MGW-Alberta

Could this be the correct user manual for your amp? I did not do a slow, thorough examination. I just skimmed it quickly. It seems to indicate the levels for the loop range from -20 dB to 0 dB. -20 is a lot of dB. I didn't see any info on how those levels are decided or changed/adjusted. It's your amp. Read your manual. Spend some time getting to know it. https://www.engl-amps.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/e633-om-1.pdf If the manual is of no help to you then you will need to contact Engl customer service for more clarification. This does not appear to be a Line 6 issue. The users who come here can often be of much help for Line 6 matters but not so much when it comes to Engl matters.

Interesting.

If it is something I really depended on all the time and it became buggy after an update I would just revert to a previous version of the firmware and wait for minor update that deals with the issue.

Perhaps a small piece of thin plywood cut so it's just barely big enough to fit under Helix to go between Helix and the carpet? Could prove to be an interesting experiment. See if there's anything to the static electricity idea. I think it would be VERY interesting.

See my diagram above. That why I put it there. It answers your questions if you would just look at it. There's a guitar, an amp and a Line 6 processor in the middle. The green lines are your cables and connections. The red text identifies the physical connections (jacks) on the Line 6 unit. Inside the rectangle depicting the Line 6 unit is the path and the blocks. Input block (then blocks for wah, compression, distortion, etc) Loop block (then blocks for chorus, delay, reverb, etc) Output block. When placing blocks, dynamics, filters and distortion go before the loop block and time based models go after the loop block.

I'm not sure if this will meet your needs or not. I frequently run two amp models simultaneously. I put a split block on path 1 and then an amp model on 1A and another model on 1B and then merge them after. I'm certain you could used two of the same amp model and then set them up differently to simulate a jumpered amp. I believe some amp models may have the jumpered option built in. Our local guru, Craig takes it a step further and adds EQ blocks to each model and alternates boost and cut bands. For example, he'll cut X at 120 Hz and boost Y at 120 Hz, then boost X at 250 Hz and cut Y at 250 Hz and so on up the scale. There is probably a thread somewhere on this forum covering that method. He says it makes a fuller sound but I have not tried it, so I cannot confirm or deny. My approach is to run two different amp models and set them up quite differently. One model, usually on path 1A, will be a higher power model and set it to a cleaner and stiffer state than the other. The other model, usually on path 1B, will be a lower power model and set for higher gain and spongier than the other. When they combine I get the clarity and spank and chime of a cleaner amp mixed with the grit and growl and sag of a dirtier amp. It works good for blues but it really excels at medium gain rock.

Create two extra versions of your target preset. Just save them to a new location without overwriting the existing preset. Save them independently somewhere outside your normal saving area. One with snapshot X set as default and one with snapshot Y set as default. Then link to them.

Your best bet is to post your query over at the Boogie Board. They may be able to shed some light for you. https://boogieforum.com

The bag is black and it wouldn't show very much if it was a bit dirty from being repeatedly set on the floor or from being handled so I am assuming you spilled something on it. I think I would try a low pressure wand car wash before a washing machine. Maybe hang it on the wall clips for the floor mats. Those bags are stiff. I think the washing machine continuously bending it back and forth and rolling it over and over would damage it more than just a straight on car wash spray. As for the other post, I can envision no harm the bag could ever possibly do to a washing machine. The bag is nylon fabric, foam and medium hardness plastic. The machine is steel and very hard plastic. If anything is going to be damaged it will be the bag.

If there are random volume swells in addition to unexpected popping and you are certain both problems lie within the device then my first thought runs to the possibility of a corrupted firmware installation. I can't think of any other obvious reason why two things that are usually so unrelated to each other should both start misbehaving.

I did some reading on both units. HX Stomp has a Stereo loop. The send is stereo (TRS) and the returns are separate mono, left and right. HX One has left and right inputs as well as left and right outputs. If your goal is to relieve HX Stomp of some of its stereo DSP load and offload that work to HX1 it should be possible with the right kind of cable. You would need a stereo splitting cable. The cable I am thinking of has one 1/4" TRS plug on one end and two 1/4" mono plugs on the other end. That cable would connect the Stomp send to the HX1 inputs. Then two 1/4" mono cables to connect the HX1 outputs to the Stomp returns. That setup should allow you to send a stereo signal from Stomp to HX1 and have HX1 process that signal (in stereo) and send stereo returns back to Stomp. Such a setup would increase your available DSP.

Neither of those devices have enough options for physical connectivity to be able to run one in front of the other and one in the loop of the other at the same time. I'm not sure by your wording if that's what you meant but if it is, that is not possible with your existing equipment. You will have to choose one or the other. Run them in series or run one in the loop of the other. Also, running the HX1 in the loop of the Stomp is not the four cable method. That's just putting an external effect in the Stomp's loop. The four cable method refers to the use of a guitar amplifier in which some of the effects from your processor go to the input of the amp and other effects from your processor go into the amps' effect loop. It's not 4CM to run an external effect in a processor loop. Running a favourite overdrive pedal in the loop of a Helix device before sending the output to a mixing board or FRFRs does not constitute 4CM. It's only 4CM if you plug the device into a guitar amplifier's loop. Stomp is stereo capable but I don't know enough about it to know if the loops are stereo capable. If they are then I suspect it should be possible to outsource some of your stereo DSP load to the HX1.

There are no rules. You can use the physical preamps and/or power amps of your amplifiers and still use amp and preamp models as well as IRs on your Helix. Do whatever you think sounds best. You're not going to harm anything. Remember, Helix is a guitar processor. It is not actually an amplifier. It has blocks that emulate amplifiers but those blocks do not actually function as amplifiers. They are digital effects which were written to behave like amplifiers. The IR block has a level control as well as a mix (blend) control which you can adjust on a per-snapshot basis to balance your levels.

You could probably use split and merge blocks and put a send on one and other blocks after the merge