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This ocours If you set the Global Settings - Tip Polarity and/or Ring Polarity to Inverted AND - FS4 Function and/or FS5 Function to TAP/Tuner since this will engage the Tuner if FS4 or FS5 is NOT pressed.

Yes, sorry. I don't own the big floor unit and assumed it to have Analog Bypass. That was the only explanation for the problem of the op that I could come up with.

I have the suspicion that your device doesn't leave hardware bypass due to a faulty relais. When you boot the Helix do you hear a click right before it finishes booting? And when you enter Analog Bypass Mode (hit Mode and Tap at the same time) does it click then?

Early reflections option for IRs.

Easy to remember: Ring = Red = Right Channel

Here is a video that documents what's happening: In that video's comment section BluGuitar stated: Also BluGuitar made a video where they show how awesome that Amp1-HX Effects combination works:

Mine neither. But I'm a Fractal Audio Axe-Fx veteran, so the HxStomp is a walk in the park for me. But our experience does not apply to newbies at all.

Wait... Does this mean you didn’t bother to read the thread? - My guess was disproven days ago in this thread.

If your favourite amp is the BE-100 than this comparison might help:

Greenbacks. Or a mix of Greenbacks and Vintage30s like in the Friedman 4x12 Vintage cab. Also try G12H30s for a different vibe.

Funny, true, but also a bit hypocritical, don't you think? After all Line6 is making money by making sonically indistinguishable copies of devices owned by other brands.

Just a speculation: A loose input jack?

Depth control on the SLO-100 models (like the new Soldano classics have).

The freeze at startup problem is something that occurs also on Fractal Audio devices. Very rarely, but it happens.

FYI a resource that puts some dsp usage percentages to the table: http://benvesco.com/store/helix-dsp-allocations/ It was discussed on this forum before.

I bought a cheap Doner Viper expression pedal from Amazon for about 30 Euros. Opened it, bended the ring metal sheet of the output jack so it doesn't make contact- that was it.

Suggestion: Replace the (unbelievably midheavy and dull) 4x12 SoloLeadEM cab with a usable cab like a Celestion RedBack 4x12. Revisited that cab with dual mics on SLO sim and with the right mic choices and low master I got the SoloLeadEM to sound decent.

The loFreq of the parametric eq should be adjustable in 1Hz steps up to 120Hz instead of 100Hz. The reason: If you use a real closed back cab it has a resonance frequency of slightly above 100Hz. Mesa cabs about 103Hz to 106Hz. Currently the eq is not well equipped for fine tuning at these cab resonance peak frequencies.

Make shure to use "Preamp" as amp modeling block. You might try "Amp", but that will most likely sound scooped and boomy. Avoid using "Amp+Cab" in this scenario.

Tube amps that are used for shooting IRs should have current feedback from the speaker to compensate their non-linear amplification that is caused by them being current amplifiers so that the impedance curve of the speaker impacts the actual volumes at different frequencies. The current feedback line often has two controls for sound shaping: depth/resonace and presence. These should be set neutral when shooting IRs.

Micing a cab is an art in itself. A cab sounds different on every angle and distance. Microphones have their own sound. Also they record less high frequencies when angled and they have a proximity effect that affect the bottom end. So what is the right cab sound? How it sounds on your favourite recordings that you got used to? How it sounds in your practice room? Where do you stand and on what angle do you listen? How it sounds live on stage? Who miced and mixed the sound? How much does the amp bleed to the audience vs the miced sound through the PA? At what volumes do you listen? - The Fletcher Munson effect states that you percieve sound differently at different volumes. More things like hearing fatigue etc also affect cab sound. The art is to make it fit - for the player, in the mix, musically, emotionally.

Aha. Well, that was just a wild guess. Personally don't really care. The only thing that I'm interested as an update is eight blocks available on the HxStomp, because that limit seems arbitrary and not related to actual available processing power. That said: I'm looking forward to be surprised.

I like the stock cab on the Brit Plexi Brt as is. For ACDC stuff use stock settings with following changes: Drive, Bass, Mid,Treble all at 5. Lower Bass and Mid a bit to taste for more kerang. Presence is at 5 to 7 depending on how bright the sun shines that day. Back of Tone and Volume on the guitar a bit. Experiment with pickup height, too. To reduce mud here is on trick that emulates the C45 switch on Friedmans: Tilt EQ block before the amp Brt50, CenFreq 670Hz, Level +4,5dB. Sound Sample (Telecaster direct recording - all pickups, different volume knob settings)

Yes, that's possible by recording a sweep or an impulse. But I will stay away from sharing these since Thomas Blug took great effort to craft these impulses. I might start a thread in this forum with audio clips for comparison. I could also document my attempts to tweak the HxStomps stock cabs with eq to match one or two of the BluBox cabs. Also the mic position knob on it is very musical and effective in dialing in the right amout of high frequency content. I could investigate (measure) how to replicate that in the HxStomp, too. Let me know if that would be of any interest to you guys!

I'm currently in the middle of testing the Hx Stomp for myself. Let me start with stating that the amp models are very accurate. I've tested several ones against Fractal amp models and some real amps. The amps are not the issue. I've also compared the cab models against those of my BluGuitar BluBox (an excellent IR speaker emulator) and found that the Hx Stomp cabs lack air (high frequency content) and overly pronounce certain frequencies depending on the mics one uses. It's pretty hard to get rid of that baked in mic sound. That said: in a mix that might actually be the sound you're after. Also be aware of the Fletcher Munson Effect (listening at different volumes to the same source material sounds dramatically different): Dull and mid heavy might at low volumes might sound just right at stage volumes. My conclusions have been gathered used Neuman KH120A studio monitors and Beyerdynamics DT770 headphones.