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These videos are so comically predictable. Washy guitar noodling garbage full of delay and reverb This video is brought to you by TrueFire Washy guitar noodling garbage full of delay and reverb {British accent} explaining why the Helix is dead Washy guitar noodling garbage full of delay and reverb {British accent} explaining why the Helix is the greatest piece of equipment ever created ... etc.

I'm not the dumbest person, but for some reason I could not register LT when I got it 5 years ago. My serial number was just weird. I wound up opening a support ticket, and sending a picture of the serial number, and they did registered it for me.

No, it will just remove the amp/cab from the signal. And for that reason I never bothered with this for my live on-stage monitor mix. Because the delays will sound completely different.

Here's the complete summary of what I've posted on this forum many times: Lots of bands have been running their guitars in stereo for the last 20+ years in a 5,000-seat theater or smaller. Unless you are talking about an arena or a stadium, running guitars in stereo is actually desirable, as it offers benefits such as "non-clashing" with other signals that are mixed in. Stereo sound is easier in terms of mixing, as you can SLIGHTLY pan instruments left/right, so they would not all be clashing together. I'm not making this up, several pro sound guys told me they prefer stereo guitar signals. If you are playing at a stadium, very few mixing engineers will run a stereo mix. Maybe just a few times during an entire show as an exception to the rule, for some kind of a special effect. Stadiums are difficult with the sound distribution to begin with, the last thing you need to worry about is stereo mixes. And there is no easy way to decide, which side is left, which side is right, otherwise you will deprive half of the stadium of sound when you do this, and the mix will only sound good if you are sitting dead in the middle. The distance from the left and the right sides is just too great in a stadium, compared to a theater. What exactly do I do in terms of stereo mix in my presets? I mostly just have ping-pong stereo delay in the majority of my core sound. A few songs have very exaggerated left/right delay but only in a few sections. But I dialed it in so that both sides of the concert venue will be getting the same amount of information, and no side would get more musical notes than the other side. For that reason I added my delays in parallel. I play a note, it is heard in the middle, then it is followed by a repeat on the left, then on the right. Other ways I use the stereo mix is with stereo panning on some little fills/solos, but nothing crazy that would make one side silent, while the other one is blaring. For example, I have one song where when I rock the wah pedal, the sound pans left/right, but not 100% left/right. Another example is one of the songs has a chaotic ending, and I have the tremolo with left/right panning. These are just special effects that I use very rarely compared to my main core sound. I go: stereo to FOH via 2 XLRs (L/R) and mono for my personal monitor mix via 1/4" L. I need to feel the guitar chugging, so I run my monitor mix into Mooer Baby Bomb 30W power amp connected to a speaker of a combo amp, or my own 12" speaker cab. If the combo amp has the speaker hard-wired, I go into the return of it, if there is a return. Otherwise as the last resort, I just plug into the combo amp on the cleanest setting. I prefer a single 12" speaker, it just has the best focus and clarity for me. I absolutely avoid 4x12 speaker cabs, or Marshall amps. They just make the sound on stage too loud, while simultaneously not being able to hear what the heck I'm playing, and the sound guys always ask me to turn it down... while I cannot hear anything. My XLRs are at fixed mic level, and the 1/4" is at line level, allowing me to adjust the stage volume loudness with the volume knob. I have it dialed in so that if the volume knob is on around 2, it's my home base. I usually make slight adjustments to have more/less stage volume within the first couple of songs. I do not remove the amp/cab sim from my personal monitor mix, because otherwise the delays which are post amp/cab would be difficult to set up. I just run the same exact mix to both a physical amp and FOH, as lots of people do. I typically do not use the Global EQ, but sometimes if the venue is small and the on-stage amp interferes with the mix, I may dial out certain frequencies with the guidance of the sound guy. The GE would only be applied to 1/4" mix. A few times when the stage setup is more amateurish, I went in mono to FOH. Helix sums your signal to mono automatically, no need for any adapters. In fact, if you have an adapter that adds left + right signals, the signal may become hotter and start to distort. This is something I discovered a few years ago. On the Helix I have been experiencing a bug where 1/4" Left/Mono doesn't immediately sum both sides, until you plug something into the right side momentarily, then unplug. Some people have experienced the same software bug with the XLRs as well. I have had to do this plugging/unplugging since the beginning of owning the Helix. On 3.7 firmware, that issue seems to have been fixed, but I still verify that everything is summing correctly by using a "Sound Check" preset that has exaggerated ping-pong stereo delay. Before I start playing a show, I always make sure to verify that left + right are summed correctly. I know what it's supposed to sound like, so if I don't hear the familiar delay sound pattern, I know something is wrong.

