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With no info about your operating system I will guess Windows 10 and suggest you click on the Volume/Speaker icon in the tray to select the default sound device (not the stomp). Other windows versions require you to set that in control panel. Mac - no idea

The full factory reset may be a better option for you - provided you know you can back-up and restore any presets you have made. Artist Presets IMPORTANT! Because we never want to overwrite your own presets, upgrading to 3.0 does NOT automatically make these presets visible; you will need to manually restore them. Restoring factory setlists and presets will completely overwrite your own, so make sure they're backed up first! TIP: With Helix Floor/Rack/LT/Native, if you want to keep both your presets and the latest factory presets, back up your custom presets as setlists and after the procedure below, drag your setlists onto unused setlist locations. Make sure you've backed up your presets and turn off Helix/HX. Perform the following procedure: Helix Floor/LT: While holding footswitches 7 and 8 (two leftmost switches on the bottom row), turn on Helix Floor/LT. Wait for "Will restore..." to appear and let go Helix Rack/Control: While holding knobs 3 and 4 (two middle knobs below the screen), turn on Helix Rack. Wait for "Will restore..." to appear and let go Helix Native: Click the gear icon in the lower left corner, click the Presets/IRs tab, and click "Restore Factory Setlists"

I do think HXEdit prompting for updates of firmware, and not updating Edit itself does represent a 'trap for new players'. I've been with this set-up since 2016 and have been caught out a couple of times before having a duh moment. It may well be that HXEdit has something in the prompts that mentions this when updating the FW, but without something big that basically says "NOW UPDATE HX EDIT BY DOWNLOADING IT FROM THE WEBSITE" I'll miss it every time, How many people won't even think to look on the download page and/or remember the versions of Edit and Firmware need to align - and then come here with the same question? The other issue here is that the vast majority of other software out there prompts to update itself driving end user expectations/behavior.

Apologies - I don't see instructions for Stomp there - this post has a link to the factory presets

From the download page and instructions: Artist Presets IMPORTANT! Because we never want to overwrite your own presets, upgrading to 3.0 does NOT automatically make these presets visible; you will need to manually restore them. Restoring factory setlists and presets will completely overwrite your own, so make sure they're backed up first! TIP: With Helix Floor/Rack/LT/Native, if you want to keep both your presets and the latest factory presets, back up your custom presets as setlists and after the procedure below, drag your setlists onto unused setlist locations. Make sure you've backed up your presets and turn off Helix/HX. Perform the following procedure: Helix Floor/LT: While holding footswitches 7 and 8 (two leftmost switches on the bottom row), turn on Helix Floor/LT. Wait for "Will restore..." to appear and let go Helix Rack/Control: While holding knobs 3 and 4 (two middle knobs below the screen), turn on Helix Rack. Wait for "Will restore..." to appear and let go Helix Native: Click the gear icon in the lower left corner, click the Presets/IRs tab, and click "Restore Factory Setlists" Helix 3.0 includes factory presets created by the following artists:

The transmitter is mono - it will never send a stereo signal. Its intended to be used as a mono instrument transmitter.

That suggests you need to turn up the pre-amp model using the 'Channel volume' setting on the model. Alternatively adding a volume block, and/or compressor, and/or turning up the final output gain. Full amp models (ie no pre-amps) will both have higher output at default settings, and sound louder because of that and additional colouring of the sound. Play around with both pre-amp and full amp models making sure you normalise the output levels of the patches (make them the same or very similar) so they drive your RH750 input the same way. If the stomp shows output levels when the output block is selected (sorry I use a Helix) that could be used as a rough starting point to check the levels hitting your amp are similar. Then you can compare the tonal differences between the different approaches rather than the output levels. Apologies that the first reply assumed an amount of knowledge.

But we can? Conventional wisdom would say if you are running through an amp and cab then go pre-amp into power-amp only (or effects into front of amp). However, what works for YOU is all that matters, so live a little.

Seriously? Has this forum become a troll farm?

An alternate way to do this is create a custom 'guitar' on the variax that has 100% magnetics blend, and switch to that 'model' using the helix - this assumes you want either magnetics or modelled variax, not a blend. It'd be nice to be able to blend the magnetics in the Helix patch - but I can't find a way to do that other than different input types and a merge block

What's "the mushroom thing"?

In the scenario you're talking about I'd set the 1/4" outputs to bypass the volume knob (its a volume defeat not gain) and into the amp at instrument level (using amp volume to set that), and use the volume knob to control the level on the XLRs (at line level) to the powered monitors.

