silverhead

You do want the looper at the end of the chain in both presets. Make sure you are using the same type of looper block in both presets. Also make sure the Playback setting of the looper is high. Perhaps your crunchy preset is simply much louder than your clean preset which might result in the clean sound being overpowered (made almost inaudible) by the crunchy sound. To test this, switch back and forth between the two presets without activating the looper. Are the output volumes similar or do you have to turn up/down the volume of the preset each time you switch? If the latter, balance the preset output volumes first then try looping again.

What I’m suggesting does not involve guitar processing through your computer. The POD Go is the guitar processor and produces the sound. I don’t know how good the Audigy product is but chances are the POD Go is a better sound card. Try connecting headphones to the POD Go’s Phones output. There’s no latency. If you have external speakers connect them to the POD Go’s main outputs. You need the usb connection if you want to use POD Go Edit but the POD Go produces the sound. No need for your computer unless you want to record.

I assume you want to do this without having to change or reroute any cables. Otherwise the simplest thing would be to disconnect the POD Go and use just the external pedal. I also assume that you are using the Send jack as well as the Return jack so that the external pedal receives its signal from the POD Go and returns it’s processed signal. In other words your external pedal is in the FX Loop of the POD Go. Configure your POD Go preset to have only the FX Loop active. Deactivate (turn off) all other processing blocks in the POD Go. That will ensure that the signal your PC receives is processed only by your external pedal. A couple of A/D and D/A conversions are unavoidable but will have minimal impact on the overall signal quality. Have you ever considered using your POD Go as the audio card? Connect it via USB and connect your speakers or headphones to the POD Go. Unless your PC sound card is stellar the sound quality you hear will be much improved.

Define ‘work’. What exactly are you trying to achieve? Yes, it will likely work in the sense that you will hear sound. Will it sound ‘good’, whatever that means? Only you can say…. but probably not. Or are you trying to achieve something else?

And my JTV-59 is still my daily, go-to guitar. I have a Les Paul Deluxe that has been sitting in its case for several years now. I take it out occasionally to change the strings and have a nostalgia session. It sounds great. But then I find I want a Tele or Strat sound…. the Les Paul goes back and the Variax comes out again.

is the Line 6 driver installed?

Yes, setup your preset to place the PGW FX Loop at some point in your signal chain. I’m not sure if there are restrictions about it placement, but as early in the chain as possible to achieve your desired first-in-chain placement. I believe the POD Go impedance issue is in the input block so can’t be addressed by a pedal in the FX Loop.

Aaah. I hadn’t read that part in the manual. I just described how I know it actually acts which as you say is apparently a bug. Thanks.

I do know how the 'Don't Force' setting works. When you switch to a preset that has the Don't Force setting for the Vol/Tone knobs the Helix device takes no action on the current value of these parameters. It does NOT mean that the position of the physical knob suddenly defines the value. The value remains as it was regardless of physical knob position.

I've just looked into this. It seems that you are able to assign an EXP pedal to control the Variax Vol and Tone knobs in a sweeping fashion. I didn't know that. Thanks for the tip.

I wasn’t aware of that. I know Helix can store different values for the Variax Vol and Tone knobs, and can recall different values using Snapshots. But I’m not aware that you can, for instance, assign the Vol or Tone knob to an expression pedal and sweep thru their values. Are you saying you should be able to do that except for a bug? Or is there a bug in what I’ve described?

I take a dual approach. I have many song-based presets that I organize in the order I want to play the songs. One song per preset when I want to get as close as possible to the original tone for covering the song. I also reserve several banks in my main setlist for genre/style related presets. I have a bank for Clean tones, Acoustic tones, Blues tones, Crunchy tones, etc. These banks I use when playing free style, not necessarily a preordained setlist. As has been mentioned you can get a lot of variety using snapshots within a preset. Even more variety when you have 4 basic Blues (or whatever) tones each with several snapshots.

You said ‘switch Variax presets’. Did you mean ‘switch Helix presets’? If so, the answer is No, that’s not possible.

I’m not experiencing that.

Depends on your Marshall amp output level. The Mic input is expecting a mic level signal; if your Marshall is sending a line level signal it likely will overdrive the mic preamp leading to unpleasant distortion. But you could use the Aux input on the Spider Jam instead.

I’m happy to help. Enjoy!

Make sure you have an active internet connection.

No. Each path in the LT is stereo - no need to split them. Any of the outputs you mention will provide a stereo signal.

No, it doesn’t handle IRs. It’s not an amp/cab modeler.

You can’t reassign the Looper buttons within the Looper display. You can, however, assign a footswitch in Stomp mode to control the Looper functions, including Play Once. See the manual section on Command Center. There is a subsection describing Looper controls.

Are you using a recording program on your computer when this happens?

Do you have the Line 6 driver installed? Depending on your MAC OS you may need it. Check the Downloads link at the top of this page. Select POD HD500 as the product, Drivers as the software, and select your OS. Download and install the appropriate driver. Reaper/DAW is not the problem.

Try the mobile app standalone, without your Amplifi device connected by either USB or Bluetooth. My Firehawk Remote app is able to find Cloud tones using just my iPad and an internet connection. Firehawk FX device is powered off.

Try Customtone (see link at top of this page). Filter for the POD Go device, then search for 'funk'. At the moment there are 17 presets available for download. They may or may not sound like what you consider to be funky. They might provide at least a starting point for you.