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SaschaFranck

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  1. From all I know, to start the HX Effects up reliably you'll need at least 2 isolated (!) 500mA outlets for each HX FX device, which makes 4 in total. In addition you need a current doubler cable, combining 2 outlets into one supplying a total current of 1000mA. And as Line 6 had the stupid idea to use different than standard plugs (2.5mm instead of 2.1mm), you might need another adapter - but fortunately, Voodoo Lab has a current doubler with 2 x 2.1mm ins and 1 2.5mm out, directly suitable for the HX series, the name is "Voodoo Lab HX Curr. Doubler Adapter PPHX". As far as power supplies are concerned, you'd have to look for some overhead, especially as you're also planning to power up some more cables. So, given that your two HX Effects will already consume up to 2A, you might want a device supplying 3A or so in total. And as said, it's absolutely mandatory for the outlets to be isolated!
  2. Does it really have to be a Helix for busking? You could get lots of other pretty decent devices with vastly more comfortable power requirements for pretty little money and run them from a stock powerbank. Would also massively reduce the size of the entire kit. And you might even save some money.
  3. No idea what latency has got to do with this. Doesn't really matter when it's all about a backingtrack.
  4. Let me tell you: It does. But let me also tell you: I had a tough time grasping the "concepts" behind things as well at first. Sure. But in that case, the Helix serves as a USB client (or "slave", if you will). I know. But for that to work, you need a USB host (or "master", if you will). You'd need that for power supplement as well (which USB B ports don't deliver). Feel free doing so. You got the explanation above, though. Your BT plug wouldn't even wake up as there's no bus power running on the Helix' USB port. Seriously, it's pointless to even just try.
  5. No, won't work as the Helix is no USB host (which would be needed for that BT plug to work). The solution is using either a plain old audio cable (3.5mm to 6.3mm, TRS) and run it into the aux input or a camera connection kit running into the USB port. In that case, the Helix should become available as a playback device on your iPhone (no warranty, though, I'm not using an iPhone).
  6. How did you create your patches at home? Listening to them in stereo? Otherwise, in case you're using the left/mono out with your amp, use whatever you feel like. I sometimes use stereo FX in my mono live setup because they're not available in mono (such as the ping pong delay, which defenitely makes sense in mono, too, once you use the offset parameter, which I do). On the left/mono out the L and R sides will be mixed to mono. Only problem would be in case you listened to them in stereo while creating them. Back in my HX/Floor days I always inserted a mono EQ block at the end of the chain because of that (which then serves the same purpose as the L/mono out, namely mixing things down to mono). Well, they all have a level control, which isn't related to the FX level but the overall output of the block. So just use that.
  7. It can't be disabled. And it's driving me mad. It's even getting worse as soon as a switch is controlling multiple things - in that case the LED status is changing when you just briefly touch the switch. All you can disable is the "select by touch" function, the rest stays intact. Which is absolutely most horribly on a Stomp where there's very little space between the switches and knobs. Has been driving me mad multiple times by now. Line 6 should really adress that.
  8. 100% exactly the same here. So it's defenitely a software issue.
  9. Same here. Fortunately, it usually goes away after moving it around a bit and likely reloading the patch. And btw, I just hate the new encoder ballistics. They should steal from Zoom in the future.
  10. Did you read the update instructions? That was to be expected.
  11. You might want to check here: Not gonna lie, though, the screen doesn't look too great, so maybe there's something wrong with the hardware. Give the above steps a try, though.
  12. Select block, hold footswitch, you'll be asked whether you'd like to assign it.
  13. Not sure how much this actually "improves" things (I mean, I don't even know whether I need improvements in that area), but it's pretty interesting for sure. Unfortunately I could never put this to use live, which I would find to be interesting (even when I still had the Floor, my patches were maxed out in terms of options (not CPU), with the Stomp it's completely impossible). Anyhow, as said before, at one point in time I will most likely purchase a Tonex pedal and this technique will be just another one I'm going to put to good use, so thanks!
  14. Quite interesting, gonna check that out later on. And fwiw, in case it's "wasting" too much CPU, we will all just create a TONEX model out of this in the near future (it's just too affordable to pass).
  15. How is it more complicated? Things too boomy: Reach for the low cut. Things too shrill: Reach for the high cut. In either case, adjust to taste. In some cases, it might not be sufficient, though. From all I know, the cab block cuts are coming in at 6dB per octave, which is very little. The dedicated hi/lo cut block however is cutting much steeper (I'd say at least with 12dB/oct). Using the cuts on the cab/IR blocks could hence possibly result in having to cut too deep into the "meat" of the sound. But then, all this is soo subjective, best to simply fool around with things.
  16. When you start AU Lab, you will have to select an interface. You could as well just use the internal one. Then you are asked to create a document, next thing you'll get is something like this:
  17. Scribble Strips aren't that important as you get that extra viewing mode on the LT, showing you what all the switches do. I really wish that was available on the Floor as well, as visibility under critical lightning conditions is pretty bad - in direct light or diffused sunlight the Scribble Strips become meaningless. IMVHO, in case you don't need all the extra connectivity, 10 vs. 8 stomps is what it boils down to. Personally, I dig the 10 switches a lot and used them all the time a) for recording and b) for quick adjustements when not connected to a computer. For actual live playing however, I usually went with 4 snapshots and 4 stomps, which is available on the LT as well.
  18. Excellent, that might be valuable information one day!
  19. So you're defenitely logged in with HX Edit?
  20. This. Information on the site is very misleading.
  21. In case it's a wave file indeed, you should be able to load it (or convert it beforehand). But some companies also support their own proprietary formats (I think Fractal does so, too), so in case it's that proprietary format, you're rather out of luck.
  22. Under macOS (and I think it was sort of similar back in my Windows days), you have to have both connected at least once to define one as the default interface. You can of course change things later on, but at least macOS will only accept one "true" default interface in case you really told it to "upvote" one of them while "downvoting" the other. Quite stupid btw, there should be a checkbox so you never run into this at all (at least Logic is asking you and you can check a "never ask again" box).
  23. Does it disable your Apollo in your DAW or under Windows?
  24. In case the amp itself sounds nice, you could consider using it as a clean pedal platform and don't any amp modules in the Helix. Would not give you *that* much more control, though, just a tonestack (which you could get globally within the Helix, too, via the Global EQ, if that is something you're after). I would likely not go for any 4CM setup in case you've got no time to properly check things out. In fact, I would just continue to run things as you do already - I mean, one of the things you've got to deal with as a modeler user is the menu-driven, floor-crawling culture coming along with most units. And yeah, I totally agree that both aspects are annoying. Which, fwiw, is why I stepped back from a Helix-only setup. Still crawling but at least no menu-diving anymore. And my next all-in-one modeler will offer mobile device remote control for the very same reasons.
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