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Thanks for this!

Love these ladies.  Consumate and highly skilled musicians!

On 11/4/2022 at 3:11 PM, Digital_Igloo said:

I summarily dismissed it? Were we talking about hardware GUI or something?

You said something to the effect of "You don't need moveable mics because you can basically achieve the same effect via the Hi Cut and Mic Distance parameters."

Are the dual cabs only practical for stereo use of the Helix et al or can you use dual cabs in mono and not have severe phase cancellation issues?

I have not had the chance to update yet.

I love the moveable mics idea.  I asked about this before and the idea was summarily dismissed by Digital Igloo.

I'm happy he was eventually overruled.

On 3/28/2022 at 12:45 PM, rd2rk said:

MIDI tech is coming closer and closer to eliminating the NEED for other instruments in any but the highest levels of performance in an acoustic environment (symphony orchestras, jazz in intimate settings, etc)

I don't think Midi (through the din connector) has improved or changed much since its inception.  Instruments that use midi have simply started to take advantage of the unused controller data that was left fallow for many many years. Truly advanced guitar synth products have completely sidestepped midi altogether to avoid its relatively low speed. It's fine for triggering sampled instruments telling the instrument which sample to play at what velocity, channel, duration and what controllers are being sent.  Get too many of those controllers going to the instrument and the whole transmission system bogs down. So even if some new keyboard is capable of receiving lots of control messages to make it more expressive, midi itself throws a wrench in the works.  I do wonder what trickery Seaboard is using on their instruments to make them to be so expressive. The Roli Seaboard instruments are not normal midi instruments though.  I'm not sure they even have midi ports - just USB.

As for the Helix and technologies like it, I don't think it's all that easy to map out and replicate ALL of the tactile things that happen between a guitar and an amp.  I think it is still a "work in progress".  I gotta say though, I recently got a NuX MG30 and right out of the box, its tactile response feels better than the Helix.  I liked the Fender, Vox, Marshall and Dr. Z models immediately with very minimal tweaking. I'm getting bright but non-fizzy amp sounds that I didn't really have to work too hard to get.  It's giving me some of the sounds that I've been struggling to get from the Helix. I find its EQs and compressors more effective and its effects more pleasant to hear. 

I'm keeping the Helix because it still does things that the MG30 can't at its price range and size limits.  But if NuX builds something akin to the Helix in size and capability...

I'm not saying this last bit to cause trouble. This is simply my current experience.

I use Setlists for the different guitars that I use.  Each one has its own setlist.

On 3/5/2022 at 8:36 AM, phil_m said:

 

The input pad has been available the whole time. It was always just a global setting. It’s still a global setting, technically, but you can choose to have individual presets override the global setting now.

Hmmm.  I must admit that I've never looked there. I guess I've never needed it.

On 2/23/2022 at 1:06 PM, codamedia said:

 

I can understand what Sashca and Phil_m are saying.... 

As I understand it... the PAD happens before the AD conversion... the ON/OFF may be digitally controlled, but it very well could be a "fixed value" baked into the hardware. 

 

But, it never hurts to ask.... just in case it is possible :) 

I think my point still holds.  If it was "baked into the hardware" then the feature has been available all along. Why would we not have had this feature until now?

On 2/22/2022 at 8:39 AM, SaschaFranck said:

As much as I'd like to support this, I'd almost take a bet it's impossible. From all I know, the input pad is a fixed additional resistor on the analog side of things, controlled by an on/off switch rather than through an adjustable pot.

15 hours ago, phil_m said:

I'd be willing to bet money that this is the case.

If was just a resistor, it would have had to have been there all along and if it was, why didn't we have this option from the very beginning?  Why did it take until version 3.15 for us to get this option? Just as software in the Helix allows us to adjust levels in multitudes of different parameters, why would this one parameter need to be reliant on a fixed part of the hardware?

38 minutes ago, datacommando said:

Hi,

 

Not sure if you are using a Mac, but this “harking back” to an older version is something I have mentioned in posts, specifically for Mac users who have an “alias” on their machine.

 

Hopefully, Line 6 will improve the installation routine to download the required package, then disconnect from the internet and delete the previous HX Edit as part of the process. 
 

Thanks for the info - Glad you got it fixed.

I wasn't using my Mac for this.  For some reason I'd relegated my MS Surface to editing and updating the Helix. 

I think I found the issue. After having updated HX Edit, I launched it from the icon on the taskbar.  I get the feeling that that icon is still tied to the old version because when I launched it again from the desktop icon everything went fine. 

