boynigel

i agree, all valid points. i scratched my head w/the Cartographer too. Yes, the AC20 is a Vox clone, but so is the Matchstick and Divided by 13...albeit steroided-up versions. Maybe L6 feels they've met the Vox quota so fair enough. I mentioned the Friedman Smallbox simply because its dynamic response to pick attack and volume knob responsiveness is off the charts, much like the Derailed Ingrid...minus the "spitty-ness" ...not that that sound doesn't have its applications, it's one of my favorites.

most of them for about five minutes, but point taken...and i knew someone would rattle off some artists. you get the "first" award! ;)

I love sarcasm. Touché. Now, now...there was nothing mean-spirited about my post. Regarding your "for free" statement, I respectfully disagree. Everyone's initial purchase of a Helix family product finances the updates...likely even peoples' non-Helix purchases. L6 is a big, deep pool. Little in life is truly free.

Weird choice w/the Sunn. Maybe the next update will include a Bedrock? ;) I would have much preferred a Morgan AC20 or Friedman Smallbox 50. I'm 54, been playing since '82 , and have NEVER come across a Sunn amp, and i've spent an embarrassing amount of time in many a music store. Thanks for the update L6, it's great, but next time give me something i know, please and thank you. To be fair, the Sunn model sounds good but i can't speak to its authenticity for the aforementioned reason.

Last night I updated my LT to 3.5. I made sure to update Edit first. Followed all instruction. When I it got to the 2nd phase of the update (after the error message L6 said to expect) all appeared to be going well, but then it locked on “93% completed” for a good 15-20 minutes, this 30 minutes in to the update process. Finally Edit said something to the effect of, “update complete, rebooting LT” but my LT never rebooted. Instead it had a message stating that the update had failed. I don’t have the verbatim message because I did post it verbatim last night, reading/typing it right off the LT’s screen, but it never posted here for some reason, so now I’m going off my memory. But I DO know it was a completely different error message than what L6 mentions in the update notes. I waited a good 25 minutes to see if the screen on the LT would unlock and give me a proper reboot but it never happened. I finally resorted to shutting it down. However, when I powered back up it rebuilt all the new presets, seemingly as if nothing went wrong. After that I rebooted holding down the 9&10 footswitches as instructed. After that, everything appeared to be fine and all the new features appeared to be in place. Basically I’m just wondering if anyone else experienced this, and if the “error” message might indicate increased odds that my unit is going to be buggy/glitchy moving forward. Obviously time will tell, but I’m wondering if this situation might warrant a re-install to play it safe?

Holy crap, is that a Washburn Wonderbar on that guitar? haven't seen one of those since the 80's!

Would love to be able to import my painstakingly crafted presets from my LT into Native. Easiest way?

looked like they were making contact w/the rings in the video. my bad.

the only thing about this method that gives me pause is that if the washers touch the light rings on the footswitches, when i push down on the switch the washer is getting pushed into the light ring. how long before the light ring incurs damage? just a thought. BTW- disregard if this comment double-posts. originally replied while signed out.

Sometimes when in Snapshot mode I’ll accidently fat-foot the leftmost FS1 or FS6 buttons when intending to hit either of their neighboring foot switches. Of course this is disastrous while performing as it takes me to a completely different preset. I could have sworn seeing in the manual, at some point, a setting preference that allows one to disable the FS1/FS6 foot switches to avoid this from happening. Either I dreamt this up, or I’m the worst manual navigator because after two passes through the manual, I’ve been unable to find instruction to do this type of thing. Are the FS1/FS6 defeatable in snapshot mode?

sounds like possible dead spot issues due to sympathetic frequency cancellation. see if it gets better or worse if you go up or down a couple frets. obviously notes aren't going to sustain above the 12th fret like they do at the 5th, but they shouldn't decay instantly either.

nice job. my only real criticism is of the backing track. so much better ones out there, like Elevated Jams or Sebastien Zunino to name but two. Party on.

and then PRS introduces their first stomp boxes today LOL

I'm assuming that the legacy effect models were borrowed from the four 4-button pedals(delay, mod, dist/od, filter) that they came out with 20 years ago. if that's the case, their model of the Dimension predates the DC-2W. However if what you stated is true, then the Dimension model is indeed stereo. I'll have to give it a try. I was going on the basis that the Helix manual states that effects that are in stereo will have a little symbol next to them that kinda looks like an infinity symbol. When I was scrolling through the choruses and didn't see that symbol on the Dimension, I thought all bets were off for stereo. happy to be wrong.

yeah, I'm up to date

my favorite chorus is the boss dc-2W. incredible in stereo. Unless i'm missing something, the Helix version of this is mono-only. Perhaps because it's a Legacy effect? If anyone is reading this who's a fan of the "motionless" variety of choruses, is there anything in the Helix, in stereo, that comes close to the Dimension chorus effect?

How old is your powercab?

I just found an old sweetwater catalog from 2007. It had 13 pages of effects pedals, including multi-effectors, loopers, acoustic and bass pedals, in addition to all the usual guitar pedals. Fast-forward to the sweetwater catalog that showed up yesterday. All the same types of pedals listed above now take up 43 pages! We all know there was a pedal boom, but now will there be a bust? It wouldn't surprise me. Maybe we're already starting to see it- just look at the recent demise of fulltone and digitech. Everyone and their brother makes an overdrive pedal these days. If everyone stopped making OD pedals today (to name but one pedal type), as in not introducing anything new, we'd still be set for a lifetime. gonna be interesting to watch what happens, especially considering the state of this crap-economy.

I come for answers. I stay for the verbal abuse. ;)

Okay, I think my tone is being misinterpereted. I've got a great sense of humor and wasn't offended. I can't RTFM because I'm at work since 7 a.m. this morning, here until 11 p.m., and it's no fun to read/navigate the manual on a tiny phone screen w/constant interruptions. I've been sneaking on here when I have a chance to post/respond as time allows. this forum sometimes lets me circumvent the manual in that I can usually get some quick answers, go home, and cut to the chase given that I'll have a whopping 1 hour to play before having to go to bed to get up to work another double. you don't have to answer me if you're that irked. Shoot me, I'm busy. As in 16-hour, consecutive days, forced OT- busy. btw, if you read the posts above, you'd know why I was lead to believe that the LT might not do amp switching (a relabeled back panel). Now understand that I mean this w/no hostility when I say I'm glad you brought up the Simpsons, because you sir, are Comic Book Guy. I'll RTFM when I'm home for more than an hour and not getting interrupted every minute. thanks, and tootle-ooh!

previous owner used a label maker and put them over the factory text, upside down, for easier viewing from above. my bad for assuming he labeled them verbatim.

ooh, I bet you felt SO clever/satisfied. typos happen. I wonder how many of yours I'd find if I reviewed some of your posts? anyway... due to my low skill level I'm not sure what this means. My amps are Bad Cats and I've heard people who have Helix Floor models are able to do channel switching w/them via the Helix. However, my LT doesn't have an Ext Amp jack, which is what raised my question initially.

my amp would be using TSR. would I be using the EXP 2 jack on the helix to go to the amp?

not seeing any "how-to" in the manual.

bingo