PeteSnow

Thanks to you Gear Head. You steered me in the right direction and I was able to emulate my old stomp box configuration. Your advice also opened my mind up to the possibilities this hardware has to offer. As a working musician, I just needed to get up and running as quickly as possible. Understanding the difference between 'presets' and 'effects' brought it home for me. Thank you very much steering me in the right direction. Everyone has a different learning curb and their own unique conceptions as it pertains to gaining knowledge in life. Learning about the Helix is no different. It is a pretty amazing piece of hardware. Each user is going to customize it for their own unique needs. If a user(the majority of who are Helix owners) has posted something on this board, whether it is a new user or an advanced user, it because they most likely needed answers regarding a $1500 piece of hardware they just purchased that they could not find anywhere else. When people make derogatory and condescending comments on a public board such as this, my answer is this. Create your own board. It is pretty easy. Go to Godaddy.com, buy a domain name, something like 'helixsnobs.com'. Find yourself a hosting company; 'Hostgator' is pretty inexpensive. There is freeware; Opensource server side chatroom software available that does not take rocket science to install and use. This way people can be screened for their worthiness... Anyways, thanks again Gear Head!

The bottom line is that this is a forum courteously sponsored and hosted by line six so that users can learn and share experiences. If a member of this or any forum does not want to intelligently answer a posted question then they should not respond to that post. Even before I purchased the Helix, I was reading over the manual and scouring over YouTube videos. I am not going to personally tolerate individuals who make condescending remarks such as "Once you have the basic terminology and concepts clear in your mind you can ask more understandable questions" or "Another one learning to fly without basic instruction", telling me that I should read the manual. Certain topics in the manual are very ambiguous; for example the 'Stomp Footswitch Mode' section. Evidently, my question was "understandable" due to the fact that it was answered by a couple of members within a few minutes of my original post who steered me in the right direction. I thank you guys for that.

This is ridiculous! The reason you have forums and chat rooms is in order to ask questions. Gear Head was able to intelligently explain what I was doing wrong and point me in the right direction. Iknowathingortwo and Uberguru; you guys just seem like a couple of arrogant little pricks with nothing better to do than critisize others. Go crawl back under your rocks!

I definitely have been "pushing buttons and whirling dials"! LOL. It makes sense that I have created presets instead of effects. And yes, I have been reading the manual.

I see where I can assign multiple effects in series and assign them to a single switch but what I want to do use multiple switches simultaneously. Like an old school analog stomp box setup

I just bought this unit yesterday and I am trying to get used to the terminology. I have two rows of foot switches that by default are labeled as "Banks"(is this a path?). Each Bank has four assignable foot switches(I found these in the 'Template' section). Bank 1 has switches labeled 08A, 08B, 08C and 08D. I have assigned effects to each of these switches. Can I run these in series? Currently, they toggle between each other. Can I run these blocks together?

I just recently purchased a Helix and I have been able to assign effects to different blocks. One of the reasons I purchased this unit was in order to emulate the analog behavior of my old stomp boxes which are daisy chained in series. I noticed that I can toggle between different blocks but I cannot run the different blocks in series. Is this by design? Is it possible for example; to have a Delay set on block 08A and a phaser on 08B and run these blocks in series or do I have to create a separate block with delay and phaser bundled together.