ChristianBoddum

Hi! I've had a bad noise issue for a while, not coming from the amps or AC (I tested using an AC powerbank) but get this; I just found out that 80% of the pulsating noise that was driving my crazy was coming from a Bluetooth dongle for a wireless mouse!! Now there is still some noise/hiss to fight but it is manageable and acceptable. Phew!!

Hi! I see no mention of the hum and riddle parameters. The parameters are deliberately there to mimic the noises a tube amp produces, but you can turn them off if you don't like the effect. Hum is the hum coming from the powerstage and IP transformer, Riddle is a low end buzz coming from a pushed amp when the transformers have a hard time following up ;-)

Definitely not bad tubes. Thanks for the replies :-)

No USB when playing with the band.

For what it's worth I've tried using an AC powerbank to isolate ground issues, just to make sure that any noise i get isn't coming from "dirty" power. NO! no difference. I run 1 XLR with phantom blocker to FOH, and run 2 Orange Rocker 30 combos (I'm not sure of the name, but they are tube amps). I run the combos on the normal inputs on the clean channels (they have no efx loop). No ground issues, but a high pitched noise before the gates shut of. The noise is a little reduced when I touch the bridge of guitar, grounding through strings and bridge. But the noise is always present at some level. Annoying....

Hi! I'm running a Helix floor 2.92 and have very bad tracking on the tuner. It wasn't there on 2.91 - anyone have the same issue? Mic input quit last week too.... not good. Completely lost sound at last rehearsal, most likely to receiving Phantom power, it worked OK when I got home though. I would hate to have an external tuner, or headstock tuner, it defeats the purpose of the Helix.

I've finally got a stereo setup with 2 Celestion F12-X200 in two Katana 100 mk.1 and using them to drive my Helix and it's a sweet setup. It solves the problem of having two different signals 1 for FOH and 1 for amp making differences in volume a mess. The only downside is mic colouring of the IRs going to the amps, I'd much rather have a "neutral" reproduction of the speaker profile. That would bring in the challenge of matching level in again, but I'd like to hear it though... The Line6 powercabs have such IR's so they must be able to get at some point. FWIW P.s. I use the Katanas poweramp input only, no preamp colouration ;-)

A six voice synth engine to go with Variax guitars!!!

Heureka!! I bought a crimping tool and a handful of plugs to see if I could fix the cable myself. And yes, in the first fiddly attempt I had it working XD So now I can at least fix it if it happens again, and that's way cheaper than getting a tech to do it for me. I will however get a backup cable, and see if I can do a complete one, it might not be worth it moneywise though...

So - I did some testing. And my cable was causing the issue, so much that it completely cut out today, not good. The cable is a new 25 ft. Line6 cable. I tested using the cable that came with the workbench interface, all fine. using it via the jack, no problem. This is annoying. If that means having to buy a new cable every 2-3 months. I have treated this cable with care, since it is not that robust to my estimation. I'm not sure I can fix the cable myself. Soldering jack cables is no problem, but this, I don't want to mess with. I WANT to use the full capacity for gigs, but it must be more reliable than this. Do you know a higher quality brand of cables that has proven itself reliable? If so please reply ;-)

I can't say for sure yet. But I'll know after next rehersal. My cable is brand new, and worked fine at the rehersal before that. FWIW

Hi! I had no problems updating, But, I tried it at rehearsal last night and it was a nightmare. I'm using a JTV-69 Variax. The thing was jumping in and out all the time, so I went back to a normal jack cable to get through the evening. When i updated to 2.81 there were similar problems, but not with 2.80, so I have re-installed 2.80 and hope for the best. There must be something missing in the final testing of these updates. For professional use, these problems must not appear. It would be better for some delay, for a serious testing, and no nasty surprises. Moral; NEVER update the night before a gig (I don't anyhow).

Thanks for the info! I'm not a Helix native user, well not yet, so it's not what I'm interested in, but thanks anyway.

Oh man this could get long and windy... First, you are right about using one out for live, most of the time that is the case, and you are shure there are no phase issues. Now I have many setups, for all kinds of situations. For recording i have some really wild stereo sounds, that unfortunately can't be sent out to stereo amps simultaneously, because of limitations on the Helix so far, so I have to have too many presets to make sure that I can cover the same sounds in different scenarios. Please explain how you use the Libra inside the Helix floor, I don't get it. Sometimes I have 2 parallel cabs (turned into mono via a simple eq.) and the feed stereo efx after that, but other times I have 2 different cabs at the end, and the have the spread/panning per preset. I like to record that way too. On most presets I have a 10ms. delay on the right side for a spread. Then if I need a Mono-out signal, I have the left side "dry" so i don't need to switch the delay off (Helix Dual delay). Did this help?

rucmas I think you are are missing the point here. And the Libra will only work with Helix native, not inside the Helix floor. Correct me if I' wrong.