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Best YouTube resource I know of https://www.youtube.com/@JasonSadites Best local resource, your ears and playing with (all) things, including order of things, splits, joins etc, expect to find some uncoventional things that work really well and conventional that don't. Think like a recording engineer. Frankly everything else is opinions based on likes/dislikes and gear configurations. My meat may well be your poison, and lead you down a rabbit hole you don't need. Other than that there is about 10 years worth of dicussion in these forums about all of these things, so do some searching, work out who's opinions align with yours or not. My opinions/approaches: 1. I swap out cabs with every amp I use until I find what I want. I use all stock cabs, no IRs. Once I have a cab thats close I change mic's and move them until I have the sound I want. I ALWAY use more than one cab and different types to get the overall tone I want. 2. I don't use global or cab EQ, I use mic placement, and tune the overall sound for the room using the desk. IE very standard recording technique, get the source sound as good as possible with the least interferance/processing. I always fine tune a tone in the mix (I get multitack live recordings from practices/gigs and listen then adjust in real time). 3. Use a metering tool in a DAW or hardware to get ballpark levels, and tune with your ears in the mix - perceived volume is different to measured. That will involve not just gain, but EQ and/or compression. It takes time and you build experience, there's no shortcuts. I run a patch per song across 80+ songs, each with snaps so have got it down now, but it took a while to get there. 4. Not asked, but expect to need to tune patches differently for live vs recording/monitors and/or accept compromise. Your playback system colours your sound more than anything else. What sounds good to you on stage (often) sounds crap in a mix. Just like with analog gear.

No - not that I've noticed. Do you mean blooming in the sense of expanding sound wise or the UK polite equivilent of fu5king? I have experienced what I found as annoying humming built into the amp models to be more 'realistic' but that can be turned off (hum and ripple are the culprits). It might help to have a video, or sound sample of what you're experiencing.

I don't know that they're overlooked it. L6 has a (long) history of really really bad/finicky USB drivers. Don't like hubs, don't like specific brands, picky about cables, when they don't work the whole USB stack goes down and everything needs a reboot. You name it they're screwed it (at some point). Hopefully the delay in drivers/connectivity means they're getting it right. But I agree, any product relying on wireless is a total PITA as musical gear, in particular, seems have hopeless WiFi implementations. I will not run a digital desk from anyone using their onboard WiFi as it gets clobbered at venues. No ethernet out port, not on my list as then I can't use a network implementation properly designed from the ground up.

Late to the thread, but the need to drag over of each preset manually seems odd. Did you fully reset the unit after firmware upgrades, before restoring backups, and then allow the machine to rebuild every preset before determining they sound wrong? Skipping any of those steps will result in a mismatch between the preset's definition and how the Helix presents it with new firmware. FWIW I've had occasional preset corruptions over multiple firmware updates so always check each preset before use (post update), and always use the L6 back-up and a library back-up at the preset level to ensure I have the latest version of each preset ready to go if required. Belt and braces appproach yes - but I've been in this space a long time and lost more presets I've modified due to poor management than I'd like to admit.

FYI - I can't work out if you're using white font on a white background, but unless I select your posts they show as blank space. As an OG Helix owner since about 12 months since their release, I expect 12-18 months of ongoing bug fixing of the Stadium firmware as a minimum. For that reason I have not migrated, and won't for some time. Why do I think that? The release was rushed - L6 asked 'the community' if they wanted it perfect or early. The community said 'now' which fits the "you can have it quick, cheap or good, choose two" paradigm - its not cheap as a unit but in terms of development effort that appears to have been the choice. The OG hardware took a number of years to mature and it only models hardware, no playback functions, no will manage everything on stage for you capability (that appeared and matured a few years in) - while L6 has the OG as a starting point, the firmware and hardware is new, and the Song stuff is completely new. If you were about for early update processes you'd know how painful and fraught that was. Song functionality was not available from day 1, and again appears to have been rushed out to placate consumers. A new (from scratch) feature on new hardware was never going to be perfect from release. This is just my view, and doesn't help you now, but gives a perspective. If you're interested, look back through the OG forums and see how long it took for the OG to mature. It was not quick.

I don't think the question is how is it possible, but is it possible? The answer (AFAIK) is no. That would require something like a sidechain triggered by a gate, which the Helix does not have. All time based/mod effects in the Helix run off their own clock and are not 'triggered' by an input. Your sound bite is very cool, but also sounds very DAW/Studio based and outside of what the Helix can do. It'd be cool to define (for example) the point on the curve a flanger starts when triggered by a sound, but no.

