Richmann

Thanks for your comment. I'm not a heavy stomper, I have a really light foot, and I always keep the unit covered when not in use, and I clean it constantly. I already talked to a friend who's a real pro and talented technician (he fixes all my gear and electronic stuff) and he's going to change all the switches with a better quality ones. What was weird for me is that I know a lot of people with helix products or pod go, and they never had any issues with the switches after many years.

Thanks for both answers! It's hard for me to believe it's a dust problem, because I only use it on gigs, and when not, it's in a gigbag with all my pedalboard. I'm gonna try to open the unit and cleaning them to see if that helps

Hi! I have an HX FX and after 4 months I bought it new, the "Bank Down" or FS4 started to malfunction, after a month another footswitch, and after another month another footswitch, all from the left side off the unit. I sent it to warranty with Yamaha Mexico and they changed all the footswitches with new ones and the problem seemed resolved. But exactly 4 months later, the same "Bank Down" or FS4 footswitch started failing again, and then after a month later another one, the same footswitches that failed the first time. Is not that they don't work completely, it's weird, sometimes they work fine, most of the time they don't, but is not that they don't "switch" is that they "double switch" so when I press Bank Down footswitch it goes two banks down, if I press Bank Up footswitch it goes two banks up, if I turn on an effect, it turns on and off so quickly that is like it never turned on in the first place. It's a nightmare for me to enter Snapshot Mode because when I press both Bank Down and Bank Up footswitches, instead of entering Snapshot Mode, most of the time the FS4 footswitch goes 2 banks down, then I try to go back to the preset I was in, but Bank Up footswitch goes 2 banks up and I have to try several times to get to enter Snapshot Mode successfully. Now I'm out of warranty. I could pay for a change of new footswitches. But My doubt is: Why after exactly the same amount of time the exact same footswitches started to fail? They aren't even the ones I use the most. Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong? Could be a hardware issue with the unit and not the footswitches? Any advise? I have had multieffect units of every brand you can think of, even other Line 6 products and never had this problem before. I really love the unit and I don't want to get rid of it. But also I don't want to pay for new footswitches every 4 months.