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Helix Rack
time
2 minutes
needs
usb cable, Chrome
source
line 6 manual
  1. step 01

    plug the Helix Rack into your computer with a usb cable.

  2. step 02

    quit HX Edit, then open gridleak in Chrome and pick Helix Rack in the header.

  3. step 03

    on a preset page, press send. pick an empty slot.

  4. step 04

    keep the cable in until the screen says installed.

if it doesn’t work

rig setup

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What are you plugging into?
cab sim

leave it on

You're feeding a full-range system, so the Helix Rack has to supply the speaker.

the setup the Rack suits best.

the Rack on its own, driven from the front panel and from HX Edit on the computer.

Hook it up
  1. 01
    Guitar GUITAR IN on the front panel
  2. 02
    XLR OUT LEFT/MONO + RIGHT Monitors or interface
  3. 03
    USB Computer

    USB Type B

Set it up
cab block
On
editing
HX Edit over USB is faster than the front panel
Get this one right first

The cab block rule

Cab block ON into anything full-range: headphones, an FRFR speaker, the desk, your computer. Cab block OFF into anything that ends in a real guitar speaker. A cab block is a speaker simulation. Into a real cab it stacks two speakers. Left off into a full-range system, you hear a raw amp with no speaker at all.

Helix 3.80 Owner's Manual

There is a Preamp version of every Amp model. It is the preamp stage only, without the power amp. Use it when you feed a real power amp: your amp's effects return, a Powercab, or a DT-series amp over L6 LINK. It also costs less DSP than the full Amp block.

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