michaeltheyoung

Same thing happened to me at an event this past weekend, in the USA. Helix was plugged into a power conditioner, which itself was on a circuit powering nothing other than a monitor and someone's iPhone. Absolutely no reason to believe it wasn't getting proper power. Suddenly turned off, then turned back on and "strobed" for a while before shutting down for good, at which point, we could all smell smoke clearly coming from the unit. I have a support ticket open and plan to have it repaired; suspect a blown capacitor, but will report back when I know. And yes, of course you should always have a backup rig (the band bought a spare HX Stomp since all 3 guitarists are using Helix). Love to hear if anyone else had this issue or has had it diagnosed.

Could someone walk me through the process of assigning an X/Y state for an amplifier parameter? Really simple: I just want to have a low-gain setting and a high gain setting that I can toggle between with a footswitch. Not quite getting how I assign the "Gain" parameter (or any given single parameter within a block) to a footswitch.

NAILED IT. Thanks!

Thanks. I think I understand several of these instructions, but not the first one. Where am I placing the A/B split in the path? Annoyingly, Helix doesn't just let you place A/B switch block anywhere you choose like any other effect...I'm only offered the option of placing an A/B split when going from Sound Path 1A to Sound Path 1B (or 2A to 2B), and that's not what I'm trying to do. Here's the ideal chain for me: Input 1 --> compression --> wah --> [any other pre-amplifier effects that I want to hit BOTH amps] --> A/B SPLIT (A continues down Sound Path 1; B sends to the input for Sound Path 2). This way, when I switch back and forth between paths, I'm not losing delay/reverb trails. Possible?

Thanks. I managed to get this working, but the problem is that using this approach, I lose the delay/reverb trails when I toggle. If I'm using a delayed lead tone, I want to be able to switch to the other amp in one click but still get the decay of my delay and 'verb. Ideas?

I desire something remarkably simple, and yet...seeming ****ing impossible. Here's all I want: A way to toggle between sound path 1 & sound path 2 with a single switch. I do NOT want to assign a bunch of blocks to a single switch in order to do it; for a host of reasons, no. I just want to toggle between soundpaths; one for my clean amp, one for my dirty amp. This HAS to be doable, no? Please explain, in detail so great that a child currently being held back in the third grade could understand it, as that's apparently my proficiency level at the moment. Thanks!