I use my HX stomp at gigs where I don't feel like using my Carvin V3. I have it set up so that it literally replaces the amplifier in my signal chain, and I mount it on the left side of my pedalboard. chain: guitar-sure glxd-front-end effects (talk box, phase, flange, boss dd3 for repeating delay effects, ts9- out to HX stomp input. HX stomp has four programs: High gain (PV panama) boosted/lead, High gain (peavey Panama) rythm, Clean (SLO), Clean boosted (slo). all four programs are set on the first four program slots, and thus are controlled via midi. I use a randall RF4 midi switch to switch chnnels on both my v3 and my HX Stomp. I run a carbon copy in the FX loop for the dirty channels on both carvin and HX stomp, and I use the onboard chorus and reverb for the cleans on the HX stomp to replace the physical chorus and verb that are in the loop of my v3.
It literally puts a solid facsimile of my Carvin in a 1lb box and moves me from 120lb head/cabinet to a self-contained pedalboard. And all that I have to change between stomp and v3 is plug the pedalboard into the amp instead of the V3. Does the stomp sound as good and organic? No. It does not. It definitely sounds great though. and it weghs about 119lbs less.
