kerryhall1

I'm using the Helix Rack, can I do it from there?

I didn't see a setting for this in the menu for the dual cab.

I have a preset that splits, hard pans left and right, applies two preamps, then on the merge continues to be hard panned left and right. I normally have this sent to my amp via left and right out, I can hear both outputs in my stereo cab. I recently added a 2nd split (again hard panned left and right), sent one side of this split to a cab sim, then send that to sends 1+2. (For inear monitoring) I have tried four different things: 1. no 2nd split, straight to sends 1+2. I hear both preamps hard panned in my inears as I would expect. (of course super high frequency / buzzy because there's no cabinet!) 2. no 2nd split, but using a dual cab sim, to sends 1+2. It sounds like a normal distorted guitar amp in my inears now, but the signal is mixed down to mono. 3. 2nd split, sending to L+R out and sends 1+2. I tried a dual cab sim bypassed (or any stereo block, but bypassed) to keep the final split there, and I hear the output from the send, but only on the right side! (afaik you can't have a split without *some* block being in the path, but maybe there is a way to do that) 4. If I now unbypass the dual cab sim, same configuration as scenario 3, I can hear the output in both ears, but the dual cab sim mixes down to mono again. I want to be able to split, send normal output to L+R outs, split right before the end and have a stereo cab sim so I can hear both amps, one L and one R, in sends 1+2. What's going on here? Is a dual cab sim actually mono?

Got the latest version of HX Edit which prompted me to update Helix rack to 3.71. Before doing the update, I see the following in the instructions: Cool, no problem there, I know this is going to come up. Update proceeds, I see this message, it's frozen for two hours. There is no resume button in HX Edit. From searching these forums, everyone says to use Line 6 Updater to manually recover / update. I try this and get: Those dlls are definitely there... How do I get "Line 6 Updater" to run so I can unbrick my Helix? Honestly pretty frustrating that the docs say "this is normal, everything is fine" and then brick my device anyway, and then the recovery software is so buggy it won't even launch.

I used to run two high gain tube amps in stereo and it sounded incredible. After switching to the Helix, I'm down to just one tube head, as I can't really lug a double head road case with integrated 8u rack as it would weigh probably 300lb. So my goal here is to just use the helix + solid state power amp for everything so all I need to do is bring the rack. The tone I'm looking for is getting back to the "stereo high gain tube" sound I used to have. (ENGL Powerball on the left, Soldano SLO on the right, for example)

Sorry! I thought this subforum was for just the Helix, I have a Helix rack.

Don't worry about the guitar side of things, I will wire my guitar to use a stereo output jack, taking outputs from both pickups, using a TRS cable that I then split into two mono signals for the returns 1 and 2.

Any ideas on this? This is still happening.

I would like to try running my guitar in stereo, ie, taking the output of both pickups at once as left and right. (Someone recommended this to me, gave me a demo, and I love the sound) From searching these forums, people recommend using returns 1+2 as a stereo guitar input. But does this work for passive pickups? Is return 1+2 expecting guitar pickup level, or line level?

I have a setup I'm really happy with right now, but I am running stereo and would like a different preamp for left and right channels. Currently using 12 out of the 16 blocks for various effects. (eq, compression, reverb, etc) Reading the manual, I see on page 20: "For more sophisticated tones, a parallel (two stereo paths) signal flow can be created. This lets one split the signal into two stereo paths, process them separately, and mix the two paths back together" This seems similar to what I'm looking for, but what I need is much simpler, I just want to split a single stereo path into two mono paths, run each into their own preamp, then merge back into a single stereo path as left and right. How do I do that?

I have been using the 7 cable method for awhile now, but now I want to try reducing the amount of gear I have to carry. Instead of using two amp heads, I would like to try using Helix preamps and a solid state rack power amp. Since I run two stereo fx chains, one before the preamp and one after the preamp (ie fx loop), my plan is to use a preamp block and a poweramp block instead of an amp block and run the fx loop chain between them. However, is there a poweramp block? If not, I suppose I could use something like a generic clean amp. What would you recommend for that?

Coming back to this...I would still like the ability to set different settings for left and right when running stereo effects, not just eq, but any effect. I'm running stereo signals both before the preamps of my two amps, and in the fx loops of both amps. Is this doable now? (maybe it's been implemented?)

This is getting worse and worse. My Helix is basically unusable at this point. I need a fix for this. * Rebooting (unplugging and replugging the cat 5 cable) used to work for ~15 minutes at a time, now only works for 10 seconds or so before the wandering starts again. * I have already tried multiple expression pedals, the problem is with the Helix. * The wandering has gotten much worse, going from 0% up to 25% on toe up, 100% to 80% on toe down. This is clearly unusable for a volume pedal. Is it possible a different cat 5 cable would solve this?

I've tried two different expression pedals and both have the issue. The problem definitely lies with the Helix, not with the expression pedals. In addition, I have tested both expression pedals with my interface + DAW and see no such issues with either one.

I have a Helix rack and foot controller, firmware version: 3.11.0 I'm having an issue with my foot controller. It seems to "wander" a bit. When originally setting it up and for weeks after, it would cleanly go from 0% to 100% and back. But now I will watch it idle with the toe down, and the percentage will change on its own, slowly moving from 100% down to 90% or so. This seems to be fixed in the short term by just unplugging and replugging the rj45 connector for the foot controller. It then works fine for 15 minutes or so, then the bug comes back. Sometimes I have seen the reverse, where 100% is fine, but the 0% will "wander" up to 10% or so, but this is rarer. I have tried two different expression pedals and have the exact same issue, so I think it's a problem with the Helix. I'm using my expression pedal for volume, so it's crucial that it works correctly. Some sort of floating point rounding error? Other math error? Problems with the expression pedal ADC? Is this bug fixed in the latest firmware? If not, how do I fix this / work around this?