What you actually bought
What this box is for, what it is not, and the one sentence that explains most of the confusion around it.
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It is a whole guitar rig in one box — amps, speakers, microphones and effects, all modelled. Whether it sounds right depends almost entirely on what you plug it into.
The short version
A full-size Helix floorboard with the same processing as the Floor and a reduced set of jacks. Same two paths, same 32 block locations, same eight snapshots, same models — it is the I/O and a handful of panel controls that are smaller, not the sound engine.
Is this the right guide?
If your unit has a mic input, four sends and returns and a separate PHONES knob, you have a Helix Floor. If it is a 3U rack, read the Helix Rack guide. The sound engine is the same across all three.
The thing everyone gets wrong first
On a Helix LT, the question we see most is footswitches that seem to have stopped working.
Press FS6. The unit is in Preset mode and you want Stomp mode.