lp_bruce

Just an update. I did a full factory reset instead of just resetting the patches/IRs and things are working for now. I'm going to continue playing around with it and will repost if this isn't a fix.

This exact problem has happened to me twice in the last two days. I'm pretty aggravated right now. @phil_m, any ideas? Here is what I did, step by step. Last night I downloaded the new version of Installer, then loaded the 2.92 update (for Windows 10). It went more quickly than I expected and everything seemed to be working fine. I normally edit with the pedal itself, but hooked it up to HX Edit. At first I noticed that it didn't seem to recognize my IRs. They were there, but in HX Edit, they just looked like blank spaces. Weird. Then I got the dreaded "Failed to get preset names" error on HX Edit and all my patches were set to this patch (borrowed from above). I fiddled around with it for a while and discovered I wasn't using the most current version of HX Edit. So that's on me. I'm stupid. So this morning loaded v. 2.92 of HX Edit, reset all the patches and IRs (FS1 and 2 while powering up), and I was good to go. Rather than restore my patches, I decided to start from scratch and build a handful of patches. And it was working fine, going well, no problem. And then I looked at HX Edit and I had the same "Failed to get present names" error. I shut HX Edit down and then the HX Stomp thinking that might reset it. Nope, I'm right back to having every patch as above and I've lost all the work I did today. I would welcome any help or suggestions here. I really like this pedal, but I need to know it's reliable. I've had this pedal for a little over a year, I've gigged with it a lot, used it in the studio, and I've not had any problems with it. Is this a 2.9 thing? Help!!!

Thanks for the tips. I like the idea of sending wet/dry when recording. When I was playing around today, the sounds I liked best came when I recorded stereo with a condenser mic (Carvin) and my SM-57. I panned them hard right and left and kind of dug that. I recorded dry and added effects with Reaper (just a splash of Comp and EQ). Peace, Bruce

I've had my UX2 for a few years, but haven't really used it much except as a practice tool. But because I've got some demos I want to record, I thought I would experiment with the best ways to record vox and acoustic guitar. So today I played around with a few different mics I have (condenser and dynamic) to record an acoustic guitar and was generally pleased with the results. What surprised me (I guess) was the tones were much better when I turned off all the effects--except the Noise Gate--from the PodFarm. The different amps/preamps from the Podfarm did nothing good. Wondering if this is normal or what settings others use for recording acoustic guitar. Peace,