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  1. Also, the latest Sonoma update apparently breaks something in the auvaltool. This is currently being discussed over at logicprohelp.com/forums/topic/150906-macos-sonoma-is-out-please-report-any-plug-in-incompatibilities/?do=findComment&comment=898266
  2. Just don't upgrade the OS if everything runs smooth for you. Until August 2023 my MacBook Pro mid-2012 was happily running El Capitan. And it still is. (It also has other bootable partitions from Mountain Lion up to Catalina, but El Capitan is it for me, for many reasons.) Heck, even the latest Helix Native and HX Edit are still compatible with El Capitan, although not officially supported by Line 6 anymore. There is an issue with automatic updates but the rest works just fine. I also have a new MacBook Air M2 15". It will happily run Ventura for many years to come. Sonoma et al my behind. (Disclosure: I do have a spare bootable volume with Sonoma for testing purposes. Just in case. Additional volumes are easy to create via Disk Utility on the fly nowadays. No need to reformat drives anymore, thanks to APFS.)
  3. Slightly confusingly, if "Snapshot Bypass" has a check mark, then it will remember its saved snaphot state. To be completely "snapshot agnostic", the check mark needs to be off. Also remember to save the preset to library before switching to another one.
  4. My solution while I was playing a Les Paul for a few years: freewayswitch.com/products You need compatible humbuckers, of course. (Les Paul sold in the meantime but I kept the humbuckers and the switch. Eventually I may put them either into my Ibanez semi-acoustic or my old Epiphone Emperor jazz guitar…)
  5. Another cause for code -1116: Copying or syncing the folder ~/Library/Application Support/Line 6/Helix Native between different Macs. I thought it used to work with earlier Native versions though, since I've been syncing the folder between two MacBooks running El Capitan for a few years now. But now the sync doesn't work between El Capitan and Ventura MacBooks. (As a side note: Helix Native 3.71 still works on El Capitan within Logic 10.3.3 although not officially supported by Line6 anymore.) So my fix was resetting the setlists and presets and reimporting my custom setlists on each Mac.
  6. Then you need very short attack times in the compressor to tame the loud transients that occur when picking a string regularly, as opposed to the very soft transient when tapping.
  7. I would check out the Blue Comp in the "Legacy" section. It's supposed to be modeled after the Boss CS-1. I've never had a CS-1 but I have been using a Boss CS-3 since the mid-1980s, in recent years particularly for acoustic slide guitar, until I bought the HX Stomp. "CS" stood for "Compression Sustainer", and sustain is apparently what you want.
  8. I've been already using the Stomp as a 4-channel mixer with two vocal mics and two acoustic guitars. It was a bit tricky to set up because technically it's two parallel signal pairs, each then processing two signals in series, but it worked just fine. Other than that, for one of my projects I'm using one path for acoustic bass guitar, the other path for my "electrified plank bass drum", the Stomp going either into my small stage combo or additionally straight into PA. It just works, be it in small pubs or in concert halls. However, when setting up two parallel paths for guitar and bass, each with its own amp and cab, you may run into DSP limits on the Stomp if you choose amps that are DSP hungry. Here you can look up how much DSP each block requires: benvesco.com/store/helix-dsp-allocations Del Sol 300 (bass) and US Small Tweed (guitar) are the best options if you want to have enough headroom for a few nifty effects as well.
  9. The new Line 6 Carillon works pretty well for me like this. But I don't need too "heavy" lead sound, more bluesy, playing a semi-acoustic Ibanez with humbuckers.
  10. Don't know about other Helix models, but on the HX Stomp, if you use the Return input as Aux In, you need to switch Global Settings → Ins/Outs → Return Type to Aux In to bypass the processing. (page 51 of HX Stomp 3.0 Owner's Manual - Rev D - English)
  11. It would be nice to have more controls e.g. directly on the input block where the noise gate is. Perhaps it's been already requested on Ideascale? Ah, there it is: https://line6.ideascale.com/c/idea/33459 I've never tried open D, but in the 1980s I was experimenting with open E for some time while learning to play slide. By the end of the 1990s I switched to bass guitar almost full time but "rediscovered" the guitar after both guitarists left our acoustic blues combo and I remained just with the singer. That's when I went full open G about 10 years ago. Eventually I brought in a guitarist from another band of mine, "forced" him to play open G (he soon started to love it!), and I switched back to acoustic bass guitar. But I also sometimes perform my solo program which is fully based on the acoustic open G with slide, although I call it "Lou Kash plays a kind of blues", hehe. Since summer 2020 I run everything through the Stomp, sometimes even a vocal mic. The Stomp can handle so much! :)
  12. Just curious: which open tuning do you use? I'm a total fool for open G, since many years on an acoustic with or without slide, to the excess that when I eventually (but temporarily) joined a band as an electric guitarist again a few years back, I realized that I almost forgot how standard tuning works… :D
  13. Not necessarily. You can also simply just turn down the volume on the guitar which is not in use. But keep in mind that the cable can still pick up noise. That's why a mute on the Stomp is useful.
  14. Of course. That's the point, or not? Or do you want to play both guitars at the same time? As I have noted, you want to use a footswitch or a snapshot to switch between input L and input R. On Split Y: Input L active: Balance A = R100, Balance B = L100 Input R active: Balance A = L100, Balance B = R100 assign these values to a footswitch or to a snapshot if you want to open up both inputs for some reason, then both need to be R100 On Mixer: Level A = -60 dB to constantly mute path A the rest as you see fit
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