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I like the idea in concept - I think it's great. I'm just thinking of the practicality'ness or intuitiveness of it. What I'm thinking about, and how this may be confusing is: In Recall mode, let's say you are on snapshot 2, make some changes, perhaps you go into stomp mode and disable or enable something, and then go back to snapshot mode. All good - snapshot 2 reflects the change. Then you switch to another snapshot - say snapshot 3. If in Recall mode, at that point, your snapshot 2 change is still in memory and when you switch back to snapshot 2, what you changed previously will still be retained. But where are you suggesting the double-tap or prolonged tap in order to discard? Would that be when you switch *away* from snap 2 to snap 3? Or when you switch from snap 3 *back* to snap 2? And is it then that your changes to snap 2 is discarded? So - when are the changes discarded, when switching away or switching back? Neither method seems particularly intuitive. I'd almost suggest that Recall acts just like Recall now. Except, using the example above, if you have made a change, switch away, then switch back, while you are *on* snap 2, then maybe do a double tap or extended tap on snap 2 - the snapshot you are on - to go back to what it was before - thus engaging Discard. I think that would be pretty intuitive. *** In fact, re-reading your suggestion more closely - it sounds like this might be what you are proposing. If so, yeah, I think that would be great idea and also work intuitively. Just my own preference, but I'd prefer an extended tap, I think that might keep me from accidentally pressing it twice quickly and thus accidentally discarding. But otherwise, Recall works just like Recall now, except when you do an extended tap while on the snapshot you want your changes discarded. I think that'd be great. I'd vote it.

Nice clean board, and love the Golum and Smeagle dialogue. Perfect! :)

Thanks, MonkeyXT!

I'm not really familiar with the POD HD stuff, but I did own and Amplifi 150 at one point (I gave it to my son when I got the Helix), so I kind of know what to expect from that. I wasn't a big fan of the iOS interface, though. The great interface on the Helix is what really sold me on it, and the tones are superb. I like the form factor of the Amplifi TT better than the bean - looks more solid, heavier, probably won't slide around just from cable movement. The Bean looks very light and would likely scoot around and be falling off the desk. Both are $150. With my inexperience with the POD HD, but having experience with the Amplifi, do you have experience with both? If so, any opinion on which would be the better tonal experience? If/when a Helix TT comes out in a few years, I'll jump to that. But for $150, both seem like a good bargain and are close enough to what I'm looking for that I'm going to get one or the other. I just need a nudge in one direction or the other. :-)

For some reason I was thinking those had been discontinued, but I see one on GuitarCenter (not at SweetWater). I see a AMPLIFi TT Desktop though for $150 at Sweetwater. One of those may be the ticket. Neither of those can share patches with the Helix, though - but that would icing on the cake for my purposes, not really a hard requirement.

Agreed - not quite as convenient as what I would really like, but that would definitely do the trick, albeit a little more hassle. Gotta boot the laptop, connect the hardware interface (yet another unsightly dangly cable device to get tangled up in stuff), bring up Logic, start the plug-in, and all that. By that time, probably 5 minutes has passed. The upside of Native being you'd have a really powerful Helix emulation right there with full edit capability and the ability to then save the results and merge back into my other Helix. But ideally I'd love something I could bring up in 30 seconds, guitar and headphones already plugged in, just hit the power switch and go with the guitar in easy reach of my "comfy" chair. :) But yes, I was thinking about Helix Native, and that's why I haven't bought anything yet - I want to see how well all that works. I'll get Helix Native regardless. Helix Native is likely going to be that solution, practically speaking. I kind'a doubt Line 6 is going to make what I want in the form-factor I want. Maybe a tiny little Mac Mini with a tiny monitor that has it's own spot within reach of my comfy chair that is always-on w/DAW and Native running and ready to go at any given time would be a compromise. That's getting up there in price, though.

Yes! I really wouldn't even need "edit" capability or a screen as long as I can load the patches I created on my big Helix and scroll through them. Edit: I would like it heavy though - I can't stand when things move around on the table when even a light draft comes through. Good and solid with rubber feet and about 5+ pounds or so would be perfect. :)

I've been in the market for something tiny I can put in my living room w/headphones and a spare guitar so when the urge strikes, I can just pick it up and practice or follow the tune in my head without having to go up three floors to the attic where my actual Helix and everything else is. Man ... if they could make something even smaller, no expression pedal, no need for all the outputs - really just need headphones, USB, and guitar-in, that would be a minimalist unit and still allow me to import my regular Helix patches and I'd be a happy dude. Make it $400-$700 and I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

