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You can always change "master" volume setting of any preset you have. Go to the output section in your preset -- every preset has this. There you can raise the volume / lower the volume and pan the preset left / right. Also you can for example assign the "master" volume to be controlled by snapshots so the overall volume can be raised / lowered in a specific snapshot. Follow the regular procedure of assigning the output volume level to the snapshots. There's one preset where I boost my overall volume for the solo by raising the overall preset volume in my "SOLO" snapshot. I also use this overall volume setting to level off my presets AND snapshots within the presets.

Well, Pod HD 500X's effects are exactly what is in the "legacy" section of the Helix products as per my understanding. So I don't see an issue in using 2 effects processors together: use the POD HD for your effects, and Stomp as the amp + reverb / Delay for example. That way you have all those buttons you can use, and you won't suffer from the silence when you switch between your presets because you will have your reverb/delay that will still remain on to absorb the sound interruptions. HD 500 X is a great piece of equipment still if you know what you're doing. I personally know a guitarist in a very well-known band that used Pod HD 500 directly to the FOH, and before that POD X3 Live. I was actually surprised when I found out that he used a processor all those years ago, I always thought they had that great analogue tube-y surf sound. Anyway, here's how I would use it: I would put the Pod HD into the effects loop of the Stomp. I would have a master A/B switch on the Stomp to go between a clean and a processed sound by engaging the effects loop where the Pod is going to run. It depends on your exact band / sounds, but I'm sure you can figure out a creative way to combine these two great pieces of gear. Maybe the video below will give you some ideas as well.

Let me tell you about my experience... I play mainly my Brian May guitar, with the humbucker sound of 2 pickups in series (bridge and middle). That's my main meat and potato sound. I also have a Gibson Les Paul Classic guitar with humbuckers. Real Gibson humbuckers are a lot louder than my "fake" in-series mid+bridge. The difference is so drastic that I have to put my Les Paul's volume control on 4 in order to have it match my Brian May's volume on 10. So maybe the answer is simply cutting the input volume with a volume pedal. As a side note, I noticed that if you have too much volume going in, the guitar does not want to chug -- it's wooly and shapeless. Lower the input volume to 4, and all of a sudden the chug is back.

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Downloaded your preset, and I see you have 4 3-tone generator blocks. In reality, you can accomplish chord changes with just one 3-tone generator block. You can assign the pitch of each note to snapshots. Let me send you one of my "proof of concept" presets that does a pretty convincing Hammond B3 impersonation, complete with Leslie slow/fast switches. The glitch you describe is because you hear two tone generators at once. Also if you want the notes to switch instantaneously, then play with the attach/delay/glide parameters. Anyway, take a look at my preset, hope it helps. With snapshots, you can change any parameters of any block. In my example I change the pitch of the 3 notes. Also, I used chord inversions so that some of the notes are reused between the chords. foot organ+acous.hlx

https://www.ebay.com/itm/225046801330?hash=item3465d5abb2:g:wh0AAOSwovRit~fT Pod XT Live is amazing! Less menus, indestructible, works with the Variax.

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Agreed, they are all mostly horrible Why? Because priorities are elsewhere. A lot of gear has horrible factory presets in my not so limited experience. On the Helix there are always wild volume fluctuations, and presets are so overly exaggerated and "show-off'y", that they try to cram as much stuff into them in order to demonstrate what is possible, while making them sound unmusical. I remember when I first got my Helix, I scrolled through a couple presets, then promptly cleared every single factory preset and started building my own. I know FM9 for example has amazing presets that can be used right away. I watched some rig rundown and the guitarist said he wound up using the default factory preset during a session, that's how good it sounded. But Line 6 has its priorities elsewhere. The same reason why this Line 6 Forum has broken avatar pictures, etc...

that's the spirit! If it ain't broke, don't fix it. 3.11 is the most stable version. 3.15 is a dud.

I'm pretty sure you have a misconfigured preset. Try a default preset. You can have the top path going "nowhere", that's why you don't hear anything.

This topic has been discussed extensively. What makes the most sense is to set XLR L + R to front of the house, an amp/cabinet on stage to recreate the familiar feeling of playing through a traditional guitar rig. In my observation: yes absolutely, different physical amp + cabs drastically changes the sound. Every amp colors the sound. Every cab colors the sound. However, it's more along the lines of how certain types of amps/cabs change your sound. I have noticed that for example a Marshall 4x10" makes the sound very boomy and all the nuances like delays and reverbs virtually disapperar. Compared to that, a Peavey Classic 30 + single 12" speaker on the other hand preserves a lot of detail in the sound and sounds a lot closer to what your true Helix sound is. My recommendation: if you want to have consistent results, you need to use the same consistent gear. I personally don't like Marshalls amps / cabs as their sound is very directional, and too loud for most venues. As a result you wind up keeping it on 1, and it sounds like garbage. What I use: I bought a compact power amp: Mooer Baby Bomb. It's very small (can fit into your gig bag) and sounds very good and consistent. When I play a gig, all I need is any combo amp that has a single 12" speaker. I simply disconnect the speaker from the amp, leave the amp unplugged, and plug the speaker into Mooer Baby Bomb. For myself, I purchased an Orange 112 speaker cabinet. With all of these, I don't need to make any EQ adjustments, and it sounds very consistent, even, familiar and predictable. My setup takes me 5 minutes, whereas before I used to have to tweak my global EQ to get the sound that was decent. Since a single 12" speaker cabinet-equipped amps are very common in small clubs, I recommend trying my approach.

