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Sharing my experience: You need to have good balanced sound without global EQ. I set up my global EQ so that I could compensate for having too much bass frequencies that some amps have, when I go into the effects loop. The global EQ is meant to apply only to your monitor mix, since your unadulterated sound that is going to FOH is perfect with perfect balance. Get a friend who's a sound guy to come over to your house. There are phone apps that do sound spectrum analysis. You can also do that on the computer using any DAW as well. Have the sound guy analyze your sound and make adjustments so it's within what is expected from a guitarist. (I'm not a sound person myself). Make adjustments on the amp block, etc until all the bad frequencies are gone.

The price is $1599 as far as I know, so exactly the same as the Helix floor. But it's got no pedal :) and has one fewer FS....

Helix is more user-friendly for me. Both processors have the same capabilities. At this point as a Helix user, there are no sounds that the Helix does not have, which I need. Which one is better? It's just about the capabilities, processing power, etc. Even though as far as I'm concerned, the Helix is doing just fine with processing power, maybe except poly shift -- there's a slight lag. There's a song where I transpose my whole guitar a step down and it is is noticeably "not together" with my picking. One more thing... Fractal just has a reputation of being professional touring gear. Line 6 does not for most. I used to scoff when I saw somebody using a Line 6 Spider amp, for example. Now obviously, I'm a Line 6 Helix fan and don't plan on switching to anything. With any guitar processor, once you start using it and spend 100s of hours dialing in your presets, it'd be crazy to abandon it all and start from scratch. Unless of course you just use a pedalboard approach, then it's not so bad. I have 55 presets that I spent countless hours perfecting and am planning on continuing to use them for a long time.

You have it auto-bypassed after reaching below 5% or something like that. When you put your EXP in the heel position, the volume block gets bypassed, and that's why you have volume all over again. Just clear the bypass assignment: In HX edit, select "Bypass/Controller Assign" section. Find your volume pedal in the list, and remove the "bypass" one: right-click and select 'remove assignment'. That way your volume pedal will always be on and when at heel position, will mute your sound.

Tone is in the fingers, man. I have come to a realization a long time ago, that I can dial in my "signature" tone with any amplifier: Vox, Fender, Marshall; using any basic distortion pedal (not Octavio). Helix has everything you'd ever need. It takes some time to conjure familiar sounds out of it, using workarounds, hacks or running multiple things instead of one. With very few exceptions, it has an ability to replace 99 percent of guitar rigs. I also think it's silly to use pedals with a processor -- it's meant to replace everything.

I don' think that is possible. Just use the preset-per-song approach, and use snapshots inside presets. Order your presets in the order of your set list. Snapshots are great--no audio dropouts when changing sounds.

You can change the color of the snapshots' button rings!!! The easiest way is in the editor. Just right-click on the snapshot in HX edit and select several option for the color. You can set the color of the ring to always be visible even if the snapshot is not engaged. Or have it be disabled all together.

You can use command center to rearrange all your buttons. Except Mode and tap tempo.

There is loudness of the signal, and then there is perceived loudness in the mix. I have seen many times when, for example, acoustic guitar simulator sounds nice and clear at home, but during rehearsals, it is completely inaudible. You need to adjust the balance in relation to the other instruments in the group. The most important thing is equalization. You can have the same "loudness" for 2 different sounds, but one is EQ'ed differently and stands out because it's more piercing and noticeable. For all my solos, I simply add an EQ block right before the amp and boost 2K 10dB. The best recommendation I can give you from my personal experience is keep your sound consistent in terms of the meat and potatoes setup: distortion type, amp block, cab block, IR. Pick one amp for clean, and another for dirty sounds tops. Don't go all out with multiple amps for each song section. There will always be various nuances where each virtual amp may sit differently in the mix, and you will get inconsistent results during your gig. Some PAs exaggerate certain frequencies, unlike what you get at home. Figure out how to take have lead/vs rhythm sounds. Try the EQ approach that I use. And then after tweaking things at home, be prepared to tweak things some more during rehearsals. In terms of loudness, you can set the amp's volume/master volume, and change the output level of each snapshot or preset. However, again, I don't recommend taking care of solos that way. It will not work for all situations.

There is also the same limitation with global EQ -- on your computer you can have fractions, but on the Helix itself you can only have whole numbers. I, like many, use the editor. It's just so much easier and faster to do it on the computer. For some quick fixes, I tweak things on the Helix itself. But most of the time I don't tweak things live because my presets have already been adjusted during rehearsals. When I first started using the Helix, I brought the laptop to the rehearsal to make adjustments. So unless you are having a continuous delayed note throughout the whole song, fractions or even a few digits off is not going to be a big issue. Tap in the tempo and save it. Or use an editor and save the presets.

the problem is that you added a volume pedal at the end of one path, but not the other. As a result, you can never turn down your signal to zero.

