billbassler

Thanks. Good to know I made a decent decision for now. The L2m is surely a solid piece. I have no complaints other than stereo capability without needing two cabs would be nice and fan can be mildly annoying at home at times.

L2m sounds great. IMO no need to mess with global eq. I use just one. Would love 2 for stereo but that would defeat the portability purpose. I'm hoping Line 6 will create a Firehawk without the tones engine included specifically to use as a stage monitor for the Helix. But I read in this forum that the price point would not be lowered much in doing this. ~$100. http://line6.com/support/topic/18079-line-6-firehawk-1500 I think you would need to use a bunch of cables for wet/dry/wet?. Something about the simplicity of L6 link and done I really like. But don't see that on the back panel. If a wet/dry/wet "Firehawk" setup with one L6 cable is possible I'd really be interested. The cab looks pretty portable. Appears that it tilts for a front monitor so that's nice.

Is it me or is this so "hard"? I don't know much about the Maestro® Echoplex EP-3 that the tape delay is based on but the Transistor tape delay can't do the trick below. And some pedals do an OK job at. The real thing. A mod of Univox EC-80A Fractal does a respectable job. Not great but controllable: Unlike the transistor tape delay (apparently) the new "vintage" delay, inspiration unknown to me does some pitch changing when changing the Speed. But it's very chaotic. Why don't either one of these work as they probably should in this respect? Would we need to have to have another model of a modded EC-80a for this cool effect? Or am I missing an existing capability? ALSO an Editor bug? On my 2.0.0.1 Editor the Mix parameter is missing on the Vintage delay. I think a bug?

In the Helix Editor application apparently I can Clear an IR but not a Preset. Am I missing something?

Is there or will there be documentation for this feature?

I didn't find anything when I searched. So I added another if it already existed. It should be an easy fix.

Yes. Compare would be cumbersome. And would need the appropriate app to eval the files. The closest freebie that I found which apparently didn't install properly was http://www.libinst.com/Audio%20DiffMaker.htm

I screwed up. I was auditioning a bunch of the free Redwire Marshall IRs. I came across a couple that together really have the sound that I was going for in a preset. However, I failed to realize that the long descriptive names in the Redwire IR file names got truncated to a length (25) that typically makes these descriptive names meaningless when they are imported into the Helix. I took a look in the .hlx file but the original file name is not there (didn't expect to be ... but). I assume that there's no way now to determine the files that I loaded? Also I posted this issue on Ideascale as a 25 length name limit is a bit of a usability issue. Any remedies or suggestions on how to determine the files or how to name the IRs in the future are appreciated.

This sounds outstanding can't wait

My guess is cruisinon2 is stating the obvious/is on target/it's a different ballgame. FRFR systems will generally function as intended; with flat response and a full range of frequencies. The result of using FRFR instead of a guitar cabinet with a very limited frequency range and enhancement of certain frequencies is that FRFR will reproduce what it's provided. So it will be capable of reproducing both guitar cab sounds along with effects such as digital reverb. These items are not reproduced so well by a cabinet intended only of guitar. So someone used to hearing strictly guitar cabinets may perceive an issue with an FRFR. And of course some are better than others. I can say that I've various guitar cabinets through the years and moving to FRFR was different for sure. But not that much. Using FRFR with effects etc might result in a more "recorded" sound. But this mostly due to effects processing we typically use around the core guitar tone. Turn all of this off and you can have a pretty believable amp tone from the Helix a majority of the time. Perfect? No but very good. Exactly like a tube amp in the room. Not exactly. But very close in most respects. Some of the Helix effects may not be so authentic. But some are really exceptional. Built in cabs IMHO maybe not so great either. Dull and flat. I usually use 3rd party IRs. The main thing is that you first have to EQ the elements within the patch. Or maybe for a room. For those saying the L2t sounds absolutely horrible, maybe something is really wrong with something you've set up. In my experience the L2t sounds quite good and certainly not horrible by any reasonable estimation. The L2t FRFR it sounds like what it is; a PA. And a decent one. It faithfully reproduces the Helix amps, cabs, effects and ambience. In many ways that's good thing. All elements are reproduced with better fidelity than with a guitar cab. I generally like to involve effects in my sound. I plugged into an L2t with AES Line6 link and never had any need to touch the global EQ. There is no harshness at all. It seems we're using the same chain? L2t reproduces a very solid representation of the fairly organic sound that it receives from the Helix. I only wish I had two of them but a goal is to haul around as little as possible so it's just a stage monitor per se. If you're using a guitar cab and/or amp with Helix or only the Helix preamps you're missing a lot of what it offers. If you can only settle for a "real" amp sound and not the range of things Helix offers it's understandable, and Helix probably isn't for you.

Suggest using Line 6 LINK connection/chaining. No need to mess with the global eq. Perfect as is. I've never had any hint of harshness that was mentioned. I guess if you think that you detect harshness then you can try to remove it. And as deadlocked said. Set orientation per speaker orientation.

Point being is that you don't have the option of using the Mission pedal because the floorboard doesn't support it

duncann is correct. Makes me mad. I see no reason why only the rack and controller got the toe switch jack connector. The toe switch with this Mission pedal would have been the best option for wah for the floorboard too. The only other options we have for the floorboard are 1. Assign a wah only one EXP (of the two on board) so you can toggle it off with the floorboard toe switch. 2. Assign wah off to a footswitch (horrible). Might as well haul your actual wah around.

Also I see you're using 3rd party IRs. Cabs two[2] MESA 2x12 cab IR Would these be in the free Ownhammer set? If so can you share which specific ones?

Hi You can just upload the preset to the Line 6 Helix Custom Tone Library. At http://line6.com/customtone/browse/helix/ There's an Upload button at the upper right of the page. Maybe categorize it under Hendrix. If you want to you can copy the link to the page with your custom tone and paste it here or just inform that it's there. If someone searches by Hendrix they will see the name of the preset listed after it's uploaded. It can be downloaded from there. Thanks/Cheers!!