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  1. We all have things we don't need but love yet can't afford. That's life! It cost Line 6 money to develop Helix Native. It didn't just magically appear. It took effort. It has costs. What they choose to charge for it is their prerogative. You do not get to impose your sense of entitlement on them or anyone else for that matter. As much as I'd like to be able to purchase a brand new car at a price I can afford, it's never gonna happen. That's life. Deal with it like a sensible adult. People's sense of entitlement to pay the price they think they get to determine, regardless of how it affects the future viability of the company that MADE that product that they "don't need but love", is offensive. "You can't always get what you want..." - The Rolling Stones
  2. Yeah... I just don't want to have to lift one or gig with it.
  3. Fender Vibroverb. That thing sounded like syrup. Tape Saturation model... PLEASE!
  4. My latest idea. A preamp output boost. What I’d like to be able to do is to get the power section saturating without having to set the input gain too high on the preamp. In fact, I’d like to be able to get nothing but power amp clipping with a fairly clean preamp driving it. https://line6.ideascale.com/a/idea-v2/916393
  5. Nigel is so over that whole “11†thing.
  6. I only bring one guitar to gigs so I use specific setlists for each guitar.
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    Ada mp1

    Well, it wouldn’t 4 cable method... it would be 3 cables. 🤓
  8. I don’t understand why that even has to be an option. What advantages are there to having Midi over USB turned off? It seems to me that the Helix should just ignore midi data that doesn’t pertain to it or is incorrect like note and velocity data. Wouldn’t it all be easier if Midi over USB is just on period?
  9. I’m still struggling with my jazz sound and yeah those old Polytones sound great. That said, ole George Benson sounds pretty much the same no matter what he’s plugged into. He used to use Polytones - even had his own model. Now he plays through a Fender GB Deluxe. Don’t know if they’ve modified it any but George still sounds the same.
  10. I think a “Kill Dry†option should be available on all hardware loopers. I’ve minimized it somewhat but the foldback from my Boss RC-20XL coming into Return 1 on my Helix causes some phase cancellation. Makes me nuts but as I said I’ve minimized it to some degree and have learned to live with it. Thank Buddha that the Helix sounds so good, it makes me forget... almost.
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    Ownhammer IR's

    I’m curious. I wonder what percentage of players who prefer IRs to the stock cab sims are high gain devotees and what percentage prefer low to mid gain. Hmmm... How do you do a survey on this forum?
  12. You know what, if Line 6 does nothing else in the next update, if they could just fix this nerve wracking process, I think we’d all be thankful.
  13. You mean it worked from the Helix to the amp?? Your amp has an XLR input?
  14. Instead of messing with the Helix’s code, here’s my idea. https://line6.ideascale.com/a/idea-v2/841518
  15. Well first, it has been a very long time since any company has used a 1/4†connector for microphones. The Fender cable article you posted was talking about shielded versus non-shielded instrument and speaker cables with 2 conductors. Those are not the same as microphone cables. Microphone XLR cables have 3 conductors - always and are also always shielded. The reality is, and this is coming from personal experience, that an unshielded speaker cable will “work†as an instrument cable, it’ll just be super noisy. The only speaker that would use a Microphone cable is a powered speaker. Passive speakers use unshielded 2 conductor 1/4†plug or Speakon terminated cables. Thus, as to why that one mic cable didn’t work leads me to think that it was just a bad cable - not a speaker cable. If Thomann does sell a 2 conductor XLR connector it would be very odd and I’ve not seen a passive speaker use an XLR connector ever. At least not here in this continent. I’ve seen 4 conductor XLR connectors but not 2 conductor.
  16. Hmmm... that makes no sense. They’re both 3 conductor cables with Canon/XLR connectors. The only thing I can think of is that the female connector of one of those cables (the one with the holes not the pins) isn’t quite making a complete connection with the Helix. Other than when used for an AES/EBU connection, all microphone cables are pretty much the same. Maybe they have other wiring standards in Europe? In the US it’s Pin1= Ground, Pin2 = Hot, Pin3 = Negative. Is it different there?
  17. No drive pedals but every now and then I will connect my MXR MicroAmp to the input. Just as a signal conditioner. Gives it a bit more sheen on the the cleans.
  18. I’ve never heard of this. I’ve always been able to use mic cables for powered monitors or microphones and has never been an issue.
  19. Wrong cable? Which cable was wrong?
  20. Two things that you’re absolutely missing out on. Snapshots and the Litigator amp model. The first one is a godsend for gigging musicians and the second is an amazing sounding and feeling amp model.
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