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You could put an A/B box between the HX OUT and the AA, with the B side connected to the second input of the FRFR (if it has one). Still gotta turn off the FX Loop Blocks though....

No. The guys I play with are saving up for a Helix or a Fractal or a KPA. Tell your GP what kind of tube amp you want him to buy you (be sure it has an FX Loop for the HXS), and be sure he understands that he'll be carrying it for you and replacing tubes as necessary. Or, you could just buy a tube amp. Just be sure to ask your GP's GF what color amp she'd like you to get.....

Update EDIT to 2.71.

Wasn't that a line from The Godfather, The Sopranos, Good Fellas? One of those mob flicks. Maybe all of them. Yep. You da BOSS alright! Thanks. The monkey don't get enough love!

We need a poll function here. What will we get first in Edit - A local weather feed or Spikey's tuner?

Your point is very clear. You're the BOSS, and you're angry that L6 isn't giving you what you want, and even angrier that you can't fire them. BUT YOU CAN! Show those lazy unprofessional L6 monkeys the door by buying a Fractal! That'll show 'em! Teach 'em how a proper troll.......errr, BOSS, handles ungrateful employees!

And your point is?

POO POO HAID!

In the Helix thread on TGP this has been stated multiple times by multiple "In the Know" L6 reps.......TL;DR?

Summary to this point: "Where's my update. L6 owes me!" "I think L6 should provide update status reports weekly/daily/hourly. They owe me! They're SO unprofessional!" "I think L6 should just keep quiet and not say anything until the updates they owe me are done! And they'd better be quick about it! They're SO unprofessional!" "You think my illogical and/or self-contradictory posts are invalid because you're all a bunch of nasty L6 fanbois!" "Shut up and play yer guitar!" I'm in that last group.....

Legally and morally dodgy. Sorry.

You read manuals??? How quaint!

AH! "Turn key, start car. ATTENTION! Key will only start THIS car!"

Your lawn ROCKS!

OH NO! GOOGLE FAILED ME! .hir came up as a Commodore 64 HiRES graphics file type. I still haven't figured out the purpose of the Marketplace. With all the billions of IRs out there, why would anyone want to buy an IR that can only be used on an L6 product? I don't get it. A money thing?

Again, info over on TGP, that was announced by DI at NAMM as being included in 2.8. The whole list of ANNOUNCED features is there. We can ALWAYS speculate on surprise goodies though......

.hir is a graphics file type. .wav is an audio file type. I imagine that it could be done via Philosopher's Stone.

Over on TGP, there's a 2.8 update thread and the Helix MEGA thread. IF L6 chooses to release any info on updates, that's where it happens. Latest word is that it's in the hands of the Beta testers and, barring major problems, will be out soon. That's all, folks!

That's how....

Gobbledy-g00k = Gobbledy-lollipop! THAT'S funny!

As zolko60 said, the only way to get your full amp sound is to use BOTH the pre and power amp sections. Everything else he said is technical gobbledy-lollipop TO ME, but I assume that he wouldn't tell you to do it if he hadn't tried it himself with his own rig. Right? I'm a pretty simple guy, and have a pretty simple rule on this subject. If the jack says "SPEAKER OUT", it either gets connected to a speaker, or to a reactive load box or other device that's INTENDED for the purpose. I've never heard of a DI that's DESIGNED to take a SPEAKER OUT. Though they MAY exist, I think they're called LOAD BOXES or ATTENUATORS when they're INTENDED for that purpose. The STANDARD WAY to do what you're trying to do is to run your guitar amp and Helix in 4cm and connect your amp's SPEAKER OUT to a REACTIVE LOAD BOX that has built-in IR capability. It ain't cheap, but there must be a reason why it's the STANDARD WAY to do it. Yeah? If you're doing this for recording purposes, you COULD try running the FX Loop Send/LINE OUT from your pre amp to the Helix to the AI (audio interface) and load something like Torpedo Wall of Sound (WOS) in the DAW. WOS has power amp simulations for most popular tube sets that are said to be quite realistic.

Some people keep wanting L6 to be like Fractal, with constant updates. Like, every day would be like Christmas, but we'd only get one present a day. What fun would that be? Every day there'd be a new thread speculating on what we might get tomorrow......part of the fun of Christmas is making lists, then ripping open all the packages to see what we got!

There's a dedicated thread for folks like us over on TGP......

As mentioned in previous replies, generally not a good idea. HOWEVER - in another similar thread: "How do I connect the cables If I'm using Two Notes Torpedo Captor load box with my tube amp? Is this corret: Helix send 1 to amp's input then load box output to helix return 1? Then IR block?" I said: "you definitely DO NOT want to connect either of the outputs on the back of the Torpedo to the Helix. That would cause all of the magic smoke to escape from your Helix, reducing it to a very expensive door stop! The connectors on the BACK of the Torpedo are for Speakers ONLY!" zolko60 said : "To clarify you definetly can't cause any magic smoke to escape from your Helix because Hx Input impedance is too high to draw current. All you can do is to damage your tube power amp. -20dB attenuated speaker output can work just fine as additional line output." YMMV? Good luck!

He's using some kind of Apogee as his interface. I told him to use that as his MAC soundcard on the assumption that it has a 1/8" headphone jack.