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  1. Yup, it's a good head's up to new users. Haven't used any in a while but some of the factory presets had some pretty sensitive settings for the noise gate. I remember when I first got my Helix having to figure out what was throttling my sound. If you are unaware that the noise gate is on in the input block and also that Line6 may have designed it using parameters that are too sensitive it can be kicking in way before it should. Not something you are necessarily expecting on a factory preset although it provides a fine if somewhat dramatic example of a noise gate in action :-) Btw, you can edit your topic's title by going to your initial/first post in the topic and hitting edit. Along with being able to edit your post you can also edit the topic title.
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  2. Hi All! Been a while since I have had a Line 6 product. The last one I owned was the POD XT Live. at the time, it was a break through. Loved it! A few days ago I took the jump and purchased the HX Stomp. I wanted a multi effects pedal to replace my board of wet effects (TC Electronics single pedals: chorus, phaser, tremolo, delay and reverb). For that purpose, it delivers! I had been struggling though with the amp modeling part. Was not considering the amp modeling at all. Just the wet and additional features out of that for live use with two channel amps or a two amp set up. But a few days ago, with headsets, I played the amp modeler section anyways. Downloaded HX Edit. I am using my Fender Eric Johnson Stratocaster and my cable is a Lava Magma 10 footer. Strings are GHS Nickel Rocker 10’s. In the beginning it was tough. Just sounded off. Then yesterday, I happen to hear the sound samples on the Pod Go on the Line 6 Pod Go website and wondered, how do I get that heavy tone? Where is it in my HX Stomp? If the Pod Go could sound like that, that sound must be in my HX Stomp? I found something that worked for me. Instead of finding an amp + cab direct sound, I am now thinking of a whole preset to come up with an amp + cab sound. Using my headsets (am out of town right now), to get heavy guitar tones I heard on the Pod Go site, my basic preset: 1. Turn on the NOISE GATE on the input (a must for high gain settings) 2. Put a COMP block (Dyna Comp, acts like a slight tone thickener but still transparent to me) 3. a DRIVE block (Kinky Boost, adjust drive level, usually way less to adjust overall saturation, Boost On) 4. then a high gain AMP + CAB (stock cabs) 5. into a Parametric EQ block. To get the mid frequency that I like and helps to cut down a bit of high’s using the filter. Was surprised! It sounded really good. So far am blown away. This is miles away better than my old Pod XT Live. The Helix sounds and feels better, no more odd compression that the old Pod XT Live had, and the assignment of blocks in any order was always a dream of mine and I am sure many others. The edit display on the unit is incredible. In the old days, I had an Alesis Quadraverb was it the Plus or 2, where you could assign blocks in any order and choose any effect in it with pretty much the same routings, back in the days when this wasn’t available in any other rackmount that I was aware of at the time. When building a patch It helps for me to not look at the name of the amp models. Just use my ears and work on that. I have to admit, I am extremely overwhelmed with the options available with getting a good amp model sound. Am relieved that I found a way to keep it simple for me. Maybe later on, can work on those cab switching. In a few days, I hope to work on a mid break up sound and also clean tone. If I can find those other two I will be all smiles ☺️ No rush. Taking my time. Having fun with it. I can now listen to the Line 6 Pod Go website sample as a basis. The clean sounded great! The big final test: I will be back home tomorrow and can finally plug my HX Stomp into my Yamaha HS8’s and see how that works out. Am crossing my fingers. Right now, it sounds great through my Audio-Technica headphones. Hope it sounds great there as well. (I guess that is where the Global EQ comes in handy). Have great day everyone! Loren
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  3. Hi all, Just thought I'd check back in to report on my little MIDI adventure here! A massive shout out to you Hurghanico for all your amazing help! So it's been a little over 2 months since I started this quest to be "footswitch free" during live performances. Here are the results; It has changed my life on stage. I no longer have to worry about looking down to see which switch to step on or getting the timing right or remembering which patch is for which song. I now concentrate only on playing and performing. I have the backing tracks for every song controlling my patch changes, including FS1, 2, 3 & 4 for boost, delay, chorus, anything I need. I even have it controlling the expression pedal for volume swells and pitch dives. To anyone using backing tracks live with a Cymatic Audio player or any MIDI capable backing track player, I highly recommend you try this. It will change your life!!!
