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Wonder if I can get a little help here. I have a G55 wireless system and the battery door is breaking down on the transmitter. I bought it back in March and have maybe gigged with it 10 times. Having a very hard time finding any way of getting this fixed or replaced by Line 6. Any thoughts or ideas would be great. I love the unit but the quality of it so far has been a disappointment.

I am using the Firehawk now and although the iPad interface is nice. I am not sure it is something that is a deal breaker for me on the Helix if I decide to drop that kind of money on a unit. The user interface look pretty good from the videos I have scene, I guess we will know when we get it in the fall.

Fair enough but I use wah so little its a waist of space on my pedal board to add another expression pedal.

I think I figured this out. So you make a change to your patch and want to save it to the Firehawk. Hold the button down till it starts to blink (save mode). Then hold it down for a second or two. You will see the arrow on the left disappear. The patch is still blinking. Lift your foot off and wait for the patch to go out of save mode and your new settings are saved. If you hold down the button till it stops blinking it will now save. I never have my iPad on when I gig. To many things to think about then.

Steve I have looked at the manuel so I am not sure what is meant by your post. I understand you can assign parameters to the expression pedal. The app will not allow you to assign just the volume pedal and no wah to a patch or vise versa. Like your post states the default is wah/volume and it toggles with the switch under the expression pedal. The problem I have is I have accidentally engaged the wah pedal when using the volume pedal a few times … I am just wondering why you can't tell the unit to only assign the volume or wah in your patch so the pedal is just volume or wah and it will not toggle with the switch.

These are all good ideas but I must ask why you can't just turn the wah off in the app. Seems simple to me, just have a on off toggle in the app. Same with volume. If both are on the switch on the pedal is active. If one is turned off the switch goes inactive. My biggest issues with the Firehawk are things that can go wrong in gigging situations. Like the wah engaging accidentally or hitting the lower row of buttons by accident and changing the patch. Line 6 needs to pay more attention to what could happen using the unit on stage.

Sounds good I will give that a try.

I don't want to disable it permanently .. not sure why you just can't assign Wah or Volume pedal in the effects chain and only have the one active. If you want both than you can activate both. Seems logical to me.

Anyone know if you can turn the wah option for the expression pedal? I would like to turn the toggle button off in most of my patches. I have been using it for volume and have accidentally pushed down to hard and had the wah engage in a patch. Get some good looks from band mates when that happens. Only what to use it as a volume pedal in most tone patches.

mcbeddall I agree with you on the app. I do like to turn the app off during practice with my band to simplify things, it also seems to shorten the lag between patches a bit. I have tried what you suggested and that also does not work on my unit. I have tried almost every combination of taps in save mode to try and get that dang dot to go away and save, no luck. This brings up another question. If you have a tone you are working on either with the app or on the unit itself, make a tweak and then save it …. does it save on all platforms. Meaning if you save on the unit does it update in "my tones" on the app and if you save in my tones and that tone is loaded into the unit does it apply the changes or do you need to re upload it to the Firehawk unit?? You could end up with several different versions of the same tone patch if it does not universally save to both my tones and the Firehawk unit.

Anyone else having problems with this?? I have been using the app to do most of my patch setting up till now and saving in my tones. Since doing the new update and having my patches roughed in pretty good I have been doing small tweaks on the unit itself. But here comes the problem. I can not get the patch to save on the unit. I get the dot next to the patch number when I make a change, like adjust the patch volume (pink LED on large button) but then I try to save it and cannot seem to get it to save to the current location. I can move it to a new patch button and it will save but that is not what I want it to do. So it is my understanding that you hold down the patch button till it starts to blink (in save mode) You then lift off the button and then re hold down the button till it stops blinking (should be saved) --- this does not work, the dot is still there and if I switch tones and come back it will revert back to the old settings. Any thoughts on this would be great. Getting just a bit frustrating.

I love my Firehawk but after the lag issue mistakenly hitting the lower buttons is the biggest problem. I am really hoping for some type of lock setting for those buttons. Also how hard would it be to light the up down buttons for dark stages? Am I being greedy?

I use a iPhone and iPad. Can you not use a android tablet? I think the whole point of the Firehawk is to get away from hard linking to a computer. If I wanted that I would just use a Hd500X. Right?

I have done tests with my Matchless amp and find that if you select no amp in the clean amp choices it is the same as running straight to the amp from the guitar. I am not sure if it is "tru bypass" as they say but I don't notice a tonal change for this setting. I use it for most of tones and then use some of the Marshall amps for heavier stuff.

I am assuming you can also update from a Mac?? Yes? via USB.