I downloaded the preset. Something is weird. You have 2 "Multi" input paths (first line and 2nd line). Usually there should be one input path, but that's besides the point. You have 2 Multi-output paths: line 2 and line 3. But you have only one Volume pedal on line 3. As a result, line 2 always comes through. If this preset sounds good to you, then just copy the volume pedal in the editor, and paste it at the end of line 2. You can control multiple things with the same expression pedal, so you will get your master volume pedal that way. When you rock the pedal, it'll be controlling 2 volume pedals.

I just tried it and updated my presets! This was exactly what I needed, instead of notes getting louder and louder/piercing. Thanks a lot!

There is this belief that turning things on/off needlessly is bad for equipment. At work, my workstation is always on, and has been on for 5 years. At home, my laptop is also always on, unless I go on vacation. I think that modern cars that save gas and don't idle at red lights are stupid. Turning the engine off at every red light and then starting is horrible for the motor. Just be reasonable with it and don't overthink it. Need to practice? -- turn it on. Take a coffee break -- leave it on. Finished practicing -- turn it off.

Oversampling can be heard. It's not necessarily "better", but there is a sonic difference. Sort-of like it's more "crisp". You can also only really hear it in isolation. In the mix it makes almost no difference. Like if you export your track as a wav file or a high-quality mp3 -- sounds almost the same.

I will repeat: in terms of sounds and functionality I am 99.9 percent happy with what I have on the Helix. I do not need another better/faster machine to do what I do. A year or more ago if you asked me if I was happy with the Helix, I'd say "not quite" because there was no acoustic simulator. It was the last piece that really sealed the deal for me. The one thing I wish the Helix had better would be: the flat/all knobs exposed design SUCKS! But I made it work, and figured out how to prevent myself from turning knobs, and messing up my sounds live. I figured out what to disable, where to place the cursor, and even came up with my own visual cue by using a dummy SEND1 block. From the sound point of view that the Helix still sucks at are the envelope filter/auto-wah and auto fade-in. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but those two are impossible to dial in right for my guitar/virtual amp/etc: the envelope filter is so darn sensitive to the loudness of the note/pitch, it's impossible to make it work for all registers, so I have several envelope filters for each song/section. The auto-swell is also too darn sensitive and doesn't release when needed. I wound up just adding a volume pedal at the beginning so that the thing would release in-between notes. Other than that, I've used the thing for 1.5 years, recorded like 15 songs with it, played gigs with it. It's a piece of equipment that has its flaws, but it's damn near perfect for me. And unlike other pieces of equipment that never quite sounded/felt right or had inherent problems (like the audio drop-offs when switching the patches), this thing is indistinguishable from the "real" amp + pedals, and has that valve amp interaction with your guitar.

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I disabled the light -- it's distracting and useless to me.

You can always use abbreviations :) For my needs, most song names fit just fine, all 50 of them. You can also come up with some nicknames for them...

I love the acoustic sim on my Helix! It's great for live situations for sure. One thing that is very difficult with it, is that it is extremely sensitive to your guitar settings, pickup selection, volume and type of a guitar. If I dial in my sounds for my Brian May guitar, then use a Strat, and the balance is completely wrong. If I just want to strum chords, I set it up with these settings. I have a modded Strat, where I can get bridge + middle in series, creating a humbucker. So let's just say I'm on a bridge humbucker: Mode: Standard Body: 5 Top: 6.9 Shimmer: 0 Level to taste. After that I add a reverb, I happen to like '63 Spring for it. Finally, again depending on your guitar/pickups, there will be some honky notes that just jump out. You need to tame them by using a 10-band EQ. On my strat I have no honkers. I boost 2kHz + 10 dB, for more clarity. It sounds awesome.

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Yeah, Nothing here I'm afraid. I got tired of complaining that my Boss MS-3 had more sounds out of 4 buttons + 2 additional buttons, than the Helix has in one preset :). You need to use different snapshots. One more thing you can do is use the expression pedal to control block engagement. I figured out a trick: EXP 2 controls wah and freeze for example. Some snapshots have the mix of the wah turned down to 0, so it effectively does not turn on, but the effect mix of the freeze is at an audible level. Another snapshot has the opposite: freeze is mixed at 0%, while wah is mixed at 100%. So I can control different things with the same expression pedal in multiple snapshots. There is no limit to how many things you can bypass with a single expression pedal.

I think you need to ask somebody to change those settings for you. So back it up, send the backup to somebody, then they will make the change and back it up on their end, then send it to you.

Here's what works for me, and tested on a stage multiple times. Basically I dialed in an additional distortion block. Whenever my guitar doesn't feed back by itself, I engage a certain snapshot, and it starts feeding back musically. I played on a pretty big outdoor stage and had no issues whatsoever. I use that special feedback snapshot sparingly. Like at the end of the phrase, or right before coming in to convey this "amp about to explode" sound.