robbieb61

Just tell me where you want me to send the cocaine and hookers when y'all add in the Bogner Ecstasy! :lol:

Good job! And definitely a cool "Ozzy" vibe. You're damn near a one man show in the studio! :)

DOH! I was checking off the "Beta" box everytime! LOL! I see it now. Thanks guys! -Robbie

Not sure why. I go to the downloads page http://line6.com/software/ I check the "Beta" box. And the latest one showing is version 1.11 I'm on Windows 10 64 bit. Anybody else having the same problem? -Robbie

This is definitely needed. Especially when I have all kinds of different things assigned and run out of room for another thing to be assigned to a particular controller and can't figure out if there's something I could remove.

Sounds great!

I HATE that freakin' toe switch. I usually have already played half the phrase that I wanted to use the wah on before I can finally get it to turn on. :( And when I'm singing and playing at the same time...it's damn near impossible to get that thing to turn on.

Sounds great!

This is a mystery that perhaps we will never know. Such is the way of the universe. Now snatch the pebble from my hand grasshopper...

I'm sure that he's hoping for a single preset that has all 3 channels of the Bogner Ecstasy! Just like we all are hoping! We probably won't get that amp. :(

The DT amps are the best. ​You guys won't believe this...but I sold my Bogner Ecstasy head after getting my DT50. I just didn't need it anymore. ​Now THAT is saying something. (and yes...I know it might be saying I'm crazy lol)

Thing is... the mags sound GREAT right where they are. And they aren't set very close to the strings. I have 'em in that "sweet spot" where they aren't too close to have the magnets affect the string vibration. ​If I lower them any then I lose the great tone I'm getting with them. ​What I'd really like is for the modeled pickups to have that same great tone for their respective sounds. I know we all bought these guitars looking for an arsenal of "Holy Grail" guitar tones at our fingertips. That ain't what we got. :(

I've had that VGuitar page with the JTV settings bookmarked. ​But it's not "new" modeled guitars. It's just combinations of existing model pickups and bodies trying to replicate popular pickups correct?

I've tried everything to get the modeled guitars to sound as good as the magnetic pickups. It's a no-go. ​The JTV 89F is a great guitar though. Plays awesome, and the mags sound really good. ​The only thing I use the modeling for is to play a couple of songs that have acoustic guitar in them. Other than that...none of the models sound as good as the mags. :(

I'd like to see something added that would give the modeled guitars the same clarity and volume of the mag pickups on the JTV89F. ​Yeah, I know they "modeled" the 89F mags already and made that available too. But even those are nowhere near the volume of the actual pickup. ​I can't even really use any of the modeled guitars because they are so low in volume that they don't hit the amp with enough power to get the sound right. ​The mag pickups on the other hand are tremendous. Powerful, full of clarity... ​And yeah, I've tried editing the modeled pickups for more volume. But even when you jack them up to +6db they all sound wimpy compared to the mags on the JTBV89f -Robbie

Slow down brother! ​My Helix and DT50 are sounding better than it ever did with the HD500. Before you send the Helix back...try this: ​Set your DT amp on topology IV ​Just leave it there. Now go grab a blank preset in the Helix. stick the Cali Rec Amp in it. Not the Amp + Cab and not the Preamp. Just the Amp ​Now play that bad boy through the L6 link into your DT amp. ​Rinse and repeat with any amp model. Just leave the DT on IV topology and tweak the amp to sound the way you want it to. ​Mine sounds amazing!

Tubes > Solid State ​Modeling + Tubes = SWEET!

Hell yes it will work great like that and sound like a million bucks. ​If it were me, I'd simply come out of the 1/4 jacks to the Boogie power amp. Nice and easy. And it will sound a thousand times better than people running a solid state FRFR set up. ​I use mine with my DT 50 tube head basically working as a power amp into a 4x12 cab. And it really brings the Helix to life. :)

I heard on the street (the actual road out in front of my house) that the next update is going to be all 3 channels of the Bogner Ecstasy Amp. ​And the "word on the street" is that it took this long because THIS is going to be the model that sounds perfectly and amazingly exactly like the Bogner Ecstasy. ​That is what I'm hearing from various voices in my own head as I went down the street. :)

Ah okay! I see it now. ​I had never actually turned the knobs on the volume and tone control variax settings in the Helix because I had always just watched them move when I turned the volume on the JTV 89F up and down. ​I had no idea there was a "Don't Force" before the "0" setting. ​Thanks!

