PeterHamm

A couple other thoughts. I ALWAYS use a patch that allows me to go from clean to edge to dirt to big. Every time. Its simple. Right now my choice of amps for this are the Plexi Trem Bright channel, Cartographer, and Matchless Channel 1 mainly, but I have a bunch of amps I love that work for this. Keep the Amp Master volume at 5 (or thereabouts) or below on those of these which have a lot of power amp distortion. Turn Sag all the way down. (personal preference) Always have the Input Pad ON. Set up your tone so that at clean, it's clean when your guitar is on 7 or 8, edge of breakup above that. Learn to use that guitar volume. It will change your life. I also set my guitar tone at about 8, because I like it better there. YMMV. Set a foot switch to go from the base clean tone to a dirty amp tone. You may be able to do this with just the gain and the Channel Volume, but I often add midshipmen's and take away bass and presence. Set another foot switch to add a good gain pedal. I use Teemah or Minotaur mostly, occasionally Valve Driver. Now, you can add that to your clean tone, or to your dirty tone, and with the volume control on your guitar, if you do this right, you can get just about any sound in the known universe with one patch. That's how I do it.

Cleanest amp in there is the JC 120. Some others get very clean, too, if you take the master to 5, channel to max, and gain very low. Like the Twin especially. Archon clean channel, Soldano Clean channel, and Matchless 1 are faves of mine.

No, not the way it should behave. Easier to do this with a FX send, tho.

Ugh... more balls also can be had with more volume... but...

For me, Valve Driver, Minotaur and Teemah are as good as or better than any of the dirt pedals I've used. So when I went to Helix, I got rid of all of the other stuff.

Yeah... but... unboxing videos for the WIN!

I tried this on a lark with the sustain pedal I had and it didnt work, but it could have been the particular sustain pedal. As to the pipe dream question. Pretty sure no.

Go to L6's site and register your Helix, sir.

Sounds like POSSE is looking for instrument level and you're feeding line level. easiest way to fix that. Global Settings: Page 2, first dial (in v2.3 at least), "1/4" Outputs" set from Line to Instrument.

Sounds a bit complicated and fiddly to rely on live,though.

Sorry, is this an active bass? Try the Aux in.

Is logic sending a controller to turn sound down by accident I wonder?

So you're saying that a 60-dollar clip tuner that was designed to be among the best in its class is working better for you than a tuner that's built-in to a product that wasn't first and foremost designed to be a guitar tuner? I'm shocked...

No, not really. I think you misunderstand. I personally do NOT ignore the top line when I'm tuning for recording. But when live, it's real handy that Control only has the main line, not the top line. For quick and dirty tuning in between songs, it's fine. So, if you want it to behave more like a typical stage tuner in actual use, ignoring the top line basically does that. imho, you can't tune a guitar at it's best unless you take a full 2 or 3 minutes at least. That's how long I take when I'm recording or before my show (or service) starts. But in between songs when something is out... sometimes you need a quick tweak.

It's been said before. Ignore the top line and you'll be fine.

Sorry, but none. This annoys me about all guitar gear that only has an input on the front. There should be one on the back as well imho. The Returns come closest, but they aren’t quite right. Also, ONLY the front has the auto-Z input so if you need to use something that uses a wacky impedance like fuzz, onlythe front will work at all.

I've been turning the tone control down to tune for many years, not just with Helix. It's not a new thing. Eddie didn't have the tuners available we have now. He didn't complain because he's a great musician, and great musicians know how to get a guitar in tune.

Dude, I met that horse. He was an *******e.

But if you grind those bones up and mix them with super glue, they are EXCELLENT for fixing squirrelly guitar nuts...

Honestly, it works fine in this video. (already posted once..)

If you know you only need one input (the guitar) and know that you won't need 3 Expression pedals and know that you aren't going to do tons of recording and know that you aren't going to need more than the two loops, getting the LT is a no-brainer, especially for home use. Scribble Strips? A luxury you can live without. (You can't live without them on the Rack/Control version, but they are the LEAST significant usability issue between LT and Full Helix Floor).

On a few amps, especially at higher gain, turn the hum and ripple up real high for some freaky (although to me, useless) sounds... there's some WACKY stuff it can do to your tone. I pretty much always turn Hum and Ripple to 0 first ting when I dial up an amp.

I have to say, rolling off the tone an using the neck pickup helps every tuner I've ever used, not just helix. But... I disagree about using harmonics, because you play the string differently when you do a harmonic and it will more easily result in an out of tune guitar. Most important things imho... 1. tune to the ATTACK. Don't play a note and let it ring out and tune 3 seconds after you've hit the string. You'll be sharp. 2. tune UP... never down...

LOVE the Cosmos delay. Always leave a little splice in. Don't want my music too pure...

I do wonder, though... fuzz pedals are SO picky about how they are connected to the guitar... I wonder if it's one of those things that will always be a major challenge, even with auto-impedance...