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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.

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.