johnbeamon

I've heard this answer is "no", but it's still a valid question. I downloaded some custom tones and found all the snapshots were special effects, not basic, usable rhythm tones. I didn't realize and didn't read in the patch's notes that all the regular snaps were concealed by me being in 4/4 mode. 8 snap display is a great idea, but it's heavily dependent on the player having strictly organized music. I occasionally add a lead boost or a delay to whatever snap I'm currently playing, when the moment inspires me. Moving to 8 snaps to accommodate some downloads would be a complete style change for me.

My DL4 had a dot-8 on one button and a quarter on the next button. My M9 had one on A and the other on B. In both those form factors, you could enable/disable and switch divisions automatically with only two buttons. Helix doesn't have those three functions as readily available for people who play Stomp mode and jam on the fly. I'd like to be able to link two footswitches as a toggle-bypass group like this. A for Minotaur, B for Timmy, selecting inactive switches between them, selecting active bypasses. We can do this with snapshots, but not on the fly.

My original question was specifically about volume, emphasis copied from the original. The Global Input Pad thing was a surprise; I was shocked that every amp in a Helix distorted that early with ordinary guitars. You said the only thing you've ever adjusted was volume, as did I. I was hoping the "Auto Impedance" setting could be leveraged in some way, but that didn't prove useful. This thread isn't the only place I've been told "well why don't you just write different presets for different guitars?", and in some cases outright rudely. Those were a lot of the same people who groused about fixing all 500 of their reverbs when 2.60 came out. My material best uses preset as rigs, not as songs, so I was naturally inclined to make one change instead of many. I've got a modest compressor setup, and I can make a subtle adjustment in Level between guitars. A simple EQ or a 3-band comp could do that in more detail, but then all my guitars would "sound the same" at the expense of more DSP. This'll do.

My only active pickups are in my bass, and I started using it through AUX. The problem with all amp models distorting was resolved by activating Global Input Pad. I've been avoiding the idea of writing separate patches for every guitar. I played several guitars into my old pedalboard with a simple compressor Level change. I added a comp to some of my current patches, 25% mix and about 40% actual compression, and they're much better with P90s now. I still feel like I have to iron this detail out better.

That this can't even be approximated is hard to believe. I used a Keeley Comp Pro with very minimal adjustments to share a rig between 59 HBs and P90s. (Strats and Teles are not on my list.) All I had to move was the release switch and about "2hrs" on the Level knob. I'll keep an eye on the thread and take this on as a project. From everything I've read today instead of working, I'm fairly impressed that the 59 HBs and active bass pickups are buzzing all the amps for lack of a Global Pad. The padded 6db can be restored to the chain at the Input's Level out or with a Gain block or the Level out of the comp I always start with. That leaves the P90 bump for a Gain block, which I might just leave under the joystick and click it when I change guitars. That's not much real estate sacrificed if it gets the job done, and it's extremely portable. I'll try to get that tested by tomorrow night and post an opinion.

I had the main "Support" page open. Clicked Forums. Was no longer logged in. Used the "Sign In" drop menu, the page refreshed with my login (J) avatar. I wrote a long post, clicked Submit, "You must be logged in to submit" and back to a login page. I signed in, clicked new post, and my text was there in the new post waiting for me minus the Title. This is sounding like a cookie/session management problem.

This is known. I tried lowering drive and master to clean up amps. I lowered until the volume totally went away. Even the bass amps and the Fender guitar amps were still driven with pre-gains at 25%. That's what prompted me to think this was a system-wide configuration problem. I'm also specifically trying NOT to make guitar-specific copies of everything. But, I do appreciate that I asked how people are doing it, and you answered. I'm hoping to fix the input dynamics with a push-button solution. Something like a Global Pad plus LA comp-limiter plus Gain block might do the job, normalizing the volume without normalizing tone and dynamics. I could put that pickup control block in a Template and use it at will. It's just a question of how best to implement it.

Greetings. Helix owner 2wks now. Have made several presets from scratch for both guitar and bass. Spent most of setup playing with SD 59er pickups, which I would have called "vintage, medium-output" humbuckers. I've finally plugged in my P90s and another "medium-output HB" guitar, and they're dramatically lower. I'd like to configure the input levels for guitar changes, preferably by bumping the lower guitars up a tad for the sake of my drives. BUT, I may need to pad input and incorporate some sort of gain block or boost. These are my symptoms. I found during initial setup that my 59ers made practically every amp model dirty out-of-box and most of the drives really gnarly. I presumed this was intentional because guitar players like breakup, but I've been kind of fighting with it. I had to run my bass (only active pickups I own) through AUX, and even then every bass amp came out dirty except A360. I read on helixhelp.com (unofficial, but good) just today to turn on Global Pad and leave it. I wouldn't have thought to pad passive pickups out-of-box in a million years. So now I have presets configured around my 59ers that my other guitars won't breakup at all and feel like I need to go fix everything. I clearly "did it wrong" in some way, 'cause the lighter pickups sound awesome even in their cleanness. I need to do SOMETHING LIKE "global pad, then either a gain block or a Kinky Boost for the quieter guitars". I configure 4 snaps/ 4 stomps and change guitars maybe twice a set, so I'd rather not consume a footswitch for this. What are the common ways to normalize input, both for my too-driven issue and for different pickup types? Thanks, y'all.

I have an M9, bought second-hand and in good cosmetic condition. The 2nd parameter knob appears to change on its own. When delay time is set to ms, it fluctuates up and down on its own. When delay time is set to a note value, it will change from quarter to triplet and eight and back while I'm playing. I would like to see Line6 respond to this thread.