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You can use two TS Cables - L/Mono Out to 6i6 Input 1 and Right Out to 6i6 Input 2. That'll give you the ability to record in stereo. Connection is unbalanced*. OR You can use one TS Cable - L/Mono to either 6i6 input for an unbalanced* connection for Mono recording. OR You can use two TRS Cables from L/Mono Out to 6i6 Input 1 and Right Out to 6i6 Input 2. That'll give you the ability to record in stereo. Connection is balanced*. OR You can use one TRS Cable from L/Mono Out to either 6i6 input for Mono recording. Connection is balanced*. * BALANCED connections allow longer cable runs without added noise. If using TRS cables for that purpose they need to be shielded. XLR cables are balanced, but the Stomp doesn't have XLR outs. The cable you are describing is called an "Insert" cable. It's generally used for an FX Loop where the output and or input is a single 1/4" stereo (TRS) jack, and the device being inserted has pairs of 1/4" TS jacks. There is NO advantage to using it on the Main Outputs/AI connection. It CAN, however, be used in the SEND jack to implement dual FX Loops.

One man's flabby distortion artifacts are another man's djent :-). Try various distortions with the gains turned down and output up before the amp. Most commonly used for metal seems to be the old 808, since it cuts lows and boosts mids. That said, I have a FRFR112 and there are a lot of Helix amps that cause a nasty noise that seems to be emphasized by the Tweeter. Like you, I've tried every trick in the book to dial it out with eq. They sound much better through a regular guitar cab, to the point where I've only been using the FRFR112 for Bass.

I don't have a Mastermind, I have an FCB1010 with UNO. MIDI is MIDI. If your Mastermind can send a PC followed by a CC with ON/OFF Value (127/000), we're on the same page. I set up two presets on the FCB, one sends OFF (CC Value 000) with the PC, the other sends ON (CC Value 127). I also have a switch set up to Toggle ON/OFF. All the CCs are set to the same CC#. I set up two presets on the Helix with the Output Block set to 0.0 min/4.5 max (any max is good), toggled using the CC# I'm sending from the FCB. When I call the preset with the Output set to 0.0, that's what loads. When I then call the preset with the Output set to 4.5, that's what loads. This works every time. If I toggle manually, then change presets, it works as expected. IOW, the idea is sound. I can do it with the FCB, no problem. Try using a MIDI Monitor to verify that the Mastermind is sending what you think it's sending - a PC followed by the required CC with the correct ON/OFF Values (127/000). Make sure your presets on the Helix are set with the proper min/max on the Output Blocks, and that they're both set to be toggled by the CC# that the Mastermind is sending. If you still can't get it to work, attach one of the Helix presets and I'll have a look at it.

Way I used to do it using the HD500 with amp sims. Totally forgot about that trick. Nice!

Since your preset works fine on my box, I'd say time for a Support Ticket.

I'm on 2.82. Didn't you update to 2.82 as you said you would?

I held it down for over a minute. I held it down for over two minutes. I held it down for over two minutes while playing with the Bubble Vibrato on. I don't know what to tell you, I could not get it to flip. Maybe your board has gremlins? I'd open a support ticket.

That's only true of VST3. VST2 has always supported Program Change Messages, and works with: Amplitube BIAS FX Guitar Rig S-Gear TH3/THU And that's just the ones I'm currently using. L6 CHOSE NOT to develop this for VST2, which is to say it's for the MAC platform only. Just because Steinberg is no longer supporting VST2 doesn't mean that the ability of third parties to develop for it with existing tools goes away. And if it's the only way for L6 to provide this feature for the majority of Native's users, why not? Allocation of developer resources, blah blah blah....... FIDDLEYSTICKS I say! Heck, I don't really even NEED that function, that's what having a Floor and a Stomp is about. But I'm sure you're aware that there are people who want to use Native live with their old FCB1010s, and as long as there's a way to make it happen, they deserve to be able to do that! ESPECIALLY if they're willing to spend $399.99 for it! I know, at that price point why not buy the hardware? People are strange....... HAH! Rant over! I know, you're not L6. I'm keeping up this discussion through support and waiting for DI to respond to threads here and on TGP.

Have you ever owned a real tube amp? Most of them will hum. Some worse than others. L6 modeled real tube amps, warts and all! EDIT: I'm with ya - I coulda done without that level of realism!

They only stay lit if they're set to "Latching".

SOLVED! Program Change messages ONLY work on AAX/AU versions. Which is to say, MAC! Why, with Windows market share 77.6% (2019 only) vs 13.2% for MAC, did L6 choose to do this? When can the rest of us (the majority of users) expect to see this situation remedied? Curious consumers want to know....:-)

The one positive I took from that video and others like it is that most all of the modern modelers (and the Profiler) can be made to sound good, or bad, depending on the skill of the video's producers and their own biases - I had no problem with any of the sounds in that video. I've seen other videos where any one of those devices were made to sound like crap. One of the funniest was an OBVIOUS Kemper snob who was comparing various high end FRFR speakers, and managed to make them ALL sound horrible!

Are you plugged directly into the Stomp AND not monitoring through a DAW?