It sounds like you're comparing apples and oranges. No FRFR (and I mean none) will sound the same as your amp through a guitar speaker direct to your ears. When modelling there is always a microphone between the amp/speaker and the reproduction system (then your ears). So, unless you're mic'ing your amp into the B1s you, and the audience, are hearing a raw guitar amp/speaker sound. To acheive a similar sound with a modeller you would use an amp model, into a power amp, into the speaker cab - no speaker model. If you mic your amp/speaker and run it through the B1s as well as stage, you need to work out how that sound compliments the stage cab sound in the room and aim for that through the B1s, or the compromise that emulates that mix. The latter will be very tricky. You might need to change your mindset about what you want/need to hear and accept the inherent compromise of ALL modelling. As to the volume jumps between amp models - that's why the Helix/Stadium chain has a heap of post production tools like compressors and gain blocks to normalise the levels, and EQ to assist with getting common perceived volume. The analogy of modellors being amps and effects in a box is fundementally flawed, they are a studio in a box with guitar amps and effects and need to be treated like that.

Maybe a stupid question, but as you've not said, is it connected - as in with a USB cable? Have you tried different cables, and/or USB ports? Not much else I can suggest with limited info, AND not being a Mac user. Howver have seen lots of posts about specific Mac OS and Line 6 incompataility, so maybe post your OS version as well and any other info a Mac user might need to help. They are all just end users here, not Line 6 support, so need all the info you can give.

Why would you post to a user forum rather than contact line 6 support (maybe raise a ticket) and/or the retailer? Its a day old.

Best be asking Line 6 that, not a user forum. Maybe raise a ticket?

Cross-posting won't change this from being an end-user forum to some form of official L6 user request forum. But at least you've found someone else who wants that feature.

For stage I've run: 2 x L6 PC+ Various powered wedges Yamaha and QSC FoH boxes set-up as monitors Valve power amps and speaker set-ups All sound and feel different, and have tempted me to tune my patches to them. Unfortunately that impacts on FoH (generally negatively). You will need to be clear (for yourself) what you want and try things until you find what works for you. If you don't run through FoH and just have stage sound I'd reccomend good FoH style speakers for the best reproduction, accepting the stage sound will not (should not??) be an amp in the room sound. If you want that amp in the room "spill" type sound, good guitar speakers and a power amp (not necessarily valve). This will limit your pallet significantly as guitar speakers significantly colour your sound. Its part of their charm. For studio - you want the best monitors you can afford for whole of recording reproduciton, and the Helix will just be part of that.

Along with raising a ticket as siverhead mentions, some observations: L6 products have always been finicky with USB (at least in my experience), across multiple iterations of Windows They were even worse with USB to Midi implementation and needed specific devices to work - thinking Variax updates here For my Helix and LT: I have had to test different ports on the same machine to get stability I have had brand new cables out of the wrapper not working - to the point of not detecting the unit(s) Tested multiple cables over extended perios of time to get a solid consistent connection - and kept those cables aside for L6 use So it may not be the unit.

Or jump to the Stadium and get the updates it has got: Stabilty and bug fixes - not an issue for Helix OG Agora amps - not possible for Helix OG Proxy - not possible for Helix OG None of this has relevance for the OG, which is a stable and mature product with the Stadium following a very similar maturation route as the OG. Have a quick delve in this forum to see the early OG complaints and concerns, and don't ask anyone who was there what updating was like. You brought the OG at a great time - its a fully functional unit, stable unit, and updates are genuine updates (when and if they occur). As a "working pro" what exactly is it that is NEEDED? I couldn't trust the Stadium for live work at this point, BECAUSE it NEEDS frequent updates. OG is in the "Plateu of Productivity", Stadium is on the "Slope of Enlightenment" (just). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle - choose your poison.

Q1 - Yes - just make sure midi over USB is turned on for the Helix. I turn it off as a matter of course and it catches me out everytime. Q2. Don't know, but its fallacious to think there will be a parallel. Different hardware, with different corporate owners, and likely different priorities. FWIW, whilst the D10 is said to support Variaxs I won't be holding my breath of the depth of that support, or for how long given since Yamaha took over Line 6 they've killed the Variax product. Says a lot to me about where the dev team will be able to expend effort. Unfortunately, as someone who uses variaxes with within song guitar and tuning changes via snapshots on the OG.