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As a gigging musician, I can tell you -- using onboard amp/cab/mic is great. You can dial in your exact sound on the Helix. I too was at one point the "my setup is so unique, I have to use a real amp", etc guitarist. Nope. Spend some time and dial in your exact sound. Plus the stage setup is a breeze without having to be tied to your exact amp requirement. Plus you can play at any volume, and record straight to the DAW. Even if you decide to use an actual physical combo amp, having an ability to have a great signal ready for FOH is always great to have. Even decades ago, bands like Rush have been going direct to FOH, using amp/speaker cab simulation to FOH. Anywyay, just get the complete package -- the Helix, as opposed to later on realizing you are missing stuff....

I'm seeing this behavior (also posted in the bugs thread). The 3.15 "behavior" parameter value gets auto-saved and sometimes applies to unrelated presets. https://youtu.be/j96k1ZFB2Fw

I made a video for the support guy. It's here, in case you want to see the bug:

So if my presets work as before, no need to do anything?

How about fixing the Location: blablaba? How hard is it?

If you don't want factory presets, you can go into an empty Folder "User 1", for example in HX Edit. Highlight 30 "New Preset"'s, copy and paste them over what you want to delete. That was the first thing I did -- deleted those factory presets.

As far as I understand, an acoustic amp for your acoustic guitar is simply a mini-PA. It does not color the sound, distort it in any way, just amplifies the sound, that's why people use it for acoustic guitars. There are of course exceptions where people run acoustic guitars through distortion, but typically you don't want to have it sound natural and warm, that's all. So for acoustic guitars, Helix has a ton of stuff you may find useful. For example, adding a compressor, EQ, delay, reverb, panning, will help you make your acoustic-electric have studio-like sound. So I think in order to sound like a mini-PA, you simply should omit a traditional traditional guitar amplifier. Use the added ingredients to make your direct guitar sound good. "acoustic" guitar playing below... just for lols

Hi peeps. Just recorded a video. Hope you find it useful.

Do you have the effect turned on or off in specific snapshots? If so, that could be the issue.

I played this song 20 years ago before I had the Helix, and coincidentally I play it now with my cover band where we also don't have keys most of the time. Back then and now, I get by with wah-wah for most of the sounds. You can also use filters and stuff, because synths on the Helix are very very temperamental and not really reliable. I have auto-engaged wah-wah that turns off when I put the pedal into the heel position and do a lot of scratching / individual notes for the synths. If you move the wah slowly vs. fast you can mimic various sound effects. In short, I personally think it's impossible to copy all the sounds to sound like the record.

I'm using Weeper wah. So I briefly tried it on one such preset. I have an exact copy of the preset, and whatever I did to the first preset, the second one also got the "toe down" setting or whatever. Any other setting change like clearing a block does not get auto-saved, and does not propagate to other presets. So since I don't know what the heck is going on, I'm not going to be using this setting for the time being. I restored from my backup and everything is back to normal. Don't want to have a fun adventure with wah not turning off / turning on when not needed on stage.

Yes, this new parameter is not working correctly. HX Edit automatically saves changes to it in unrelated presets. I started experimenting with different values of the bypass behavior, and observed that my preset and other presets got saved without me doing anything.

In 3.15, HX Edit appears to be saving several presets by itself, when you change the Bypass Behavior in a different preset. Pre-req: Set Snapshot Edit: Discard. Expectation is that if you re-enter the preset/snapshot, any changes that you made will be discarded. Bug: 1. in HX Edit, go to a block of any preset, e.g. wah-wah 2. Go to Bypass/Controller Assign and locate the "Bypass" parameter. 3. Change the newly-added "Behavior" parameter to "Heel Down" or "Toe Down". 4. Move the expression pedal up/down a few times Go to a different preset, then come back. 1. you will see the change you made has been saved for you. 2. you will see the same change appears to be applied to other presets as well. It appears that identical or nearly-identical presets are updated all at the same time. -- Expectation: No changes should be auto-saved, if you have Snapshot Edit disabled. This bug only applies to Bypass Assignment Behavior change. Other changes are discarded as they should be.

Chances of a Helix LT and Helix floor, bought a year apart, having the same exact hardware problem from the very beginning are extremely slim. Let's see what they say with 3.15 -- since the problem is always there.

I used to use button toppers for the top row, but ultimately got rid of them. It simply takes practice to angle your foot correctly, and once I used the Helix enough, I no longer have any issues. The button toppers get crooked over time, so that's why I stopped using them; they are more trouble than they're worth.

Greetings! So I updated to 3.15 and now the Global Factory Reset doesn't correct this issue anymore. Meaning that with the default factory settings, Left/Mono is always Left. However, I just confirmed that on 3.11 (my other Helix), the issue gets corrected (temporarily) with the Global Factory Reset.

What happens when you press the mode button?

If you want to have your output switch between 2 output jacks, you can use a panner block at the end of the chain. Pan left in snapshot a. Pan right in snapshot b. or you can use send 1 and send 2 blocks. Enable send 1 and disable send 2 in one snapshot. Then do the opposite in another snapshot.

In my experience, a cab of any kind needs to be loud to produce adequate sound. Mixing monitors, however, sound great at any volume.

LMFAO..... OK, you'll get only one reply from me on this thread. Just to make sure, because the first part about HX Edit makes no sense to me.... YOU WANT A BUTTON TO BYPASS ALL YOUR BLOCKS IN A GIVEN PRESET? You press one button and all blocks get TURNED off? That's very easy. You CREATE A SNAPSHOT where all the blocks are bypassed. In that snapshot, you have a direct signal through without any blocks doing anything. It's as if the preset is blank. When you press that snapshot, all your blocks will consequently get bypassed. In Command Center, assign a button to that snapshot. PS: for a solutions architect, scrum, Jira, story points, etc.... you add SO MUCH frikkin useless information without cutting to the chase.

You can also buy an external expression pedal that you can angle however you want. Lots of inexpensive options, like this one: https://www.amazon.com/M-Audio-EX-P-Expression-Pedal/dp/B000NLRWEI

I have the Helix backpack -- it's great except it won't last you long. It starts fraying and with heavy usage will rip after about a year. I only use it when I fly with the Helix as it packs everything I would ever need. As for the hard case, there's this: https://www.thomannmusic.com/thon_effect_case_for_line_6_helix.htm It's very sturdy and even with shipping it's cheaper than Gator ones. What I like is that the Helix can stay in the case itself live on stage. It's important to me when I'm playing somewhere where there's a chance of a spilled beer on stage, or something. This case has enough room to put your power cable and a couple lead cables. I wish there was slightly more room to put my wireless system in, for example. What I came up with is using either a small backpack or a fanny pack and putting it around the case itself with the buckle through the handle. Something like this for example: https://www.ebay.com/itm/402838121360?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&var=673079503054&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649

I for one always use the volume knob on the guitar to clean up my sound a la Brian May, Eric Clapton, etc. So I can see how putting VOL block in the beginning of the chain can be useful to have all the gradations of clean-to-dirty sounds. So, sometimes, somebody who is on stage singing and playing and may not have enough time to reach down to the volume knob on the guitar -- that's when a volume pedal could be useful. I do something different: I have a fixed volume block in the beginning of the chain to cut my input signal in some of my snapshots.... something I would otherwise achieve with the volume knob. Some of the songs where the clean / dirty change is very fast is where I use the volume cut trick. The end-result is exactly the same, just that I can immediately go from clean to dirty with a button press. I always achieve my clean tones by cutting the input signal rather than turning off the distortion block. Well, unless I have a snapshot with an acoustic sim --- the distortion block needs to be completely turned off for it to work properly.