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Try creating a preset from scratch, or try factory presets. Maybe it's a preset that is the problem, not the pedal itself. Having said that, 3 years is a long time for this very cheaply-made processor. Go and buy a new one, or two I guess...

There are all sorts of sounds, or drops in sounds, noises, pops in certain cases. As a general rule, bypassing/changing settings on the amp is the main culprit.

Is your Helix on the bare floor? or carpet? With carpet, I noticed all sorts of issues, where the capacitance of buttons was triggered with both Helixes I own. Just wondering.

I meant you cannot CHANGE colors once you set them up. Once it's green, it's green.

You cannot change stomp's colors. You also cannot assign multiple buttons to the same block in stomp mode. The only thing you can do is use snapshots. You can have up to 8 snapshots, with different ring colors. Depending on what specific snapshot is selected, you can change the layout of your stomp mode using the Command Center, and totally change where all your buttons are. Seems like overkill, but you can have: 1. when snapshot 1 is selected, stomp 1 is in a specific place, or snapshot 2 is in that specific place 2. when selecting a different snapshot, then snapshot 3 is where snapshot 2 used to be... with a different color.

Well, that's the thing about multiple blocks, some being on and some being off. Helix cannot "guess" what exactly you are trying to have on when the light is on. When all fails, you can have a dummy block also assigned to the same button. For example a volume block that is at 100%, and won't change the sound at all, whether it's on or off. You can assign a button to that block, then turn the button light on/off, and then assign other things to the same button. That can also work. I use dummy blocks to circumvent various idiosyncrasies in the Helix all the time.

Press the footswitch to get it to a desired state (lit or un-lit). Go to all the blocks in question and bypass/un-bypass them manually. Save. The default behavior is to simply toggle the on/off state of your blocks. Something can be on, something can be of (bypassed/un-bypassed). So if you get this "flipped" state, just go and set the on/off status of your blocks. Pretty sure that's all you need to do.

Oh... like the Who, when Townshend recorded acoustic guitar and electric playing power chords, kinda?

Um, I don't think this block was meant to be used as a Digitech Wham. There's a "wham" block for that.

I have not experienced any such issue, personally. I use a Mac. Is your firmware up to date? Is there perhaps a version mismatch between HX Edit and the firmware version of your Helix? It needs to be the same...

I got it. Make sure the blocks in question have "snapshot bypass" enabled. Right click on your block(s), and enable this: Otherwise, you turn things on, and it applies to the preset. Надеюсь это решит твои проблемы! рок-н-ролл!

Димон, сними видео, что именно ты делаешь--залей на Ютуб, и сюда ссылку поставь. Так иногда проще чем на пальцах объяснять.

Are you playing a guitar with single coils? If so, my Strat for example sounds the same way, always has. Anything high-gain would give me the same 60-cycle hum. It's not the picking, it's just the pickup humming because it picks up interference. I have experimented with noise gates, you can place them in various places: in the beginning of the chain and even after distortion/amp. I built this one preset for that strat, and a bunch of EQ'ing and noise gates helped minimize the problem, although it is still dang loud, compared to a humbucker guitar, or even my Brian May guitar in single coil mode. But when I played out on my strat and really dimed everything, the hum/noise was barely noticeable, it's only annoyingly-loud for me at home, and always has.

Guitar pad is a single non-adjustable volume cut. Some guitars are much hotter than others. There is no global gain control... (bummer!!). To overcome this, you have various options: 1. Use a wireless such as a Shure, and cut the volume or boost the signal on the receiver. That's what I personally do if my main guitar breaks my spare guitar needs a 3 DB boost on everything so all the filters work the same way, etc. 2. In the beginning of your chain, add a volume block that add/cuts the signal. You can assign it to a button in the pedalboard mode, to get the desired level. 3. Add a gain block at 0 in the beginning of every preset. Once you decide what guitar you are using at the gig, adjust the gain before the show and save every preset. Very easy. In the other band I kept switching up the guitars, since it was just "rock". So I would re-do my presets a couple of weeks before the show, once I made up my mind which axe I was using. 4. Build your presets with multiple inputs. Some people claim it adds certain noise, but in my testing it worked flawlessly. Here's a video how to set it up, if needed: Every guitar is different. Every guitar has a different EQ. To REALLY make all your guitars sound and behave similarly, you need to measure what each guitar does, and compensate. That's what Billy Gibbons's guitar tech did--he stored various EQ/gain settings for all his different guitars, that way he could play an SG, a Tele, or whatever else and the sound would be very very close.

