johnnyvlee

I suspect this is something bent inside the jack because it was intermittent for months and now completely out. I'm going to try getting in there with a fine tool of some sort and see if I can bend the tab back into the jack so it makes contact. If that fails, I'll have to take it to the shop after next gig. Glad I have a backup unit!

I have a patch with 3 snapshots. The expression pedal is assigned as a volume pedal in each snapshot. I start on snap1 with the pedal all the way at min position. If I switch snapshots, the min position is not honored by the next snapshot. It resets the volume and I have to push the pedal down and back up again to get it to work correctly.

That's a good idea. I'm stealing that.

I just need to go plug in and hear for myself. But I live in a city of 250,000. Will have to find larger city to find a retailer that has one in stock.

This is a big problem for me because it's how I rehearse. Tried different headphones, different patches, rebooting, etc. Seems like a repair situation. Anyone else experienced this? HELIX FLOOR

Looks like I never replied to this. I pulled the cap off the button and sprayed contact cleaner in there and worked it around. Fix worked quite easily on both units.

I have a Powercab Plus. Anyone done comparisons?

Anyone besides me think Helix updates with modern amp models seem to make older amp models sound worse? Might be my imagination, I don't know. But I play a lot of cover rock from 60s-80s and I faithfully update my Helix updates as they become available, but it has seemed like my existing patches which use amp models that are older don't sound as good as they used to. By the way, I'm not comparing with the newer amp models, that's just playing the same songs after an update. My approach has been to create a patch per song, and use snapshots within the patch. Sometimes for a new song I just copy another song's patch, and I may or may not tweak it. So, I end up using the same amp models in multiple patches. For example, I know I have used the WhoWatt 100 in quite a few patches. Those all seem to sound not great anymore. Also, I've used AMP+CAB models a lot. I had thought I would go back and change those to separate models, but it's a bit of a pain since you have to manually duplicate the amp and speaker settings. Would have been fantastic if they would have had a feature in HX Edit to split up the amp/speaker models for you. Then again, they don't even have a search function within a setlist, which seems to me a very basic need. Anyway, I'm debating no longer doing updates. But I know it will nag me every time I run HX Edit for any reason.

I have two Helix floor units. I bought the second one as a backup so that if one went on the fritz I could still do a show. Both of them have a problem with the PRESET button which is button 2 on the diagram in the manual. You push it to get setlist, but on both of my units they no longer function. This could potentially be a real problem for me on stage. Is this a common problem? And if so, is there an upgraded replacement component for it? I have to drive to another city to get repairs, and I obviously can only have one in repair at a time if I have upcoming shows. So, I'm a little concerned.

Anyone have a Helix patch that they use for covering Styx? I'm about to cover the guitar part of "Too Much Time On My Hands" if that specific matters.

I have two Helix floor units, one newer (obviously). It seems like when I power up the newer one about 50% of the time it goes into "Rebuilding Presets". Seriously, how often should it be doing this? I'm wondering if this is a defect. I recently installed the latest firmware update, but I think it has rebuilt presets twice before since I have completed that process. This would be the 3rd time. The other unit does this ON OCCASION but usually once it has rebuilt after an update process, it doesn't ever do it again. Yes I follow the entire update process including restore from backup as the last step.

I needed a patch for a song off Beatles Let It Be and Jakob's "Beatles 1967-70" on L6 Custom Tone was already just about perfect. I didn't have the exact Ownhammer IR he used, but I had the OH 112 DVRB CTS-C12 (slightly newer speaker) and it sounds awesome. I have a Variax so I just dialed up the Epiphone Casino (Semi-2) and I am off and running. Also I checked out the Leslie snapshot. I'm definitely going to find a use for this one later on. I wish patches submitted to Custom Tone allowed for poster-approved user comments. Jakob deserves some cred/star ratings for this patch.

Since I was working with my "Say It Ain't So" (Weezer) patch today, it reminded me that I had always intended to fiddle around with a means of playing a similar ending to the solo live as they have on the recording. And I never did. If you know the song, you know that near the end of the lead there's a 7-note phrase that repeats 3 times and there is some overlap because, you know, studio multitracking. Live they seem to bounce it back and forth between 2 guitarists which means the guy playing the rhythm has to let it drop out while he plays those lead bits. And the chorus comes in before the lead is done. Anyway, I think there must be a way with a looper or high-end delay unit that I could play the riff the 1st and 3rd times and the looper/delay could play it the 2nd time. In other words, I need to set it up for ONE loop, and of course getting the timing of that exactly right could be a hella shennanigan! And I am not very experienced with loopers. Anyone done this already? Or have thoughts because you have done extensive playing with this kind of gear?

I think you nailed it. Thanks for that. Now that I look at the split block I see it changing in the snapshot and I seem to remember that confusing me the first time I tried to figure out this patch. Hadn't seen that done before.

Looks like the original didn't have snapshots. I don't remember what all I did to get the version I made.