How do you set the volume and tone to "Don't Force"??? I've already set all the presets I use (except for the Acoustic one) to "Don't Force" as far as selecting guitar model (because I'm using the magnetic pickups) ​What am I not seeing?

I tried that when I use a wireless instead of the VDI. And then I'd be in the middle of the set and not thinking about guitar settings. So I'd finish the song with the acoustic and then the drummer would count off the next song right away and I'd be playing and thinking "my guitar is sounding like a mosquito wielding a buzzsaw". ​That's when I'd realize that I still had the acoustic model chosen and I'm playing through the damn Rectifier amp model...lol ​Sounded horrible. Just seems like there should be a way to stop Helix from deciding my starting volume on each patch. It's crazy. And I already tell Helix to "Don't Force" on all my other patches. But there doesn't seem to be any way to tell it to NOT save the initial volume of the guitar. I mean..I'm not even using a guitar model at that point. I'm using the mags.

On a kind of related topic...I'm using the VDI cable with my JTV 89F But I only use the JTV's electronics for my acoustic patch. All my other patches I use the mag pickups (they are twice the volume of the modeled guitars and sound really good). ​So I have it set up to switch to the Acoustic in the JTV when I go to the Acoustic patch I have on the Helix and then "Don't Force" on all my other patches. No problems there. ​The problem I do have though, is that the initial VOLUME of the mag pickups is forced by the patch when using the VDI. ​I hate that. ​When I'm playing live I switch to a patch in between songs...maybe the song starts with a lead guitar part for instance. So I turn my guitar volume down on the guitar and click my high gain patch and wait for the drummer to count off he song. Unfortunately the damn guitar volume is at "10" because of the Helix forcing it to be! So I may have a squeal of feedback and at the very least...some noise and buzz before I'm able to frantically grab the guitar volume. Is there any way to get rid of that damn volume control in the Helix for the guitar? I KNOW where I want my guitar volume to be at any given time and I don't want the Helix forcing me to have it at "10" ​Even worse is when I have made a quick change on one of my patches onstage and have the volume at "0" on the guitar and hit "Save". Then when I go to that patch..the damn volume on the guitar is at "0"!!! That really sucked the other night when I had edited my lead patch right before the song and jumped to it for the lead break and had...NOTHING! :( ​It sucked because I had to grab the volume knob and move it to regain control of my volume on the guitar back from the Helix. Screwed up the beginning of the lead break and made me look bad. :(

I put it right after the amp model I'm using and then I go to the cab IR and then to the effects and then out to the XLR

Here is how I did it: ​I set my DT50 so that all it's internal preamps and cabs are "off". ​Then I go from the Helix effects loop out to the guitar input of the DT50. Since the preamp is off, none of the controls on the DT50 have any bearing at that point. ​I put a Riviera Rock Crusher between the cab output of the DT 50 and my 4x12 cab. That way I can attenuate the volume down to wherever I need it and most importantly...I can get a line signal going back to the Helix. ​So I run the line out of the Rock Crusher back to the Helix effect loop In. ​That way I'm getting all the power amp tube tone of the DT50 back to the Helix. ​Then I can use the Helix XLR out to the recording console or front of house mixer in a live gig. ​It sounds fantastic. And having that 4x12 cab with Celestion Greenbacks powered by that tube amp of the DT 50 gives me tons of sustain and power that just aren't there without it. And that all gets fed back to the Helix via the Rock Crusher attenuator. ​At gigs where I don't have room onstage for that full rig...I put a ARP tube preamp into that effect loop of the Helix and it gives a great tube feel to the Helix as well. ​Hope that helps someone to achieve that true tube sound with your Helix. It certainly sounds like a million bucks with my rig. :)