silverhead

The answer to all your questions is no, with one clarification. Using a second signal path will use more DSP if you add blocks to the path. But it’s not the added path that uses DSP - it’s the added blocks.

I’m not saying it’s a bad or unworkable idea. Just that it’s hard to define exactly what is meant by the sound of ‘a 4x12 Marshall in a living room’ because, as you note, there are lots of factors involved. I know that the sound waves are there whether someone is listening or not, but not everyone in the room will hear the same thing. That’s why I have trouble with the ‘perfect mic’ concept. Thanks for the interesting (to me, at least) discussion.

A ‘perfect’ mic? Hmmmm..... interesting. Perfect according to whom or to what standard? We can get really metaphysical here. Do your ears perceive sound exactly the same way mine do, and generate exactly the same neural responses in the brain? Are there hearing blind people in the same way there are colour blind people? Do you see the same shade of red that I do? Do we both hear 440 hz at exactly the same pitch? Aristotle would be proud! I did major in philosophy......

In other words...... what sound does a tree make when it falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it? Using a microphone to capture the sound is artificial!! I want the ‘real’ sound as if I were standing there at the time. How can you ever know what that sounds like without recording it? And then, of course, what you get is the sound coloured by the actual mic used to record it.

Not sure whether this would be a real hurdle, but it occurs to me that this raises an immediate technical issue: how (without using a mic) do you capture and emulate/model the sound of the ‘real’ cab? I could be totally oversimplifying and completely misunderstanding the modeling technology Line 6 uses but it seems to me that the heart of the technology is some sort of comparison: you capture a waveform of the sound of the ‘real thing’ and then your DSP software is designed to reproduce that waveform as closely as possible. Where does the waveform of the ‘real cab’ come from for comparison purposes if you don’t use a mic to capture it? Again, maybe I just haven’t had enough coffee yet.....

Both the Firehawk 1500 amp and the Firehawk FX device are listed on the current Line 6 Products page (see top of this page).

The UX2 can be used with any recording software that supports ASIO. It comes with the Line 6 Pod Farm software but is not restricted to that.

How do you plan to operate the Helix Floor device in this situation? Do you still envision having access somehow to the device footswitches etc or do you have some remote controller in mind?

I suggest you go with minimum 6” speakers. Bigger is better so if 8” fits in your budget I’d go with those. You don’t need 10” for your purposes. As for brand, any powered studio monitors (virtually all of which are FRFR) should work fine. Most audio stores that sell these speakers have a test setup in the store where you can compare different brands. Pricing is a very local determination, so let your ears be your guide re: cost/value preference.

Is this what you want? https://www.long-mcquade.com/66725/Guitars/Cables_Power_Supplies/Line_6/Lightning_Cable_for_SonicPort.htm. Seems it’s out of stock but you may be able to order it.

I use the P-180 antennas because I have 5 units and the rabbit ears are just too messy. However, if I only had 2 units in a single rack space I would use one rabbit ear on the front of each unit and use 2 short cables in the rear to connect the other antenna inputs in a daisy chain manner. https://www.long-mcquade.com/17742/Pro_Audio_Recording/Accessories/Line_6/Line6_6_Inch_Coaxial_Cables_-_Pair.htm

The above is my experience too. The original materials include the rackmount equipment for 2 units side-by-side in a standard 19" 1U rack space. I successfully mounted and connected 5 units in a 4U rack, leaving me 1U space beneath for spare cables and other equipment. No problems and no need for extra materials except a 5-port power hub and short cables for daisy chaining the units inside the rack.

"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." - Yogi Berra

No, not possible using the unit itself. You can, of course, record the loop into a recording program on your computer before it gets deleted on the Pod Go. If looping is an important feature for you consider getting a dedicated fully-featured looper pedal that includes the ability to save recordings.

As of firmware 3.0 (I think) you can assign a footswitch to recall any snapshot. So you can use any one of your 8 available footswitches for this purpose without having to enter Snapshot mode.

I would start with the manual. Choose the one for your Variax guitar model. https://line6.com/support/manuals/#guitars The POD Go does not have a Variax VDI connection but you can still use the Variax guitar with it. Use the Variax 1/4” analog output just like a normal guitar. The manual describes how changing models works.

Not really. Different headphones will sound different even to each other, and quite different from FRFR speakers. Headphones will sound closer to FRFR than to an amp but still quite different.

How about starting with the manual? Choose the one for your device. https://line6.com/support/manuals/#effects

Never say never. It’s possible that Line 6 might decide to add the Poly-FX to the POD Go. Of course that would mean that any POD Go preset could contain one of these Poly-FX blocks and pretty much nothing else, meaning that for those presets the POD Go is effectively a single pedal - the Poly-FX pedal. Might be exactly what a 4CM POD Go user wants in some situations. But who knows? Maybe enough POD Go users will request this on Ideascale to make Line 6 do it. Personally I don’t think so but it’s technically possible.

https://line6.com/legacy/pod POD 2.0 - not the original but perhaps useful?

As Phil_m said....there is no difference. Except, of course, the HX FX has no amp/cab models. And you are looking on the right place for manuals. Phil_m provided you with the direct links to the identical manuals rather than going through the manuals section of the website.

That’s correct. Line 6 advises against using both the battery and the VDI-supplied power at the same time.

Can you put any sort of timeline on that, or are you asking for support to infinity? If not infinity..... when?

There are two DT Series amps still listed on the current Line 6 Products pages. These are the DT25 112 and the DT25 Head. That suggests that these two are the only DT amps still being manufactured. Any Line 6 retailer in Australia should be able to order them for you. No idea what the wait time might be.

Return it. And yes, the cable should come with it. Your retailer is simply wrong to say they sometimes don’t include the cable.