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If you are choosing, get more DSP--Helix LT, so later you don't have FOMO. Some effects take up a lot of DSP, some not. If you have the Helix LT, then you can really go to town with different effects, transposition, freeze. If you have the Stomp, then you may find yourself being frustrated because you have 1/2 the horsepower, and will need to think of what you can sacrifice. I own Helix LT, Floor and Pod Go. I would be able to play nearly all my gigs with the Pod Go with some clever workarounds. I love the form factor of the Pod Go. I love that it has the expression pedal built in, and a decent screen. The only downside to the Pod Go is the very very bad footswitches, that are even worse than those on the Helix, Stomp, etc. The quality is severely compromised, so much so that after just a few months one of the buttons stopped working reliably. It's a shame... Pod Go, if it only were built better is a much better option than HX Stomp. So in summary, get the LT IMHO. They are pretty inexpensive now. It'll be a complete package allowing you to accomplish a lot of different sounds. Mine still works great after 6 years (with some minor maintenance). The Pod Go on the other hand... I have it as a backup. It would be nice if I didn't have to worry about the footswitches crapping out, because it sounds great, and I played several gigs with it, and just used it to jam at home... BTW, if you want check out my Pod Go videos (there are more on my channel for the Helix as well):

Or you can simply save your preset with the cursor put on an empty block, or in the beginning of the path. That way the parameter knobs won't do anything, if that's the intention. I also use a trick I cam up with--putting a cursor on a non-functioning dummy block to see if wah is engaged or not, with all parameters assigned to snapshots. I realize that this is not necessarily what you're asking for, but there you go....

You need one of these: https://voodoolab.com/product/hx-current-doubler-cable/

Can you attach your preset?

Make sure your HX Edit matches your firmware version. Otherwise, who knows what it can do...

Send the same signal to your clean amp, or FRFR in mono. Problem solved. Otherwise your whole balance will be weird especially if you run delays after the amp. Read my post about how to run your signal. The simpler the better. Trust me, I toured all over Europe, US and Canada, so I know what works with the Helix. Cheers!

I'm curious about your use case. If you are thinking about doubling the number of footswitches or snapshots... that's not possible. If you are thinking about having a backup (redundant) Helix Control... I have never heard of anybody doing that. Unless you are playing a huge arena, if you are worried about things failing, just pack a backup Helix Control with you. When I toured Europe, I had a backup Helix with me everywhere.

I spent about 20 minutes per preset, manually recreating it in HX Edit from Pod Go Edit. It's not too bad.

Do you have a volume block in your chain? Maybe you stepped on the pedal switch, and turned yourself down?

He always left his distortion on. All you need is a DS-1 equivalent. Classic Distortion is a good one in the Helix, a Marshall, and a chorus. Deez-one or whatever it's called in the Helix does not work like DS-1. Gary used the DS-1 with the following settings: tone on 9, distortion on 3.

Did you try a different adapter? Adapters can get fried all the time.

Take a look at what I typed up earlier. The expression pedal can basically add a bunch of additional sounds to your existing snapshots. For example: Toe: 5 things get turned off, 7 things get turned on, and heel: the opposite. Depending on the snapshot, you can mix certain effects out. I have some videos that you may find useful (not HX Effects though), that go over this. The first video specifically goes over my approach of mixing things out. As you can see, one expression pedal can do completely different things in each snapshot: turn on/off wah, vibrato, synth, as well as controlling parameters like the curve, feedback, output level, whatever you want. Also, the "current number" feature in MS-3 is doable with the Command Center and it's great. Please familiarize yourself with it. You can have one button to switch to a specific snapshot, while also toggle on/off multiple effects after you are in that snapshot. You can have one button cycle through all snapshots if you want to! A combination of all the tricks: 4 snapshots * expression pedal (toe/heel) = 8 distinct sound combinations. Add to that 4 stomps that can be accessible from the same view using Command Center, 8 * 2 = 16 distinct sound combinations.

I actually used MS-3 for about 2 years. For the band I was playing in, I used one bank, 4 buttons and 2 external buttons to cover every sound I'd ever need, which was a lot! When I got the Helix 5 years ago, I realized that one preset would not be enough. But this was a long time ago, before the revolutionary Command Center was introduced. So I settled on the song-per-preset approach and could not have been happier. That is the way to go. I have a Pod Go, which also has 4 snapshots. I wanted to downsize from the Helix and found it more than enough actually in terms of power/snapshots, etc.. It's only 4 snapshots, but if you have a preset per song, then 4 snapshots is plenty. For additional sounds, on the Pod Go, I use the expression pedal. With the pedal, you can assign multiple things to it, so you can double the number of sounds you can produce to 8. Expression pedal is not just for wah/volume! You can assign anything to it: parameter changes, bypassing/un-bypassing things. If you assign mix parameters of various blocks to snapshots, and bypass/un-bypass things with the expression pedal, then you can really expand your possibilities. The mix parameter set at 0%, means the block is not heard. That means that the same expression pedal can turn on/off different things depending on the snapshot you are in (something is turned on but not heard). To accomplish that, assign multiple effects to the pedal, but mix the ones you don't need out (mix = 0%). For example, you can have 4 rhythm snapshots. From these two, you can have 2 double as lead snapshots. In those two snapshots, if you put the expression pedal in the toe position, it activates a delay and EQ to make your solos cut through. In one of these rhythm/lead snapshots, you can have the expression pedal control the wah as well. You can have delayed bypassing of blocks via the expression pedal -- up to 1 second. So in one of these snapshots, if I start rocking the pedal, the lead sound persists, while I rock the pedal. Then when I put it in toe position, delay/EQ turn off after 1 second... And we are just getting started! MS-3 had the ability to use each button for 2 things, aka "current number". On the Helix, you can also do things like that with the Command Center. So you can mix and match snapshots/stomps. So, for example, you enter one snapshot, then press the same button again (or hold it) to turn something else on/off. I have no idea how to do this on the unit itself, given there's no screen. But I'm sure in HX Edit, that's easily doable. So with Command Center + expression pedal, you have WAY more than 8 sounds possible. Probably like 16.

I'd just add a urinal to it. Sometimes you really gotta go. And a smoke machine.

yeah! Gorilla Glue is so strong. My previous rig consisted of MS-3 little processor, and I glued 2 side buttons to it. Toured with that extensively :). But with Velcro, you can take it off, in case then new pedal breaks... And lighten up. Why are you so mad. LT is a flimsier version of the Helix. Just giving you some options. If my LT pedal broke, I'd do the same as I suggested.

I would just take off the pedal, and get a small external one and velcro it to the body.

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.