Cool, thanks for the help. I'm not in love with the idea of having to purchase additional gear and use MIDI. I had actually heard the Helix would perform the relay switching with the 6505+ but since it doesn't I may be looking to send it back to the reseller.
I'll give it a chance, but I don't have much faith that any amp modeler preset or configuration played through the clean channel on that amp can come anywhere close to matching the tone you get from the gain channel. I'd love to do both, but if MIDI is my only option I will likely end up going with an HD500X for half the cash. Unless this thing can pull of some kind of miracle tone that I fall head over heels in love with :/