Are you running a recent firmware version? First do back up your helix, reset to factory, restore from backup. Try re-saving every preset. Add a block, save. Remove a block, save.

Is your EXP 1 selected in all snapshots? Or are there snapshots where it switches to EXP 2?

Helix can run 4 signal paths. Granted, you will sacrifice DSP, so you won't be able to add as many blocks as you want, if you take your processing power and slice it by 4. You won't be able to go to town with your effects at all. In terms of things going wrong... It's difficult to make adjustments to your balance live. That's the biggest issue that I see. Also, no preset works 100% when you first try to use it live, so the EQ / gain will most likely need to be tweaked. Add to that, the fact that you have multiple presets--it just becomes an unnecessary pain. Imagine, the vocal microphone starts feeding back in the middle of the song, for example. If you only control one thing (guitar), then you can quickly reach down, turn yourself down, etc. Now if you're running 3 things, then you will start to scramble. Second issue: monitoring situation. The beauty of running your guitar through the Helix is that you can control your on-stage volume yourself, while the XLRs are left to the sound guy. Now you lose that ability to quickly make volume adjustments, because Helix does not come with a hands-on mixer. I guess you can let the sound guy control your balance of all 3 things. But I would not recommend this. For home rehearsals, if you have HX Edit open and you can quickly make adjustments: levels, increase reverb, etc.

Yes you are correct! Snapshot Edits is the setting indeed. Basically you can change that setting, that way you won't have to resave your layout 8 times. Then revert it. The stackable snapshots are a new-ish feature. I personally don't have any use for it, because if the layout changes, it will throw me off. But if you toggle 2 sounds back and forth, maybe it's easier to assign both changes to the same button. There are so many possibilities, whatever floats your boat! You can also have 2 buttons "next" and "prev" to cycle through all 8 of your snapshots. So if you play a song that has 8 sounds, you can simply create a snapshot for each, and order them accordingly. But you may wear out your "next" button pretty fast lol

use 2 independent paths. IMO it's not worth it, unless you have a small coffee shop gig. Too many things can go wrong. I have a video how to set up independent paths: You can create a template preset, then make copies of it and tweak it. That's what I do--I copy a preset and modify it, I never build something completely from scratch, because I have figured out my "rig". By default, new presets have 2 signal paths. All you need to do is tweak the input and the output, and 2 things will be routed independently. You can route each path to a different output: Return 1, 2, 1/4" XLR, or EVERYTHING.

well, that was for everybody, for a few days. now it clearly works ;)

try cleaning it with deoxIT. Pretty sure you can just drip it down the shaft.

Toe switch.... meaning click the pedal in? Yes, you can bypass/un-bypass different things within a preset. I only know how to do this in HX Edit. 1. Add a block, for example distortion. 2. Right-click on the block, select "Bypass Assign", scroll down to "EXP Pedal Toe". 3. Remove all other bypass assignments, such as "snapshot bypass" 4. Now, the block will only be bypassed/un-bypassed when you click the pedal in. End-result: when you click the pedal in, you are able to toggle the on-off state of a given block. Save your blocks in a specific state. If you assign multiple blocks similarly to how I described, you are able to toggle on/off multiple blocks. You can turn one block on, turn another off. Or turn on two blocks, while turning off a third block, and vice versa. Helix toggles the bypass state, against what is saved in your preset. If you want to have the toe switch toggle between distortion and wah, then turn one thing on, turn another thing off, both assigned to the same toe switch. I personally can't stand this toe switch, and instead use snapshots, where I mix "OUT" certain block that are not needed, and mix "IN" blocks that I want to control within a specific snapshot. By mixing out, I mean, I set the "MIX" parameter value at 0, that mean whether or not the block is turned on or off, the sound remains unchanged. Learn how to assign block parameters to snapshots, it's pretty useful: simply right-click on the parameter and assign to snapshots, you'll get brackets around the value, and you can save those values to be different within each snapshot.