ummmm. yes?

No, there is no such thing on the Helix. There is something like that on HX One, called "flux". Exactly what you are describing. People were hoping this functionality would be ported into the Helix firmware. What you can do instead (which you are probably aware of): 1. un-bypass your flanger block in a specific snapshot 2. assign the mix parameter to the expression pedal. Or if you want your flanger in all snapshots, then remove the snapshot bypass assignment, and instead assign the bypass to the expression pedal. If the pedal is > 0%, it will be un-bypassed. This way you can gradually mix in and mix out your flanger.

If you followed the procedure of resetting to factory settings, then importing your presets/Global Settings, then this is definitely an HX Edit bug. Open up a ticket with Line 6 support. There was a note in the release notes that they will issue an update for HX Edit, as some global settings are not exported/imported. Back in 3.17, HX Edit had a bug where you make changes to one preset, and other unrelated ones get the same change as well. It's software. It will have bugs: old ones fixed, new ones introduced. One way to not have this adventure is to not rush updating your Helix and waiting a few weeks for dust to settle. If you are a musician who relies on the Helix to make a living, updating right away is a crazy thing to do, or updating anything as soon as the update is available for that matter: computer, tablet, etc. I work in Clinical Trials. Some of our big clients wait for years before upgrading. And before they do, they run entire validations that take several months, to make sure everything is exactly as they expect. With the Helix, let the eager people find all the bugs first, then you can upgrade. Just keep checking the forum lol You can always downgrade, or try downloading the preset, then importing that one preset only, rather than copy/pasting. Exporting/importing just one preset is annoying, but doesn't take too long.

Add a compressor. I like to put one between the amp and the cab. It makes notes more sustainy, which happens naturally when you are playing next to a giant wall of Marshalls.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BCWALHM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1 Got this USB cable 5 years ago, and it's been absolutely fine all these years. It's also longer than what the Helix comes with, that way I connect it from my laptop to where my Helix is located on the floor several feet away. Pretty sure mine's 16 ft long.

If you suffer from GAS, rather than buying new gear, just completely re-do your signal chain with a new amp, that you hadn't used before. Just start completely from scratch. Do that. I do that with every new project that I do--just try to come up with something new and exciting from the "vast plethora" of bells and whistles. I'm really amused by the anger that 3.8 wasn't full of features like previous updates. Before Line 6 and Kemper started regularly updating the firmware, people would buy a piece of gear and use it as it was for years, with very rare exceptions whenever a bug needed to be fixed. I have 2006 Nord Electro 2 keyboard, for example... it came with firmware loaded onto it. I still use it with that original firmware. Ain't broke, no need to fix it. Meanwhile, Helix has gotten so much stuff since 2015. I think people have been spoiled, really. I was on 3.11 for the longest time because I didn't need anything new, as I was playing the same songs for which I had built my presets. But then I decided to recreate one of my Pod Go preset on the Helix, and realized that it didn't have that one reverb block that really made the song. So only then I finally updated my firmware to 3.7. And I have no desire to upgrade to 3.8 just for the sake of upgrading. I especially don't see the need for all these specific flavors of amps/distortions/cabinets. All amps can be tweaked to sound like anything you want, especially digital models of them. You can put compressors, EQ between amp and cab and create something that doesn't exist in the physical world.

