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Maybe because of the random audio cut off from the XLR. Made my life hell at my last gig. Having to stop and reboot the Helix a couple of times per set is no good.

Is that part of the toe switch problem that's been posted a couple times or is yours unrelated?

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If you read my replies in those threads...it happened to me without using the toe switch. Like when using a footswitch for a lead break or a patch change. I think it happens after you use any switch x number of times.

 

EDIT: I didn't notice it until I played it live at a gig. At home I don't do a whole lot of switching. But at a gig I'll do a lead in every song or change patches for clean sounds and crunch, etc.   And under that situation (THE most important one)....my Helix lost audio from the XLR output a couple of times per set (we played 3 sets).
Can't get ANY audio to come out of the XLR until you reboot the Helix. Which meant the band is up their playing rock music with no guitar while I waited for The Helix to reboot. :(

I do have a wah pedal assigned to the toe switch in my patches. But I didn't use it at all that evening except on one song in the last set for a lead.

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FWIW: I've been using it live since I got it right after the release and haven't had this issue at all. I should note that I don't a ton of switching during a set though. I usually only use 2-3 presets at most the whole time. Lot's switching effects on & off but very few patch changes.

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theKennyG, you just described how I use mine live. I had no problems with it the first gig I used it with. But this last one was a nightmare. I read in one of the threads that Line6 has acknowledged the problem and are fixing it with a firmware update.

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If you read my replies in those threads...it happened to me without using the toe switch. Like when using a footswitch for a lead break or a patch change. I think it happens after you use any switch x number of times.

 

EDIT: I didn't notice it until I played it live at a gig. At home I don't do a whole lot of switching. But at a gig I'll do a lead in every song or change patches for clean sounds and crunch, etc.   And under that situation (THE most important one)....my Helix lost audio from the XLR output a couple of times per set (we played 3 sets).

Can't get ANY audio to come out of the XLR until you reboot the Helix. Which meant the band is up their playing rock music with no guitar while I waited for The Helix to reboot. :(

 

I do have a wah pedal assigned to the toe switch in my patches. But I didn't use it at all that evening except on one song in the last set for a lead.

 Greetings!

 

The problem we have experienced is exclusively with the toe switch and no other footswitch. Would you mind opening a ticket so that we can examine your issue further?

 

http://line6.com/support/tickets/

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FWIW: I've been using it live since I got it right after the release and haven't had this issue at all. I should note that I don't a ton of switching during a set though. I usually only use 2-3 presets at most the whole time. Lot's switching effects on & off but very few patch changes.

I have yet to have this issue live. My son does a ton of switching when he uses it and it has yet to happen. We go direct to the board. Prior to the first update I did have this happen once. It was not the toe switch as I didn't use it then (still don't really as I have a mission engineering expression hooked up also) and I have no idea what I did prior. It didn't lock up as it did when I maxed out dsp once, it just had no sound. I suppose it is the same issue but it has not happens since and I went a little nuts trying to see if I could recreate the issue. I am going to keep trying this week to see if I can at least get a sequence that causes it. I dogma full reset and reload saved info each update. I did have my volume pedal quit working once live. At that time it was the onboard, not gone MI. It wouldn't do anything until I rebooted. It was just once lime the other issue but more recent. After the latest update in fact.

 

I should also add we have only been using it for single short sets at church so far. I am not sure if that has anything to do with why we gave not had it happen.

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I just put in the ticket for it.

And for what it's worth...we played 3 one hour long sets. My theory was that perhaps when I hit a certain number of times of using any combination of footswitches that perhaps that triggered the audio loss of the XLR output.
 

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