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Right after your IR, you can throw in a stereo effect (reverb, delay, etc) and then your path with be stereo once again. Try it in headphones by just dropping a room reverb at the end of your chain and see what happens.

Can a post a pic of the screen of your preset?

Yeah, probably but I have had good luck with them. I've had one for a few years now. Used it a long time with my M13 and M5. Still works like a champ.

Agreed. Having 1024 preset slots available at a push of a button and then saying you want to use just one of them for all of your cover songs is painting yourself in a corner. You will be very limited even with 4 paths of different models.

I use the cheap plastic EP1s. They are fine as long and you don't jump on them. You can get 3-4 of them for the price of one Mission pedal.

The one without toe switch.

No you can't get real feedback without sound waves vibrating your strings and interacting with your pickups. I haven't been able so simulate feedback just within the Helix, yet.

I use snaps to switch between volume/wammy on EXP2 with snapshots. Don't use auto engage, just snaps to turn one on, the other block off.

I play live once per week, non-professionally. Since getting the Helix, I have sold all of my effects, but kept a couple of amps. I grab a guitar or two and my Helix rig, and I am off. I only play direct to FOH and monitor the whole mix through in-ear monitor system. I create a preset per song, and use snapshots within each preset. Any tone, any sound, any effect, any time and I can carry it in one hand. Buy it from Sweetwater and you can return it in 30 days if you don't like it.

Take it back from where you bought it from, and they may exchange it.

...and then you can venture into Snapshots, and your whole effects world will change. Things are no longer on/off, but you have control over the entire sweep of any parameter you want, up to 64 different parameters, with just one foot switch.

You will be hard pressed to tell the difference of running the Helix out front as opposed to a bunch of analog pedals out front except that you have much more control over the Helix and a no signal degradation.

^There you go

Nice! I also decided to give everyone a positive up vote for each of their posts. Everyone I haven't blocked anyway.

Man, I am so glad to hear that. It's something that has bugged me for many years. What is it called there?

How about a glass of bacon flavored bourbon, with a side of bourbon flavored bacon. It could very well create a black hole vortex in the space time continuum.

Are you running out of your Helix in Stereo? If not, change all of your blocks to mono and it cuts way down on DSP usage. If you are running stereo out of your Helix, change all of your blocks before your amp to mono, because what is coming out of your amp will be mono anyway. Once the path out of the amp hits a stereo block, it will be stereo again. If you change the blocks before your first amp to mono, you may free up enough DSP to put your other amp in 1A as well, then save path 2 for all your other stereo effects and looper.

Canadian bacon is not really bacon. Not hating on our friends to the north, but bacon is from the pork's belly, not the back loin. It is still really tasty though. I make that at home as well. Another simple dry cure/smoking technique. The meat arts are my other hobby. AlexKenivel, sorry for your meat deprivation bro... We have a lot of feral hogs here in Texas. I think my next meat project will be to harvest a nice large specimen for bacon and various sausages. I'm hungry...

It's personal preference. I have some presets that I have an IR and a Cab in parallel. It sounds good to me in some cases. Sometimes I like to parallel the same type of modeled cabinet IR and on board Cab block. Sometimes it is a nice blend. For example, the Helix Marshall 1960A cabinet in parallel with an OH IR of the same type. I'll generally pick a different mic type though for each. That's the beauty of Helix, you can mess around with paths in so many different ways and you can't break anything.

I have some presets built specifically for this purpose. Hook it up using 4 cable method. Compressor/wah/OD/distortion in front of the amp, and all the time based stuff and EQ in the loop. It is FANTASTIC and you will be hard pressed to hear the difference from the modeled effects as opposed to the "real thing." Now you can set up multiple presets using the same concept, but you have multiple custom pedal boards with just a click of a foot switch.

Yeah, but we were talking about Andy Summers, so... I wonder if Andy Summers likes bacon.

Yeah, but I use real tubes (not modeling) in my smoker, so it all balances out in the mix.

Speaking of bacon, you guys ever try making bacon at home? It is pretty easy. I don't buy store bought bacon any more. Home made bacon is a spiritual experience. It is a simple dry cure on a pork belly in the refrigerator for 7-10 days, then just smoke it to an internal temperature of about 150 degrees F. You can alter the taste by modifying the dry cure to incorporate more pepper or maple if you wish.

Not only CFLs, but some LED lighting causes some serious EMI/60 cycle hum issues. I put in a set of dimmable LED recessed lighting with a digital dimmer in the room where I have my music equipment, and everything buzzed like crazy. Even going straight into an amp with "noiseless" pickups still had severe buzz, especially when dimming the lighting. I removed the dimmer and most of the buzz went away, but there is still a little. If you can find a circuit that is not powering any motors (ceiling fans, refrigerator compressor, etc...) and not powering any fluorescent/LED lighting, then you will be much better off. I doubt anything is wrong with your Helix. Now when you touch your guitar strings or anything metal on your guitar and the buzz goes away, that sounds like a grounding issue on your guitar itself. So, you may have a combination of dirty power and a guitar grounding issue.

You may check to see what firmware it has on it. There was a charging issue in older firmware revisions that can be fixed by updating. Sweetwater will take care of you either way.