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Reference

Inputs and outputs

Every jack on the Helix LT, on a diagram you can click — what it's for, and the thing about it that costs people an evening.

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)
Worth knowing

Facts about the audio path

The engine is identical to the Helix Floor

Two paths, 32 block locations, eight snapshots, the same 440 models, the same DSP rules. Nothing you read about Helix tone applies less to an LT.

Helix 3.80 Owner's Manual

No mic in, no aux in

The Floor can be a whole one-person rig with a vocal mic. The LT is a guitar rig. If you were planning to sing through it, this is the difference that decides which one you buy.

Helix LT Cheat Sheet (Rev B)

One expression jack, shared with amp switching

EXP PEDAL 2 and EXT AMP are the same socket. A second expression pedal and an amp channel switcher cannot both be plugged in.

Helix LT Cheat Sheet (Rev B)

Digital is output only

AES/EBU · L6 LINK out, and no S/PDIF in either direction.

Helix LT Cheat Sheet (Rev B)

One volume knob for everything

Quarter-inch, XLR, phones, digital and USB 1/2 all move together. Worth knowing before you turn your in-ears down mid-set.

Helix LT Cheat Sheet (Rev B)