jimbojamz

I use this:

Electro-Voice ZLX-12P 12" 2-Way Powered Loudspeaker

http://www.guitarcenter.com/Electro-Voice/ZLX-12P-12-2-Way-Powered-Loudspeaker.gc

Clean and Loud!

I use it in a 3 guitar + bass and keyboard classic rock band. Keeps up fine. 

Warped Helix?

ps: It's not the table.

No offense, but it's designed to be on the floor... I would expect the pedal to work poorly with a hand. And how do you know that your desk is totally flat? If it works on the floor, it's working right.

 

But I see that you had problems on the floor, too, at least as far as the volume pedal.

This was my second Helix (third on the way) the first helix didn't rock back and forth in the same spot on my desk is how I know it's flat (or first helix warped  :) )

Anyway unit was picked up this morning and I hope to have my replacement in about 5 days. 

On the bright side: I'm getting very proficient in updating the Helix, as well as backing up & restoring. 

As a test I did factory reset on Helix. Then did a global restore. Worked great-  all patches where I left them. I then renamed my Glen DeLuane patches with numbers in front of the GD_Patch Name That corespnd to the IR's slot number they are supposed to be in. 

1GD_ Patch Name

2GD_ etc

3GD_etc

Imported the IR's in and they are in the correct order!

It was doing it still tonight after work. I loosened the pedal screw up until it just about came loose. The pedal was all floppy in there. I tightened it back up and it seems to be working correctly like my last unit did.  

The pedal seemed to be working fine on my desk which is where it's been since my quote up there. I had my first band band practice last night ( there are six of us in the band, we all have jobs and five of us have families. needless to say it's hard to schedule a practice) I digress. Helix sounded Awesome! (w/ frfr) Volume pedal wasn't heel downing (that a word?) to zero.   :(

I'm still getting 2-3% until I really mash it whit my heel. the unit doesn't sit square on my desk either: it rocks back and forth from upper left to lower right. The first Helix I had didn't do that. It's going back for exchange to MF on Monday. I hate to be without it, but it cost too much to have to put up with any defect. 

Maybe this helps... from this thread http://www.marshallforum.com/threads/effects-are-weak-in-jvm410h-effects-loop.72110/

 

"Probably things you already know or tried and its been awhile since I had mine. Make sure you are using the loop in and out on the left (facing rear of amp) and not the ones on the right which is for amp in and out and on yours its called Series Parallel Loop I believe. You want to use the Serial Loop. On my HJS its labeled Serial Loop and that's the one I use with no problems. Make sure you engage the fx loop button on the front of the amp for each channel and each mode of each channel that you want to use the effects loop on. Also and I am not positive but on my HJS I believe one of the tubes V3 or V4 if for the effects loop. If yours is the same maybe you have a tube going bad. Sorry I couldn't be more help."

Ty - Will definitely check all that out. especially the tube that drives the loop.

looks like it is a Helix to me.

When I plug my Helix into the fx return on my Marshall JVM410H, it has a very low volume even with the units volume knob all the way up. When I plug it into my Fender HRD or 5153 fx return, all have  plenty of volume (in fact I have to turn the vol knob back down on those two). What am I doing wrong on the Marshall? 

tia

I wondered what I was doing wrong in the pc editor. I re-named my set list using the Helix (which is fairly cumbersome as far as naming things goes imo) 

I've not seen any phase flipping controls on the Helix. I haven't looked for them but I don't think you can without more gear. 

What exactly is that -  Delay shelving?

I see there's a lot of excitement about the Helix Native and I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't quite get why this is a huge enhancement. 

 

So, If I use my helix to play-out, and don't mind bringing it into the studio for recordings, then there is really not a huge advantage or game changer for me?

 

Reading other topics on the Native, I can see why certain users would be thrilled, no longer having to bring their Helix from the road to the studio.  And it looks like there will be more amps coming?  Hopefully those amps will be included in future updates for the Helix units themselves in addition to Native?

 

Last, I would appreciate if anyone could tell me if the following use would work out well and perhaps this would be a game changer for me! 

 

I would much rather put the guitar down, and adjust the helix settings, sitting down at a computer than playing and having to make changes to the unit or the computer editor while strapped to a guitar and playing. 

 

Could I record my guitar with zero effects and processing, and then feed that sound into the  Helix Native?  Then sitting comfortably at the computer for long periods of time, I could try many different amps and effects and really dive in to how the setting change the sound.  Or will the dynamics of playing in real-time not be identical to a pre-recorded input into Native from the same guitar?

throw the looper at the front of your chain - record your guitar and play back - you can now tweak to your hearts content w/o holding a guitar

His patches are the best. I have the 2nd artist series and the boutique amp pack. Awesome patches at a fair price. He will help if you ask.

TY, I'll take your suggestion about re naming. I suspected it had to do with  naming convention and not position. and it does. 

This is the 3rd update I've done. Patches have loaded back fine both times. The ir's did not load into their correct slots either time. (fixing to load everything back in - my v2.20 just finished. ) . I'm stuck to do a lot of moving around. too much for this old man.

Am I doing something incorrect? Or is it just the way the helix does it? 

tia

  That moment you started a critical update and remember your neighbor that shares a driveway and power line with you is having a tree cut down right next to that same power line. Rebuilding presets now... I think I'm safe. 

You could also put it in one of your loops, and put it anywhere in the signal chain you want then. 

Great idea!

Rule number one!  Never do an update the day it comes out!  Wait for feedback here to see how it goes and to see what kind of problems it may cause.  Let others be the leaders - be a fast follower.

couldn't agree more!

Wondering what a volume pedal between Helix and my frfr speaker would sound. Hate to buy a controller pedal when I have an Ernie Ball  volume pedal sitting around. I figured I could then use the Helix pedal for wah. 

I tend to put my volume pedal toward the end of the path anyway. 

Has any one tried it? 

Don't rush to get updates, bc plenty will, and you can learn a lot by their experiences. 

I never do updates on any computer "first". Lots of people will, so I choose to wait and see what happens to their hardware. I'm on my second Helix so I've flashed them twice without any problem at all - but both were new out of the box with none of my presets loaded, so that's a easy decision, especially since the 2.2 update had been out sometime and had proven reliable. Just my .02 worth

I don't have the time, skill, or patience to create quality tones from scratch. I have gladly paid for many, and will continue to do so. I seldom have to do much more than a little tweaking to get them just right for me. 

what he said^^^^

I'm gonna let about 300 of y'all install the newest update first. Then I'll put it on mine ;-)

i had this problem and i used the included hex wrench to just about totally take the big pedal nut loose. (pedal was flopping around) I re tightened it and works perfectly now. seems the pedal was off enough that the body of the helix was rubbing inside I'm guessing. any way it fixed my volume jump problem.

You might try loosening up a bit with the provided hex wrench. Sometimes if it is too tight, you won't get it all the way to the heel position consistently. They are pretty tight out of the box. 

my pedal was floppy out of the box. (the built in expression pedal) The first helix i had had a bad capacitance switch, this is my second one and it really concerns me about the quality control on a 1500.00 piece of gear.   

It was doing it still tonight after work. I loosened the pedal screw up until it just about came loose. The pedal was all floppy in there. I tightened it back up and it seems to be working correctly like my last unit did.