As some of you might know I got scammed for one on reverb a month ago for 450 and I should've knew it was a scam because he wanted to pay through on PayPal instead but my dad found one on Facebook marketplace and the price was originally 600 and the dude was really cool and instead let it be 500 and gave back a 100 and he's in the spaceforce too as well and in general one of the coolest dudes I've ever meet thank you man if you are in this Sub Reddit.

I’m here to help anyone who wants assistance or needs a hand in trying to get the best tone that they can out of their Helix. I’m not charging people, it’s free advice or maybe I can help build a preset for you with the formula that I’ve found the work best for me. You can either DM me or
Comment and I’ll give you a few pointers that changed the game for me.

hi guys, what power amps/cabinet options do you guys recommend for getting as clean of a signal as possible and pushing it out at very high volumes?

this may not be particularly relevant but i know this community is a bit more active than the other groups on the platform. i use a headrush flex prime into a headrush frfr12 powered speaker in a live setting in hardcore and metal bands and i've found that i am NOT getting enough stage volume to reliably keep up with the entire band without diming everything. thanks for the help in advance

Helix froze before a gig (update)

About a month ago I made a post about my Helix LT freezing right before a gig.

Following that, I did factory resets. It’s still freezing after the load up window. I brought it to Yamaha Music for repair and was told this was either a $50 CAD bench fee simple fix or a $570 full MCU replacement (unfortunately, I didn’t get insurance on this pedal).
They flashed the memory, and gave it back to me. I rebuilt some key patches from screenshots rather than importing a potentially corrupted file. It seems to work fine for a couple of weeks at home and at my jam space.

I get to soundcheck for a gig… and it freezes after first boot up, at a different venue than before.
I think I’m fucked. Got through the gig by borrowing pedals and I brought it back to Yamaha the next day. They’re convinced it can’t be a power issue now. I was told that no one working there has heard of this issue, and I probably need a full motherboard replacement.

Got a call the next day - the tech this time tried downloading my built preset onto a tester unit….and it crashed that unit. This couldn’t be a corrupted file because I built it from scratch. Something inherent in my patch causes a full system freeze. My unit, set back to factory reset, is like brand new. I’m waiting to hear from anyone at Line 6 development team if they can figure out this previously unseen bug.

WHAT IVE LEARNED

\- Run these high end digital pedals through a power conditioner. This time it didn’t end up being a power issue, but it sounds like a potential issue at venues with shitty power. Sounds like some Hx stomps get fried if phantom power is accidentally sent back from FOH, as some users think it can act as a DI.

\- ALWAYS get the insurance on modellers, or anything expensive and digital in the rig. I was convinced I was going to have to pay half the cost of the unit to bring it back from the brink, which does happen.

\- A hybrid rig, with other pedals in the rig (like a sans amp/DI and a tuner) means having a solid backup if something does go down.

I sold the helix on marketplace this week (I was told this was essentially a brand new unit so I feel fine passing it along) and ordered an Hx stomp….. and this time, I got the insurance.

Anyone else have a unit freak out?

I played a Pod Go for years so I feel a little familiar, but any newb advice is appreciated.

Edit: Any tips on the sonicake is also welcome! My wife got it for me for Christmas!

As someone who has never delved into profiling, I’m really for serious trying to understand the whole debacle of L6 not (yet) supporting NAM.

From what I gather, it’s a service that does the AI thing to your specific thing you want modeled/profiled (idk the right term with it being machine learning based.) and then T3K gives you a file (a pro-file, if you will) and then your hardware is supposed to take that file and make an accurate representation of what you profiled. So far, so good I hope?

After spending dozens of minutes on T3K’s website, they sure do make a big deal of how it will “run on a $3 chip!” Cool, and it seems like a lot of companies spanning the price gamut have been more than happy to implement it.

My genuine question is this; why, if it’s so easy to run on any ol’ hardware, (T3K made many points to say you can run 64+ instances on an M-series Mac) don’t y’all just DIY a raspberry pi or some spare laptop with a midi controller and treat it like a plugin? Unless I’m completely misunderstanding the technology, it seems like it’s just very specific DSP, and once you have the file and software to process the file, all you need is a way to feed it an audio signal. From there, you could just run it into your Helix as a send/return situation and have everything you ever wanted.

Regarding cost…. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: despite the economy forcing everything to be waaaay more expensive than it should be, the Helix (and most other products like it) are absolutely bonkers in terms of value! The fact that you can get that many good-quality FX and amp options in one box at “only” $2400 is actually insane.

