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Certain pedals like vintage fuzzes won't sound right or respond as intended if you do. The whole reason this circuit is included is because some pedals get part of their characteristic tone from their low impedance.
That makes some sense too. I say (since we have that option with Helix) do what sounds good to you cause thats what its all about. And since none of us are using the same hearing devices (attached or unattached) things objectively will sound different for different people. So how do you know what's right then? The answer is, does it sound good to you. If it does (by comparisons or otherwise) then it's good. In my case, I've mostly played thru Marshalls and Fender amps my whole life, and everyone of those tube amps IIRC has 1 meg of input impedance. And I know for a fact that the makers of those particular amps know more than me, and probably know more than the whole collective group here about the needed input impedances for guitar amplifiers (OTOH I've also read where some very well made boutique amps don't have a 1m resitor at all). I'm using this setup with Helix @ 1 Meg with a Riverside, a Dual Fusion, and a Lagrange pedal with strats, LP's, and Yamaha guitars, and all of um sound unique, different, and good to me. ; ) As always, YMMV and thats ok too!
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9 hours ago, qwerty42 said:
Whewww... here comes the can of worms, lol. Brace yourself...
Naw, just set it to 1 meg and be done with it... ; )
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2 hours ago, rd2rk said:
We thought the 5-1/4" FD was just FABULOUS! Then came the crowning technological achievement of that era....the REVOLUTIONARY 10MB HD!
Yep those were the days. Oh yea and the upgrade from 28.8 to 56k modems WOOOHOOO!!!!
2 hours ago, rd2rk said:L6 is great at taking care of problems like this
Yes they are for the most part. That said, I think all companies need to close their QA depts down and make um work another job elsewhere Friday's before a Holiday, ; )
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5 hours ago, rd2rk said:
I'll just reiterate that NO production run of ANYTHING is ever going to be 100% free of faulty units.
I agree totally with that, in software or hardware. I also think the QA dept. (for any company) could be a wee bit better at times than they are...
5 hours ago, rd2rk said:As for the OCCASIONAL glitch - it's a computer, dammit!
Sure eventually with use things break. Computers break for a number of reasons, The caps swell in older MB's, hard drives wear out etc etc. The software writes over itself, fragmentation gets so bad the OS wont boot etc etc. They didn't however come off the floor with issues like that. That my friend is a glitch that could have been avoided when that happens and that was my point.
5 hours ago, rd2rk said:hat was the whole point of my mini-rant about the existence of occasional OS and HW glitches throughout the history of computing.
I know ; )
5 hours ago, rd2rk said:And if you're going to make the ridiculous claim that MACs are glitch-free, I call FANBOY!
Oh no I would never claim they are glitch free. Mostly they run great thou I did have to remove a bad drive on this one and install a nice SSD. Runs like a top now! ; ) I mostly call a spade a spade, and when Line 6 does good I tell them so, here. Ive done that many times (like anyone there gives a fud). I also tell them when they screw up here, and that causes me some grief at times lol. Doesnt make me always right, but just like others sometimes I am. ; ) My opinion of course is just like yours and everyone else's. It's just another thought process. Brutally speaking you however will notice over time that some folks "never" have anything bad to say about a product, ever. Or, they never have anything to say good about a product, ever. Ya know, If it were straight across the board like that with them playing on both sides at the times they should be ( my opinion again) it would be nice to see, but you are definitely right, Negative Nancy's & FANBOY's do exist, and like the virus it's everywhere on anything. Sigh...
5 hours ago, rd2rk said:I did tech support for a large corporation with a mixed environment - PCs, MACs and, yes, even LINUX boxes.
They were made by and used by humans and that's why they glitch... People eat over them and drip chili and cokes into them. Ever pull womens hair out of a cd drive? I have. Nasty...
QuoteIf you're old enough (I am) to have used it on a daily basis, you should know better than to trust your memory if that's what you remember! :-)
Im 62 years young and was running a Vic-20 by loading software on it with a cassette player. .Ive built over 20 pc's for me and others over the years, and Im almost as old and wise as that decrepit old drunk Silver is LOL...! ; )
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29 minutes ago, rd2rk said:
DOS 2.0 didn't have a registry, and compared to WFW3, Win10 is ROCK SOLID!
I was running Dos and it too was rock solid, just not much of a GUI lol.
Windows 10 is their best yet I agree , but it's still Microsoft trying their best to be like a Mac. ; )
On another track- What I read was that the answers from the ticket he put in was to update the OS. That's not an answer... I know by filling out a ticket they always ask what version of firmware you are using at the time the issue started. Its a part of the troubleshoot process, and they would ask this. That's not being sarcastic when I say that I just don't understand the reply he got if he (Line-6 response) already knew what version of firmware he was running. Now "may-be" he meant to say, they wanted me to "RE-install" the firmware, in which case that all makes sense.
Had he been alone in this, it would not have drawn my attention either, but there were others saying this was happening too. Not the whole forum, but a few.
QuoteJust heard back from L6 on my support ticket. Unfortunately they have no suggestion of a fix other than updating firmware to v2.82, which I have already done. They say to take the Stomp back to the store/distributor. My 1 year warranty expired last month, so it looks like I am out of luck.