I'm still reeling with all the goodness in this 2.20 firmware update. If you appreciate high gain models, be sure and give the Line 6 Badonk a try. I just happened to come across this tonight and can't stop playing it. I'm using a pair of OwnHammer Deizel IRs with it, but just about anything sounds good, and the controls are very responsive. Wow! Add the Badonk to the Archon, Litigator, Matchless, 2204-Mod, the ENGL Fireball (another of my favorites), and all the other absolutely fantastic amps - it's the stuff dreams are made of. With every update, your Helix becomes more and more valuable. It's possible I just don't get around much, but I can't imagine a better collection of amps and effects + amazing routing, form factor, and UI anywhere - let alone right at your fingertips. Oh - and check out that new Clawthorn OD/Fuzz - that thing is pretty incredible in its own right. 2.20 is a big hit with me, and I'm sure there's more to discover. Sincerely - From One Very Happy Helix'r :)

Same here, except El Capitan 10.11.6. I just realize I just spent almost 2 hours playing with that Clawthorn distortion+fuzz. Good lord! Yeah, I know it's says its for bass, but dang that thing sounds good! I played a little bit with the autowah - pretty interesting. I'll still need to learn how to set it up to really utilize it. And those multi-voice osc generators, not sure how to make use of those, but the they sound good. :) With every update it seems like I have a brand new Helix with a few more weeks or months of learning how to use all the cool new stuff. Thanks, Line 6!! :)

I have to pile on - based on your recommendation I ordered a couple of Mike's picks. They are very nice. What's pretty unique about his inventory is when your order a pick it is the one that is photo'd - not a representative photo, you get *that* pick. So while the price is up there, you are getting a custom product, and I was a bit surprised with the hand-written note included. And as cruisinon2 mentioned, they last for years. So as long as you don't don't lose them, who knows - could be cheaper in the long run. :) Based on your recommendation, I ordered 3. :-) I do like them a lot. Here's a photo I just took - they are gorgeous ... and they make me play better. Perception is reality. :-)

I loved that! Great playing, great job!

I'll be 51 in May, and also a cancer surviver - well, the verdict is still out on that, I have a few years to go before they declare me as "survived". But just wanna say - running is great, I do that - but racing dirt bikes is an immensely intensive cardio, core, legs, and arm workout. Nothing like a 2-hour race in full sprint mode over rough terrain on a dirt bike to totally and completely drain you. Not to mention it completely frees your mind from the stresses of the outside world due to the focus required which is immensely therapeutic. For those able, I highly recommend it. :) I don't gig, but I can imagine that the feeling of butterflies and adrenaline of being on the starting line of a dead-engine start, total silence - you can hear a pin drop, then hearing the "30 seconds" call-out over the megaphone, then "10 seconds", then anticipating the flag drop to kick the bike to life and lay on the throttle to beat your buddy's to the first turn must be similar to the feeling of stepping out on the stage. There are classes for every age and skill level - I race the old man class. It's still very competitive and you have to be in really good shape to be competitive. Those old guys have a lot of experience and can really haul the mail, and, of course, age and treachery beats youth and enthusiasm every time. :)

That was really cool - great playing and composition! I loved that legato run at 5:23 - very cool!

Very very nice!

I never thought about a possible connection between Blade Runner and Alien. Possibly, and interesting. If not intentionally meant to be, the two universes seem similar enough they could be. Though Replicants are virtually indistinguishable from humans, meanwhile Alien's "androids" are clearly android which could be determined by a simple test. Replicants could only be identified through closely monitored psychological and physical responses under highly controlled conditions. I'm gonna have to go google that same universe thing. Neat idea!

Quick question about the Amp Room presets. First off - thank you very much for taking the time to put this together, it's a fantastic idea and Line 6 should do a similar equivalent for their factory presets. I love the consistency across presets so the only variables are the amps and the cabs that tend to go with them + a few standard effects to turn on and off to get the flavor of each amp. Now my question - I finally got a chance to load this into one of my free set-lists. First thing I noticed was that the volume was really really low compared to my own presets. I could barely hear them through my setup. Digging in just a little, I noticed the Channel Volume on each amp is way below the defaults when you load the amp in fresh. Is that intentional? Easily corrected by pressing the Ch Vol button on the amp block which sets it back to the default volume. But I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything obvious reason for this that went over my head. For full disclosure: I did only load in Peter Hamm's updated version, so perhaps this is something he did that was not in the original. Any clarity on that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!! EDIT: Nevermind - I see this question was answered just a few posts above. I'm on my first cup of coffee, so I claim that as my excuse.

Bacon in a Bottle - I like the tone of that flavor.

I'm not so sure about that. Consider a modified guitar where you have a 1/4" jack connected to the bridge pickup and another separate 1/4" jack connected to the neck pickup. One could then play a reference performance and capture both signals - bridge signal and neck signal. Let's call the bridge signal the input signal and the neck signal the output signal. Given both the input and output signals, one could develop a mathematical model to transform the input signal to match that of the output signal. That's essentially what an IR does, right? Or do I have that wrong? I understand that IRs usually transform a raw amp signal into the signal that a microphone outputs after going through a cabinet, but the process sounds the same, just applied to different components, in this case, pickups. I've thought about that - essentially re-amping, but feeding a raw piezo signal into the Variax to let it do it's processing, then on into the Helix to process from there. That would be really cool.

