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Great info. I've been usong a POD xT Live for a few years I bought used to dip my toes in this world and I love it. No more noisy effects, dead batteries, patch cables etc. It's gotten a bit wonky lately and I knew it was time to upgrade from a flip phone era unit. So I pulled the trigger on a new one from Sweetwater (2year free warranty). Just got it. Wow it looks impressive, but before I even plug it in I'm going to get familiar with it and make sure I do the initial setup correctly. One quick question about the Helix native. My understanding is that it's meant for a DAW, like for studio recording. Which isn't a need I have at the moment. Would it be of any use for me, who's just a bedroom player, live thru an amp? One I did modify to be an FRFR setup. I do make live recordings, but just mic'd up, or direct to a Zoom recorder Thanks again

Thanks for the replies. Kinda what I was figuring but no harm in asking. Cheers!

The website shows out of stock, but it is available at dealers. Looking to pull the trigger and buy one. My only concern is over this possibly meaning they are not producing them anymore, and are gonna release something to replace it. Is there any info regarding the future of the Helix? Thanks Carl

So everything was working just fine, idk of any changes I may have made by accident. But now my volume pedal wont cut to zero output. In the settings it's still set to 0, and when I "turn the minimum volume dial up" in the monkey, it raises the minimum output up, so its responding, but when I back off the pedal, there's still sound coming thru even all the way down. So it does lower the volume, but not to zero. Any ideas?

Thanks for the response. I'm sensing this FRFR is the optimal way to use it the way I want to. Off topic a bit, but I just bought an old Variax 300 to play with and I read some things about the acoustic sounds being atrocious thru a guitar amp. I'm guessing FRFR is the way to get a good tone on that as well On the effects return jack I still am trying to figure which is better. The Marshall manual states Effects Level Switch "Selects the level to match your external effects units (0dB for rack units and -20dB for pedals)." So does this still make it instrument level? Line level?

Hi all, I've had my xT Live for a few years now, and I think I've not had it optimized for my needs. Here's how I'd like to reconfigure it. Please add any feedback to what I'm going to try. My goal is to have all my tone in the POD, and none from the amp, so I can plug in anywhere and have consistent tone no matter what Input to norm for mag pickup guitars, pad for my active EMG equipped guitars, will also be using a variax 300 soon as well output switch to line level output level as needed ( how loud idk) L mono out to amp input (Marshall 8080 combo, using effects return jack, 0db/-20db switch to 0db, this should be line level input?) Should I turn off or use cab/ir models? I'm thinking in this configuration I'm not really using the amp as a guitar amp, but really more like a powered speaker (power amp and speaker only), or is it still coloring the sound as its a guitar cabinet and speaker? How am I doing so far?

Hi, I'm pretty new to Line 6 and this whizbang stuff (stombox guy from way back lol). Anyway I bought a used pod xt live, and my laptop is a windows 7. I couldn't get line 6 edit to work either until I installed 32bit java. You have to do a google search for it, the 64 bit wont work at all. If I can get it to work you guys can too hth good luck

Hi all, I'm new to this world of digital modeling/ effects etc. A longtime stompbox guy I want to make the switch. So I bought a used pod xt live. Done some reading and fiddling. I'm starting to understand the basics I think. The way it seems to me, you only get the choice in a channel to turn the amp model on or off with the AMP footswitch. Is there anyway to set it up like a 2 channel amp? i.e., a clean and dirty channel? For example, the song Comfortably Numb. In order to go from the acoustic clean to the distorted solo sound I don't see how I can do it without setting up 2 adjacent channels and switching back and forth, but that would eat up a lot of banks really quickly if you need various tones for different songs/guitarists. Hope that makes sense, any help is appreciated. And any links to vids or tutorials that explain it to someone new to this world like me would be helpful Thanks!