Sure, this guy could be full of butter-beans, and then again ... We (there's that word again ; ) ) don't know. ; )
I was going to say that he sure wasted a lot of time here BS,ing people if it wasn't true, , but then I remembered you and me and errr... lol
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Seems like a pretty sporadic issue, to be honest. This thread was started almost a year ago, and there’s only like four or five reports. I’m not seeing tons of reports of it happening in the huge Facebook group...
Just thinking out loud Phil- like I said, not all of them are doing it. OTOH, 1825 views, in this isolated section on the net tells me many more are wondering about this sporadic issue. But even if there are a very few that is having this issue (I believe that too although that number may be in the tens or hundreds - I just don't know how many were sold), and allowing for the fact that the user didn't break the unit and it was indeed an internal abit "rare" issue, I think it would be a kind gesture to fix it for free if the user pays the shipping costs. Who knows, maybe Line-6 is already doing this. That would be nice to know about, don't you think Phil? If word got out this was happening, That IMO, would go a long way toward more sales of this unit too I'm thinking. Im sure the PR folks would like to beat that dead horse. ; )
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FYI- I didn't say what I thought "should happen" was going to happen. In fact I deleted the last part I wrote about "don't hold your breath".
Even you said earlier " I sure wish they'd find a solution to it." I do too, and I do feel bad for those with the expense of a intermitantly broken Stomp.
I think that beating a dead horse is right too, in that I doubt this anomaly gets fixed as we "move on" , onto the next latest and greatest thing.
Why do I think this ? because I doubt all of them are doing it that they have released. Just "some" of them. And what I have also read here, turning in a ticket doesnt seem to help much (just like you described above). And just "some of them" is not enough to pull an already "lean" crew off the drawing boards...
But you are right on one other thing as well I think rd2rk, it is totally unacceptable on the consumer side of the house.
Oh yea, Get an OS without a registry that doesnt overwrite itself, and your Windows OS problems will disappear too. ; )
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Just..., wow... I wanted to get one of these (I have just about everything else) but man am I glad I held off. I feel bad for those having issues and think that it would be nice to have someone here from Line-6 to communicate the status of fixing this bug, so that you guys and others like me who haven't purchased a Stomp yet know know whats going on.
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1 hour ago, dcheek12 said:
HX Edit doesn’t provide a go between as the Helix and HX Effects
Im not sure that if you bring up both Editors, you might be able to drag and drop between them? I have not tried this yet, but can bring up both editors at the same time. I will have to try this.
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Sounds like something on the circuit board inside is loose. I agrees with rd2rk...
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On 3/16/2018 at 8:46 AM, kenmasters said:
First of all, there should be a separate forum for HX effects.
I still think this now and did from the start. And yes, I "own" an HX Effects unit. I mean come-on, its a "separate" item in their wonderful inventory of items that Line-6 has made for us, just like Helix is, and just like the HD-series, the Pod stuff, even the Vetta has a seperate forum last time I looked. Not only this, but any I.T. guy or gal (and I know and work with many of them often) worth their own salt could add this in 5 minutes or less. So the only other answer is (once again), they don't want to. Down vote me again for saying this-LOL I dont give a rats pataudi , but this needs to be done.
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Is downloading ASIO4ALL an option here?
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Well someone has waaaaaaayyyyy too much time on their hands lol. Even finding and then bypassing surface mount caps & coils/inductors to improve the tone is VERY hard to do without the right equipment and a knowledgebase of how to use them, and then there is finding the ones that would improve the tone when bypassed.
I'm curious, where did you pick up these skills?
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Shootin from the hip- sounds like a nornal wah sound run thru a pedal- flanger-chorus etc etc...
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FWIW, it could be that the IR's are not the right size. For instance I have a note in my studio for The powercab +'s that say the IR's need to be 48K, 24-bit, mono, and 2048 samples.
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1st time using FRFR monitors can be frustrating if that's the case. Need to keep reading, watching Youtube videos and making sure the gear is ok. Baring having a buddy a block away that can come over and help, a coupla months of that and you will start to sound better to you, and that's all that really matters then. I have great sounding patches and profiles that I could never get on a tube amp, now. You will see- keep at it. ; )
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Im interested to try the meters and see if it shows/helps in using limiters and in normalizing vsts to -.03 db below 0 on tracks. If it's that accurate I will be pleased. I know lots that play in a band here that won't be using it (meters) for "stage" volumes. After 45 years I don't do that much anymore, just a poor mans studio now. ; )
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36 minutes ago, rd2rk said:
Dearest spikey - please, STOP using the word WE. It does not mean what you think it means.
You do not speak for me, and it would be apparent to any thinking person that there are MANY here that you do not speak for.
When you use the word "WE" you actually mean "I".
If you cared about anybody else you wouldn't be hijacking this thread to pursue your feud with DI.
Give it a rest!
Relax rd2rk, I was only speaking to the adults here. Sorry for the confusion. ; )
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Here's some stuff on Tube Screamers, more than I ever cared to know lol, but good stuff anyway!
http://www.geofex.com/article_folders/tstech/tsxtech.htm