benriddell

Although I'm only a home player, I run my Helix Rack stereo into a Palmer Macht 402 rack power amp and 2x Zilla 1x12 cabs with Celestion F12-X200 speakers. I've always used the full amp block into a cab (or IR) block. Unless you've got some whacky or distortion effect in your post pre-amp section of your chain you should be able to put your FX loop block after the cab block and run stuff just fine. I would love there to be an option to mismatch pre-amps and power amps, but that's not a discussion for this forum. One for the Ideascale

As long as the preset wasn't made with the latest 3.7 version you should be able to view it using this website otherwise attach it here and someone will be able to load/view it for you https://hxview.vercel.app/

@elphickkenny nothing in your editor suggests a value/sequence error. I had an issue with my HX Stomp/Eventide setup were I had to mess around with the MIDI channels on my H9's before they received the command from my MC8 correctly. The only thing I can suggest is recreating your intro/verse presets on the buttons I-P from scratch in the same bank to see if it works there. I might be the order you've got them connected (as metnioned by @DunedinDragon) I assume you don't have an issue with any of your other banks?

It's been a while since I used my MC8 with more than one device (I had an HX Stomp and two Eventide H9's). Are you definitely sure your Line 6 and BOSS pedal are set up on different MIDI channels on the units themselves? If so, double check that the MC8 button press doesn't have one of the 16 messages set to the BOSS MIDI channel in error (highlighted). That was usually my problem when I was getting a strange action on a device I didn't intend to change. Or share a screenshot of your settings

I play guitar but I use a Palmer Macht 402 power amp and a pair of 1x12" Zilla cabs loaded with Celestion F12-X200 speakers with my Helix rack. Prior to that I used a Laney IRT-X 200W Active Expansion Cabinet with a HX Stomp. Both gave perfect results with stock cabs and IRs

@boynigel John Cordy has the below videos which don't use the DSP hungry poly sustain. I find you can get some great tonal effects using these methods 1. Freeze and infinite sustain preset build 2. Create infintite freeze drones on Helix and HX Stomp

Would putting the simulator blocks and the amp block in parallel with each other then switch the routing at the split via snapshots stop the popping? You wouldn't be turning off the sim or amp at all, only redirecting the signal from one to the other (hard left/A or right/B)

Depending on the clean/dirty sound you're looking for you could try using just one amp that has the flexiblity to do both and switch between the two with snapshots Or maybe run a overdriven preamp only block into a clean amp block (or Amp & cab block combined), again switching the different sounds via snapshots

@adagosto I bought two H9's when I had a Marshall half stack before I sold it to get an Atomic Amplifire then a HX Stomp modeller. The sounds you can get from the H9 are certainly impressive but to me they can sit on the side of studio/outboard effects than guitar pedal sounds very quickly if you over tweak the settings. Device-wise you've got to remember that the H9 uses the whole processing power for the selected algorithm whereas the HX Stomp XL has to accommodate up to 8 blocks of algorithms with one processor. This means the H9 sound can be far more complex/rich. The one algorithm-at-a-time limitation means that if you do end up liking the H9 sounds more than the XL you'll have to splash out on buying more than one if you want to use an Eventide flanger and Blackhole reverb in one of your presets - which is why you'll see people have two on their boards plus the Strymon Timeline/Big Sky/Mobius If you like the sounds the Eventide products are definitely excellent (small footprint) additions to a HX Stomp/XL pedalboard as long as you're happy to work around the limitations of both units

Haha! I'm just a mere bedroom guitarist so I've only got the family and neighbours to annoy for now

Looking at the presets in the viewer you're going to be missing the dual amp/cab blend as one is running "dirty" with the drive block and the other is "clean". It's shame you couldn't get something you liked the sound of out of it

Another video

While a very manual approach, the easiest way I've found to take parts of complex presets I like and make a Stomp version is to load the file into this site then flick between the web browser and HX Edit and make the preset https://sensationnel-gerard-26922.herokuapp.com/# You'll get quicker at it the more you do it (or if you're job is to flick between multiple spreadsheets or coding windows it'l be a doddle)

Afternoon all I want to use an expression pedal connected to my Morningstar MC8 to control overall patch/preset volume of my HX Stomp via MIDI. I know I could assign the expression pedal to a volume block but I'd like to know what parameter in the amp block you guys (and gals) would assign it to if you had used up all the Stomp blocks ; channel volume or master volume? Obviously the pros of the volume block are I could put it anywhere in the chain but assigning it to an amp parameter frees up that block for something else Thanks Ben

I've never looked into the Royal Blood or their gear but I get what you're trying to do. I think it really depends on which amp/cab you want to use for your core guitar sound. There's a DSP usage spreadsheet (or maybe it's a website, I can't remember?) floating around this forum that someone maintains that you could use to estimate how much you'd use with the blocks you want - I watched one of John Cordy's videos recently all about the pitch effects in the HX Stomp and he got some quite meaty signal paths going The HX Stomp XL is just a rehoused HX Stomp with extra switches so you'll have the same limitations in processing power EDIT: Found the website