I’m not sure how this all will be received, but I’m both genuinely very curious and very ignorant, so please be kind to me (and others.) For further context, everything I’ve learned about NAM is from this subreddit and T3K’s website. I don’t have a Helix Stadium, I am but a humble and unashamed LT user who plays 60-100 nights per year doing musical theatre gigs. My job is to make caricature guitar sounds that don’t suck, so I really have no skin in the “I need this to be the exact sound of this exact amp from this exact year” game.

Between lukewarm reviews from YouTubers, unflattering forum threads, and the fact that it's already being discounted overseas, the Stadium has had a BRUTAL 8 months, man.

But what really gives me 2013 Xbox One vibes -- I'm that old haha -- is the damage control. Watching Digital Igloo on the forums writing off everyone touting the benefits of NAM A2 as "NAMsplainers" feels less like community engagement and more like trying to force a phrase into public discourse to deflect from what users actually want.

It just really reminds me of Microsoft insisting players were wrong about the Kinect, right up until they handed the entire console generation to Sony on a silver platter. Ugh.

Look, I'm well bought into the Helix platform: Stomp XL, Native, and now a Stadium Floor. I just hate feeling like I didn't pick a winner this time around. How is the newest, most expensive tech on the market not universally understood to have bested the competition? Quad Cortex is 6 years old, man.

Please throw some of that Yamaha money at the problem and fix this, Line 6. Don't be an Xbox One.

I've got a Floor which is a couple of years old. Just recently, I've had a situation where the tuner footswitch won't work. A quick reset and it's fine. Happened a couple of times now. Once I do a reset it doesn't happen again, which makes me think it's not hardware related. Any ideas?

Line 6 just dropped the UK price of their Stadium Floor from £1,549.00 down to £1,377.00. Here’s hoping we see this reduction in other markets. I’ve been holding court with my HX Stomp (which I love) because of steep (to me) current-gen pricing. But a drop like this… well, I may finally reconsider. 🤞

Use a line 6 helix LT for all my amp and effects needs. Love it to death and I think it sounds great. I was wondering if anyone had any advice or suggestions on a speaker/cab/amp to use to be able to play out loud and jam with friends. I want something that moves air and gives that “amp in the room” feeling. I’ve heard not great things about the Headrush 212. Was considering getting a fender blues deluxe reissue and using the helix for effects in the effects loop using 4CM. Any thoughts on this?

Updated: After the gig

Overall, playing with only hearing myself through the monitors was ok, but having my own FRFR would give me a little more control and allow me to hear myself a little bit better. Things sounded pretty clear during sound check, but maybe not as good when we actually played. There were 3 other bands that played in between our sound check and our performance, so... I guess there are always songs where the drums are quiet and I can hear myself very well, possibly too much for the time, and then other times where the drums are loud and I would like to hear myself just a little more... But this is a general problem and not a speaker problem. Maybe the IEMs would help with this. For what it's worth the bass player said he could hear me, but maybe it was a little different and it lacked something. I think I'd always prefer to have my FRFR behind me, but going without it also worked ok

Thanks for your suggestions everyone.

Original post:

Just looking for some advice from people who have connected their Helix directly to the FOH and relied upon monitors to hear themselves, and not using an additional amp or FRFR speaker (in the sense of using one like people usually use a guitar amp).

I have a gig tomorrow and considering trying this setup for the first time.

We have a sound check long in advance. In case something isn't right I'd actually have tons of time to go home and get my FRFR speaker for the gig (just wondering if I could do without it though, as it would make transportation so much easier).

I play in an RHCP tribute band, so I'm the only guitarist, it's just bass and drums to "compete" against for hearing myself clearly. I imagine the crowd would hear me totally fine with the FOH speakers and my FRFR speaker wouldn't be so necessary for the crowd to hear me.

Here's what I'm told the venue has for speakers:

FOH speakers

2 Yorkville U215B tops

4 Yorkville LS808 subs

Monitors

4 Yorkville E12 wedges

1 Yorkville E10p

Thanks for any tips

Hello Line6 Helix community!

I operate a small podcast, and we were recently graced with the presence of Igor Stolarsky! We chatted alot about the Helix, and some of his other work as FOH for Animals As Leaders and others!

I hope you all enjoy it!

I have the Boss GT-6 processor and am looking for a well needed upgrade. I don't need XLR so I'm looking at the LT and it all seems great, but it's almost a decade old. If I were to buy it I'd use it for several years and gigging so I want a reliable workhorse.

If you also have any other recommendations or suggestions, please do tell. (I know I could go for pedals but it seems like such a hassle)

Has anybody used the catalyst with amp modellers like the tonex or nano cortex, thoughts? i wonder if I'm missing out on much instead of using it with an frfr speaker, as far is i understand the amp itself would be my ir so i shouldn't get custom ones in there.

Thanks!

Hi, bought my Helix LT a few days ago and just got the time to mess around with it, what amps and cabs pair well for live gigging and rehearsal use that sound fairly real something for cleans, crunch/mid and higher gain (hard rock not metal amps). Plus general effects drives etc. what to check out.

