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In my experience on the Helix, it's not a good idea to control parameter values with both snapshots and expression pedal/switches. Sometimes this happens, what you are describing.

only if you have a preset that has very high output level, it could be the clipping sound that you hear. Dial down the loudness of everything, that should help.

I think it's just voodoo stuff.... with analog pedals. I got rid of all my pedals after switching over to Line 6. I just have the Shure wireless, then Helix/Pod Go. But if you are looking for something to tweak, here's a story. My tone was just sterile on the Helix, and I couldn't figure out what was wrong. I decided to try to tweak things one component at a time... And then I increased the gain parameter of my Mail Order Twin by exactly 1%--and that all of a sudden fixed it for me. The sustain was there all of a sudden, just came to life. I am running my amp very clean, but with very very slight grit. That 1% gain increase just did some magic number for me. There you go!

In my experience, and in experience of several Helix/Line 6 owners that I know... the footswitches go bad. Something like they have a life expectancy of 3 years, after which they need to be serviced/microswitches replaced. So, maybe you can find a great deal in terms of price, but I would be very cautious regarding how much life the footswitches have left in them. Here's my experience. I use LT for home practicing an light gigging, Floor for gigging, Pod Go for practicing/gigging. 1. Got an open box LT. The footswitches needed to be serviced within 2 years of reasonable use by me. Everything worked, but several buttons were not as responsive. I cleaned them with liquid DeoxIT, and it's still good 2 years later. 2. Got a brand-new Floor. Within 1.5 years of gigging, 2 buttons became very flaky. Had to get it serviced under warranty. 1.5 years later -- no issues. 3. Got a brand-new Pod Go. Within 3 months of practicing (no gigs!), one button became flaky. Opened it up, cleaned it with liquid DeoxIT, and 5 months later no issues. 4. A friend of mine got a used LT -- same thing, had to clean out the microswitches. 5. Another friend got an HX Stomp -- 3 buttons completely died, had to solder new microswitches. So if I were you, I'd be extremely cautious getting a used Helix for this reason. Some people keep it in the studio, some take it on the road. Some switch sounds constantly throughout the set (me), some just stay on one sound throughout.

Sometimes you can have a ground hum. I've experienced it in several venues / outdoor festivals. You are doing exactly what you typically do, but there's this ground hum coming out of your processor's direct out, as well as the amp. The only reliable remedy is to connect your processor/speaker cab to different power sources. Also try the "ground lift" on both devices before doing this. With me, several times ground lift did absolutely nothing, and I literally had to get an extension cable from the other power source, nothing else helped. Try your setup at another place/apartment, to see for yourself...

I came to the Pod Go from the Helix. When I play gigs, I always send direct signal (left and right) to FOH, while I monitor myself through an amp on stage, running the signal into the Return jack. On the Helix, I used XLRs to to send the signal to FOH. To answer your question: On the Pod Go, I run the balanced outs with an XLR adapters you can find for cheap to the FOH. The amp out is the same exact thing for me as what's sent to FOH, automatically combined into mono, and running out of a clean guitar amp's return circuit, just to hear myself on stage. I know that you can disable the amp simulation for the "amp out", but I leave mine on. I have various effects before/after the virtual amp/cab, so if I disable amp simulation, it's going to sound unusable. If I play a gig and the amp onstage doesn't have an effects loop, I simply run it as clean as possible and use the regular input. Since the amp onstage isn't mik'ed, it really doesn't matter. An amp like Fender Deluxe works great for monitoring IMO. And BTW, I highly recommend Mooer Baby Bomb as a highly-portable power amp. I toured Europe with it, just using a Fender Deluxe as a glorified speaker cabinet for it. Lastly, the volume knob only controls the signal loudness of "amp out", but not the main left/right. That's how professionals do this. Take it from me :) My YouTube channel has a bunch of resources on all such topics, btw. https://www.youtube.com/@accidentals_hacks

Touch a button, don't press it, just touch it with your fingers for a few seconds. You will see a menu pop up. That's what you are briefly seeing.

