the latency involved in the processing of recording the guitar when playing it back.

Another thing to consider in this configuration is to go into global setting ins/outs and change XLR Outputs to Mic, and the Volume Knob Controls setting to 1/4". What this will do is send a full mic level signal to the board that won't be affected by changes you may make to the Helix volume knob for your on stage monitor level. You'd still need to make sure all your presets and snapshots are all normalized to the same relative volume levels.

I would lay money down that he accidentally plugged his guitar into the Aux in rather than the Guitar input. It's happened to me before and a bunch of other folks and it sounds like the same result.

No matter what there's a physical problem here in the unit. The software editor doesn't do anything more than send hardware commands to the Helix, so open a support ticket with Line 6.

I too am a big believer in Yamaha DXR series. That's probably why I own 6 of them. One at home for dialing in tones, one at the rehearsal space used for live performances, and three for stage monitors. One is just sitting at home as a spare. Yamaha should be paying me for promoting them!!!! ;)

On Auto your input impedance is determined by the first block in the signal chain, otherwise it's set to whatever impedance value to set on the input block. I personally leave mine set to Auto and I've never had any problems with any of my guitars. It could be that on very hot pickups it could make a difference, the most dramatic difference in getting rid of high end harshness will be your cab/IR, mic, and mic placements. Getting that part right is your best first step. From there I would suggest a technique promoted by Jason Sadites of placing a Parametric EQ toward the end of your signal chain and using it's high and low cuts and possibly tweaking other areas to get rid of harshness and polish your tone. The reason for that is the high and low cuts in the Parametric EQ are steeper than those in the cab blocks. Using these two approaches (cab/IR + mic, Parametric EQ) if I need high cuts they generally are around 8 to 9 Khz and sometimes aren't even really needed at all. Just for your reference I most typically use a mix of an R121 ribbon mic and MD421 dynamic mic for most of my presets. On stock cabs increasing the distance removes harshness. On IRs selecting a distance further out from the cap of the speaker has the same effect.

Just out of curiosity have you tried adding something to a new, empty preset? I'm wondering if you're trying to select and add something and you're simply out of DSP.

Well...since the Helix doesn't have a mouse, I'm assuming you're referring to the joystick. I had the same thing happen to me on one of my units and it's evidently some flaw in a solder joint. I opened a ticket with support, sent it in on Monday and got it back fixed on Friday. No cost to me because it was under warranty and that included overnight shipping both ways.

I suspect some of the return policies may hurt vendors, but what you might not realize is they can also benefit considerably from it. As you may know retail prices on musical gear are fixed and determined by the vendor. Occasionally vendors will offer discounts through retail outlets, but other than the the street price is consistent among all authorized outlets if they want to keep their retail relationship with vendors intact. Line 6 is no different in this regard. This is why a Helix purchased from Sweetwater is listed at the same price as one from Guitar Center or any other authorized outlet. A Helix floor is $1499.99 through any authorized outlet...unless...it's a returned item and sold as refurbished. Then they can discount it and gain an advantage over their competitors. I've purchased two Helix floor units, both of which were returned and I got a discount on both, and both were sold within days of being made available to the public. The discounts aren't enormous, but they aren't insignificant either when your only alternative is full street price. I do agree, however that the consumers in America, particularly younger consumers, tend to not bother doing any kind of due diligence on purchases in many cases because they're enamored with what they've seen on YouTube. Consequently they jump into it without getting any familiarity with what they're getting into, and suddenly are surprised when they find out that as simple as it might be, it's simple in comparison to other modeling devices...but it's still a modeler and the complexity is still there and the will have to do some actual study and learning to get to the level they can do what they saw in those YouTube videos. I know, because we see evidence of it almost every day in this forum. They can't be bothered to even read the manual that comes with it and then complain when they can't get it to do what they want it to do. Nor can they apparently be bothered to search YouTube videos for instructional videos on how to do things with the Helix. But I don't mind if they want to return it. That's just a better price for those of us that have done our homework and know how to use it....

A lot of us have been down this road. Even coming over from the HD500X to the Helix I had to make some adjustments in how I approached building my presets. The volume issues are normal and have been on every modeler I've ever owned. That's because modeling is nothing more than digital modeling of the behaviors of individual components in a given circuit, so it's to be expected. But even coming over from the HD500X I knew there would be some adjustment so I continued to use my HD500X for about a month or so in my live performances until I had time to build my knowledge and proficiency in getting the sound I wanted from the Helix. The fact is I was building MUCH better presets a year after I had it, and I'm building even better ones today a year later. So it's an ongoing process and it's likely going to take somewhat more in your case at the start if you aren't coming from a full-fledged modeling device such as an POD or Axe or something of that nature. Helix is easy, relatively speaking. But modeling by it's very nature requires some learning. A classic example is the Wampler Tweed 57 which is a fully formed emulation whereas emulation of it on the Helix will require designing a signal chain with the right combination of amp, cabinet/IR, mic type(s)and mic placement(s) because those sorts of things are all baked in to the Wampler pedal. But the good news is, you can make some interesting adjustments to that core sound by simply changing cabinets or mics or mic placements which would be impossible on the Wampler.