HotRats73

I've not tried your preset because is too late now. But I'm sorry, when you assign an ext amp to a FS, the on/off state of that FS is snapshot dependent. Any change of snapshot will recall the state stored in that snapshot. This behavior makes the assignment of the ext amp command to a FS basically useless (unless you need it to work that way). Works exactly how helix worked before fw 3.5 when the use of both direct parameter assignments to footswitches and snapshots was impossible. That's why they added a snapshot control option for all parameters. (And they added the snapshot bypass options because having a blocks that can stay on or off regardless which snapshot you're in is incredibly useful) I'll add, as a side note, that using a FS for simply changing a tube amp channel makes little sense, you can bring the actual amp pedal and free a footswitch on your helix. All that said, is nonetheless cool having all the switching on your helix floor with all the color coding and scribble strips. anyway, what makes really sense is integrate the amp channel switching capabilities with other stuff inside the helix, like turning on/off things, adding a compressor when you select a clean channel, or selecting different routes in the signal path or modify your reverb mix and length, etc.

Thanks for your answer but my problem is that I want channel switching via ext amp relay to be independent from snapshots just like you can do with any block or parameter assigned to a single FS using the "snapshot bypass" and "snapshot control" options. Within helix, for example, you can assign a block bypass to FS1, set "snapshot bypass" parameter to off and that FS (and block) won't be affected by any snapshot you are in/recall. Is a great feature. Same applies to parameters directly assigned to footswitches. They can be independent from snapshots using the "snapshot control" parameter. I want the same thing when I assign the amp channel command to a FS; I want, let's say, use FS1 to change amp channels and snapshots to do other things that not include channel switching. This is currently impossible. I'm forced to use snapshot for everything or don't use snapshots at all.

I've got a question: I'd like to know if the behaviour explained below is by design or are somenthing might change in the future. Preface: firmware 3.5 introduced a great new feature that I love and made Helix way more powerful than before (along with the snapshot bypass option) as a main rig brain on stage. See below the quote from the release notes. I've discovered that when you assign an ext amp instant command to a footswitch that footswitch is not independent form snapshots (like happened before 3.5 for any fs with an assigned parameter) and there's no Snapshot Control option. This mean that at the moment you can't use a footswitch for controlling your tube amp channel and also use snapshots for other things because, for example, if you switch your amp to ch2 using FS1 and then select a snapshots the helix will revert the FS1 state triggering the tube amp relay putting it back to ch1.

Please vote this up if intrested Community

I was obviously referring to the normal use of a cab emulation and answering a question that clearly is about IR blocks placed after the amp. But ok, next time I'll make it clearer for you.

Tone is not affected by IR block position but beware that: IR blocks can change the signal level (usually the input level will differ from the output level) and this can lead to tone differences depending on the blocks following the IR (any block that reacts so input level will sound different, like the tape saturation block, for example) IR blocks change the frequency content and this can lead some to blocks behave differently (the LA2A compressor for example) IR blocks are mono, therefore any stereo signal will collapse to mono after the IR block.

I have two 212, one is mine the other on loan from a friend, and I really love to run them both. Placed side by side, tilted, they give you a very wide sound stage where you can immerse yourself in. Placed one on top of the other is closer to a 4x12 experience. I use them as FRFR only, though, because I can't stand the speaker emulations.

4cm uses 1 input, 1 send, 1 return, 1 output a parallel amp to powercab uses 1 output or 1 send a second guitar or a guitar with a piezo uses 1 additional input. stomp xl has 2 in, 2 sends, 2 returns, 2 outputs so I guess you can do it as far as hardware goes. You need to figure out the best routing for your needs, though.

During the first lockdown in 2020, had to work at home like anyone else, and I used the helix floor as a soundcard 10 hours per day (because performed much better with protools than the other interface I had at home at the time. All that said, I always turn it off when unused.

oh my bad. I thought strat 3rd position was referring to a variax thing. so I guess that when happened to me, the fact that the 2 irs where related was just a coincidence.

What it is stored in slot 44? What you're describing happened to me once and the reason (in my optinion) was that o had 2 IRS very close to each other stored in two different positions. One was an IR with a 57 mic only, the other was a 57+121. I think the fingerprint thing that make the helix able to follow an assigned IR if you move it to a different slot, something doesn't work properly or get confused.

Yeah, is a product that has an unfair treatment compared to the HX family. (I've been banned for a week from TGP beacuse I wrote Mr know it all Jay M "I've added a useful information, you should thank me instead of being the usual @$#&" the symbols @$#& are mine, I've censored my self in the message. I think a week is unfair :(" )

Rd2rk is a great guy!

you mean you don't understand why people like speaker Sims? I've got a 212 and I don't understand that either

I've done my tests and you're right the HF trim works wrong only if a preset with FRFR voicing is selected on the powercab, good catch. This is obviously a bug because there's no reason for the cab to behave differently depending on what preset was loaded in the cab. I'll tell that to the support to help them sort it out.