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In my band, I have some mostly subtle stereo sound effects. Mainly, I use ping-pong delay on some songs that create 3D stereo sound. There are a few songs where I have hard-panned delay that is sync'ed up to the song so that I can harmonize with myself. I also (having watched Greta van Fleet rig rundown) have stereo-panning when using the wah for one part. There's also one song where at the end we all go crazy and I have a stutter sound with hard panning. I also find it is very effective to contrast the washy stereo sound with some dry mono sound for some songs, or even within the same song. If it's all washy and reverb'y, it gets tiring really fast IMO. How do I use the stereo sound? I simply give the sound person the left/right XLR cables so that the FOH can get stereo sound. On stage, I always play in mono using whatever is there: either my own FRFR or going into the power amp of an amp, just to hear myself. I think that stage stereo sound is unnecessary and may even throw me off, personally, so I use the left/mono plug to hear myself. At home, I have a pair of Yamaha monitors, where I dial in my sounds. When I practice at home, I play through these monitors in stereo.

Synths usually start tripping all over the place when the input signal is too weak, or if your guitar is not tuned correctly. Try adding some compressor or gain in the beginning of the chain. Do your synths track better with a different guitar? I've used some filters etc, and I found that the gain settings (where my volume knob is positioned) create a very big discrepancy in how the filters and synths sound and track.

Besides watching videos how to build presets/snapshots, and all that, I recommend the following purchases... (unless you already have it)... and sorry if it's been mentioned before, but.... 1. good studio monitors that you can use to dial in your sounds. Without them, you risk showing up to a gig with unusable sounds. 2. Headrush 108, or any other FRFR. I love this FRFR. It is plenty of sound for stage volume, or even a small gig/rehearsal. It works for bass too. The only caveat with this speaker is that it needs to be put on a stand or on something so it's lifted off the floor to sound right. Otherwise it's too boomy and you'll need to EQ it. Once you dial in your sound/EQ, this thing sounds and feels as good as your old-school combo does. I always have it in my car's trunk and have used it quite a few times. So light, and so powerful, it's awesome. I played last weekend on a small stage at the outdoor festival, and the sound guy said there was plenty of sound coming from it, that he didn't even need to add my sound to the PA.

What you CAN do is you can use the MIX parameter of various blocks where at 0%, it's inaudible. When it's inadible, then bypassed or not bypassed makes no difference. Snapshots allow you to control all parameters in your block. So I don't know your exact need, but you can assign like 4 blocks to the same footswitch in pedalboard mode, but depending on the snapshot, some blocks are mixed at 0% (meaning they are not audible), and the others are audible. So in effect, your stomps can "change" on a per-snapshot basis... if you mute certain blocks and unmute the others. For example you can assign vibrato, delay, reverb to footswitch 1. In snapshot 1, delay and reverb are mixed at 0%, but vibrato is mixed at 30%. In snapshot 2, vibrato is mixed at 0%, but the other 2 blocks are mixed at 40%. So using the same footswitch, your sound will change differently. Your one switch controls vibrato or delay + reverb depending on which snapshot you're in.

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Or just use what's in the Helix. The whole point of using a processor is to stop using all your heavy gear. So many choices for amps.... cabs, IRs... I really honestly don't see the point of using a physical amp using 4cbl method.

One advantage of the LT over the Floor is that the virtual scribble strips are a lot easier to read in the direct sunlight. LT is lighter in terms of weight slightly. That's where the advantages end. Floor is more rugged, more inputs and the actual scribble strips are amazing on a dark stage.

One of the things that are very important to the Beatles guitar sound is the compression. A bright sustain-y compressed sound.

Try adding these in a parallel path. I did it by accident at first, and now all my presets have the delay in parallel with the main path. That parallel path just sounds more organic. More subtle and the mix also does not mess with the balance as much. Otherwise, some blocks start doing weird things. There is ubiquitous vibe, when mixed at 0 changes to loudness of your signal path, when you compared to it being completely bypassed. It takes some "A/B"'ing and you may need to boost the overall snapshot loudness as you tweak the mix parameters of your delays. It definitely needs to be done. Good luck.

The key ingredient of the sound is the slapback delay. It doubles your sound so that it has that "tile room" sound. Then maybe some kind of a distortion, flanger... recorded directly without an amp. It could be a thousand things that went into the sound, but I definitely hear the slapback.

