PeterHamm

I almost always have two available. They are almost always the Vintage Digital and the Adriatic.

It's super easy to compare a 1024 and 2048 IR with a footswitch and decide if you can hear the difference. When I did this test with an acoustic guitar IR (I don't use 3rd party IRs for cabinets, preferring what is built in to the unit), I discovered that in the room I play in, I can NOT hear any difference at all. Yet I still use the 2048 sample ones since I have the CPU power available. As far as bit rate, Helix changes whatever you throw in to 16-bit 48K. There's no benefit to using higher bit rate/depth ones as they get converted, and it could be argued that it's best to just use 16-bit 48K so they don't get changed at all.

I bet that the HD 500 sounds just fine to your audience in your scenario. That said, I do like the Helix better, but do you NEED to upgrade? No. Do you WANT to? Only you can decide. Wait till you have the speakers upgraded and then decide if you're not happy.

You MIGHT have better luck with a POWERED USB hub in between...?

We need pics of this. This sounds amazingly interesting.

And folks... let's just leave faith/religion/church out of it.

I am a full time Director of Contemporary Worship at a church. Music isn't my whole job, but is a huge part of it. and yes, I'd like to think I'm very capable of playing other gigs. Although I don't have/make time for it.

I think the "Bundle" is a total waste of time, when you consider that you usually want any new or newly programmed presets in a new firmware update. I never use it. Ever.

I'm old enough to remember when you bought a distortion Plus to get your amp to distort, too... I'm not old enough to play along with Hendrix LPs when he was still alive however...

Do they count if that's your full-time job? I don't think I'm a fraudster...

Everybody settle down. OP, your gripe is not out of line. Insulting everybody else on the forum, however... is not great form. for the record, I don't use that many patches and have had no problems with them, but as a regular gigging pro, you of COURSE will be updating shortly before a gig, or you'll never be updating at all. I didn't find the problems you are having during my beta test.

Doesn't clean up enough for my use to really sound clean, but it sounds fantastic.

...your morning coffee I mean...

I've been okay with that group, but honestly, rarely ask questions. Haven't felt pressured to join the premium group at all. And at over 3700 members, it's probably a great place to get free advice.

1. is correct. Although they do share SOME things with some folks who are testing their products ahead of time, we don't have a full roadmap. 2. is incorrect. I and others (some in this thread) do indeed beta test their firmware. 3. is incorrect. They may not be regular enough for your tastes, but they are regular.

Demeaning comments AND political post all in one. If you had insulted someone's religion you would have had the trifecta... I (and some others here) are beta testers for Line 6. Only AFTER they've fully tested stuff, they send a firmware update out to us a few days before you find it. Each of us does something different, so what I do when I get a new firmware is create my favorite patch from scratch, using the editor and panel, and sometimes even play it for a show after. We find bugs, sir. And between us all, we may not test thousands of scenarios, but I bet it's in the hundreds... One more thing. It's disrespectful to argue about who is the biggest @$$#@†. Please... and for the record... I am a bigger one than any of y'all...

Yes, I do two-voice all the time (literally... ALL my patches are two-voice). I do it all in Helix, but you can, of course, do what you describe.

I don't think they made the wrong call in not making mono verbs. I have made 3 and 4 chain patches with amp/cab, several delays, a modulation or two, and up to 3 or FOUR verbs. If you need more than that, you might be making just "mush"...

I've done this with similar cabs, but miking them is a pain in the rump.

Active pickups are evil. :ph34r:

I made a patch where I have 3 different amps going into one cabinet, and can use all three at the same time, or any one or 2. Using multiple paths from one source gives you that kind of flexibility. A clean and a dirty amp at the same time is kinda cool. Into the same cabinet is impossible in the real world, but possible with Helix.

I am one of those people...

No one knows about features they may or may not implement in the future. And even those of us who get to know in advance only know, generally, a very short time before the rest. Tone matching (although it doesn't interest me) seems like something that could be implemented in Helix as far as the hardware is concerned, but only the guys doing the programming know for sure. Maybe one of them can pipe up here? Or maybe they can't? I don't know.

You can always get something that does those FX and incorporate it with the loop and control it with MIDI if possible. That's the beauty of having 4 loops.

Well, it's not being done on this forum. It's being done somewhere else. Everything in the world is worth whatever someone will pay for it.