I rememb I remember this once from playing with the HD500x and tried it with the Firehawk and it works well. Go to your effects loop, you can add db volume there into the loop. I use a small patch cable and jump from the effects loop out to the effects loop in and then assign the effects loop to a pedal. It works well if you are looking to just boost your current tone.

Bond that could work for sure. Seems to me this is something they should of noticed in the design faze of the product. I have noticed not he M13 and HD500x and my FBV Short board for that matter there are level changes from the bottom to top selectors. I think the simplest solution would be to have a option where you need to hit the down button to engage the bottom selectors. So if you are playing a song and are switching effects you don't need to worry about hitting a preset. Then when you go to change you tap the down button to unlock the bottom row and then select your A,B,C or D bank. You just make this a option you can choose so if it works for some players great, if not just turn it off.

If its there I can't find it. The best I can do is save all our songs to my tones and then create set lists from there. It is really easy to drag and drop songs onto the unit from the iPad would only take a minuet or so.

It does have aloop. Although I have not used it since I play faintly clean and then add my gain with pedals.

Sorry if this has been covered. I am considering buying a Variax guitar and have a question. I use both a M13 and am now playing with the new Firehawk. Do you need to use a Line 6 amp to utilize all the functions of the Variax guitar? I play through a Late 80's Matchless amp and am not really looking to replace it with a line 6 one. I do have a Spider Valve HD 100 head that I bought off Ebay used but have not really dug into using it much. Any info you guys could provide would be great. I am most interested in the acoustic settings and the capo settings. I also use a Line 6 wireless unit, maybe I can run a cable for my electric use and the wireless for the acoustic use. Thanks for your help.

Something else I noticed today compared to the M13 and HD500X. There is only one folder of 32 banks of 4. The M13 and HD500X have different folders with 32 banks each. The reason may be is that you can save all your tones to the app and then kick them into the Firehawk try easily. For me a live folder and and studio folder would be great to toggle back and forth.

I think you will be happy with the interface. It is very simple to use … the best part may be no more bending down to the floor for minor adjustments. Look forward to hearing some of your thoughts once you get it up and running.

Yes I would agree that you have up to 8 blocks, but without a footswitch to assign them to it is a bit limited. What I was getting at mostly is you can only have 5 effect blocks per tone setup .. This being (distortion, mods, delays, reverbs and so on.) Can anyone explain why the EQ cannot be assigned to a foot switch?? This seems very odd. Both the HD500X and the M13 offer alot of different subtle setups for the units. It would be nice if the Firehawk would offer some of the personal set up choices that different players can use. A perfect example would be switching the top and bottom rows of selectors. Also the ability to light the up and down selectors. Hopefully some of this will come with future updates like other products.

I have been using the Firehawk for a few days and here are a few early thoughts. Positive - The interface is great. Very simple to use and and edit the unit. Much simpler than the HD500X but you lose a lot of effects, amps and features. - The color coded pedels are fantastic compared to all red. - The digital readout is much better than the HD500X .. for giging its going to be really easy to find tones. - You can use it without a amp mod. I don't think its true bypass but I tested it and it sounds the same as directly plugged into the amp with the NO AMP chosen. Not Positive - Right off the bat I noticed you can not assign a pedal for the EQ (not to mention there is only one EQ to choose) why? - You can only use 5 effects at once. It is one more than the M13 but more limited then the HD500X. - Not duel amp setups like HD500X (this has been mentioned a lot) - This is subtle but for me it is a issue. It is really easy to hit one of the tone selection buttons when you are turning on and off effects (only can do this on top row of selectors) The buttons are almost on the same plane. It could really screw you up gigging if you are not careful. It would be nice if they let you set a lock button or need to hit the down arrow first to engage the tone selection buttons. I see this as the biggest problem with the unit so far. Or maybe just allow you to pick what you want on top or bottom … the effects or tone patches. My guess is that this lights on the bottom are only red for the tone patches. - No lights on the up and down selectors. Even if they were just a dime white it would be nice so you can see them on a dark stage. ( I know I am nit picking ) - A lot less effects and amps to choose from on this than the HD500X or the M13. I don't get this. At this price point they should have everything in there that they offer. - No looper … come on guys again at this price point it needs to be there. With all this said it is a very solid unit and I think it will be great to gig with. I am going to try and replace my M13 with it and see how it goes. It will be much easier to find preset song patches than trying to remember where they are on the M13. The digital readout is a big step in the right direction as this is a major problem on stage with the M13 or the HD500X for me. It gives me what I need and hopefully they will improve it over time like the M13. I can tell you this when they decide to combine all of the versatility of the HD500X with the IOS interface it is going to be one bad lollipop unit. Firehawk is not quite there yet but my guess is the next POD HD?00? will have this tech and it will be a beast. I look forward to that day. Hope this helps.