boynigel

I'm looking to go out to an external amp's effects return for stage volume (w/no cab modeling), and then send the speaker cab signal out to the house, but in this particular preset i don't think i can unless i'm missing something. The first, topmost path is my guitar's magnetic pickup signal, the lowermost path is my piezo signal. in a perfect world i'd be able to insert a split at path A's final output, one w/the speaker block and one without, but can't. can anyone see a workaround to this?

Aah, i did hear something about that. i had another ticket w/line 6 that was about a day from being auto-closed, so i responded to that ticked w/the new problem, explaining why i had to piggyback an unrelated issue. hopefully they'll respond.

PHP update? what's that?

I'm not getting any answers here regarding an issue i'm having, so i tried creating a support ticket and it keeps taking me in circles: i go to the same place i always go on their support section where it has a spot to briefly describe the issue with a search button next to it. i type in the issue, hit search, and nothing happens. so at that point i go to my Support Tickets history page and there's a Open New Ticket button. great, except when i click it, it just takes me back to the aforementioned page that doesn't respond. tried using a different browser and got the same result. Rrrrrr...

i was hoping the update released yesterday would fix this, but it didn't. At one point in the video i'm aware that i say, i'm saving it as snapshot-enabled, that my finger press doesn't register. didn't notice until after making the video, but it's irrelevant in that one example given the fact that in all the other examples it's clearly demonstrated that my XL isn't recalling my saves. Am i missing something or is this a legit bug that warrants L6 hearing about?

I pretty much use my Stadium stand-alone, so i'll be addressing this later rather than sooner. will definitely reference back to this when i get the itch to use it w/my amp. thanks

right, i was just wondering if the snapshot data from the old amp block would be trying to grab parameters from the new amp block, or if that data goes bye-bye once the old block is overwritten

yep, me too. now NONE of them work as i had them LOL thanks for letting me know it wasn't unique to me.

i've been using my old LT presets in my Stadium XL but am finally getting ready to swap out the legacy amp model i've been using for an augora model in all my presets. my concern is this- in many of the presets i've assigned amp gain adjustments, snapshot-specific. when i overwrite the legacy amp with the new model, will snapshots be messing with the new augora amp settings in any way? i'm hoping that once i overwrite w/the new amp model that all those snapshot assignments, as they pertain only to the amp block, will be gone. i just feel it'll be easier if that all gets wiped out and i can start from scratch with the amp block's snapshot parameters

it took me nearly 10 years to adopt snapshots, mainly out of laziness/stuck in my ways, but when i finally did there was no going back. makes life SO much easier!

i already had snapshot set to On for each one. in addition i also set State and Wait Time to Snapshot On. it's buggy. for example if i switch from a preset that's working fine, to one preset in particular, when it loads the preset, it changes my amp to a channel that isn't even assigned on any of my snapshots w/in that preset! Then i'll go to another preset and the original problem prevails, ie- when the preset loads, the amp will be on the wrong channel but as soon as i hit the snapshot foot switch, it goes to the intended/assigned channel. and yet i can switch between other presets with zero issues. i'm wondering if this a "bug" that i should report to Line 6? unless i SHOULDN'T have set State and Wait Time to Snapshot On...except there are presets that work just fine this way.

Here's a weird thing about that- when i use the helix going into an amp's effects loop return (power amp in), i've found that the amp model w/power amp sounds better than just the preamp model. go figure- a modeled power amp into a physical power amp sounds better. way better. well, at least on my Bad Cat. maybe different amps would yield a different result. makes sense. too bad they didn't do a couple AIAB models just for the sake of the people using the HX Effects unit, which could then be carried over to Helix. won't hold my breath on that one though. My benchmark had always been the Wampler Ace-Thirty/Thirty Something, which i sold, and then a few years later bought another which didn't sound as good as i'd remembered. i don't know if that's because my ears changed or maybe the bad one got messed with by a previous owner.

so, w/4cm, as you know, you need to assign an effects loop block in helix in order to have some stomp blocks before, and some after the amp's effects loop. what i was saying was that i tried the amp block both in front of, and after the actual amp's effects loop. but of course at the end of the day the guitar's original signal is still seen by the amp's input, even if the amp model is after the amp's effects loop. pretty sure i'm doing 4cm correctly ;)

Yes, Helix has actual models of Vox and Vox-styled amps, but this is for situation where i'm using it just for effects and to control my tube amp via 4cm. Last night i tried to do this using actual amp models. i got close, but not 100% satisfied like i'd be with a Wampler Ace 30 or other AIAB pedal (which i'd rather not have to add to my setup). I tried placing the amp model both before and after my amp's effects loop in effort take my amp's preamp out of the equation as much as possible, which of course you never really can w/4cm as my guitar signal is always going to hit the amp's preamp. anyway, i ran out of time and went to bed. Now sitting here at work i'm thinking maybe i could try achieving this tone, specifically that chimey-edge of breakup, via one of the distortion/OD blocks? Has anyone tried this? If so, which models should i try first? I'm thinking Timah and Tone Sovereign might be good starting points but figured i'd see if/how anyone else has been able to pull this specific tone off.

probably a global setting somewhere. i'll figure it out, thanks again.