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This is a known bug right now. You can get around it by switching the expression pedal back before switching snapshots. Please see the post linked below for an explanation as well as a couple of methods on dealing with it as well as a hardware workaround with a shorted plug. http://line6.com/support/topic/21829-snapshot-help-wah-on-wah-off/?p=165484

I truly hope we don't end up with a global option to have the old tuner display back. The tuner is much more granular and much improved now. They just need to make it a little less jumpy. As a general rule I prefer to see improved features fine tuned. Let's please not start moving backwards and giving options to have old versions of features rather than simply improving newer better ones. If they cannot stabilize the display then I can understand a global option not to show the new bars in the readout but I hope it does not come to that.

Tuner massively improved in the 2.0 update? An unqualified YES! Tuner jumpy as a cat on a hot tin roof! Perhaps, or at the very least a lukewarm roof. It could stand to be stabilized a bit.

Yep, I can totally understand wanting to be able to adjust your stage/monitor volume from the Helix instead of the FRFR while simultaneously sending an unaltered signal to FOH.

I was wondering, for those of you who split your delay and/or reverb off onto a separate path, what percentage do you generally dial in ( A versus B ) on your split block? I have been varying it depending on the preset but I was wondering if anyone had any tips or "rules" they use to determine the best split values? I guess this is another way of asking about wet/dry routing. Sometimes I find the sound better through a simple super serial path with the entire signal routed through the delay and reverb (split is set to B 100% through the delay/reverb path and the mix parameter on delay/reverb is set to taste) and other times I find that sending some signal through direct and some to reverb sounds better (Even split or some ratio that sends signal bypassing the delay/reverb path as well as through the delay/reverb path).

I would like to make it a bit simpler to assign a parameter to a snapshot in the editor. I have put the following idea in Ideascale which also includes a suggestion on how to return parameters to their "default" value. Feel free to make suggestions on how to better implement. The core idea is just to circumvent the somewhat ponderous process of having to go through the Control Assign tab to assign a parameter to a snapshot. IDEA http://line6.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Assign-parameter-to-snapshot-with-click-in-Editor/833883-23508 One click on the parameter "handle" on the parameter bar in the Editor should assign that parameter to a "Snapshot". The same as pressing and turning a parameter knob on the Helix. A double click should return the parameter to either the default value for that effect/amp/cab or return it to the center value.

This is probably not the answer you are looking for but when I use the XLR and 1/4 for FOH & FRFR i simply let the master volume knob control both XLR & 1/4. I let the soundman adjust the input trim for the Helix's XLR(s) on the mixing board and get the FOH sound, and I adjust the volume on the FRFR to accommodate whatever signal level is coming from the 1/4 outputs on the Helix. If I was running my own sound I would adjust the trim and fader levels from the board rather than trying to work two separate levels from the Helix.

The laptop stand sounds like a great alternative! Any one in particular? The scenario you described is exactly what I was warning about in my post above. Again, if anyone uses the Onstage stand take a couple of rubber strips and put them between the side rails and the Helix and then tighten down enough to make sure that if the top of the stand ever swivels the Helix cannot fall out. I suppose heavy duty Velcro strips on the side rails (bottom & sides) could be another way of securing it.

Or, if you end up pushing and holding too long on the Helix the screen that pops up will allow you to select "Snapshot" as the controller for that parameter. You can also use the Helix Editor. Go to the Controller Assign tab and select "Snapshot" for the parameter you want to differ between snapshots. "Snapshot" is in the list along with the footswitches and expression pedals.

The Editor runs on my Nextbook 10 with a Windows 10 OS and an Atom processor. What issue have you been encountering?

LOL, this topic is starting to look like Bonham's hotel room on one of Zeppelin's tours after a three night engagement in the same city :o

Thanks for the heads up! You are absolutely correct, I double-checked the dimensions and the expansion on the upper rack is an inch too narrow on this one. I am removing this reference from my posts. Looks like the Onstage model or some other alternative is the way to go and is also the one I have.