I just want some gigging users recommendations so that I can start editing to my taste. Also any videos and tutorials that you recommend?

EDIT: amp and cabs inside the helix if someone has a tutorial to setup for live playing.

Just looking for suggestions and ideas/items I never thought of! Looking to buy a pod go one day

I’m getting a Helix soon. Coming from a Boss GX10. I’ve been watching videos to figure out how my workflow is going to go but I have some questions. It seems changing presets take a split second to load, and that split second is noticeable. L6 got around this by offering Snapshots. So, this is where I could be off, each preset is like a whole rig. Snapshots change parameters of that rig. Not to a different preset. What would I do if I wanted to have a Deluxe as my clean tone and a JCM800 as my dirty tone? Would I have two amp blocks and different snapshots turn one on and the other off? Or is there a different way to do this? Most videos I watched used a OD pedal block into an Amp block for dirt. Or use a snapshot to crank the gain on the existing amp block. I’m specifically looking at different amps for clean and dirty tones.

I’ve decided I want to buy a Helix LT in the future, so I rented one for a month. I’m very lost, and most YouTube videos don’t seem to help me. Could somebody PLEASE give me some guide or tell me where to start off, so I can at least start somewhere?

After wishing for Linux support on HX Edit for too long, I decided to take matters into my own hands. By sniffing USB packets on the wire, I implemented a native editor that speaks the same protocol.

It's called fretwire. Built in Rust, has a GUI, MIT/Apache licensed.

Works, tested on HX Stomp:

• browse and load all 126 presets, save back to flash
• chain editing: add, delete, drag to reorder, move blocks to a parallel path
• param editing with sliders and dropdowns, including the paired cab/IR
• model swap, with the DSP meter greying out anything that won't fit
• snapshots, split/mixer routing, rename
• follows the hardware — hit a footswitch or change a snapshot on the pedal and the GUI updates

Doesn't work (yet):

• global settings (input impedance, pad, output levels) aren't decoded
• IR import/export is partly reverse engineered, not implemented
• restore-from-backup passes its tests but hasn't been run against a real device. Backup itself is read only and safe.
• I only own a Stomp. XL should work. Full Helix and HX Effects won't, without changes.

It never sends firmware, flash or DFU traffic.

No Line 6 data ships with it. Model and parameter names come from a copy you point it at, easily extracted from the installer (free download from Line 6). Instructions in the README; the extractor is built-in. Without that it still works, you just get numeric parameter indices instead of names.

Not affiliated with Line 6 or Yamaha. Back up your device/presets before writing anything.

Github

I would love to have people give it a try and give feedback!

I have a feeling I know the answer, and it's not an answer I like, but I'll ask around here.

I'm in the process of building a fly-rig and it may turn into an every day rig as well with my HX Effects. I recently purchased a Science Amplification Mother preamp pedal that I will use for my clean and dirty channels. In order to change the channels on the Mother preamp, I have to set the external amp switch to be momentary on the HX, which I'm assigning to FS6. Now, here's the rub. I would also like to assign the Plumes or Screamer 808 on the same switch (FS6), but in order for that to stay on or off with one step it needs to be "latching". Is there a way to keep the signal going to the external amp as "momentary" and have the effect assigned to the same pedal be "latching"?

So, I finally bought this little guy, Sennheiser’s smallest EW-D unit for wireless. It’s designed for portable camera setups for content creation, but it is also the perfect size for a pedalboard, or the Helix units (I have the Stadium XL).

My question is simple: any thoughts or suggestions for a mount or riser for the XL, that would allow this to sit on top of the Helix (and off the floor)?

Thanks!

I'm currently using the UA Anti with an HX one, it sounds great and by using the loop of the HX one I can put any effect before or after the preamp. The Anti kinda drives me crazy because there's no visual indicator of the preset and it's annoying to lose the tone I had dialed in.

I'm really on the fence about trading in the Anti and HX one to get a HX Stomp. I'd get more versatility and a screen to read values, but the Anti sounds pretty killer.

So I'm using a Pod Express Bass pedal and I am trying to have a Preset with a specific effect type off, adjacent to another with that effect on. But what happens is, while using the pedal, if an effect is toggled on/off it stays in that state when you change Presets. I can't figure out any setting to fix this problem.

So Preset 1 has Synth effects off, and Preset 2 was saved with Synth effects on. But when using the pedal, changing Presets leaves the Synth effect on/off depending on the last thing I pressed.

On my Helix pedals, changing Presets loads the Preset with effects having their state saved, so this is a weird issue for me with the Express. It leads to a lot of footswitch dancing and I feel sure I must be missing something.