I use LA comp.

Check your headphones... do they have a microphone? If so, that could be the explanation.

It needs that multitap delay for the sound. 4 stereo delays. A clean amp, spring reverb, and this delay. Here's me doing it on the Helix. But I'm sure Pod HD has the same ingredients.

1. add a compressor in the beginning of the chain, but after distortion if applicable and/or 2. add delay with significant feedback. I personally almost never suffer from lack of sustain. But I always have a distortion pedal in my chain, even for cleans--I cut the initial signal either turning down the guitar volume knob or using a fixed volume pedal. This gives me compression, because a distortion pedal always compresses.

There are also acoustic guitar IRs, reverb IRs as well. But yes, most commonly an IR is a replacement for the mic'ed cab sound.

Is your pedal too loose? Or does the pedal not move itself, while it gets un-calibrated? My Helix LT used to do this where it sometimes would not go past 99%, then 98%. But rebooting it would fix the issue.

try delay with high percentage feedback at the end of your chain.

That's not normal... Is the adapter a replacement, just curious?

I run stereo ping-pong delay in parallel. You play a note, hear it on both sides evenly... then left repeat, then right repeat, left repeat, right repeat. That way it's stereophonic, and doesn't favor one side.

Restore to factory defaults and restore from a backup. I’ve had weird behavior like that where multiple presets became corrupted. And wouldn’t work. This fixed it. you probably downloaded a preset at some point recently, would be my guess.

Get the Shure wireless. Haha. You get the imaginary feel and freedom of having a wireless. I always play with a wireless

For me if I plug only one cable into left/mono mains, it is always the left side, never summed IF something is plugged into the headphone jack. When I remove a cable from the headphone jack, left/mono starts summing the signal correctly. Plug something into the headphone jack back, and the weird behavior is back. Make that make sense... I was going crazy this morning... because I'm building my presets in stereo... but also need them to work in mono. But what I was hearing in mono was not actually mono, but the left channel only and it sounded way off.

Let me guess.... it's that mono bug again? Just a wild guess?! Power on the Helix. Plug something into the right jack. Unplug. Then plug a cable into the left/mono jack. Now left/mono jack is working correctly, right? (for those who are unaware: there's this Helix bug where the left/mono jack doesn't combine left+right into one properly (proven fact on 2 Helixes I own) and potentially does other funny things as well. The workaround for me to get left/mono to work properly is the procedure described above).

In Command Center (Stomp mode) you can send MIDI signal. So AFAIK, that's how you should do it--basically mirror your snapshot layout, and add CC messages.

You could add a compressor to make the signal more even. Or you could simply try to cut the initial signal of the bass by using the volume pedal block--remove the assignment from the expression pedal, leave it static and simply lower the initial input signal by a few decibels.

The footswitches are fine, the microswitches are the absolute plastic .01c -per-switch cheap garbage! How is it that I got Pod Go, and within several months one of the footswitches stopped working reliably? And after I played exactly one gig on it.... But good news! But you can open it up and clean them out with Liquid DeoxIT. As I found out (thanks to this forum), you cannot do it externally, you need to open it up. I have had very good results with my Pod Go and Helix LT. Liquid DeoxIT cleans out the corrosion and lubricates the microswitches, so you won't have any issue for the next couple of years. As for what MIDI controller to use, there are lots of options. As long as the controller can send Program Changes and CC messages, you're all good. I am also kind-of curious if I could get myself a MIDI controller, but all the ones I've seen either have too few buttons, or are a mammoth with way too many. I wish there were a simple 10 button MIDI controller with an expression pedal you could plug in.

Hey, gang! I made a detailed video how my (very complicated) preset is set up. You can download it from Custom Tone. See my video and description for all information. Maybe you could find it useful! If so, I'd appreciate a like/sub. Thanks.