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You can't supress/remove the preset ID. In Global Settings you can change it from 1A-32D to 000-127. That's all.

It’s a simple question. Unfortunately the answer is anything but simple. I’ll address the main issue here. It will require some follow up and probably further information and questions on your part. The main issue that you need to understand is that you are using two amplifiers and speaker cabinets, and your connection method is putting them in series. That won’t sound good. There are 4 key individual components here: 1 - the modelled amp in the HD400 2 - the modelled cab/mic in the HD400 3 - your physical guitar amp except the speaker/cabinet; let’s call this the amp head 4 - the physical speaker/cab of your amp Imagine that, instead of the HD400 models, you were using the real physical equipment being modelled. Your current setup is equivalent to placing a microphone in front of the speaker of that amp and then sending that signal into the front of your existing amplifier. No doubt, that sounds awful to you - hence your question. What you need to do is make your connections and design your HD400 presets so that the signal that reaches your ears passes through only one amp (either an HD400 model OR your physical amp head) and only one speaker/cabinet. In all cases, you will be hearing the sound from physical speaker/cabinet of your existing amplifier. That means your HD400 preset should not use a cab/mic model. I can’t remember whether the HD400 provides a No Cab option. If so, use it in all presets. If not you will need to either abandon your HD400 and use your physical amp or abandon your physical amp and use a PA style or studio monitor speaker system. Now, considering the amp selection. Again, the question of whether the HD400 allows you to select No Amp in the preset is critical. If not, you need to route the HD400 output to a rear panel Input on your amp, either a Line In jack or an FX Return jack. If your amp has neither of those then, again, you need to abandon one device or the other. If it does have one of those then you can use the HD400 amp model with only the speaker/cab portion of your physical amplifier. Your existing physical amp head will never be used. If the HD400 does allow you to select No Amp, and if your physical guitar amp also has an FX Loop (as the HD400 does) you can connect the HD400 and your amplifier using 4 cables, in something called the 4-cable method (4CM). This will allow you greatest flexibility but it will require you to do some research so I’ll stop here. So to summarize you need to determine a couple of matters of fact: 1 - does the HD400 allow you to select No Amp and No Cab in your presets? 2 - does you physical guitar amp have an FX Loop or a Line In jack in the rear panel? Determine these facts and then read the above several more times until you understand it.

No, your X3 does not need to be connected to your computer. Connect the audio outputs of the X3 to the audio inputs of your interface.

OK. Well, as I said, your choice of audio interface is quite independent of the fact that you will be using your X3 as opposed to any other modeler.

It will give you the feel of your GPA power amp and 212 cab in the room, because that’s what you will have in the room. It won’t give you the feel of any other guitar amp and cab because you are turning off the mic/cab modelling. The POD Go does provide realistic feel and pick attack in terms of playing dynamics. Whether you will find it to be a tone upgrade only you can decide.

The 8 snapshots are already assigned to footswitches. You can see them when you enter Snapshot Footswitch mode (see manual pg 15). You can also assign a Snapshot to a Footswitch in Stomp mode, but to understand what that means I suggest you start by reading the manual. There is also great flexibility in the Global Settings for Footswitches (pg. 68).

No, that can’t be done. The footswitch assignments apply to the overall preset, not individual snapshots.

I don’t have an opinion on the specific interface you link to, but I have a general comment. You can hook your X3 up to any audio interface and use the interface device as your computer’s soundcard when recording, using Reaper or any other DAW. If using a separate audio interface you simply connect your X3 analog audio outputs to the interface’s audio inputs. It sounds like you may not be aware that your X3 is itself an audio interface. You don’t need a separate audio interface device. You can connect the X3 to your computer via usb and it will become your computer’s soundcard. You can designate it in Reaper as the audio device and have multiple recording options, including the ability to record both dry and wet signals simultaneously on different tracks using Tone 1, Tone 2, or both. You could record 4 tracks simultaneously: Tone 1 wet, Tone 1 dry, Tone 2 wet, and Tone 2 dry. Record yourself singing and playing guitar with the processed guitar and vocal signals on separate tracks, and the associated dry signals also on separate tracks. Edit: I believe you and I had an earlier discussion about using the X3 for recording and the settings in the Line 6 Audio MIDI control panel item. Did you ever get that figured out?

Actually, I think the fact that the strings all sound normal when not using the modeling is exactly why the cleaning could have everything to do with it. The issue is with the modeling, which depends on the piezo under saddle pickups. Any dust or dirt affecting the contacts in the piezos will affect only the modeling, not the mag pickups. (P.S. I assume you made a typo in your last clause above, when you say everything is clear as a bell ‘with’ the models. It contradicts your earlier comments and your overall complaint so I suppose you meant to say ‘without’ the modeling.)

Have you performed the cleaning step as outlined above? If so, the next step is servicing, also as outlined above.

Most players will soon identify a handful of their favourite presets and use Pod Go Edit to place them in the same few preset banks. That way they are quickly accessible by footswitches rather than the dial. However if your presets are not organized for quick accessibility then yes, you need to hunt. Search YouTube for videos.

The Variax alternate tuning operates by adjusting the pitch of the current physical tuning of the string, whether standard tuning or not and whether actually in tune or not. If you tell the Variax to increase the pitch of any string by, say, +2 semitones that’s what it will do, regardless of the actual pitch of the physical tuning.

Have you opened a support ticket? See Support link at top of this page.

Yes that looks like it would be OK to use.

