I pick mine up by the pedal to pull it out and put it in its bag.
If it can take weight of a grown man's foot on it for several hours multiple times a week (consider the effort to toggle the exp switch) then it's certainly durable enough to carry it's own weight when picked up
Way over thinking this guys
No go on the foot switches but you could use an expression pedal and set the min to your default setting. Then you can sweep all the way up from there and back
Using the helix with an amp, in my mind, is a crutch.
Not for the Helix but for the amp.
The helix doesn't need (or want) an amp. Just a clean set of studio monitors or frfr. Done.
I started flipping through the legacy stuff in my go to patch yesterday just to get a feel for them and then got to the growler..
I immediately opened up reaper and used it on a song i'd been messing with. Perfect! Just the bit if strangeness it needed
So awesome to have all these options at our fingertips
Right on man!
I love using my helix for bass on the little projects I do on my own
The bass player in my band has recently recorded a couple things with me and we used the helix on his stuff too, he loved it!
(Side note, I also upgraded from a gt8)
Tuner works fine.
If you want lower resolution then of course the old tech "looks" smoother.
Like several have said, ignore the top line. The bottom one is lower resolution and doesn't jump as much.
I suspect that this tuner debate would have never existed had l6 never put the upper (higher resolution) meter in there
Unfortunately, I highly doubt the next gen Variax will be available as retrofit for the current gen guitars
However, if they do come up with something I would most definitely upgrade mine in a heart beat!