PeterHamm

There are good reasons to use a DI in a live situation. (I'd never use one in the studio.) 1. Phantom Power? doesn't matter. 2. Level or Impedance issues? Won't even be an issue. 3. not-so-great sound guy? Won't matter. 4. Sounds the same in the house? Yup, with a decent DI. The DOD should be good enough. You save time using this method if any of the above issues come up.

Can we talk about how the Andy Summers tone is impossible now?

imho, you are not wrong on that... (speaking as one of the youngest baby boomers...) That said... Here's the right answer to all the questions. A: delete the thread, and everybody just forget about it, and then we'll all move on to more important things and forget about it all...

Maybe not intended, but certainly executed to end up this way... just saying...

Dual cab outputs in stereo. don't know why you're experiencing this. I've had GREAT luck with Dual cab, but have never tried this test, I think I just might do this experiment when I get a chance.

If HX Stomp is on a tiny board, you can "offload" some of those functions to other pedals (part of the point). If you are used to having everything you use in one patch, HX Stomp can't and won't do that. If I'm playing a "big show" it is simply never going to be enough. But I'd use Rack/Control for those shows anyway. If it's not enough, maybe someday they'll make something bigger with more footswitches and even an EXP maybe... maybe something with two processors... ...add scribble strips and you really got something... wait a minute... this sounds familiar. Yes, you have to understand its limitations. For some it's perfect, for others, it's just not enough.

I do realize that you addressed it, but the fact that you jumped to that conclusion in the first place, and the fact that you continue to carry on this argument, says a whole lot about you that I'm not sure you meant to say, to be honest. You seem to have decided that since you paid for the unit, you somehow own the company. And your complaints make me wonder if you didn't buy it for something you hoped it would do some day. That is always a bad idea, imho.

says the man who calls people who disagree with him "fascist"?!?!?!?!

Sorry, I was away... making music... with this disappointing box that doesn't have any new amps or FX but has 10X as many FX as I actually use and need... ... y'all were saying???

I'm a huge fanboy, but also hate the way the extreme fanboys in every one of these products act. Fractal people can be just as bad. Any time the only way for my choice to be good is for yours to be crappy... I hate that... a lot...

HA. I just noticed that...

Folks who buy a product for what it maybe can do someday and not for what it does now and then complain that the company is awful and lazy or whatever reminds me of the Star Wars junkies who "demanded" that SW Episode 8 get remade because it wasn't how they would have made the movie. There are "tweakers" out there who are only happy if a product is made to only their specifications and that updates are made in the manner and speed which they desire... they are not happy very often. If you can't make a guitar sound with what Helix has to offer right now (indeed, several FW updates ago), I'm sorry, but it ain't the gear's fault.

Sorry, my bad, hadn't had my coffee yet.

If you are doing a lot of stereo, consider ditching 3rd party IR and use the built in cabs in a dual cab configuration. Set the right mic, distance, early reflection and hi/lo cuts for your sound and imho, it’s as good as good gets.

Also, there is this. They had to unify a code base for yet ANOTHER new product, and are preparing for other things in the relatively near future, if Eric’s hints are to be believed. So, an update with no new amps or FX shouldn’t be a big deal.

If you want the signals to be different, you set up two chains. if it were me, I'd hard pan them at the output block and use LR output to go L to one amp R to the other.

which means it's not a "bug report" it's a "feature request"...

Are in the US? If so, you should just call on the phone, might work better.

If you bought Native today and they came out with Helix 2 in January, you would be so far from "screwed" because Helix sounds and operates amazingly well. For that matter, guys who still rock HD 500 or even buy one new are not screwed, because IT ALSO still sounds amazing. But I'll say this. Helix development was a major investment. We have only JUST in the past few days seen the 5th hardware iteration of HX modeling. It's been a little over 3 years. That's all. It's not going away. I bet that whatever comes next doesn't arrive for at least another 3 years, probably longer.

Yes. I have no idea about those pedals, though. I've never used them. I've used the Roland EXP pedal with previous Line 6 devices and it worked just peachy.

On Control, it seems that you can use any, although the FIRST time you go to a parameter in an FX block, SOMETIMES, you HAVE to use EXP 1 until you select another priority. I also find that using the value- and value+ buttons is a little bit easier for most things. There are a LOT of pedals that work. I've used the Volume Pedal (NOT the EXP pedal) output jack of an old Korg EXP2, I've used a VP Jr. and I've used a pair of zoom EXP pedals, although with those, I ended up making modified cables to make them work just right.

As soon as you add something like the MC6 or other pedals (nothing wrong with that) you're getting real close to the price/functionality of LT, and should probably just consider that.

Of course it uses up a block, but why not just go out of Stomp into H9 and then out of H9 to the FoH or amp?

Yes, just as in other Helix products, FX loop uses a block

play with slop (all the way down) and sensitivity, and it works really very well.