Absolutely agree with the other posters that I don't want to play around at a component level as an end user. Then I got to thinking about how, in the analog world, we seem to value the work that skilled people put into creating custom versions of pedals amps etc - and started thinking about a 'developers version' that allowed peopled to tweak and build custom variants/models for sale through market place. Imagine digital only versions of some amazing custom amps and pedals. Alas I also thought about how that plays out in the physical domain with people, and even names vendors, doing the equivalent of throwing a new image on an existing model and selling it as their latest and greatest. But who knows, maybe in the digital domain that sort of BS would be much easier to call out and manage - after all L6 could presumably look under the hood of every offering to check. They may well need to and charge for the service to ensure end user safety.

Word on the street is the V3 update includes those pinging noises you get when you knock your amp if you kick the HX range. Makes stomp mode a real b1tch.

This thread seems to indicate shutting down the G-Hub fixes the issues.

Yes - if you set each string pitch to be controlled by snapshot you can change it, as well as the guitar model and other parameters controlled by snapshot if you want. I have at least one song where I change from a detuned pitch to suit the vocalist to an open tuning for a slide solo. One tip - you may need to set all your patches to custom tuning even if the patch uses standard to force the tuning change on patch change. Edit - attached an example - 4 snaps, 2 guitars and 3 tunings (note my variax presets are customized so may not sound any good to you - but will give you the idea) Sharp Dressed.hlx

The one I own - which happens to be a pair of PC+s connected to my Helix via L6 Link. I also own a pair of DT25s but stopped using them, because I'm to lazy to faff around with patches too much and want a smooth consistent work flow - which FRFR gives me. But honestly unless you find someone who owns all of these do you expect another sort of opinion? There's threads all over the place comparing the various solutions and in the end its all subjective and relative to your requirements. The only way you'll really know is to try them - in the wild as in store won't cut it.

I can't say that I have

I've found the Helix to be transparent when I used it in a pedal board type mode (ie stomp boxes only) - but I've not done any extensive A/B testing as I normally use it as my full system. Some observations: The volume control on the Helix is a volume defeat, not a gain stage, so fully on should be unity (there's a global setting to bypass the volume control - I'd turn it off in this mode) If that doesn't equate to unity gain for your set-up adjust the output block(s) so you get unity with nothing else in the signal chain You say you're going into fuzzes then a buffer on your board then everything else - what does that do to the impedance for downstream effects and then the sound (not sure you can reproduce this with the helix, but helix fuzzes to a loop with the buffer pedal then the rest of your chain in helix might replicate it)? There's lots of threads in here about impedance and fuzz pedals within the Helix - they might help for your set-up (not a big fuzz user so have only glossed over them) Not sure why changing input impedance on the Helix would result in a loss of gain - my understanding is it will change the tone, so perceived gain? Point 1 may be the crucial one and then monitoring individual effect settings to ensure unity is maintained across the chain (or boost as required) I'm assuming your preferred solution is not to have the existing pedal board in the mix - the opening par then description of the problem is a bit unclear (to me) If you've just got the Helix you do have a learning curve even in a pedal board mode, and may have to 'relearn' effects you think you know in the analog world

Perfectly happy with what's available - but I don't use use ambient sounds much and when I do its a texture, not the main event.

No idea if this still works with the current Helix formats but I used it to find all the IRs I was using and where in my set-lists some time ago.. http://www.dave-merrill.com/helix/hirb/

No brainer for me - Helix. The variax integration is phenomenal and allows patch and within patch changes of guitar model, and tuning model as well as the whole amp and effects shebang. Want to play "go your own way" starting with a chorused 12 string and move to a crunchy LP for chorus's and a a dirty LP for solos - no probs, I do this with 3 levels of dirt and delay for the chorus/solos via snapshots - all tuned down 2 steps to suit playing in open E shapes for the singer in singing in D The palette is wide open and the quality amazing.

Likely identical with 'premium' branding (its all relative). Things are worth what people will pay and branding is worth a lot to some people.

Interesting thread, but nothing that would compel me to upgrade, and no issues I couldn't find alternate solutions for. When Helix was released I was using a HD500x. The compelling case was testing the Helix in a music store and hearing/feeling the difference immediately. It took me 6 months to be able to afford to upgrade - but I absolutely knew I 'needed' one, as it was such a step-wise improvement.

The only way I've achieved this is to export the patches into a folder and re-import as the OS (Win10 for me) will sort them by name. However that requires doing every-time you add patches, and I've stopped doing it since using midi to select patches as midi requires them to remain in the same slot as it references slot not name.