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  4. You're joking about IdeaScale, right? I mean, it's programmed about as well as the IR management on the Helix... There is no way to sort the ideas by number of votes. You can come close, but the list is never correctly sorted no matter if you pick Popular or Hot. Seems a simple thing to be able to sort a bunch of numbers, but no, that doesn't work. its a black hole waste of time there IMO. Cheers
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  5. textual response to the slogan of this thread (for those who plan to buy it, or for those who already have it and are angry because 6 blocks are not enough) well ... I have tried to understand the problem referred to in the 6 blocks ... considered to be a minimalist device designed to meet minimalist needs ... fits in any backpack, very comfortable ... well ... you can't have it all. My hx stomp (outdated old photo) is mounted on a nux stb4 pedalboard of approximately 40 cm and it is as if it had 8 blocks (sacrificing portability and a little convenience related to size) In my case, I open a shipment (type loop fx) at the beginning of the chain, the configuration would be more or less like this: 1 loop fx (send / return (block) if you enter by guitar in will not spend any slot, but it is a matter of taste) here I chain the following 3 pedals: * 2 cry baby mini (physical) 3 tube screamer mini (physical) 4 mooer yellow compressor (physical) 5 amp or preamp (block) * 6 go (block) * 7 reverberation (block) * 8 delay (block) 9 delay * 9 block (maybe an equalizer or a modulation, usually vacant) * * hx slots As you can see, I had to incur a series of additional expenses to meet a need, (screamer and wha in all my presets) I bought 3 physical pedals (3 inserted in a single block and I will stay 5 available), I actually have 8 blocks, as you can see, it is not that complicated, you have to spend a little more, if you only "need" more blocks it is a fetish and fetishes are usually expensive. If you consider the rumor that by 2020 through the FW 3.0 update, the HX Stomp would be left with 8 blocks, so in my case I will have 10 blocks, going back to the hx stomp if I needed more 6 blocks would have gone for a Helix or fractal, in my particular case more than 8 slots would be a circus fetish, I don't defend companies ... they don't give me anything for free, nor did they lower my price unit for having registered one unit for each generation since xt pod, I don't work in a store selling pedals neither guitars, so fanboy or brand lawyer can not accuse me ... just try to see what I am simply not going to buy a suzuki maruti to use as Ferrari, you should analyze well your needs before buying something, if you want to be the "SLASH" of your neighborhood you need a marshall, a lespaul and a top hat (simple needs) ... even if you are open minded with the small stomp and an epiphone lp will reach you well and make you happy ... but if you are a guitarist with complex needs with a chain of 8 processes or more, this is not your device. If update 3.0 brings the 8 blocks, (or not) I will be happy anyway, it doesn't kill me to fix them with 6 blocks, because I asked myself the question before buying. Every purchase must be aware and studied, now ... if you need the "THE EDGE" pedalboard, this device is not for you, then go to your favorite kiosk and order your LT with double cheese, headrush or even mooer ge 300 ... FW 3.0 could give you 8 slots but you are forgetting the DSP limit and temperatures by increasing the load of that cpu ... What if you made a mistake when buying the hx stomp? ... Oh, what a pity! ... the limitations of stomp were never tabu, in that case there is no more guilty than yourself ... you just had to investigate and think well before buying ... ...Thus Do your homework and investigate before buying anything. and as an audio engineer my friend says "the more effects you use the more damaged you can get into the mix" I hope it serves to guide new buyers rather than offend the good readers of this forum, good luck!
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  6. It would be great if Line6 provided brief descriptions of new effects/amps and their parameters in the same release notes that they announce the new effects in. Hopefully those release notes all get compiled at some point in an updated manual revision but at least they would be out there in the wild.
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  7. Glitz = Strymon Big Sky Bloom In the ‘90s, more diffusion blocks were added to reverbs to ‘smooth out’ the sound. A side effect of this was the tendency of the reverbs to have a slowly building envelope that ‘bloomed’, resulting in big ambient reverbs that sit nicely with the dry signal even at high Mix levels. The Bloom reverb features a ‘bloom generating’ section that feeds into a traditional reverb ‘tank’, and adds a unique Feedback parameter that expands the possibilities exponentially. Ganymede = BOSS RV6 Modulate This reverb adds modulation to hall reverb, producing extremely good-feeling reverberation. Searchlights = Strymon Big Sky Cloud A gorgeously big, ambient reverb that draws from techniques developed in the late ’70s. Using processing power not dreamed of in those days, the Cloud reverb machine obscures the distinction between reality and fantasy. Double Tank = Strymon Big Sky Plate The Plate machine is a rich, fast-building reverb that creates depth without early reflection cues to a specific environment. The Tone knob and Low End parameter are simple but powerful frequency shaping tools. Plateaux = Strymon Big Sky Shimmer Two tunable voices add pitch-shifted tones to the reverberated signal, for resplendent, unearthly ambience. The voices are carefully created from the reverberated signal itself to generate maximum radiance and beauty. The Amount and Mode parameters allow for a range of shimmer effects from laid-back and subtle to full-blown majestic splendor.
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  8. Wow...BS overload, I nearly passed out. ;) Descriptions are lovely and all, but beyond providing reading material while I'm sitting on the can, what am I supposed to glean from any of that nonsense? At the end of the day, " resplendent, unearthly ambience" and "majestic splendor" that "obscures the distinction between reality and fantasy" conveys what, exactly? Flowery vocabulary contributes nothing to any genuine understanding of what a given reverb (or anything else, for that matter) will actually sound like, to say nothing of whether or not it will be pleasing to the ear, or useful for one's needs...only LISTENING to it will determine that. Using that many words to say nothing is worthy of a wine enthusiast blog...I can read about the "woody, complex, rounded, and velvety nose" of Chateaux Rain Gutter all day long...but if I want to know what it tastes like, I'll actually have to buy a bottle and take a swig.
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  9. ... or buy a boxed wine, which makes it a cardboardeaux, and that must be good.
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  11. Fair enough...to each, their own. We're all entitled to our opinions. I do have one question though: If reverb+modulation= "good feeling reverberation", what's the recipe for a "$h*tty, repressive, weight of the world on my shoulders" reverb? It would be perfect for covering "Dust In The Wind" ;)
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  12. "But all I see is spaghetti...... " That is funny but you only got part of the joke. The other part of the joke is the real upgrade to the HX Stomp is the Boss GT-1! 1/3 of the price, more blocks, direct monitoring, software monitoring with audible hardware blocks and no phasing from direct monitoring bleed and a looper that works plus battery power. Yamaha looks like a bad fit for line-6 to me at this point. FIX IT, FIX IT, FIX IT, FIX IT, FIX IT, FIX IT, FIX IT, FIX IT, FIX IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! @4:19 gt1 software monitoring of hardware blocks with no direct monitoring phasing, lol, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWE067GTgQM
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