I’m the odd one out here. I’m using a MS Surface running Win10 and the Line6 updater saw that there was a new version of both HX Edit and new firmware for the Helix. I updated HX Edit and that went well. But now, in trying to updat the Helix, it just sits there saying “Initializing firmware installation”. It’s been like that for 15 minutes now. And yes I did backup first, the USB cable is the same one I’ve always used and it’s the only thing I use it for and is connected directly to the Surface. No I’ve never had any trouble updating before. 

I’m in the process of updating now and it’s been saying “Initializing Firmware Installation”  for quite a few minutes now. 

I'm curious to hear what anyone else's take on it would be.  So far, my bottom line take is that the amp and cab sims sound great and it has so much potential but a lot of its more basic functions that we Helix users take for granted are ridiculously frustrating.

14 hours ago, spaceatl said:

echo is just reverb with one single reflection...

Technically, yes. Although some would prefer to say, reverb is just multiples of echoes.  They do sound different hence the distinction.. 

12 hours ago, silverhead said:

Is there an echo in here? 

No, it's reverb.

9 minutes ago, PierM said:

...unless you are 8 years old and still enjoy pissing contests, please, use the IGNORE button, and stop this nonsense.

 

 

 

You're right.  Stopping.

17 minutes ago, theElevators said:

Your replies speak volumes about your lack of musical abilities. Why don’t you show us your great musical creations. Until then, take the high horse you rode on back to your bedroom and practice. 

Thank you.  I needed that laugh! 

13 minutes ago, theElevators said:

Thanks for the “review” of my music. Great to hear the “feedback” from a bedroom noodler with a humongous ego about music, music that is played on the radio and has millions of views.  Can you say the same about your music?  Go ahead I’ll wait. A bunch of clowns.  

You don't know anything about me or what I have accomplished. Just because your music has been played on the radio doesn't give you any credibility or right to be that insulting - to anyone! For the record, I wasn't reviewing your music.  I was calling you out on your condescending tone towards others here. But since you bring it up, I'd bet that not many of us here (or the rest of the world) are into what are basically rehashed Eastern European polka style songs with a 70s rock beat.

7 hours ago, theElevators said:

yay!!! go make some crappy music in your bedroom, loser.  

Wow, dude. After having heard the “music” in the videos you shared, you really haven’t got any credibility to say anything like that to anyone. 

6 hours ago, theElevators said:

“Volumes and opuses”. Show me the way, oh grand wizard of guitar!

 

I have seen the Andy from Pro Guitar Shop video demonstrating the pedal a few years ago. I watched it and saw no need to get it when it came out. It sounds like a cross between a freeze pedal and a harmonizer. It creates a sample of the last thing you played and transposes it up a couple octaves, and a fifth or whatever. Latching or nonlatching. Except it doesn’t really feedback. It is a trick of a sample and transposition. It doesn’t move with your playing like if you use a whammy bar, notes don’t pop out. 

Just because it's not to your liking doesn't mean it shouldn't be anyone else's and that they should be deprived of it just because you don't like it. It would seem that a lot of us don't like to use as much distortion as you do to get feedback and this effect solves a lot of problems for us. As for Andy from Pro Guitar Shop, meh. I'd rather listen to Mike Hermans' (Pop Into The Chemist) gear demos any day of the week. Andy is just too ham fisted for my tastes.

5 hours ago, theElevators said:

Clean sound + feedback... like an e-bow thing? 

This sentence speaks volumes about your lack of understanding of how the Digitech Feedbacker works and what is possible with it. 

33 minutes ago, theElevators said:

IDK why somebody would need a "feedbacker"... I have been feedbacking feeding back, with no issues with a max'ed out distortion pedal, when needed.  Works great in the studio or on stage.  I don't understand the purpose of a special designated effect that is already there... Why not do something useful instead...

Have you ever used the Digitech feedbacker?  It's one thing to get musical feedback when the conditions are just right and volume is high enough so that it's going to want to feedback.  It's quite another to be able to get that musical feedback whenever you damn well please and not have it when you don't want it and at any volume.  The Digitech pedal even allows you to get feedback with a squeaky clean signal at very low volumes.

I decided to mod the aftermarket mod for my Helix.  It’s a polycarbonate face guard made by Chad Boston (Gear By Ceba). Before I removed the protective covering on the underside of the guard, I measured for the positions of the scribble strips and marked them on the protective covering.  Then I used an exacto knife and a ruler to cut the masks and removed the unneeded covering then spray painted the underside with a transparent red paint