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cruisinon2

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  1. Nobody from L6 monitors these forums. Product/ feature requests have to go in Ideascale, otherwise they'll never be seen by a single eyeball capable of acting on the suggestion. And fwiw, similar requests have appeared in here more than once over the years. I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you.
  2. Yup... our lunch special today is a $hit sandwich. Line up and take your bite, lol. Everybody hates it, as evidenced by the dozen other threads all gripping about the same things. In today's world "new and improved" often means "broken". It's the new normal, so buckle up...it's gonna be a bumpy ride. Politicians call it "progress". Enjoy! ;)
  3. There are at least a half dozen other threads with the same gripe. Absent some official proclamation from the powers that be, you can guess until you turn blue about what the cause is. Website glitch, migrating stuff to another server and/or software platform, purging a bunch of crap for no particular reason... or maybe aliens stole it all. Your guess is as good as anybody else's. There is good news though... now instead of spending hours on end auditioning dozens (if not hundreds) of patches to find the one that might actually be useful without extensive editing, now you can spend that time actually learning how to use your device and figure out how to create what you need on your own. In the long run you'll waste far less time, and you'll gain knowledge that you can apply to any modeler under the sun, no matter who made it.
  4. Without more details, all anybody can do is guess. Does it happen only with one particular patch, or can it be any patch at any time? Is there a volume pedal block in the affected patch(es), or are you using an external expression pedal for anything? Aside from a volume pedal drifting one way or the other and needing to be recalibrated, I can't immediately think of what might be causing it. Is there anything specific that you do that will trigger the problem? Posting the affected patch(es) would allow someone else to download it and see if they can reproduce the same problem on their end. Whatever it is, it's unlikely to be hardware related. If it's just one particular patch, then I'd say it probably got corrupted somehow... rebuild it from scratch in an empty slot and see what happens. Otherwise, as with pretty much any odd and unexplainable behavior, just about the only option you have as an end user is backing up everything and then doing a factory reset. May or may not help, but it certainly won't hurt. If that doesn't solve it, then it's time to open a service ticket.
  5. Lol... Allow me to translate: "We're on it! (since 5/19/2020). Keep your eyes peeled!"...;) If it hasn't been addressed in nearly 4 years, then clearly it's not at the top of anybody's to-do list. I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you. This reminds me of the running joke throughout that old Tom Hanks movie, "The Money Pit"...every time he asks the contractor for an end date to the already months-long renovation project, the answer is "Two weeks!" Hurry up and wait, lol...
  6. Lol...I went digital a dozen-ish years ago. I have no amps left to "capture". I'd be stuck downloading somebody else's profiles... which is guaranteed to be the same exercise in futility as combing through the Wasteland of Unusable Sounds that is Customtone, ;) If that's the "future", then I'm SOL...
  7. Trust me, they don't... it's a user forum. L6 personnel rarely show up. Feature requests have to go in IdeaScale, otherwise nobody "official" will ever lay eyes on it.
  8. Hard to say if it's a lack of understanding about the target demographic, or the genuine belief that "I have no use for this thing, therefore no one else will either". We live in a bizarre time, and people are weird. And guitar players are weird and crazy....
  9. Ok, then. Unfortunately, just about the only recourse we have as end users when weird stuff happens (no matter what it is), is to back up everything and do a factory reset. It might not help, but it certainly won't make anything worse. If the issue persists after you've restored everything, then it's time for a service ticket.
  10. All kinds of weird stuff can happen when you copy/ paste a patch to another slot... it's also possible you've discovered a bug. However, if the behavior only happens after you copy and paste, and the original patch otherwise behaves normally, then at least you know how to avoid it...
  11. This is kinda like asking if anyone's ever driven a Chevy, and if it's better than a Ford, or a Kia. The "best" amplifier is the one you can afford, that also suits your needs. They're just tools... and you might decide that you like the inherent characteristics of Marshall amps more than Fender... but that doesn't make one any better or worse than the other. They just produce their own distinctive tones... you like what you like. Also, as L6 is primarily know for their amp modelers and not so much actual amplifiers (though they have made several), you have to decide what it is that you actually want/need. Modelers and traditional guitar amplifiers are two totally different kinds of equipment.
  12. This is a nearly 10 year old thread... and according to his profile page, the last time that guy logged on was in 2018. Don't hold your breath for a reply.
  13. Getting a convincing acoustic tone is mostly about what you're listening through when creating your tones. You need some sort of FRFR speaker solution, as that's what you'll be dealing with at the gig... studio monitors, a good pair of reasonably flat response headphones, etc. If you're currently running your POD Go through a traditional guitar amp, you can tweak until you turn blue, and it'll never sound like an acoustic guitar as typical guitar speakers lack a sufficiently wide frequency response. Also, it will then sound wildly different when you run through the PA. Beyond that, you don't really need to bother using an amp sim in your chain either, in fact it'll probably do more harm than good. Some compression, a studio preamp, EQ, and any fx you might want (reverb, delay, etc) are really all you need to get a decent acoustic tone. You could also just run a completely empty patch using the raw Variax acoustic model of your choice, and let the sound guy deal with the EQ and fx...if you were playing an actual acoustic/ electric guitar, or a mic-ed acoustic at the gig, that's exactly what would be happening anyway.
  14. You don't mention anything about what cabs you're pairing with a given amp, or more importantly your choice of mic sims and their position. Just grabbing a cabinet and dropping it in the chain after the amp block is only half the battle. The mic choice and where you put it have a HUGE impact on the final result... just as it does in a studio mic-ing a real cabinet. There are a bunch of mics to choose from... try different ones and move them around. I assure you that the cab/mic sims in Helix can produce anything from the "wet blanket" effect you mention to "screeching like a f*cked cat during a bird calling contest". Your job is to find a happy medium...
  15. You should post this over in the POD Farm section, under "computer based recording". Those whom might have the answer you're looking for are not likely to see it in here... The Lounge is a ghost town, lol.
  16. The mustard sub-menu would be exhausting. I can think of at least a dozen adjustable parameters for Dijon alone...
  17. If Helix can't make me a sandwich after the next update, I'm going Fractal...
  18. Might as well ask for a tuna sub and a foot massage... nobody "official" frequents this forum. Feature requests have to go in IdeaScale.
  19. Well my initial thought was why are you daisy chaining two modelers together? Without the specifics regarding exactly how you have things set up and what you're actually using each device to do, is gonna be difficult to troubleshoot...
  20. "Something I'm trying to do ain't working" ...;)
  21. Ok, I'll bite. What does a steam pipe sound like? Honestly, I have no idea... all I can picture is a lot of loud white noise, and I'm trying to undesrtand how that would ever be even remotely usable or desirable in a musical setting...
  22. That might have accounted for some of it, but I think it was a tough sell for a lot of reasons, and it's a bit of a stretch to blame the whole thing on a "Big Retail" conspiracy, lol. The Variax is/was a rather quirky beast that requires a great deal of tinkering to get everything just right... and even then they're tempermental, prone to going on tilt if anything is the slightest bit out of whack. And that's just not something that the masses generally want to get involved with. They want the instant gratification of "plug and play" gear... and the Variax just ain't that. Not to mention that they also require an additional investment in other gear that a lot of players didn't necessarily have, if they wanted to take full advantage of what it can do... specifically with regard to the acoustic models. I think a lot of people bought them under the mistaken impression that it would make their favorite traditional guitar amp pump out tones indistinguishable from the raw sound of their favorite Martin or Gibson Jumbo, not realizing that it would require a further investment in FRFR speakers to get there. Imho, Variax was always gonna be niche product.
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