These are "stackable" snapshots. You need to select each snapshot, and re-do the assignments of all the buttons 8 times and save each time. You basically have an ability to have 8 different layouts, depending on which snapshot is currently selected. In other words, all buttons can completely change every time you select a particular snapshot in pedalboard view. So you can toggle through all your sound changes by pressing the same button. I personally find it unnecessary.... There's a workaround to not have to do this, the way it worked several versions ago: In Global Settings, change the setting for Snapshot Edits. After you save everything, you can revert that setting back. Otherwise, yeah, you need to do this multiple times. It's more complicated, but gives you extra flexibility!

Pod Go is not a professional-grade piece of equipment. Helix is pretty good, but not perfect. ALL Line 6 gear has absolutely garbage footswitches... ALL! As a touring guitarist, I can tell you that you need to constantly maintain your gear to make sure everything works 100%, and ALWAYS have a backup with you. I don't play bass lines with my feet, just switch my sounds around 6 times per song. I have 2 Helixes: LT for home practicing and all the outdoor gigs and Floor one that I baby and only use at professional gigs. The Floor quickly developed an intermittent issue with 2 buttons not always engaging after a year and a half. Got it cleaned and now it's fine. Also the expression pedal was note screwed in right from the factory, so I had to disassemble it and tighten the screws of the claw, otherwise it would start drifting and loosening. I have mine in Space Gray, and the paint is of really bad quality and scratches easily. My LT which I used a lot more has been almost completely fine, except the same 2 buttons stopped being as reliable, but still always worked, unlike on the Floor. I also bought it used, and it just seems a lot more solid. Cleaned the footswitches, and everything works 100% after 5 years. My Pod Go--one of the footswitches started crapping out after a month and a half of use! I again cleaned the switches and it's been fine. I only used it live 4 times lol. The footswitch design is even worse than on the Helix line. You have your metal button inside the plastic. It attracts dirt, it oxidizes, and starts getting scratchy/crunchy. It's a shame really. If it were built better, it would have been an amazing machine. The sounds out of it are fantastic. It's truly a mini-Helix, just not built for serious live gigs where you don't want your buttons to **** fail!! Line 6's biggest selling point is their usability of their gear. To set up snapshots is a piece of cake, meanwhile on other boards you really need to jump through hoops, e.g. FM9... way too complicated for no reason, also limited in terms of what's allowed in the signal chain. If you want reliable modeller, go with the Fractal FM9, for example. Their footswitch design is contactless (SSS), so they should never wear out or require cleaning, like on the Helix. The only problem I've heard from Fractal boards is the internal battery sometimes fails and you lose all your presets! That battery should last around 10 years, but some users claimed that their board lost all presets within a month. Helix doesn't use a battery btw. Every other modeller has the same crappy tactile switches and they go bad, that's just how they are built. I think it's a deliberate point of failure so people would spend more money and buy more gear. Even with tactile switches, if they used gold-plated ones that cost 5 dollars per switch, they would last forever. But instead, it's cheap Chinese junk. My coffee maker has higher quality switches. My cheap Chinese mechanical computer keyboard has all its buttons still working. My 19-year-old Nord electro keyboard had every single footswitch working flawlessly. In terms of portable wireless units, Shure GLXD16+is the only thing that is not a piece of garbage.... if you want to have a reliable professional system. Everything else that is cheaper is a toy. Shure is for serious musicians and is very reliable. I played outdoor festivals, clubs in Israel, all over Europe, Canada and all over the US. This is the new industry standard for "non-stadium" live acts. If you are playing a stadium, then you need something with even better frequency management and range. If you want more info, visit my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@accidentals_hacks

Everything that I have in my presets works identically. Check your cables, a cable crapping out can do all sorts of weird things to your tone/tracking. I've seen that myself on several occasions. Also check that you are in fact using the same blocks as before...