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No opinion when it's working, but if it's not, it's the speakers for both Helix and itself, so it's not quite a fully redundant backup rig.

Upvoted (;-)

When I first got my Helix, I was mostly on the living room couch, using a pair of AKG 240s that I've had for years. Took me a fair while to get comfortable, but I eventually did started liking Helix a lot. But when I got a pair of powered FRFRs (Alesis Alpha 112s) and took them down to three "studio", I had to redo my patches completely. Now that I have, and have built a lot of newer ones that TBH I think totally blow away my older ones, I'm very happy again. Moral of the story, for me, is that nothing is the same as anything else. If you want to sound good through some particular FRFRs, or phones, or whatever, build your patches there. The adjustments you make in response to what you hear far overshadow the actual differences in phones or speakers. Not that different ones don't sound different, of course they do, but still.

Do you have any USB 2 ports you haven't tried? USB 3 seems less reliable for some people.

When I hear flub, I think of using an EQ before the amp to roll off some lows, and maybe boost highs too. If you want, you can use another EQ to boost back some lows after the amp or after the cab/IR. Pre and post EQ should be built into every real amp IMO.

Great pedal, agreed! FYI, it's modeled after an original boutique pedal by Ben Adrian, the same guy who does most of the modeling in Helix.

Seek Wah maybe?

My apologies for associating this unique glitch with the 210 firmware. I had no evidence, just worry, and since reverting to older firmware doesn't fix it, it's pretty clear they're unrelated. Carry on.

Hey fremen, sorry you're having a hard time, our thoughts are with you. Psychopharmacology isn't an exact science, there's a lot of trial and error, which people in need get to go through, yay. I have family members on that path, and it's tough. Anyone can hear the full and real person in your playing. He's in there, you are whole, have faith in yourself! Like they say, these things too shall pass.

There's one for support, for sure. I hate to be a Chicken Little, but either the stars are misaligned big time lately, or the latest firmware has an impressive collection of bugs and instabilities. Knock silicon, my Helix has been quite stable on 201, and I've seen all manner of nonsense show up for various people with 210. Sticking w 201 until this settles out. All God's children got bugs, but really, this is too much. I wonder how this happened.

Unhelpful tale: Many many years ago, band I was in showed up at a club in Presque Isle Maine in the middle of a blizzard. We left our gear in the truck because blizzard, set up the next day. Neither one of the horn drivers ever came on. Took a while to figure that out, because it was both of them. Sound company whose name I don't remember in Watertown Square (MA) overnighted us new voice coils, and sent the ones back to JBL to check out. Turns out that a little condensation had dissolved the glue holding the voice coils to the diaphragms. First signal, coil moves, diaphragm doesn't, they're now separated, game over. That event was responsible for JBL changing the glue formulation they used, we were told. Moral of the story is, respect changing temperatures :) I wouldn't want to play guitar in 35-40 degree weather. Wouldn't even want to expose my guitars to it if I could help it. I wouldn't think your sound would be "a little off" though, it's digital, not really subject to temperature stuff if it's working at all. Could be the speakers were cold, and/or your guitar strings, but not the 1s and 0s. Probably. Did everything get back to normal once all the gear had been back to reasonable temperatures for a while?

Besides actually doing the fix, they have to test it, especially given the circumstances.

Do I remember that @rosco5 does upright? EDIT: Sorry, it's @roscoe5, and don't thank me until you figure out if I'm hallucinating about that :)

Try reinstalling the editor, it you haven't already. Uninstall the one you have first, just to be certain it really gets replaced.

Pages show more parameters, not more values for the current one (the hypothetical "Block Type" parameter), which is what we'd need. Also, once you can add blocks and change their type, next we'd want to be able to move and delete them, and we're down another limited-UI rathole. Anyway, I think it's clear that Line 6 has some excellent UI designers on board, and I'm sure they've thought through all of this to at least some extent -- if only to so far decide that they weren't going to build that. Like you, I hope they come up with something, but they're clearly better at this than we are. Anyway anyway, this feature is nowhere near as critical to me as getting everything stable again.

@Robert, are you saying those are the wrong commands?

No. You can use the pedal to change parameters for any blocks that are already in a patch (that's pedal edit mode), but you can't add new blocks, or change the type of existing ones.

Voted. I asked this same question some months ago, thought there was already an IdeaScale item for it, but if there is I couldn't find it. I think what makes this hard is the UI for it. A single-level list of the available models would be long and unwieldy, and a hierarchical menu like in the main UI would be a bit tricky to navigate, and a first for pedal edit mode.

Or snapshots.

What's called bypass is really toggle. If you have a bunch of blocks assigned to the same switch, in any combination of on and off, pressing the switch turns the on ones off and the off ones on. The switch's light follows the block that's "current" on the switch, which you can cycle through by touching (not pressing) the switch.

We can't pick inductors or change the filter resonance (which we really should be able to do), but we can set the frequency range... http://www.sweetwater.com/feature/dunlop/wah-pedals/

Umm, think you mean "Cabs" :)

So you don't use the Helix cabs or any IRs, right? Just the natural response of the real-world cab?

When you're in stomp or half-stomps-half-snapshots mode, and you press the Bank button to load a different preset, the presets in the current bank show on the switches, and they blink until you pick one to load. Is that what you're talking about? If so, that's normal, AFAIK.

(He's the guy who designed it, and other Helix devices.) http://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/line6-helix.1586637/page-1539#post-23073401