gjhardwick

You program a spare footswitch on your HX to mute the 1-switch looper (by toggling the playback volume from 100% to 0%), which could act as a pseudo stop function

During similar experimenting on Friday, I found that (for me) a delay time of around 250ms produced the least amount of rhythmic 'bump' in the sound. A gain block after the delay one would also make sense to prevent the through sound whilst the freeze effect isn't activated. I shall continue to work on this!!!

In terms of delay time, it might actually have to be longer than you think, perhaps around the 100ms mark. The gain/reverb blocks pre/post the delay line has got me thinking though, so i'll have a try myself when i'm home from work later!

efunkelist - Thinking about the bypass element, if the Simple Delay block (the 'Freeze' one) was on a parallel path, putting a gain block in front of it which would then mute the incoming signal by dropping its output to 0 as part of the footswitchable command might work? In terms of delay time, what sort of delay time have you tried? Also try putting a reverb block after the 'Freeze' block to smooth out the signal...

I had a very quick play around with trying to emulate the Freeze by creating a footswitchable command which would set the parameters on a Simple Delay block to set Feedback at 100% and Trails to On. Ideally, it would also need to set the effect to bypass to stop new signal from going into the delay block, but I didn't get that far...

I primarily bought my Helix to replace my pedalboard of effects. The Helix UI is ultra flexible for this purpose (movable effects blocks, parallel signal paths, footswitch assigns, etc, etc) and the effects themselves sound great. Live, i'll use the Helix into my amp (a Fender 59 Bassman), but for recording purposes i'll use the Helix with its amp/cab blocks to record direct into my DAW. The icing on the cake would be for Line 6 to now incorporate some of the effects utilised on previous products (i.e. Reverse delay, Octaver, etc)

From what I can tell so far through limited use, oh yes! I managed to put a patch together without having to consult the cheat sheet or manual, so I can vouch that the UI is very intuitive.

My Andertons order was delivered yesterday!

Correction, it now says 2nd November...

The last time I looked at my order status, Andertons were now expecting stock in on 22nd Oct...

For what it's worth, the expected stock arrival has changed on the main website from 30th Nov to 2nd Nov and for my particular order, the due date for stock is now 19th Oct. WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN THOUGH???

Pre-ordered from Andertons yesterday and got an e-mail saying stock isn't due in until the 30th November! Thankfully I haven't got any gigs/projects lined up at the minute due to work commitments, so I can wait it out...

I ran out of patience I sold mine at a loss on Ebay. Bought a Zoom MS100BT at a third of the price to tide me over in the meantime...

don't get too excited - that happens for every submission...

1.) The amp volume parameter can be adjusted by tapping the big knob until the led light ring turns pink and then adjusting the volume to suit (from memory, I believe the different colours are red = master volume, pink = amp volume, white = input/guitar volume) 2.) You cannot currently do this

You could run the pedal in the fx loop, but it'd probably be just as easy to have it first in your pedal chain before the input of the Firehawk

I do get the impression that since the Helix was announced, the Firehawk has been sidelined somewhat, which is strange considering the Firehawk was still a fresh product at the time...

Is there an ETA on the latest firmware yet?

Double Bass in the Filters & Synth section is the Firehawk version of the Boss OC1

The looper on the Firehawk is more in the style of the Line 6 DL4 than the JM4 IMO and I doubt they'd be enough processing power in the Firehawk to take on all the features of the JM4. You could always insert the JM4 into the effects loop of the Firehawk to get the best of both worlds? (That's what i've been doing with my EHX looper)

sturgiswaters - if you go to my Ideascale submission via the link above, there is a request to be able to control loop volume via expression pedal there...

Cliffrat - did you update the Firehawk Remote software on your iPhone/iPad as well?

I've discovered a new bug in the Firehawk - when creating/saving a patch, the user settings for the Looper block are not saved. For example, if you are using the Looper block in your patch and you set the Looper Overdub Level to 80% and then Save Info (either to My Tones or direct to the Firehawk unit), the Looper FX will always revert back to its default settings (i.e. Playback and Overdub Level at 100%, etc). Something that could be looked into please?

Just to clarify, do you mean you have to tap, say switch FS1 to turn the tremolo on when you switch to that patch? In the Firehawk Remote, have you checked that the tremolo FX block is not set to off in the patch 'Country Tremolo'? If so, it should just be a case of turning the tremolo FX block on and the resaving the patch so that when you switch to it, the tremolo will be switched on by default

Have you checked that the minimum and maximum extents for each stomp box are set correctly in the Firehawk Remote?