There are known bugs with 3.15 regarding bypassing of blocks. I had to downgrade to 3.11. So if you started seeing different behavior after upgrading to 3.15, that's no surprise. If you don't touch anything and simply upgrade, you will have no issues. If you start messing with different presets' bypass settings, you may have completely unusable buggy presets. The topic (below), page 60 has people describing various issues. If I were Line 6, I'd issue a hot fix immediately for it. But alas, it's been several months and it's still in the backlog.

I also agree that the performance view is quite useful when you are playing during daytime. To me, my signal chain view is absolutely useless when I'm performing, because I'm playing and not adjusting my presets during that time. I have 2 Helixes: Floor and LT. LT gets used outdoors, at dusty campsite gigs, questionable jams; while the Floor gets used on a clean stage indoors. There were several times where the lighting people started having too much fun at one of the gigs, and if it weren't for the scribble strips and my glowing side dots on the guitar, I'd not been able to play. As in, the only source of light that I had were the friggin' scribble strips. Like one time, the lighting people decided it'd look great to turn off all the stage lights entirely for 5 seconds, just to flash them on every downbeat for the next minute. LOL So yes, it's not unreasonable to want to be able to see BOTH: scribble strips and the performance view. It'd take almost no coding effort to allow this to exist.

I don't know what exact synth sounds you need, just maybe pads in that particular song? I don't hear anything prominent. In terms of organ sounds, I use the 3 tone generator, run it through a 12 string sim, and have a Leslie, and save pitch settings in snapshots. That way I can have a backing organ track for myself. Some snapshots can have the Leslie on, some off, so Leslie can spin up, slow down. I also have a song where I simulate a Leslie by having a very high distortion signal where the guitar feeds back on its own. I run that through a Leslie, and as the feedback happens, the chord morphs and sounds like an organ player is changing the drawbar settings. Also, I control the Leslie spinning speed with the exp pedal. Finally, there are a bunch of legacy synth sounds that were added in 3.15. You can use them to shape your sound, add some harmonies, using smart harmonizer. They are all quite finicky, and I quickly realized that I personally could not get anything useful out of them, but that's me. Plus I had to downgrade to 3.11 due to an EXP pedal bypass bug.

Just out of curiosity, did this happen on 3.15? What I do is I have 2 folders (set lists) of identical presets. Just in case I manage to mess up something, I have another identical folder of presets. Plus I religiously back things up every time I change something, and email the backup to myself. So if something ever happens, I can theoretically restore from a backup, all I need is a printer cable and a laptop. If it's an important show, and I manage to have this problem, I have this option. You're more than likely to find somebody who has a laptop and a printer cable, no matter what part of the world you are in.

To me 3.15 is unusable due to the horrible bypass bug. Yes, factory reset fixes it. It will be back in a couple of weeks, not to worry!

I tried it just because I like to clean the in/out jacks.. Yep same exact thing. Sorry... PS: I used DeoxIT I work as a computer developer and constantly diagnose / fix things on a daily basis. Many times with the Helix I was able to isolate and later on describe the exact bug to Line 6, given I know how to replicate it. This is not a hardware issue, since it first appeared on my LT, then a brand-new Floor. It makes no sense, but the bug will come up after some time.

In my case, I do not change anything with Global Settings at all. Then a few weeks later the problem just develops by itself. Yes, for sure it is due to some settings, but they remain unchanged for me. The only thing that I do with the Helix is play it and back up/restore. I don't tweak my settings at all.

I'm pretty sure that the issue will come to the surface after you create a backup with HX Edit and possibly restore from the backup. My XLR Outs behave as expected: Left/Mono is always Mono by itself. The issue is only with 1/4 inch outputs. Thanks.

Helix Floor Backup 2022-May-09.hxb Here you go! I mean the fact that the issue disappears after a reset, means it is a bug. I have the "sound check" preset where you should be able to hear the issue... Let us know.

The video I posted explains how it is a software bug, and not a hardware problem. I repeat: it is NOT a hardware issue. Support people at Line 6 tell recreated the bug on 2.82 and then never again. I find it very difficult to believe they don't have any bug tracking systems, like in the IT world DevTrack, Jira, I don't know..... The best they can do is "we will try to fix it in the upcoming release, without giving you any tracking number whatsoever." So sure enough 3.15 fixed it -- yay, for a week, until I backed up/restored my presets and it came back.

With me, I don't change any settings at all... I just do a few back up/restores and I think that is what does it... Because at home I have 2 things plugged into left/right (my mixing monitors), I can never catch it.... ugh lol

I went and ordered a 1/4 inch mono TS Female to 2 x 1/4 inch Male Mono TS Y splitter cable on eBay and it works like a charm. https://www.ebay.com/itm/152233551323 How about we all open tickets to explain we are experiencing this... If many of us do this, Line 6 can't keep ignoring it? I just opened a new one. Do we really need an Ideascale entry for this? lol