phil_m

Did you install the latest version of HX Edit when you did the firmware update?

What type of issues did you have with the HX Effects and HX Stomp? I'm not a professional musician and don't tour, but I've played quite a few gigs with my Helix over the last four years. Alex Strabala is pretty active in the big Helix Facebook group, and I think he said he's played over 600 shows with his Helix with his band (http://lovelytheband.com/). They had four Helices on their last tour. https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?posts/28345881/

You’ll be fine with that cab. You could hook it up one either mono or stereo. The Spider V HC’s speaker outputs are rated for a minimum 4 Ohm load, so as long as you don’t go below that it will work. Dealing with solid state amps is a little easier than dealing with tube amps because exactly matching the output impedance isn’t critical.

Well, I should have thought of it earlier, but you can download and install the trial version of Native. It’s a full-blown version with no limitations for 15 days, so you’d be able to do what you need to do without actually buying it. If you do decide to buy it, it’s only $99 with your HX Effects purchase.

How many presets are you talking about? If it’s not a ton, I’d be happy to help you out. Just send me the presets you want to convert, and I could do it for you.

You didn't lose anything. If you want to make sure, you can do a factory reset by holding down FS2 & FS3 while powering up. That will clear out everything and reload the factory bundle. It would also delete any presets you've saved on your own, though. So you'd want to save those to disk before doing that.

I think that's all the higher the factory presets go to.

You can import Helix presets into the HX Effects (assuming your HX Effects is running firmware 2.80 or higher), but there are caveats. These are from the 2.80 release notes. Helix Floor/Rack/LT, Helix Native, or HX Stomp presets into HX Effects. However, there are caveats. To avoid an error message, the source preset must: Contain 9 or fewer blocks Not contain any Amp+Cab, Amp, Preamp, or Cab blocks Contain no more than one Split and Merge block Fit within one path worth of DSP processing If you have Helix Native, it would be easier, probably, to transfer your Helix presets to Native first and get them set up in the proper format. Then you could save those and import those to the HX Effects.

If you're trying to use the Helix in a direct monitoring scenario, you probably won't like the results. Line 6 doesn't make low-latency drivers for the Helix line.

There is no kill dry mode. You can set the Mix parameter of an individual effect to 100, and that will be 100% wet, but that will only work if you're using that one effect. If you put a reverb, for instance, after a delay for which you have the Mix set to 100, the reverb would only be affecting the repeats.

Try reinstalling the HX Stomp drivers.

The only amp that’s currently in production that has the VDI input is the Firehawk 1500. There really has only ever been one other Line 6 amp that had it, and that’s the Vetta II.

A disaster? I think that’s quite a bit hyperbolic... There are some bugs, and 2.82 will be out shortly to clean up some of the remaining things. I mean, personally, I’ve done a bunch of gigs using the 2.80 and 2.8 firmware and really haven’t run into any showstopper bigs. I suppose with a complex system with so many different possible use scenarios, everyone is going to be different.

Oh, yeah, that's correct. I forgot about that setting.

If whatever software you're using won't let you choose a different set of USB outputs, your other option is to use a pair of the Helix's 1/4" Sends as the output for the path going to your power amp. You can select Send 1/2 or Send 3/4 as the output for Path 2.

So if I'm understanding it correctly, you're streaming samples from your computer over USB 1/2 (USB 1/2 out from the perspective of your computer, USB 1/2 in from the perspective of the Helix). The issue is that USB 1/2 will be sent to the XLR outs and the 1/4" outs automatically. There's no way to stop that from happening. What you need to do is select another USB pair to use as outputs from your computer. If you, for instance, set the input of Path 1 to be USB 3/4 and the output to be the XLR outs, the output for USB 3/4 will only go to the XLR outs. This is all described on page 53 of the manual (notice how the USB 1/2 inputs are shown being sent directly to the Helix's outputs in the diagram):

Holding down footswitches 9 & 10 while powering up isn’t a restore - it’s a factory reset. To get the presets, global settings and IRs back you have to use the “Restore from Backup” function in HX Edit (go to File>Restore From Backup).

What firmware version did you update from? There was an earlier firmware that re-scaled the mix levels for the five HX reverbs... I believe that happened with 2.60. So if you were at a firmware version earlier than that, yeah, you'll have to adjust the mix levels. This was one of the very rare cases when an update changed the sound of an existing preset.

I believe all the amp models have a presence control. But the comment above is correct, all the parameters for the amps, effects, etc. are identical on the Helix and the HX Stomp. I wouldn't be surprised if you're actually using the Pre version of the amp and not the full amp block.

If you have an overdrive/distortion block before the amp model, you could boost the level of that block per snapshot if you want. But there's no way to boost the signal internally before an amp block without having a block of some sort before the amp block.

Not gonna happen...

Amp Farm is the same modeling as the original POD and POD 2.0. The old Floor POD and Floor POD Plus products were pedal-based products that used that generation of modeling. The modeling in Amp Farm is literally 20 years old. It's pretty much obsolete in the sense that they aren't developing new products with it. They released Amp Farm 3.0 simply so users who have sessions using earlier versions of Amp Farm can still access them in their 64-bit systems now.

Yeah... I think my iPad autocorrect did something weird there. I fixed it. Just leave it on.

It doesn’t matter. I would just leave the switch turned on all the time when mounted on a pedalboard.

The HX Effects doesn't have an input for a regular momentary or latching footswitch. There are some companies that make an "expression switch" so that you could essentially turn one of the expression inputs into a switch. I think you'd be better off doing this with MIDI, though. Something like the Disaster Area Designs MIDI Baby would be cool. The only problem is you'd have to worry about powering it. Another thing I should mention is that the HX Effects won't power the Voodoo Lab Commander pedal, and I don't think it has a separate power input. The Commander isn't really a MIDI controller at all. It's really a remote for the Voodoo Lab Pedal Switcher.