What about the case where you have a dry signal recorded with the bridge pickup and later decide it might sound better with the neck pickup? It'd be great to just re-amp into the Helix with a bridge-2-neck IR first in the path or something like that and leave the rest of the patch the same. Does any such thing exist? Other than re-recording using the actual neck pickup, of course.

This is likely a little off, but is the best I can come up with. First half is the original, second half is my best match. Probably not close enough, though. https://soundcloud.com/user-22828532/miab-test/s-Lnjy9

I've listened to that over and over, through consumer headphones, studio headphones, studio monitors, and L3t's at various volumes, repeatedly. Hey, I was very curious, so sue me. :) The only thing I hear is a little vibrato at the end of that chord at 1:44 which was intentional. I cannot discern any thing digitally hairy or clipping or anything like that. Not saying YOU don't hear something, but it must be extremely subtle. There are humans with extreme sensitivity in certain senses. I'm thinking of folks like those people that get paid huge salaries as ice cream tasters for major companies for developing new flavors and quality control - they can taste things no other human can. And those folks with super-human senses of smell that perfume makers hire and actually sometimes get sickened by being in normal day-to-day environments with all the unpleasant smells that most of us can't perceive. Maybe you missed your calling - Line 6 should consider hiring you as their "auditory quality" tester. Seriously!

Yeah probably just need to train your hand over many repetitions. A few months back I was learning the acoustic intro to Randy Roads' Diary of a Madman, I always loved that part, and is pretty classical in nature. A couple of the chords in the intro were very painful and I was thinking - sheesh, how does this guy play this stuff so fluidly and with such style - I can't even make my hand contort to even fret the notes let alone do it reliably or repeatably. But after doing it over and over, it's now actually comfortable. Weird how that works.

Ha - made me have to go look at what I do, 'cause I couldn't tell you otherwise, and even then "it depends." :) And I'm NOT offering this as advice or anything ... the real players here on this forum have forgotten more than I will likely ever know ... just trying to answer your question to me. :) So ... at the risk of bringing on the ridicule of a bunch of great guitarists ... here goes. :-) After about an hour trying to figure out what I do actually do (I had to play for a while and look because I honestly couldn't tell you otherwise) ... For something like a scale from the 6th string to the 1st string, I think I do pretty much what you describe in the latter part. My forearm rests lightly but does not anchor solid, sliding a little bit if needed and I can feel the guitar body tugging and sliding a little on my forearm as I go from 6th string to the 1st. Meanwhile the right side of my palm glides just in front of the bridge (or further up the strings lengthwise - see below) with light pressure that varies depending on what and how much I'm muting. Pick stays very close to the strings and moves very little vertically and very very little while picking the same string multiple times, pick-angle is about 30 degrees or so to the string. And I apparently mute some with the bottom of my thumb (that's new to me, I didn't realize I did that). But ... I do find myself moving the picking position lengthwise on the strings, too - i.e., from near the bridge pickup to closer or over the neck pickup and even up over the higher frets sometimes - you get lots of different tones from throughout that area as opposed to one spot, and of course that changes things up good bit forearm-wise and such. I googled "how to hold a guitar pick" to find a photo the closest to how I hold the pick and this is pretty close, but with *barely* any of the tip of the pick below my thumb if any, and that varies depending on what I'm doing too. My index finger is not curled tight like some recommend. My wrist is doing most of the work but it's not much, moving just a small amount, and I notice my thumb and index finger are making small micro adjustments and movements in the joints positioning the angle of the pick, sometimes changing angle to the string and sometimes changing the angle vertically. The faster I pick the less my finger joints move. Pretty sure a tiny bit of the bottom of my thumb is making contact with the string on almost every note, not enough for a pinch (unless I want that to happen), and maybe even the back of my index fingernail sometimes, depending. But then when transition from picking notes to a chord, thumb rolls up on the pick exposing more of the pick and the vertical angle changes more to apparently glide over the strings a little better. I wouldn't "fret" over this though - see what I did there? :) I'm just some guy on the internet. Ask 10 people and I bet you get 100 different answers that vary widely in their details, even among famous pros. Have you seen any of Glenn Delaune's helix custom patch videos? If not, google him. Highly unorthodox picking, uses a wrap-around thumb pick, plays phenomenally. Not sure about that. Try standing up. If sitting, its hard for me to reach the higher frets of the higher numbered strings - my wrist feels like a contortionist. Standing makes it easy to change the position of your guitar to make that work better.

You should release Firmware 2.20 on 2/20. :)