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Unless you're running a waaaaaay under powered computer you shouldn't have too much of an issue other than loading whatever IR is supposed to be in a paid-for preset. Native is designed with a built-in limitation to match the hardware so you can move patches between Native and LT/Floor.

If you have insurance on your car there might be something there you can do. Otherwise report it with serials to the cops and hopefully if it turns up at any OTHER pawn shops/music stores you can get it back. Definitely sounds like someone knew what you had in your trunk, though. Unless you were loading out after a show or something.

Or maybe a tube compressor? What amps do we "need" though? As it is there's more than most people will ever use, unless you're literally just sitting at home making tones from different amp models instead of playing guitar. I'd rather see companies work on NEW ways of processing a guitar signal (or coming up with original "amp" models that eliminate a lot of the warts that tube amps display like noise floor). 90% of amps are all just variations on a handful of circuits anyways. Power amp modeling would be useful since the Helix aspires to be a complete guitar rig or control center for a rig with outboard gear, which I would think includes preamps.

You could always look for an IR collection that includes power amp coloring. You wouldn't really get anything to adjust, but it might work. Also, have you tried just running your preamp into an IR/Cab model?

Really depends on what your ears are telling you. I can usually get by with just the cuts in the cab/IR block. Occasionally for some amps I'll put another EQ before any delays/reverbs for notching out anything unpleasant or making steeper HP/LP cuts. I don't dial my LP as low as a lot of people suggest, though. Usually around 8-9kHz.

My personal experience leads me to believe that PA speakers sound and work better when they are up on a pole at head level. I set-up my tones that way then just turn the bass level on the speaker down a touch when I use it on the floor like a monitor. I don't have that particular speaker, but most "full-range" speakers are going to be boomier in the bottom and more shrill in the highs than a guitar speaker because A - the cabinets are usually somewhat designed to get the most out of the drivers where a guitar cabinet is mostly an arbitrary shape and size someone came up with 70 years ago that would hold the proper number of speakers they wanted with no real intent from a design standpoint for the drivers, and B- they're made to amplify ALL instruments and have something else managing the equalization. TL;DR Get it up off the floor before you get too drastic with the EQ.

I'd think it be pretty easy to do, or at least have a "full" amp model with a full-range front end (input gain and EQ with no voicings, like a hi-fi stereo) and selectable power amp voicings. Even something generic like "American Clean, American High Gain, British Clean, British High Gain" etc. I think Boss even used to have a "full-range" amp in the GT stuff for that purpose.

Ah, I thought you were getting wildly different gain levels from each output. Does it sound bad out front through the PA, or its just not as distorted as it "feels" playing it through the cab? Personally I'd say if you like the way it sounds/feels through the cab, less gain is always a good thing for clarity and punch. Are you able to go out front and see how it sounds with the whole band playing?

If you running it into an amp/cab, you're best bet is going to be to use the mic on the cabinet for your IEM. Otherwise you'll have to have a cab/IR on one of the outputs to run to the mixer directly which will eat up an FX block in ALL of your patches, and makes the routing for 4CM a little more complicated because you'd want the IR AFTER the send/return block of the amp's preamp, but NOT on the output that goes back to the amp return. If I was using the Stomp with a real amp, I'd probably just bring my own mic for IEMs (which is what I did for years before going fully direct). You definitely don't want a signal going to your IEM that doesn't have cab/IR processing or from a microphone on the cab.

Everything looks like it should work as intended. The only other thing I could think of would be to check the settings at the splits for any errant panning or level adjustments.

The only Black Friday deals I saw were retailers selling Floor/LT units for the original price instead of the current $100 markup. Not much a deal.

Where is your send block for the FOH located in your patch? Reading this again is a little confusing, because it sounds like you're sending your "heavy" sound to one 1/4" output and your clean sound to ANOTHER 1/4" output, but it also sounds like you're using a SEND block to send your "line output" for FOH.

The cabs don't suck anymore than a lot of IRs out there.

On the rare occasion where I'm using a house cab and not my FRFR, I just use my direct tones and set the Global EQ to 1/4" outputs only and boost some of the highs/upper mids until it sounds right through the cab. My FOH feed comes off the XLR and is unaffected by the EQ. I run pretty much all my chains as "serial" (path 1A into path 2A) so its just one long chain and then use snapshots to activate clean/dirty amps and FX changes. The cab tone isn't always perfect, but its good enough to carry the room and support the PA and it "feels" right.

Because they bought the product that did what what they wanted it to do out of the box, not what they were hoping it might do a year from now (barring the fact that they may actually be getting them with an artist deal), probably? If you're just sitting at home dialing through amp models on the Helix and are thinking "god damn, I really wish this thing had 200 more amp models in it" I'm guessing you should probably be spending more time playing your guitar, or that you don't actually spend time playing your guitar, just dialing in presets and futzing with hardware. In that case you should probably get an AMP and throw out the digital stuff so you have time to, ya know, play guitar. Having 200+ more amp models isn't going to make you sound better. I mean, why don't those guys use the Kemper? There's literally THOUSANDS of amp profiles for the Kemper. TL;DR - Threatening a message board with "Do this or I'm buying something else!" makes a person look like a grade-school child. You in your return period? Then return it and get a FRACTUAL. Are you out of your return period? Then why the f*&^ would L6 care if you go buy something else? They already got your money.

I really should downvote this just for the crappy dad joke.

Nah, I love watching grown adults behave like spoiled 5th graders! If the thing didn't do what you wanted, and something else did, why did you buy the thing that didn't in the first place? We're you hoping your $1000 device was magically gonna turn into a $3000 device because you really, really wanted it to?

Try ALL your USB ports. One of my computers is really finicky about which port I plug certain gear into. I'm one of the people that suggests downloading the update file separately and then installing it from my HDD. Seems safer.

I'm gonna say the same thing here I said with the HD series. If you're going to advertise that it does 6 effects, it better do six effects or its gonna look like somebody lollipoped up.

Could we get a little more information on the setup (like what IEM set you're using) and maybe upload a patch for someone to take a look at?

Apples haven't been worth the price since they went to Intel chips. The OS isn't as special as a lot of people like to act like it is, its just locked down so you can't screw it up as easily as you can with Windows and because it only runs on their hardware it does come "cleaner" out of the box. As of now they are little more than a lifestyle brand like Bose, or Lexus. The title is mostly what people are buying, and the ability to say "Well, MY Mac..." I don't see that being L6's MO, otherwise we'd see separate peices for the processing, for the outputs, and everything would require proprietary dongles to connect, lol.

I always give Boss a chance because I was a big fan of GT-6/8/10 before I got into the POD HD stuff (the first line 6 modeler I enjoyed playing through), but there was so much work involved with getting a useable live tone (every patch had to start with certain compressor and post-EQ settings to even be useable) even though the FX were awesome. Spent about 30 minutes with a 1000 and I think they improved the feel, but the sounds were still miles behind the other $1k floorboards, even headrush, and all the floor models of that I've tried had performances glitches (frozen screen, weird glitch noises between presets, seemingly non-functional pedals that would register a switch 20 seconds after it was pressed). I just don't think Boss has any interest in doing any NEW modeling and the 1000 feels like they just added some extra compression in the amp models to get them to respond a little differently. I do admit the routing capabilities inside the GT-1000 look really sweet and would be a welcome addition to Helix function.

I think you can, or will be able to copy blocks/presets between all the HX family stuff.

It's not an uncommon hiccup. Hopefully you have it sorted.

If you're not using any FX on the channel Helix is running into in your DAW there is no reason to monitor through the DAW (if you're using Helix as your interface). You guitar signal will come out of the Helix anyways.