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The one thing that has caused strange sounds to me is drastical changes in gain setting/master/channel vol changes in amps with snapshots. When wanting clean/crunch/heavy sound from just one amp and switching between those sounds and gain settings within one amp in snapshots. Better turn on/off dist pedals/different amps in these instances which causes no audible pops/clicks.

I'm using a cable like this: https://m.thomann.de/se/pro_snake_tpy_2003_jbb.htm?o=15&search=1627023221 Successfully connecting the m-audio ex-p plus a foot switch to the stomp (exp4/fs5). The ex-p is TRS out. IIRC both TRS and ts work as cable for the footswitch. I can also connect the ex-p directly to the input without the y cable, but IIRC it only works with exp4 not exp5 that way. As the Y cable is dual TS female I think it is forgiving in regards of TRS or TS cable.

Rectifire, together with the new horizon boost or maybe klon centaur boost emulation.

Ur welcome, when evaluating cabs I would dial a patch with you favourite IR that you like, then use mono cabinet for the patches you try to match as you won't have to make the same changes of mic/distance/early reflections/filters twice, as with the stereo cab. Find a few you think is nice and sound similar to your ir, make presets for each. Then try with global eq to match it even further, then when you find something you like (hopefully) use the same settings for both Cabs in a stereo cab instance instead of mono. That way you can in the quickest manner go thru as many cab/mic combinations as possible, which can be quite overwhelming even with mono cabs. Good thing is global eq only applies to the main out and your signal going to your stage cabs will be unaffected. Good luck!

I just tried this with my stomp and also to get the built in cabs to sound similar to my fav IR's, and it worked rather good I must say. So to the OP, yes it's possible and easy with any of the helix products, just insert a SEND L/R block just before your stereo cabinet block, and all your stereo effects will work both for cabs on stage plus for the simulated cab going to FOH. Not sure whether the SEND outputs of the Helix LT are balanced or unbalanced, my guess is unbalanced. Also I don't know if it will work with Impulse responses, but it's not too hard to find a cab that sounds good with a bit of global eq applied to match your favourite IRs if you have any, I've only tried on studio monitors thus far tho. Good luck!

Do you have any tip of a cab/mic working fine with the epic amp or rectifire for really low tuned metal? I'm tuning my 7string guitar to C on 6th string and G(49 Hz) on 7th. Would be cool!

Not sure whether this is correct in the case of helix/helix LT as I'm using hx stomp, but I'm having problems with figuring out a way to make your setup work in my situation without the signal to FOH collapsing to mono, as the stereo FX has to be before the IR block (if I want effects to also go to my guitar cab) and IR blocks are always mono, hence the collapse of stereo effects. Im not in front of my unit now, but iirc there might be stereo cabs inside the unit that could solve this issue, as long as you are fine with not running IRs, dual IR block might work too. The reason being that to send signal without ir applied to a guitar cab all effects has to be pre send-block and IR just after send block, it's a catch-22 situation for me but might be ways around I haven't figured out yet.

Those two were already in order, still had problems with fluctuating values when in the 0% position, not sure if I also had in 100% position as it was much more noticeable when in 0% position with the way I am using it. Since removing the pads no issues at all. Do you also have to disconnect/connect the pedal for it to properly work, if you accidentally touch the grey knob for, when turned fully counter clockwise again? Happens sometimes for me (maybe all the time, not sure)

I'm using m audio exp-p with my stomp, I had problems with values jumping up and down a little. Since I've removed the cushion pads underneath the pedal (not facing the floor, the ones between the movin part and the pedal) it's 100% consistent. The cushion pads did not let it stay in its 0% position consistently. Don't know if yours has the same but could be worth investigating

Sounds like a good plan actually, I'm not sure how it looks when the output block clips but whenever it starts to clip, back it off a good 5-6 dB and you should be safe and no compromise of sound. Would not need a DAW for it either which is nice If you use a DAW, just make sure it won't go over -6 dB on the meter and you're good to go

I'm using hd600 which is 300 ohms, and I have no troubles getting the volume I need and I also push the output block quite a bit without it sounding strange, as long as you're in the digital domain volume boosts won't introduce noise. Do you have access to a computer and DAW? I would personally consider anything below 6dB of clipping on dBfs to be safe, whether you boost on the amp SIM or the output block would not matter IMO, except if you use FX loop then don't clip the loop block with excessive amp volume. There are red indicators flashing on the blocks if you push them to clipping which I think is above 0 dBfs

Did you troubleshoot in a DAW with the helix as soundcard recording input 1/2 and watching the meters there? That would effectively bypass all analog stages except input. If the L/R levels are matched there but not when going to your analog mixer something in the analog domain might be pthe problem

What music are you playing? Do you need many stereo effects? If you play pop/rock or metal it's kinda different approaches IMO. If you play pop/rock you can just go with an amp you like and add a distortion pedal before it and have two different gain stages. If you play metal nothing is tight enough except boost pedal+amp gain and you cannot just turn off the boost to get clean enough. Just an example of differences in genres and how to prioritize differently. I've spent countless hours managing the dsp efficiently in the stomp. We are two guitar players sometimes with just one stomp which is rather challenging

