rmbecker23

Yeah the FX Loop is right after my compressor in the Helix signal chain. I am planning on midi automating the pedalboard switches with ableton so I don't have to do any foot dancing on stage. So ideally these pedal areintegrated into the Helix so I don't have to manually click them on and off.

I'm not sure if I fully understand. I have the overdrive pedal (which is not noisy at all btw) in a FX Loop. I added the Send/return FX Loop 1 block into my signal chain after my compressor. I assigned a footswitch to it so I can turn it on off and control it using Snapshots too. Thats my dream scenario so I don't have to manually click the pedal on and off. But even with doing that, the tone changes when I engaged the FX Loop.

Noted. Thanks for this explanation. In the global settings, the only menu item I see for Send/Return is Instrument/Line. I'm not seeing anything about volume of FX loops. And I hear you on the Helix being versatile enough to replace all pedals but that Lightspeed overdrive is an incredible pedal that I'd love to not lose. It also is a pretty subtle pedal. Not noisy and pretty transparent.

So I bought the helix to replace a bunch of pedals but I really wanted to keep a couple. I have routed the Greer Lightspeed overdrive and the strymon big sky into FX loops 1 and 2. For some reason, even when I click off the actual pedals but maintain the FX loop engaged, the tone is different. I lose bottom end and it becomes more scooped sounding. This loss of bottom end and slightly different tone is noticeable when I kick the pedals back on. I'm using GL patch cables that are well made. The big sky is just a reverb that should not change the tone of the guitar at all. Has anyone else experienced this? Or could you test it out to see if you notice it? I used to use a Boss ES-8 loop switcher so this technically should be no different in terms of the tone I am hearing now vs then.