I have had that popping sound in one of my presets with a regular electric guitar. In my case it was the the acoustic sim on the HELIX itself that made the popping sound. I opened a ticket and got a response with an attached fixed preset: ... I can hear the sound glitch you reported. I think the AC-2 is one of those effects that needs to go near or at the very beginning in the signal chain. Another thing that I've seen makes the popping sound worse in my case was the volume pedal that I used to cut the input volume. It made the popping sound a lot worse.

Use the EQ block to boost 2K 10 decibel... place that block right before the amp. I've been doing this on virtual and physical amps for the last 5 years. And now this works just as well on the Helix. Works like a charm. Do NOT make it louder. Make it piercings Check out my "kitchen sink" preset: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Yumi3gTcxKQvqFgouNNu7jrQBdD54oyd/view?usp=sharing Video explaining what's going in in the preset is here: See my signal path for the solos (top row snapshots) P.S.: I asked the sound guy if my sound balance was ok with this method and he assured me that it was: meaning he barely needed to boost me/lower my volume throughout. We have been working together for several years, and this is the first time he was really happy with how little work he had to do. I played a 22-song set in June using the Helix to FOH as my only effects/amp.

One cool way of using snapshots is to use change the mix parameters of various blocks to 0 or 100 percent. When at 0, they are essentially bypassed. In my case, I have several filters and a wah blocks, all within the same preset. I only want to have one filter per snapshot. So I set the rest mixed at 0 percent and they do not make any sound. I set all these blocks to be engaged with an EXP pedal. So as a result, in my preset I have 3 different filter / special effects that I can engage within specific snapshots with the exp pedal. It's a shame not all blocks have a mix parameter....

Not sure why you don't want to add the amp block to the signal path as it suits your needs. If you don't want both guitar signals to be processed by the amp, then relocate the amp block up above. I think you should watch some videos about how to route multiple inputs. It's just a wiring diagram. What you see is what you get, no surprises. There are some people who do preset building workshops remotely. Otherwise, watch this video, this guy is excellent

lmao. I mean my question is that does the washer play a structural role in the FS...Like if it just shatters, does the button fall in? that's all.

Howdy. I have an LT I bought used. I noticed one of the footswitch's clear plastic washer/ring is cracked. I fixed the crack using "plastic surgery" plastic glue. After that, I noticed a 2nd crack started to form. The cracks are following the 4 lines underneath the ring. There are these 4 lines that divide the area into 4 sectors. I follow the "if it ain't broke, don't fix" saying. So how bad/dangerous is it to have this cracked washer/ring? Can my footswitch fail? thanks!

Let me explain how I use snapshots. I use a different preset for each song. If there are some sections in a specific song, for example only 2 (rhythm and solo), then I create 7 identical snapshots with blank scribble strip texts, and one that says "SOLO". If there is a song that uses one sound throughout, I just have 8 identical snapshots that have blank text. There's no way to delete a snapshot, you can just choose which ones do what.

For the master volume question -- that's easy. You can control several things with one expression pedal. So simply add as many volume pedal blocks as needed. In your case, put one volume pedal at the end of your acoustic path. Put another one at the end of your electric path. Use the "learn" feature to assign the expression pedal to your 2nd volume pedal. Disable bypass -- since you always want the volume pedal to work. And you will have 2 volume pedals moving in synch. But that's besides the point.... For all the other questions... you route your acoustic to "multi", and also route your electric to "multi". Instead, you want to route both electric and acoustic to a combined path 2A. That way you can put effects on the combined path (2A), and only need one volume pedal. That's the main issue you are having. You should also be able to put the looper on the very last "line", and it will combine both acoustic and electric sounds and loop them. You need to look at this as a real wiring diagram. Figure out what you need to accomplish. Like, do you want 2 instruments to be routed out independently, or combined into one signal path and processed together.

Right?!? Since they are inverting black/white for the pedalboard mode. If it were my call, I'd also have the same snapshot name view as the Helix LT. To me my signal chain view is absolutely freaking USELESS! I am playing a show, and I don't care about the order of my blocks. So it's just a huge waste of a huge screen to display all these blocks. When playing an outdoor show during daytime, Helix LT has better visibility than the floor. Good thing I have both :) -- LT is my workhorse, practice tool and the Floor is what I take to [dark] gigs. On a dark stage, the scribble strips absolutely saved my lollipop last time -- no way I'd be able to see anything, unless I changed the ring lights setting.

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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.