reginaldStjohn

I don't have the LT so I can't speak directly to that. However, I can say that on Helix Floor you can be in snapshot mode and switch back to foot-switch mode by using the mode button.  The bank up and down switches allow me to go to different banks of presets.

As far as the programming of individual foot switches you can con.figure them in about any way you can imagine. Each one can be setup separately per-preset. If you are in snap-shot mode then each switch moves you to a different snap-shot that can contain all sorts of parameter changes as well as on/off state of individual elements of the patch. So for example: you could be in 4 stomp-4 snapshot mode. You could have 4 totally different snapshots of parameters and on/off states of the elements in your current preset. Then with the stomp foot switches you could assign one of them to be momentary and have it turn on the chorus only when pressed.

If you are in 8-snapshot mode I don't think you could have the momentary chorus feature because all the switches are in snap-shot mode. However, you could either hit the mode switch and then be in stomp mode or do a 4-stomp/4 snapshot mode.

Ok, Thanks, I will try again today, yes I want to turn off the -after preamp effects - occasionally and thougt I should just turn off the efxloop send on Helix.. New Question: I know how to get a parallel path using only Helix bur what do you mean with parallel path in this 4cabel scenario??

 

Thanks for your effort! Micke.

I just meant that another way to turn off a bunch of things with one switch is to make a parallel path (a split in path 1 or 2) add your effects and then you can switch the path split or where it merges to include one path or the other. Usually it is set up to mix the two paths but you can configure it to switch between the two paths.

Another way to do this is to use snapshots. Make one snapshot with all the pedals engaged and another with them all bypassed..

I use the 4CM all the time and this is how it works for me (I don't have a EVH but in principle it is the same).

guitar -> Helix Input -> Pre-amp Effect like Overdrive -> FX Loop Send -> EVH input -> EVH send ->Helix Loop Return -> Post preamp effects like Verb -> Helix Out -> EVH Return.

Now as you can see, if you disable the send then you are removing the EVH pre-amp from your setup, NOT the effects.  If you want to disable the effects then you need to switch them off or setup a patch where they are on a separate path and you can turn the whole path off at once. By using the 4CM you are able to switch between using your EVH pre-amp and the Helix built in ones, or blend as desired using a parallel path.

By adding the amp in Helix anything that comes into it will be summed to mono. Therefore, when it comes out of the Amp in Helix it will be in both channels.  You either need to make your DAW pan after Helix, which would be the preferred way.  Or pan the output of Helix the way you want it.

From the looks of it POD Farm is not summing to mono to go through the amp and so it preserves the stereo signal. Helix does not do this.

I have a Mesa Boogie V 25. I just use the cable that came with the footswitch for the amp and plugged it into the Helix Amp switch jack.  I then use the control center to assign a footswitch to switch amp channels and another one to switch the EQ on and off. Works great for me and requires no extra HW.

I run my Helix through a mixing board similar to yours, Presonus Studio Live, and I don't notice it sounding flat. You could try to plug in headphones to the helix directly and then plug them into your board and compare.  Also, with these fancy mixing boards you could have a compressor, reverb etc. enabled.

Just some thoughts

If you want an amp(s) at the end of the chain then you would need to have two amps or two cabs since they are mono.  You could put one amp on path 1A and another on 1B and then pan them right and left respectively at the merge point. Another option is to have one of them in Path 1 and the other in Path 2 and then pan the output of the paths right and left.

Not that I am aware of

I run several overdrive pedals in the Helix's effect loop just like you. I even have a SoulFood. They sound just fine in my effects loop. Have you tried a different loop to see if they all sound the same?

This doesn't sound like a line6 problem but a problem with the pedal if it goes silent when turned on.  Is it plugged in or have a fresh battery in it?

I have a tripple-wreck pedal and they have a lot of gain so they can definitely make any noise more evident. Is the noise still present when you have the wampler bypassed? The noise gate should help but you will need to adjust the threshold until the noise goes away.  

Please see the Model Gallery document for how each model works and what the knobs do. (Link is below)

http://line6.com/data/6/0a06434c087052430f5d6523b/application/pdf/POD%20HD%20Series%20Model%20Gallery%20-%20English%20(%20Rev%20E%20).pdf

I don't have specific setting you just have to try it and see how adjusting the knobs affects the sound.  Do you know what you want to accomplish with the compressor?

I like the tube compressor placed pre-effects loop.

As far as the level increase that the analog chorus gives you could put a volume pedal after it or reduce the FX loop return level. I have also hear of people that use one of the EQs (Studio?) set flat to boost so it may be able to attenuate as well.

For the 4CM the routing should be something like.

Guitar -> Input of POD HD

POD HD EFX loop out -> Input of Engl Preamp (you have to put the EFX loop block in your preset for this to work)

Engl Preamp Output -> POD HD EFX loop return (it is stereo so just use the left input)

POD HD Output -> Power amp input. (for your Randall it would probably be marked as RETURN)

To test problems make sure that your signal can get all the way through the system. So for example. plug the output of your pre-amp into the return of the Randall power amp return to see you get signal with the guitar plugged directly into the Engl. Then take one more step, like plugging in to the POD and having the output go into the Engl to just to make sure the POD is passing a signal.

Good luck

In edit or on the unit itself turn the fuzz face on and the screamer off. now assign the desired pedal to both of them. now when you step on the footswitch the one that is on will turn off and the one that is off will turn on.

I haven't done this on the device itself for a while but in Line6 Edit program you just select the desired effect and then the footswitch you want to control it with. If you assign the same switch to more than one effect it says "multi" in the edit field indicating that more than one effect is assigned to the same pedal