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Without being specific, here are some things to try: 1. Helix updates are very picky about which USB port you use. Try them all. Try a hub if you have one, if your computer's ports don't work. 2. Try different browsers. I think I've read here that some work and some don't on Windows. 3. Eat your vegetables.

No big deal. They have 7 more lives.

The Helix's send and return pairs are counter-intuitive. Return 1 is NEXT TO Send 1; not underneath it, like you'd expect. Make sure you have the compressor physically plugged in properly. Several of us have gotten singed by this little oddity.

I'm sure that would work just as well/better. Many ways to skin that cat.

Hello Strat: I have a Jamman hooked up to my helix (which, alas, is not in front of me). But it's easy. 1. Plug LEFT (mono) out on Jamman into Helix RETURN 1. 2. Plug LEFT (mono) in on Jamman into Helix SEND 1. NOTE: Helix send 1 and return 1 are next to one another, not on top of one another like you'd expect. 3. Insert a send/return block (I have mine at the very end of the chain) into your preset. You'll be using the buttons on the Jamman to loop, not the Helix. Voila! Unlimited length loops that you can save.

Now that you've found your sound, you'll soon have a personal chef and won't have to worry.

This seems like an appropriate place to rant. I love everything about the Helix. WHY must we log in with our passwords to get software downloads? This is always a stumbling block for me because I always forget the rarely-used password. And the "forgot password" thing seems to be broken. It's not as if there's any use for HELIX software for other than for HELIX hardware owners. Who's going to steal it?

I've had some luck with auto-swell. Based on several recommendations here: 1. The Rel Offset is important. I have mine set at -5 (minus 5). 2. I've placed the auto-swell AND ducked delay after the amp and cabs. Ed: the delay is important as explained in Chuskey's video. 3. Here are my settings: Threshold -60 Rel Offset -5 Attack 2.8 Decay 1.0 ms Taper Logarithmic Level +7 Even so, every once in a while it seems to forget that it's on. I can't predict when that'll happen, playing softly, loudly, with pick, with fingers, wearing a hat, eyes closed. I have a hunch that it's a bug or a misconception in the design but I really don't know. The sound I'm after is on the Line 6 DL-4 and the Line 6 M5/M13 so I know they know how to do it.

Isn't there conversion therapy to cure one of lefthandedness?

Big deal. I'll bet you can't replicate the tiles in Andy Summers' bathroom.

I'll eat my hat if you can make it replicate the following: E A D G B E

Sorry, but I am amused by this replicating guy (OP). He called all of us "amateurs"! I think that's pretty funny.

I resent that (or, I would if it applied to me). I thought I was an ok guitarist until I realized that I couldn't replicate the tone from the Police song. Now I realize I'm a rank "amateur".

Re Zappa recommendations: Anything with Ruth Underwood on it. I watch the DVD of Live at the Roxy as often as possible without being weirdly obsessive. The 1973 band was a sweet spot.

Not me. I always warm my car up before...wait...what?

I use my Helix to precisely replicate Zappa's tone (and licks) on "Peaches En Regalia". I'll post a clip as soon as this Police thing is cleared up. <wink>

If someone can replicate this tone from John Cage's 4'33, I'll eat my Magritte hat.

If you want the ability to have no delay at all, for instance (no effect at all), you have to do something slightly different: (This only works with, for example, two delays or two reverbs or two distortions. For more than two, ask someone smart). 1. Set your two effects up such that one is on top of the other, thus creating path B. 2. Insert a SPLIT A/B block in front of the effect on path A. 3. Assign the split a/b block to a footswitch. Min A and Max B should both be 100. This will be how you switch between one effect and another. 4. Assign your two effects to one footswitch. When the footswitch is activated, they should both be ON and when deactivated, both should be BYPASSED. Then, you'll use that footswitch to choose between having an effect or none at all. Like the Wizard of Igloo said, you can do so much more with snapshots.

Whenever I finish tuning, there are these granular crumbs all over everything.

I'm sure you're right about the more budget-conscious among us. For the rest of us, I'd sooner spend $1500 for everything than $400 for some of those things. And there must be some reason why Line 6 hasn't moved all the effects from the M-13, even if, like the reverbs, they were "simple" ports.

If I were Mr. Yamaha, I would have a problem with including some of the more popular effects from other Line 6 products (e.g., autovolume) in the Helix. Robbing Peter to pay Paul. Taking money out of one pocket and putting it in the other. I doubt they want the $1500 Helix to compete with the M-13 or DL-4 or whatever.

Could you have accidentally turned on the phantom power?

<slaps forehead>

In that song, do you ever play without the harmonizer at all? Because then you'd have to have a third state assigned to that footswitch (no harmony at all) and you'd have to double tap it to get from the first state to the third. I accomplish this same thing through an A/B split block (you would have the 4th on the A path and the 3rd on the B path, or vice versa). One footswitch would turn the effect on and off while another would switch between paths. Yes, you still have to hit two switches if the effect is off and was left in the "wrong" path. But I think it's cleaner this way; I get confused when I have to toggle through effects on the same footswitch.

I agree with all three of these, in order of preference.