The symptoms suggest it’s just a faulty switch rather than a fault with the Variax electronics because both mags and piezos are affected. That’s a good thing. You can probably just have the switch replaced by any guitar tech, although there may be some special Variax considerations in doing so. I would open a support ticket for clarification and advice. Edit: It might even be as simple as a bit of dust/dirt in the switch. Try using some contact cleaner. Use the proper stuff - not a household product like WD-40.

I’m not persuaded but don’t want to debate it. There may be others who share your opinion on this. Why not post the suggestion on Ideascale?

I believe this was resolved by Apple in a not-too-distant iOS update, 14.something I believe it was. Apple broke it - not Line 6 - by releasing an update that apparently was non-compliant to their specs in some specific detail used by the StageScape Remote app. I haven’t checked it since to see if iOS 15 works.

Interesting suggestion, and I can see how the concept could seem to simplify snapshot editing. But the devil is in the details as far as implementation is concerned. The changes would have to make sense within the current device architecture so let’s talk about this in the context of the architecture. Each preset holds sufficient memory space for 4 versions of the preset with up to 64 variable parameters. Anything that would require a change to that simply ain’t gonna fly. So first off, your base/global preset would have to (presumably) be Snapshot 1, leaving 3 editable snapshots. No problem so far. Anytime you want to make a change to the base preset you simply need to make sure you are in Snapshot 1. But that requires the user to be aware of how things work, and be intentional about it. Right there, you have to deal with the other side of the ‘practical’ coin you mentioned where you mistakenly made a change to all snapshots when you only wanted to change one but forgot to do something first (assign the parameter to the Snapshot controller). Now you could mistakenly make a change to a parameter in only one snapshot when you intended to change it for all presets but forgot to do something first (activate Snapshot 1). So what’s the gain in practicality? Problematic to justify when people are already used to how things work now. Would cause a lot of confusion for dubious gain. Secondly, how would you deal with the 64 parameter limitation? Currently the Snapshot Controller assignment provides an indicator of the parameters assigned. I think you’re suggesting to do away with that. Conceivably, your parameter edits in Snapshots 2-4 could exceed the limit - and you would have no indicator to show you which 64 are being used. What to do? Personally I’m not sure it would be any more practical or intuitive. Either way you need to understand how things work and act accordingly. Edit: re:64 parameters. I guess Line 6 could leave the indicator in place and just make the indication automatically each time a parameter in Snapshot 2-4 is changed.

Try following the update instructions. You don’t start with Line 6 Updater. Begin by downloading and installing the HX Edit v3.15 package. Install all components. Then run the HX Edit program and follow the instructions.

Don’t do that. I believe both drivers are necessary. One provides the ASIO apiece for your DAW and the other serves general audio output from your PC (no DAW involved). You’re right, of course, that HX Edit is the online editor. However, Line 6 has chosen to bundle several components in the HX Edit download. It’s an installer package, not just the HX Edit program. It includes the HX Edit program, the Line 6 Updater program, and all required drivers for the Helix device. They bundle these components together to make it simple for the user. It ensures that the user always installs a compatible set and doesn’t need to know the details of which components are required and compatible. Not all of these components are updated with every Helix update, but sometimes one or more of them are updated. You don’t need to know that. If you start deselecting them you invite a situation where you have incompatible components installed. Why do that?

The right side of the screen does not display the IRs themselves. It displays the names of the presets that contain IRs, as stated in the green text of the image you show. There are no actual IRs in a setlist file; just references to them. Is it possible that the setlist you uploaded contains no references to IRs?

It depends on the placement of the mono vs. stereo FX blocks in your signal chain. A Mono FX block takes a signal input, whether mono or stereo, and sends a mono signal output. A Stereo block takes a signal input, again whether mono or stereo, and sends a stereo signal output. If the input to a Stereo FX block is mono, the signal is routed through the block using a dual-mono input. If the input is stereo, the stereo is preserved as it passes through the block. In both cases the output is stereo. Important to note that an amp is a mono block; it sends a mono output even if the input signal is stereo. In your signal chain you are using FX Loops near the end of the chain. If the equipment in the loop has a mono block at its end then the return signal to the HX Stomp is mono. If all processing done in the FX Loop is stereo then the loop will return a stereo signal.

They're still listed as active products so I presume that means they're still being manufactured. Usually when a product is no longer being manufactured it is removed from the Products page.

Note that Line 6 is now a subsidiary brand of Yamaha, and is part of the Yamaha Guitar Group. Your question is really for Yamaha to answer. Prior to the Line 6 purchase Yamaha has been manufacturing guitars, mixers and speakers for decades. Their primary interest in Line 6 appears to have been the range of complementary products such as guitar multi-FX devices that do not directly compete with Yamaha products. Since the acquisition we have seen no further development on competing products including guitars (Variax), mixers (M20d) and speakers (StageSource). In these product areas Yamaha has acquired the IP and may or may not incorporate that into future Yamaha products. This began to happen with Variax when the physical design of the Variax Standard guitar was based on a Yamaha Pacifica. If and when we see a new generation of Variax-like technology it may well be released as a Yamaha, not Line 6, product.

Connect your Helix to your PC via USB and connect your speakers to the Helix outputs, either 1/4” or XLR. Your Helix becomes your computer’s soundcard, and all PC-generated audio is routed to the Helix (e.g. YouTube, Spotify, backing tracks, …). The speakers need to be powered, and a good choice for home use would be studio monitors. I would go with minimum 6” speakers. There are lots of good options in your local audio stores, and plenty of threads here that discuss the options.