Sam14

Overdrive - 5150 sim - Mesa cab. 

The new firmware is amazing! I whipped up a quick and dirty metal demo of the Archetype, it's so juicy and fat yet clear. 

I use Yamaha HS80m's and I think they sound fantastic. Plenty of bass and options to tweak for the room with the switches on the back. 

The only way i could see this working and being user friendly is if Helix had a lock function like the Kemper has. For example on the kemper you can lock any fx so when you change preset/profile whatever you have locked will stay in place regardless of the preset chosen until you push unlock

This is probably one of the only things I miss from when I sold my Kemper. Being able to have your favorite cab locked and then see how all your presets sound with it was cool. 

I run cab sims to FOH but I always run a send out to a 2x12 cab w/ an EHX 44 magnum power amp for stage noise so I get the best of both worlds. If you only need stage noise the 44 magnums are plenty loud, im not sure about miking them up but honestly I reckon it would sound pretty sweet and they are cheap as chips. 

Yes, that's the good news.

 

All you need to do is connect a normal TS cable (normal guitar cord) from the EXP jack on Helix to the OUTPUT of your EB VP Jr. 

 

Works like a charm.

 

You're welcome.

Bam! that easy, thanks heaps mate.

First, get rid of the TRS cable. TRS-based EXPs aren't the way it works.

 

Second, update firmware, I believe this problem may go away. Which EB VP? what impedance?

Its an Ernie Ball VPJR 250k, for passive electronics. It's got 3 jacks: in, out and tuner. I've been using one of those 2 mono to 1 stereo cables (insert cable?) which I assumed was TRS but im guessing im wrong haha. 

I have a Mission Engineering EP-1 too after reading that others are using it fine, I wanted to share my odd issue with it. Connected to the Helix, I have found that the heel position is correctly set at zero but it reaches 100 at midway and then back to zero at full toe position.

 

Anyone seen this issue or is it me? I have tried the pedal with my HD500x and it works well as expected. I have also changed the cable a few times without resolution. I wishing the Helix as a manual expression pedal calibration setting.

 

Any ideas?

Sorry to bump this up but I'm currently having this exact issue when connecting my Earnie Ball volume pedal, it goes from 0 to 100 then just before the pedal is all the way up it goes to 0 on the helix again. I have tried reversing the TRS cable connections as well but same issue. 

That sounds fantastic mate, I'm a massive 'vool fan.