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Thanks! somehow missed you response. Thing is, my bridge pickup is passive, and not particularly hot. I messed around with both the pitch shifter and the feedbacker, and they both sound too weird for different reasons. I ended up settling on assigning one of the buttons to a combination of noise gate cancellation + huge volume and gain increase in the amp + huge volume increase post amp, and doing the actual harmonics.Tthat turns out sort of ok. Hopefully I'll improve at doing this in time :)

Hi, I'm currently working on covering Pantera's Cemetery Gates live, and one thing I'm struggling with is the harmonics at the end of the song. This is what I mean for people who don't know the song: I know that this can be achieved with proper technique, but I haven't been able to reliably do this just with a high gain tone, and I don't have the time or motivation to make it work this way. So, I'd like to fake it with the HX Stomp :) Basically, I think what would serve me best is a two octave up pitch shifter, along with infinite sustain. So far I got the best results with the new "Feedbacker" effect (really cool BTW!), but it is a bit difficult to control, as it seems to be aimed towards emulating a constant speaker feedback rather than a moving note. Appreciate any advice!

I think it sounds good, and especially given how easy it was to achieve it. The only issue, I think it could react better when I hit the strings aggressively. It's feels like there's too much hard clipping going on. But I think I already managed to improve on that. And really I'm moving the goal post at this point. I've become greedy and I'm looking for a great recording sound, which is not why I bought the Stomp to begin with. So I'm thrilled with what I got so far with the unit. Decent tone ? Got that for sure :) Honestly, for the size and price, this is a phenomenal, seemingly unrivaled product. And I got the Helix plugin for free! I only regret it took me so long to buy it. Thanks for helping make the step in the right direction! Absolutely. This is probably the single most important principle in my case at least. Once I start the cycle of tweaking/playing a terrible unispired lick/tweaking, after a minute, I simply start hating the sound of an electric guitar altogether :) Oh yeah, I barely touched the unit at first, but later I started realizing that I have to get acquainted with the onboard editing when I'm outside the house. for the size of the display, the onboard UI is actually nice.

I see. Had no idea that the HX input dynamically alters its input impedance this way. I checked and my audio interface indeed has a 1M instrument impedance. I see mostly fuzz and distortion effects alter the input impedance, so for most things I guess it doesn't matter, but I'll keep that in mind. Thanks, you've been super helpful!

Ah, nice, thanks! Sorry, maybe I'm misunderstanding something. My goal is to not have the stomp in the chain at all when tweaking/testing the effect, so this is why I want to match the level of my AI input to the stomp input. the best I could think of is just strumming really hard on both and roughly match the peak levels

Hi, I just installed Helix Native, and realized it would be great for creating and testing presets for HX Stomp without having to actually have it connected. I just had a few questions about that: I noticed that Helix Native is much more powerful in its DSP capabilities, and allows for way more blocks. That's great, but then, I don't want to create presets that HX Stomp refuses to run. Is there some option to tell it to enforce the limitations of HX stomp ? My only concern is the inputs of the HX stomp and my audio interface are not exactly the same. Is there a method/trick that I can somehow make sure they match ? I would like adjust the level of my audio interface input to the HX stomp. Is there some other concern I'm overlooking that might make the preset behave differently on the Stomp and the Native ? Thanks!

Thanks for confirming. These are the defaults settings for that amp+Cab, except for added a little gain, and the stock settings of dynamic plate reverb. It's not my favorite sound ever, but for sure a good starting point that I can use as a benchmark. I was actually making fun of myself there :) I meant, I added the EQ in the stomp, but then I realized my tweaking made everything worse in the mix, so I dropped it. Totally agreed on the mix vs standalone sound. This is why I always try to add some bass and drums when I'm tweaking. This is exactly the type of Instructional material I'm looking for. It starts with stock settings so I can follow along and sound virtually identical to the video, while gaining intuition on a specific parameter. BTW, I already noticed that the cab and mic placement are so powerful that the other stuff is almost unneeded. Thanks!