Relayswitching of my 6505 would be awesome with the stomp, for example from one of the existing trs jacks, I have no idea whether it's technically possible tho. Imagine a stomp in 4cm mode with possibility to switch channel and FX loop on/off. Would be awesomee

I'm using my quilter bassblock 800 together with my stomp to power my 4x12 with v30 speakers in it, my cab is 8 ohm so I have to be careful not to fry it (it's extremely loud), but the bb800 delivers 225w at 16ohms. It has line in on the back which bypasses all EQs in front, straight wire to the amp section so all shaping happens in the stomp just as I like. The class D amp is very neutral in its sound using the line in. I have not tried plugging a guitar into the front of it but the front shaping EQ is specifically made with bassists in mind which is my main instrent with the band. the quilter stuff is of very high regard for instrumentalists. Mine sound very good with the 4x12, melts my face with the rectifier and soldano

Hello, I tried to load what I think is a Helix preset in my stomp and hx edit stopped recognizing the device and when I try to reboot the device it stops during loading screen and says "Rebuilding preset 54", anybody experienced this? Will I have to reset the device or is there a workaround? Thanks, and happy new year!

Hello, these cabs has proven to beat my favourite IR's by a rather large margin, they sound very good with the helix amps but has to be run as a vst inside your daw so you need to bypass hw monitoring and listen thru daw. They are 50% off now and an absolute steal for the price, and they offer a trial. Try them out and see if you like them. Having some weird glitches/stability issues which I'm trying to manage but the sound absolutely slays. Number 10 is my fav then number 6. https://dibiquadroaudio.com/pwrcabs/

Got it to work now with your method. Thanks a lot!

Thanks rd2rk, this is all confusing to me. Some people on youtube use reacontrolMIDI to swap stuff in the HX stomp/Helix, some people use MIDI editor with bank/program select to achieve both preset & snapshot switching, and in those cases the parameters does not correspond to what they do on my computer. I cannot find "Insert new midi event" in my midi editor, where do you right click to find this function? I can find "Event properties" (ctrl+F2) which has all the different properties you write about OTOH. When I click apply I cannot see any event being programmed into the Midi editor (like when placing a MIDI note or inserting a bank/program select event). Am I supposed to see some change in the midi editor when I hit apply in event properties? Is even event properties the same window as "insert new midi event"? Thanks for the help

Hello, I'm getting preset-switching and parameter control to work with sending PC and CC messages from reaper but cannot understand how to get it to work with swapping snapshots in a preset, I've looked at most youtube vids and read about it, any suggestions? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhLElhHJ6D4&feature=youtu.be This is similar to what I'm doing to get the presets to change(from about 2:50), you should supposedly be able to swap snapshots from the bank/program select window which he brings up at about 3:20 too but I can only make it work with switching presets. However I'm changing presets in the "Program number" window (as opposed to him saying this changes snapshots) and BANK MSB/LSB does nothing for me which confuses me due to him saying these should change presets. This is released just a few weeks ago why would there be any difference in how reaper controls my stomp? If somebody here uses reaper for switching and can give me some clues I'm grateful!

As a HX stomp user fav amp means two things for me: either those that I like the most, or the ones that sound ok but use much less processing power. The ones I like the most is probably the whowatt, derailed Ingrid, PV Panama, sorry cannot stay with 3 I need to Include the matchstick jump too The ones I use the most in my patches is badonk & litigator ATM, as they can sound very nice and won't break the bank. I've fallen for quite CPU hungry effects and as I need both a clean and a heavy amp in my patches I have not much wiggleroom with the stomp processing power. Would be rad if line 6 made the amp+cab blocks so that I can bypass the amp/cab separately and free up a little more power.

Yeah I know I'm a faithful gearsluts attendee aswell :) Thanks! I hope the JDI will be good enough for this due to it's price and reputation, still as of now something sounds a little bit off compared to line out. I'll hope I find a remedy after some more troubleshooting!

I tried unbalanced line out from the SEND also, and it sounded just like the main out balanced send afaik, so it ought to be the jdi of preamp. As reputable as the jdi is I'm more inclined to blame the preamp but who knows, I will definitely troubleshoot this and hope I can find the same signal integrity going the DI route. I'll keep posting here if I find something interesting if it's of interest.

I've tried playing through a JBL eon15 g2 tonight swapping between MAIN line out to the line in of the EON, and then thru the SEND instrument level > Radial JDI into the XLR microphone preamp of the JBL eon (It's got a preamp built in). The sound was pretty similar, but through the JDI it was quite a bit more intrusive in the high mids. Might be the preamp of the EON that is of subpar quality but I've tried another recording chain at home and found the DI solution to be somewhat lacking compared to the main outs there aswell. I've read about helix through DI boxes and people claim it should sound exactly the same so it might be something with the rest of the chain that messes the sound up a little. Thanks for your help and suggestions guys! Will experiment more with this.

Thanks so much for your help zappazapper!