jeremyburkett

I thought of that earlier on and tried it set to Stereo, like you're saying. Unfortunately when I do that, I lose all signal going through the HX One! It's only when I have those listed settings that I get anything at all to come through.

I'm having a lot of trouble getting the stereo connections to work correctly when hooking the HX One up into the FX loop of the HX Stomp. To me it seems like software/routing issues that are at a deeper level than anything we have control over in the settings, but maybe I'm missing something that someone else can spot! Current connections: -TRS going out of the Send of the Stomp. -The split ends are then going (ring) into L/mono of the HX One, and the other (tip) is going into the R/return of the HX One. -I'm taking one regular cable from each output of the HX One, back into the HX Stomp return/aux ins (L out to L return, R out to R return, etc.) Relevant settings on the HX One (I've had to use these to even get close, changing any of these makes the rest of the things worse): -I/O Config - Insert -Insert Position - Pre -Bypass Type - DSP -Tuner Audio - Mute There are a variety of issues I'm having but I'll try to outline a specific one here, and perhaps it might lead to other answers. -I call up something like the Poly Capo on the HX One (a pitch shifting effect like this makes it easier to hear the problems described below...) -I then go back to the Stomp and: --(1) I use a Stereo FX L/R block at the start of the chain, but when I engage the HX One, I ALWAYS get an equal amount of dry signal, in addition to the shifted signal from the Poly Capo. **BUT, when I engage the tuner on the HX One, it registers a signal for tuning...while constantly sending the dry tone (non-shifted) through as well (even with every setting everywhere telling the tuner to mute...) --(2) same hookup as above. This time I use a Mono FX Loop L block on the Stomp. This will kill the dry signal I was getting from the previous attempt, so the Poly Capo then is behaving like it should...BUT when I engage the tuner on the HX One, it doesn't register any signal at all! --(3) same hookup as above. This time I use a Mono FX Loop R block on the Stomp. Now, it completely ignores the Poly Capo (on or off, it doesn't affect the tone) BUT it does register the signal for the tuner AND keeps it going so you can hear it when the tuner is engaged. So, in this configuration, I can never have the Poly Capo effect work the way it's supposed to, while also having the tuner work (again, point (2) makes the effect work properly, but nothing ever makes the tuner work correctly...) Then, I tried reversing the inputs (tip/ring) going into the HX One. (This mostly made things worse) --This time using FX Loop L, kills all signal completely whenever that block is on in the Stomp...but does register when the tuner is engaged (but still no signal coming through). --Then, trying the FX Loop R, has no signal like above but this time the tuner doesn't register anything either...so this is the farthest away from working of all the attempts. -If I turn OFF that block in the Stomp, effectively bypassing the FX Loop completely, I get signal coming back through the rest of the chain. So, in summary, it does seem like the (ring) needs to go to the L/Mono input of the HX One, with the (tip) in the R/return, but as you can see from above, there's still something that isn't quite working. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!!!

Awesome! Thanks everyone!! I didn't know about the Bitcrusher but now I'll dive in and give it a try... And... Now THAT is something I'm an expert at....... ;o) Thanks again!

I don't spend too much time on the forums so I'm not exactly sure where people go to share things like 'wish lists' for possible added fx models in future firmware updates.....so I thought I'd add one here! I just watched a presenter demo the Mobius (from Strymon) and I LOVED the 'Destroyer' setting!! It lets you tear apart the regular, pristine signal at your selected bit rate, also lets you dial in or out some 'crackle', and then you've got a tone that sounds exactly like it's coming out of an old vinyl record player!!! I don't know why but lately I've been digging all those lo-fi type effects for some reason. I love the contrast they can give to all the great, clear tones you can get out of the Helix....doing something like that can really wake the audience up! Of course, I'm fairly new to the Helix so maybe there's already something in there like that so maybe someone can point me in the right direction, but if not, that might be a cool model to add in a future firmware update. Keep up the great work Line 6!!!!

Thanks man, I appreciate all the help!!

Thanks phil_m, that makes sense! I think I probably have just been a little too fixated on having access to the 'full power' of all the effects in the unit that I never stopped to really think about the practicality of actually using seven or more effects at one time. Your suggestion of even using different presets is also great, if I need one particular instance of something weird like a tremolo/chorus/panner for one song, I can just make it a different preset, rather than trying to fit some of those "extra" things back into my main pedal setup. Just to clarify one last thing, you mentioned having just the one block be an FX Loop (either loop 1 or 2, both send and return). I'm guessing that's got to be the smart way to do it, and I'm only asking because the tutorial I watched specifically showed the guy setting one block to be only the send, then moved over, and set the next block to be only the return.......there's GOT to be a single block 'FX loop' in there....right?? Regardless, can't wait to get mine and thanks to everyone for the help and insights!!!

I'm curious about this too. (I'll be getting my HX effects in a couple of weeks and have been doing my homework on this so that I'm ready to be up and running as soon as it arrives!!) I understand what you're saying about not assigning the send or return to a footswitch, so that you don't give up a spot....but I'm still a little confused about whether or not I will have to "give up" a block overall. I've seen tutorials where, out of the nine total effect blocks you start with, people put their 'pre' effects in, then set a block to be the send, another block to be the return, then continue on with their "post" effects. Whether or not you set those blocks to be assigned to foot switches, to me that says now you're immediately down to seven blocks you can use for effects (in other words, choosing to run 4CM now limits every preset to a max of seven usable effect blocks...) Now, if you have a second amp and wanted to do 7CM, then you'd be down two more blocks for routing so you can only have a max of 5 effects?!? I'm very much hoping that I have an incorrect understanding about the way to accomplish the routing, basically that there would be a different way to set the routing to use/bypass/etc the effects loops for 4CM that would not use up blocks out of the nine total. (It's also entirely possible the tutorials I was watching were put out by idiots who didn't know what they were doing...........) So, my overall questions is just: Can you route the effect blocks for 4CM WITHOUT using other effect blocks?? (Through menus/settings on a pedal by pedal basis?) Thanks!!