Skip to content
gridleak
Learn
Learn

Plugging it into things

Every jack, what it is for, and the two or three that regularly cost people an evening.

04 · 7 min

The one thing

For a mono rig, always use the LEFT/MONO jack of a pair. Using the right one on its own gives you half your effects and a thin sound.

The jacks

Click any jack to see what it does and what to watch for.

RETURNSENDXLR OUT1/4″ OUTMIDIEXP 2 / EXT AMPGUITAR INGND LIFTL/MONORIGHTL/MONORIGHTPHONESVARIAXAES/EBUINOUT/THRUUSBPOWERAC IN

Helix LT · Rear panel · schematic, drawn from Line 6’s panel diagram

GUITAR IN

TS, ¼″

rear panel

Your instrument input, with a switchable pad and selectable impedance.

This is the only instrument input. The Floor adds AUX IN and MIC IN; the LT has neither, and its input block list is correspondingly shorter.

Helix LT Cheat Sheet (Rev B)

The mono rule

Outputs come in stereo pairs, and only the left jack of a pair carries a summed mono signal. If you take one cable from the right jack, you get one side of a stereo image: quieter, thinner, and missing anything that was panned away from it.

The LT has one volume knob for every output including headphones, so “which output” is not a question here — they all move together.