macguitarman

@littlespaceman Interesting.... I have a PC 112 +, and I like it, the issue is, it's not a pure amp... So I have to pull out my HX Stomp pedal board and set the whole damn thing up, takes 15 minutes at least. I am thinking of selling the PC 112 +, get a Catalyst 100, and just use that as a practice amp... Guitar > one cable > Catalyst, plug and play in 30 seconds, next to my couch. Leave the HX Stomp connected to my UA Apollo twin studio setup. For a gig, then hook up the pedal board HX Stomp, with my cool amp / IR presets into the Power Amp In / Return on the Catalyst... It may not be the exact PC 112 +, but I am thinking, it will be very close, like 95-99 %....

Which is better for stereo... Using the HX Stomp or the Helix Native plugin. I think the HX Stomp coming out L and R...

I play solo nylon and electric fingerstyle, and I sort of stumbled upon this and just wondering which way is better, a wider fuller image. Godin nylon guitar into Bix preamp, then into HX Stomp, and stereo out from Stomp to Apollo Twin X. The goal is to get some wide imaged solo guitar, since it is the only instrument, it should be a wide full image. I was able to get this with miking 2 mics on acoustics, dual mono and panning....That is not fun at all, setting up mics, not going to do it anymore. Electric guitars direct with modelers (Stomp), is the way to go, way faster and more controlled... It sounds good, but I think the Stomp is just sending two tracks channels 1 and 2, panned L and R. I think it's still mono, but it does sound pretty full... Or I can use Helix Native plugin, skip the HX Stomp, but then the track is for sure mono. Then I can use a delay trick of 15 ms on a delay bus, and it does widen it... For nylon the Stomp really is just a pass thru to utilize its L and R outs, there is no Amp block, and there should not be, it's very full sounding with the Grace Design Bix preamp... For electric, the Stomp has a bunch of things, Amp block (Archon Clean) huge sound, and Cab or IR block, etc... I have a Strymon Cloudbusrt for reverb for ambient stuff, but I now bypass that, and use the Big Sky plugin, so I am not committed on tracking...Thanks in advance, John K

Make sure your are dropping the WAV IR file into the Impulses Tab, and not the Presets...Doh! Since the IR is not a Preset it will be "grey" in Import, once you select Impulse Tab, a 48k Mono 24bit wav file will be seen and import. That is what I was doing and others may be doing this as well. I knew the files was 48k Mono 24bit, and my other Redwirez IRs came in fine, so I knew something was up....

I am coming from the acoustic world where we use very nice mic/line 500 series preamps prior to recordings, even electric bass as well... I am sure this is possible on the HX Stomp, but I am getting hiss out of my preamps, which are (Camden 500) and very, very quiet.... I have the HX Stomp volume very low, and still hiss... I think I may have to engage a pad on the HX Stomp...