That helped a lot, thanks! It was good to get a recording going because listening to all the hard clipping made me realize that my input was configured for instrument rather than line level. That made a substantial improvement already. Silly me The WhoWatt amp is nice clean, but didn't react well to adding gain IMO. I'm much less fussy with cleans anyway. The Litigator amp worked better with extra gain, And I can say I like the sound already. I tried to improve with EQ, but once I added some bass and drums, The EQ stopped making sense. Here's the recording (strat bridge pickup). Obviously, without any post eq/leveling/effects or anything like that: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wg46yq7sg80gy4g/hx.mp3?dl=0 Does that sound like what you'd expect from this amp and settings ? Anyway, at this point I feel like I've got over the hump of this new thing that I'm trying to make sense of, and I'm confident I'll enjoy it thoroughly for years to come. So, thanks everyone for helping and being so friendly. Appreciate it!

What I'm looking for? Actually I have a pretty strong idea. I'm simply trying to replicate sounds I've achieved so far with other digital solutions, and I've been happy with. I purchased the HX stomp hoping to come close to these sounds, and not give up on portability. I have exact reference sounds that if I come reasonably close to, I'm happy. I just don't have an intuition for the parameters just yet, so I guess this is why I'm struggling. Totally with you there. Honestly, I was hoping that Line6 would provide videos that cover wide array of guitar tones, walking through how to tweak one's way into achieving them. Like, "here's the tone, do you like it ? Here's how we achieved it". That would surely help with getting up to speed. But I'll take your advice. I'll take my time, enjoy what I can get from the stomp right now, not obsess about sounds, and I'm sure eventually I'll grow to love it. BTW, I'm absolutely blown away by Its practicality. Incredible!

Currently, I'm connecting the stomp straight into an audio interface and out to a pair of monitors that I know I can get excellent sound out of through other means. I know one "issue" is the fact that I'm using mono where most of the demos include stereo reverbs, but I'd like to keep it that way since I'm going to run the stomp through a PA most of the time. Can you give me an example, just so we have a frame of reference ? I could make that same patch, record, and post the result

This is part of my problem actually. Aside from a very cheap practice amp I used when I was younger, I've never owned an amp. I play almost exclusively with computers and PAs, so all these advanced amp terms and settings don't mean much to me. I am taking your advice to get a feel for how these settings sound and don't mess with too many at the same times. Luckily, I know what treble/mid/bass mean :) Absolutely! 10 minutes of messing with presets and settings, with the worst "tone audition" type of licks, and I become sick of myself and my guitar :)

Thanks man, appreciate the help! You were right. I tried the top rated/downloaded patches and they didn't work for me at all. I did manage to dial in a nice high-ish gain tone with the PV Panama, and I've come to realize that the cab settings seems to make the most difference. Specifically, the mic placement seemed to be the biggest variable by far. so that was great advice! I'm still struggling with dialing in a slightly overdriven strat sound, but I'm sure can be achieved with patience. I really only got this thing for a standalone rehearsals/live tool, so I'm sure going to test the patience of my band mates . Hope they don't kick me out :) Thanks again, and happy to get any pointers for achieving good strat sounds.

Haha, fair enough. Anyway, I already updated my firmware. Running 3.60 Honestly, I think my problem is that there are so many parameters to play with, that I find myself meandering my way, and very quickly I get ear fatigue, and then everything sounds bad. I have no doubt the unit can sound great, but I was hoping to get at least one reference tone I liked quickly. The guy in this specific video is just doing some chords with a rock guitar, so I felt there should be good basis for comparison, but it sounds nothing like it. I think it's reasonable to look for videos of people dialing in sounds I liked to learn get a feel for it. Perhaps there's a community library of presets of some sort, perhaps voted by the crowd? Appreciate the help!

Hi all! New HX Stomp user here. Not used to such a complex unit, so a little overwhelmed. I've been trying to dial in a decent sound for a couple of hours without success. To try to get a simple benchmark, I found this video. The guy here gets a descent sound immediately on 1:55 just by selecting the "Brit P75 Brt" amp+cab with default settings: I tried to do the same, but I'm getting a totally different tone with not nearly as much gain. Am I doing something wrong ? I can share a sound sample if it helps. Thanks!