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Ah, I love the smell of speculation-based decision making in the morning... smells like a waste of time. ;)

Which was precisely my point... you can't assign the same effect to multiple places simultaneously. If he wants a footswitch to light up when an effect is engaged, then he has to assign it to the footswitch in question... obviously creating a problem when one wishes to control said effect with the expression pedal.

Don't think so, at least not without also assigning control of the block to that same footswitch. But the block itself already indicates what state it'sil in anyway...when it's lit up the effect is on, grayed out and it's off. That's as good as its gonna get.

I hope I'm this interesting when I go nuts...;)

I'm gonna say this because I care...there are plenty of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing...

Dogs barking can't fly without umbrella.

NAMM?

Are we sure this is NAMM we're talking about? I can think of at least one annual event that probably has a "meatspace", but it's an entirely different clientele...;)

Because Helix is not an amp, it's a modeler... and every modeler on earth will exhibit the same problem. You are creating recorded tones... the end result of a mic-ed cabinet monitored through some sort of FRFR output. Go to a studio and mic your favorite amp. Listen to the sound of that amp as you're standing next to it in the live room...then go and listen to what the guy at the desk is hearing through the monitors in the control room. They will NOT sound the same. Ever.

You can't. There is no graphical representation of the EQ curve. It is what it is...

I'm guessing from your user name that you're well into your 50's... my apologies if that's not the case. But If I'm correct and you can still hear 20KHz, then you sir, are Superman... because age-related high frequency loss is well documented, and hardly anyone is spared... especially musicians, even if we've been careful over the years. I'm 45 and pretty much everything past 13.5KHz is gone. Regardless, it's really a moot point anyway... for electric guitar, nothing anywhere near 20KHz is helping you sound good... most of us are applying high cuts well below that too get rid of the fizz. High cuts from 6-8KHz are commonplace. https://playback.fm/hearing-test

I'm actually witnessing an argument over a website's search function.... once this is settled I hope we can move into something really important, like this font they've given us. It's just disgraceful... ;)

My 305's handle low end just fine... "Not real loud" is completely subjective...one man's whisper is another's deafening roar, so that may or may not be the problem. Bear in mind though, that small near-field monitors are not meant for rattling windows in the next zip code...they're just not designed to do that. Crank just about any pair of 5" monitors too much, and they're gonna fart out. Where do you have the master volume set on the back of the 305's? Don't max them out...leave them at noon, and adjust your Helix output accordingly. Placement will also matter, as they are rear-ported speakers. If you have them right up against a wall you might get coupling issues and an overabundance of low end. Allow some space back there. There's also the low frequency trim switch you can experiment with... try -2 dB if you think things are too boomy.

Researching the cost of treating an ingrown toenail won't help you much if your problem is a brain tumor... What's busted?

Nobody's are... and yes, I've purchased a bunch (mostly out of curiosity) from various sources, including some of the more highly touted ones often mentioned around here... and I don't use a single one of them. That being said, Jason Sadites' youtube channel has some excellent Helix tutorials for getting acquainted with the process of creating your own tones... just don't confuse process with product. Trying to reproduce tonal continuity using a carbon copy of settings that work for someone else, with their rig, guitars, listening environment, playing technique, etc etc, is mostly a pipe dream. The variables are numerous and significant... and this will be true no matter who's you purchase, or how awesome they sounded in the demo. If you're expecting to buy them and instantly have the exact same tone you've heard in videos that feature those very same patches, the odds are that you will come away confused and disappointed. Watch some of his videos to see how and why he does certain things... but don't fixate on duplicating every last parameter, because it'll never sound exactly the same on your end... it's the methodology that matters, not individual numbers. Once you understand what various parameters do, then finding the sound you want becomes much less daunting. But ultimately there are no shortcuts.

For the most part, the amp models are the biggest DSP hogs in the box... squeezing 4 into one patch won't leave room for much else, if anything.

Are there extra penalties if I ask on someone else's behalf? My betta fish Jeff won't stop pestering me about the 3.0 release date. Somebody please give me a reliable ETA so he'll get off my back....

Any minute now. Or not. Just like the last update... and the one before that, and the one before that, and the one before that, etc etc. Hey! I think there's a pattern emerging here... ;)

Well you know what they say... hope in one hand and $%!* in the other, and see which one fills up first. ;)

To each their own, but as far as I'm concerned Helix in it's current state already teeters on the brink of becoming an all-consuming parameter tweaking rabbit hole. Last thing I need is a whole other dimension of adjustments to sift through... besides, the farther down you drill into smaller and smaller sub- parameters, the less effect any particular one will have on the final product. At some point it becomes like trying to alter a recipe for beef stew by adding or removing 3 grains of salt... you wouldn't be able to tell the difference with a gun to your head. Just my 2 cents...

Don't spend your twelve cent settlement check all in one place...;)

Helix reverbs are serviceable in a mix for live use, but if you're an ambient guy playing unaccompanied, and you're looking for the ultra-lush reverbs that you find in the pricier stand alone reverb pedals of the world, you'll probably never be satisfied with what Helix has to offer... and the reason is simple: available DSP. Many of those boxes have as much if not more DSP than Helix, and it's all dedicated to doing just one thing, while Helix is wearing a dozen different hats at any given time, all of them chewing up processing power. Most multi-effect/ modelers will always have trouble competing with stuff like that... that's why they gave us effects loops.

All you can do is open a support ticket with customer service and see what they tell you. You may get it replaced without too much fuss.

Any preference you have for the sound of one Helix demo over another is due solely to the subjective nature of tone and/or the skill of the guy who created the patch and made the demo. Helix is Helix... Stomp, Native, Floor, or Rack is 100% irrelevant. They're all the same modeling engine.

The only thing that really distinguishes an acoustic guitar amp from an electric guitar amp is the frequency response of the speakers...so assuming that you're monitoring through some sort of FRFR output, then everything you need to emulate an acoustic guitar amp is already at your fingertips...EQ, some light compression (if you're so inclined), and maybe one of the mic-pre models. A dedicated acoustic guitar amp model isn't necessary.