The upside is the problem occurred 2 years ago, and it's been A1 since. The warranty is one year, and when you register you get an additional year. L6 also sells extensions which I consider cheap insurance. I never win the lottery but I always buy my ticket.....:-)

Sounds like a good choice! I feel the same way about used gear, especially if it's more than a couple hundred bucks! A bit under a year after I got my Helix Floor it started having serious wackadoodle problems. I opened a support ticket, L6 emailed me a label, I had it back in under a week with all new circuit boards. If it had been used.......

If all you're doing is going into the computer and your studio monitors are connected to the Stomp, 6 blocks can get you some nice sounds. If you're going all Pink Floyd ambient craziness, maybe not. If you're using 4cm with an amp and need a second output with an IR to send to FOH, you've already used two blocks before you even start setting up the main sound. If you buy Helix hardware, you get the Native plugin for $99 (vs what, $399?). That means you can record an effected track and a clean track, then add effects or create whole new sounds ITB. Remember, with the hardware you're no longer constrained by latency or samplerate/buffer issues with your old PC, you're just recording. OTOH, a step up to an LT won't be much used (under $1000), and people are getting full on Helix Floor units for <>$1000. Up to 32 blocks, expression/volume pedal.......

I'm about to try to help someone with a similar issue, but before I make a fool of myself, did we get it all working?

Bad cables can do strange things, so can't hurt to separate them.

I'd assign Mic level to the XLRs and use the Mixer's sliders for Volume rather than the Helix Volume knob, but none of that is relevant to your problem. Your mixer diagram is a bit confusing, in that the double-headed arrows don't clearly indicate signal flow in the mixer but, again, doesn't appear to affect your problem. If your only outputs to Helix from Reaper are to 1/2, and USB 1/2 Destination is set to XLR, there should be no leakage to the 1/4" outs. The only other possibility would be that signal from the Mixer is somehow getting to the amp, and your diagram doesn't indicate that. I'd open a support ticket.

When you connect a microphone to a console, that's mic level. Connecting via XLR I always start with mic level. In a pro situation that usually gets it. If you're connecting to amateur gear you may need Line level if the signal is too weak. The level of the outputs will always be what you set them at in Global Settings. If you're sending via XLR, you don'r need a DI box. Just be aware that phantom power from the board needs to be OFF or it will mess with your sound. The Helix 1/4" outs are NOT balanced, so cable runs of >20' could mess with the sound (noise, attenuation) which is the best reason to use XLR cables to the board.

What silverhead said. I mostly use 4cm to switch between my tube amp's preamp and either a Helix full amp or a Helix preamp, depending on what sound I'm after. Sometimes I'll use a Helix preamp into my tube amp's preamp like an AIAB pedal. I have a whole set of Helix to FRFR presets that use the full Helix signal chain for when I can't use my tube amp. IOW - when it comes to what sounds good with Helix, don't believe everything you read!

I seem to be suffering from a streak of masochism this weekend, so I worked on this some more. I have no idea your reasoning for how you've got this configured, and since I can only see a piece of the total picture (that routing matrix is meaningless to me), I can't figure out what's wrong. What I do know is this. I've tried so many different configurations that for a bit there I couldn't get ANY sound to come out of my system. (it's late!) I cannot, in any configuration, get sound to leak over to the 1/4" outs with the XLRs configured as USB 1/2 Destination. I'm a simple solutions guy. My final solution is as follows, and accomplishes the basic goal as you described: My Helix 1/4" out goes to my guitar amp. The XLRs go to my mixer (Scarlett 18i20). From there I send the audio to my studio monitors. I don't know how you're generating the "click track", so I just used the metronome, which by default sends it's audio to the Master. The metronome starts on record and/or playback (configurable), and comes out both speakers. I don't know from samples, but audio is audio, so I've got two .wav loops on two channels, panned left and right, and routed to Master. One loop track comes out the left speaker, the other out the right. Another track is set to record from a Helix split with an IR to USB 1/2 as input in Reaper. Routed to Master. Playback comes out both speakers. Another track is MIDI from my keyboard and has a synth VST loaded. Routed to Master. It also comes out both speakers. IOW - No fancy routing. NOTHING from the DAW leaks over to my guitar amp connected to the 1/4" out. Even with my amp dimed, not a hint. Maybe you should set up a simple project along the lines of what I just described and if you've still got what appears to be leakage between the XLR and 1/4", open a support ticket. There's either something else going on in your hardware setup, or there's a serious problem with your Helix. Keep me in the loop, I'm most curious.

I set it up like you described, recorded some simple clean strumming in Reaper, played it back through my Stomp, scrolled IRs, no such fade did I hear. Are you routing the signal back through the DAW and monitoring it from there? If so, maybe you're hearing latency? Try updating to 2.82. I've done that on both my Stomp and my Floor, and got no problems like some seem to have.

Upgrade to 2.82. Make sure the Globals (Displays - Tap Tempo LED ON) are set, then open a support ticket if it's still a problem.

What's this "disconnect ground shield"? I've been doing this for years, never heard of that, never did that, never had a problem. Is that specific to a particular (dual amp?) application?