The only thing that could have been a cool addition would be the "flux" feature. Or some kind of a timed engagement of a snapshot/effects. For example, you want to take a solo, so you press a button, walk up to the front of the stage, and the switching occurs after 3 seconds. Otherwise, the Helix has been a complete package as far as I'm concerned for a while. Time for Helix 2.0.

That's weird that the knob is not functional on both units. Check your case, maybe it's toot tight. I personally have no issues with any of my buttons and knobs after almost 5 years. Foot switches are a different story.

Pod Go has this automatic bypass of amp/cab for the "Amp out" jack. You can control whether you get the amp/cab on or off in global settings. It's pretty convenient. Helix does not have this, but it's so flexible, you can do anything you want.... On the Helix, as mentioned, you can route any signal chain to any output jack when you build the presets. You take a long chain and route everything except the last couple of blocks to 1/4" out, or Send 1/2, and route the complete chain to other jacks. There is no limit to what exactly you do. For example, you may want to route the amp, but not the cab to your Send 1, if you like. But I never bothered with the removal of the amp/cab in almost 5 years of using my Helix and 3 years of owning the Pod Go. I just take my whole stereo chain and send it to FOH. I also take the same exact chain (summed in mono) and run it through a power amp on stage, or a clean amp like Fender Twin. The reason I don't bother with removing the amp is that it's too much of a hassle, and the fact that I run my delays AFTER amp/cab. So if I were to bypass the amp/cab in the Helix, then I'd either be missing the delays, or the delays/reverb would sound like garbage if I now run them before the physical amp/cab--the balance and the EQ would be all messed up. So for all intents and purposes, the best way to do this is to keep your entire chain and run it into a clean amp for stage volume. I swear by my Mooer Baby Bomb 30W power amp going into a single 12" speaker. Sure some of the sounds may be too boomy now, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make. This setup is superior to any FRFR, because you actually get the familiar "combo amp on the floor next to you" feel.

When it crashed, was HX Edit running? If so, I have a ticket open with L6 regarding HX Edit crashing and causing the Helix to get stuck on a preset. But without it being connected to the computer (no USB cable), it doesn't crash or get stuck.

Also check the output level of your device. It may be clipping because the signal is too hot. When going to the PA, it's recommended to use the mic level. Also try factory presets to see if the issue also exists with them. Sometimes people tend to really dime their signal chain. I've seen this on several presets I downloaded from customsound--some were very harsh, loud and noisy.

No, unless you resort to MIDI trickery of sending a MIDI message from the Helix to itself....

use HX Edit. It takes seconds to assign an EXP pedal.

Yeah, that's phaser, alright!

https://www.youtube.com/@SteveSterlacci Is also an excellent channel. It has helped me the most, TBH I have some resources as well, going over mostly tricks and hacks: https://www.youtube.com/@accidentals_hacks after you figure out the workflow...

Well, first of all if you are on 2.5, you are around 5 years behind... The experience has been vastly improved with the encoders acting faster if you give it a spin. Also, you can do this a lot easier in HX Edit.

I am not sure what the issue is exactly. But I had an old TV that started making this clicking sound when turning on. With time it took several minutes for it to turn on while making clicking sounds, and eventually it stopped powering on at all. So it could be the capacitor (or something) that is ready to go. I got the whole motherboard of the TV replaced by Samsung service people, and 8 years later the TV works great.

You can use whatever you want. But... with so many buttons on the Helix, why do you need to add external ones... I personally do not want to step on the expression pedal to turn things on/off. So I specifically looked for and found ways to not have to use that toe switch on the EXP pedal. With so many buttons and ways to configure my snapshots, there is absolutely no need for me (at least) to use that toe switch.

From what version?

Make sure that HX Edit on your computer is for the same firmware version as on your device. If there's a mismatch, then it could show different weird things.