Smashcraaft

Use EQ in your patch to HighPass at around 80-120 Hz and LowPass at 4500-7000 kHz. Let your ear decide what fits your needs on this.

There are also users on this forum who create patches for about 10 bucks but you have to realize, that your setup (guitar, PU, cab, etc.) might let the resulting patch differ from your originally idea of the tone, also if it is dialed in proper.

Do you like to provide details on your problem with L6 or just let off some steam :blink:

Hm. I do wonder more why the tone without (!) Epsi is sounding so muff? By the time I will take a look at the original patch and try to improve it. Meanwhile any new or further experiences using an external IR-device like the Logidy Epsi, Torpedo Cabs or MT Pangaea CP-100? Do you still think is it worth the costs?

+1 for Nico's "that's why in a live playing/recording scenario I would never have the Editor running with the device connected" I had volume drops while editing patches via Edit on USB which stayed even if I switch the preset. Sending the patch and (actually superfluous) receiving it directly solves the problem. Hope this helps somehow.

Are POD HD users also welcome to the competition?

... so please let us vote for some more Mics and Cabs offered as a pack or FW-update: http://line6.ideascale.com/a/dtd/New-Cab-IRs-model-pack-for-the-POD-HD-series/806607-23508 http://line6.ideascale.com/a/dtd/New-Cab-IR-and-Mics-for-POD-HD-series/713811-23508

By the way. I had some kind of ROAR out of my Yamaha DBR12 powered speaker, one week ago. It was very loud and guitar sound could only heard dimmed in between this roaring / or belling noise. I switched to another preset and the roar, for the sake of my ears, disappeared immediately. First I thought this was a bad cable, but as I realized here, there are some issues which could be related to mine. I will keep an open eye / ear onto this blowouts and pray for our upcoming gig to go fine :blink:

This little piece of technic seems to be really cool. I´ve checked some non-metal sound samples yesterday. To be honest; I got GAS and if it would just have MIDI and an XLR-output I sure would give it a try by myself. Which brings me back to the point I realize that I am strongly interested in a "HD Cap & Mic"-Pack!

Hm. Seems to have no build in Midi so it's useless for live usage :/

Scott, how would you call the sound-samples you where offered and you can find all around here on the board? Would you really call them mudded? I respect your feeling about the unit, but nobody can tell me that all that sound-samples reaching your ear "mudded"?!

And please search for a passive pedal like this one to avoid further cables (sells for something around 15 USD here in Germany :o ) https://www.musicstore.de/de_DE/EUR/Bespeco-VM12-mono-Volume-Pedal-mit-I-O-Buchsen/art-KEY0003231-000

I go direct XLR out to the soundboard and 1/4" out to the monitor, too. Of cause, I had normalized the volume on all of my patches to be a consistent volume output and crank my master to max if playing at rehearsal or stage. Also I put my Yamaha DBR12 monitor to a high output-level, which offers some headroom for minor adjustments while playing a gig. To do this, I have a passive volume-pedal between my 1/4" and my monitor, which I calibrate within the soundcheck to a volume that fits into the overall sound. Works pretty nice and you can adjust just your own volume very quickly and at your own will.

depending on Mono/Stereo too AFAIK

Reading the QuickStart-Guide might have been a good advice given by your own, even if you were "following along with all the tutorials that You can find" :( And please let us know your exact setup if you get back for further questions (Guitar, PU, Amlifier, Cab/Speaker(s), interface, DAW). This could help us if you try to reproduce a 7 string drop-X mega-highgain-sound using a dobro ;) ;)

Try dialing back the DEP for cab Res and take a closer look at the high pass filters in both, the global EQ and the DEPs. I use a high pass at 80 hz in the global and something in between 80 and 200 in the patches. After reducing the cab Res (try it at zero) dial back the volume using the DEPs master and the mixer block. Also try the Mids in any position (not only the expected).

Could be related to the type of PU we use? I use EMG81 in bridge position and an additional comp seems to muddle high-gain tones, maybe because the PU compresses the tone by itself?

I rarely use any compressor in gain-tones (only in some clean-sounds) and I wonder if there could be any advantage in using comps even in distorted tones?

I get damn good sounds out of the POD HD500x, so everybody should get porn-sounds out of the Helix (and I´m really sure it can be done easier than using the HD). But if one would not spend enough efforts in learning and tweaking Helix is probably not the right gear for him :(

I'm sure If you ask 100 musicians you will get no clear vote on "better" quality. Your playing is so amazing that both tones work really fine.

A POD B Helix

Buy the bass-stuff and try the bass-stuff. I´m really sure you can return the licence if it does not fit your needs.

Okay. So I´m gonna leave some headroom to the master-value. Thank you!

Hm. My suspicion from watching the changes was, that most ideas, especially those depending to POD HD, are switched to "in review" as an alias of some kind of virtual trash can, because the switches seem to appear very quickly, even if there are just a few likes ;)