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Hello silverhead! Your advice took me on the right path and made me go deeper into the routing options Helix gives us, thank you very much! The two-path preset was the way to go. So, here's what I've done so far. 1. Helix cabling and settings: 1/4" Left Output to FX Return of the MarkBass head, 1/4" Right Output to Return 1 of Helix. Left XLR to the mixer. Helix big volume knob at maximum. In the global settings, USB 1/2 Destination is set to XLR. 1/4" and Send/Return must be all set to Line level. XLR in my case is set to Mic because that's what my mixer expects to receive. 2. Helix preset: Path 1A: I created my mono bass preset on path 1A (compressor, preamp or amp without cab, and the effects I want). Input 1A: Guitar. Output routed to 1/4". If you choose the preamp instead of the amp you have to boost the signal significantly (EQ after the preamp at +9dB and output level at +20dB) to get a strong enough signal. Path 2A: Input set to Return 1, IR (otherwise the recorded track has no cab) and Output to USB 3/4. 3. Ableton Live: Bass track with Audio from Ext. In 3/4 and Audio to Master. Monitoring off. This setup makes me hear the bass live from the MarkBass head, and the recorded bass track through the PA, while all the other instruments track are heard through the PA. Initially I wanted the recorded track also to be heard through the bass head, but I realized it worked better when playing back from the same source as the drums. There might be an easier way, but at the moment I am happy with this one. Hope this thread will useful to some other Helix fellow trying to do the same thing! Thanks again!

Hello! I am trying to do a (hopefully) relatively simple thing with my Helix LT but I can't figure out how to do that. I am working on a song and I am using the Helix as the audio interface of my Ableton Live-based DAW. One 1/4 output goes into the FX Return of my bass amp. The XLR outputs go into my mixer > PA. What I'd like to do is to use the bass amp to monitor just the bass (both live bass processed through the Helix preset and the recorded track when I playback what I recorded), while all the other song tracks are routed through the PA. Is that possible? Thanks for your advices, have a nice day!

After buying my Helix LT I spent an outrageous amount of time on forums and on YouTube to learn tips and tricks that would make the experience with this hardware satisfying. I have a text file with all the most useful (to me) infos I have found in 2 years, and of course I made hundreds of presets and experiments, I played the Helix in studio and live and tweaked the hell out of it. So, when I saw this book for sale I thought it was useless to me. Nevertheless I gave it a try, and I am amazed how much useful stuff I am finding in it! This is an invaluable work for any serious Helix user. Chapeaux @craiganderton, a great, great book! Thank you!

I seem to be having this problem too, and I have 2.82 fw installed. I was working on an 8-snapshot patch that contained the LA Studio Comp and the Red Squeeze too. All of a sudden, while editing, almost all the settings of almost every block turned to some previous state (Default values mostly). I had a clean snapshot, crunch, distorsion, lead and more, and I ended up with 8 almost identical snapshots. The outputs were set up all different, and they all ended up at +0.9 dB, that sounds like a very random value, or maybe it was the value one of the snapshots had, not sure about it. I started all over again and after some time it happened again, 4 times in total. I was editing with HX Edit on my Mac. I can't say for sure what was that triggered the reset. I did everything back again directly on the Helix LT, and I think that the issue did not show up, but I am still not completely sure, sometimes I had the impression that I had to move some knobs more than once. I haven't booted the Helix again after all was set, so I can't say if the problem persists. All of my presets have the LA comp at the end of the chain, like others commented, so all of my patches might have had the same problem and I still haven't realized it. I'll have to check. What's for sure is that the LA comp was on the patch I was working on today. I am a new Helix user, and this is my first modeler (I have always been a tube amps+stompboxes kind of guy). I have to confess that the temptation to sell it and go back to analog is strong at the moment. So much work is involved in building patches, and of course you rely heavily on them. If such a problem happens right before a gig, what can you do?

Thanks for sharing your workaround! I also ended up thinking the issue was related to EX Edit, though in my case what also happened is that the preset rebuilding procedure screwed up the preset folders in the Helix (no HX Edit involved here)... after rebooting, the presets in folder 3 got copied into folder 2, and the only preset that was into folder 2 disappeared. And folder 3 was unusable due to the error 8201.

Same problem here. Brand new Helix LT, so I lost just few hours of work, but I am a bit worried the Helix firmware is unreliable. The reset with 10+11 switches pressed did not help, I had to reset the unit (keeping IRs) to get back to a normal situation. The problem was that the folder that started to give the 8201 error was kind of corrupted, no operation could be performed without getting error messages on the Mac. All preset names on that folder had returned to be Preset 1, Preset 2 etc, but the previously saved presets were actually there. It kept The backup from working too. And the folder content on the Mac was not the same I had on the unit. I really want the Helix to be a keeper, but this software issue makes me worry. Please Line6, release a firmware patch and solve this problem!