Be part of the original crowd! B)

I think L6 has acknowledged the reverbs to be one of the areas on the Helix that needs improvement. I seem to remember that they stated that these reverbs were essentially ported over from the HD500X; among the few, if not the only effects that were not custom designed from the ground up for the Helix. I believe our patience will be rewarded with some new reverbs in the future. It seems as if they made an informed decision that this was the effect category that could most easily be worked on later in the development cycle and would cause the least blowback. I can understand this as reverb is probably one of the things L6 did quite well already in previous hardware. In the meantime the reverbs are quite usable to good and I think we will see substantial improvement in this arena somewhere down the line. On a personal note I would like to get a really big and good arena or stadium type reverb particularly for vintage type guitar sounds and it would probably be great used sparingly on vocals as well.

Does anyone have a preset like that old fuzzed out octave sound Jimmy Page got on "Fool In The Rain". I have always found the tone he got on that tune in his solo to be quite memorable.

No need to add lithium, they can just let the old lead piping water delivery infrastructure do its job (like the one in Flint, Michigan). A brain damaged public is a docile public, "mooo".

UPDATE: Don't get this one, it is too narrow for the Helix. https://www.amazon.c...d/dp/B003R7KUNA

Congratulations DI! :)

I guess you could test this by seeing if the DSP in a preset fills up earlier with two cab blocks vs. a dual cab block. Or... DI could just tell us ;)

Yep like roscoe5 said: Editing a post title Press "Edit" to edit your original first post in the thread. Now you will see a "Use Full Editor" button, press that. You will see that there is now an editable dialog box for the title you can now change to reflect your new title.

Are you sure you posted this in the right place? You mention the POD and this is a Helix forum. Additionally the tuner was upgraded mightily in the firmware update before last and this topic has been pretty much retired as a result.

Hope you don't mean that literally :D

I would want something at least this sturdy and it rolls. Putting a Helix on a standard music stand in anything but a corner in your studio with no chance someone will knock it over is the only way I would even consider putting my Helix on a typical music stand. A music stand just seems to be an accident waiting to happen. UPDATE: Deleted the link I had in here previously as that stand was not wide enough for the Helix according to its dimensions and someone who had tried it. I own the On-Stage model in the link in DunedinDragon's post above. Update: Looks like DunedinDragon already posted this, good to know it fits well because that is exactly what I would use. I used to have a Fractal parked up on one of these and it works great. Just make sure when you use this you have it in tight and have all the pivot points tightened down properly and perhaps have a couple of pieces of rubber for extra grip on the sides because if the top swivel part tips over in the wrong direction there are no tabs to keep the Helix from falling out. The stand tightens down on the sides however more than adequately to prevent this, particularly with a couple of rubber strips to help out with extra traction and the pivot has a huge knob for tightening it down allowing gravity to always keep the Helix resting on the large restraining tabs on the bottom side. You just want to make sure the sides are tight enough that even if the pivot gets loose the Helix can't flip out or if someone trips over an attached cord they can't yank the Helix out.

LOL, assume you are referring to the quote below in the newer versions of the manual, even funnier for people who have the older manual as there is no page 58 in the old manual (Rev. C), it ends at page # 56, same quote in the new manual though :D "128 0-63: Oh; 64-127: Nooo Helix achieves self-awareness and starts poking fun of that face you make during the solo"

I guess to get a true amp in a room sound, if you really want to go for all out realism, not the sound of a an amp being miked in a studio but a true stage amp sound, you would have to hook an external mike up to the Helix and mix in all the ambient stage noise from other instruments and vocals that sits in the background from the mike feed from an amp in an onstage setup. That is a degree of realism I truly do not feel I need to achieve. :D Being a bit facetious here but that actually is part of the "mike in a room", or at least "mike on a stage", sound due the fact that you can't totally isolate the amp mike onstage unless you set up the amp & mic in a baffle box or some other contrivance.