SaschaFranck

Given inflation and what not, the price is quite comparable to where the OG Helix once was. The big difference these days is possibly because L6 and their retailers want to get rid of the last units. Would be interesting to know whether they're still in production, though - but my bet would be no. I actually think that's pretty unreasonable given the current state of the flagships. There's really a lot of stuff to do for them and the rollout has been somewhat slower than expected already - so I really doubt anyone at L6 would work on any OG line updates unless it'd be a piece of cake to implement them. I'd happily be proven wrong, though (as I still use my Stomp and HX Native here and there). I'd rather see some usability updates (such as better parameter list for the Stomp, being able to completely disable the touch capacity of the switches and what not), but I think that's even less likely to happen. But hey, maybe we do in fact see some drives or FX, in case they're not too CPU hungry and in case porting them over is easy. Business wise, I defenitely won't hope for anything, though. If at all, L6 wants us to buy their new hardware.

I would not hope on any updates for the old platform to ever appear. Business "rules" just say no. You want people to buy new things.

I absolutely doubt there will be any noteworthy updates coming to the OG HX series. They've got more than enough work to do for the Stadium series and that won't change any day soon.

This is defenitely not working just as easy as it seems to be. I'd try to keep it simple for a start. The right combination of compression, boosts, drives and amps can take you a long way already. Here's a little silly thing I recorded when someone asked for a somewhat fuzzy yet dynamic sound out of the HX ecosystem. It's not exactly like a rhythm/leads thing, but think it works pretty well. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nhNYRGXFWBFEs1ZEeykXW4RTtScjlsnI/view?usp=sharing

- Optimize the volume controls on your guitars. There's no single solution for anybody, I personally prefer using a treble bleed cap on most of my guitars. Other people like the socalled "50s wiring". And yet some others like it stock. - Don't overgain your sounds. Too much gain and the sound won't react too much to your playing and/or guitar volume and/or pickup switching. - Use a very dynamic amp. In the HX series, the Grammatico GSG is excellent. - If you want more "sustain" (it actually is decay, but hey...) without raising the amp gain, you might want to try a little compression before the amp. I like the legacy Vetta Comp for such stuff. - Get used to play accordingly. This is possibly the hardest part.

Forget about it. The filters in the HX series are all very weak and often sounding harsh. And yes, I wish that was different and there were modulators (in the first place envelopes controlled by input level) available. But then, most users rather want 92787 more obscure amp models instead of one single decent filter block.

I'm using a rather inexpensive USB-C to -B cable from Thomann with zero issues. Sometimes I'm as well using a USB-A to -B cable from my USB dock. No issues, either.

And fwiw, don't go to The Gear Page, their owners and moderators s***. There's better places.

Yes. Err, no. Err...

An internal AC power supply would make no sense on a unit such as the Stomp. A) It'd add to the size and weight. B) This is meant to be pedalboard-friendly and most people running somewhat larger pedalboards already have a multiout PSU, so all you need is likely a current double and an adapter plug (the latter obviously being just because of Line 6's stupid decision to use a non-standard barrel plug).

Fwiw, I'm running my Stomp from 500mA outlets with a (dedicated, because of the utterly stupid 2.5mm barrel plug) current doubler cable ever since I got it. Has seen 3 different multiout PSUs as well. Zero issues. And I also have a single cheap 2A PSU (10 bucks or so at Thomann) with an extra 2.5mm plug soldered onto it, which I'm using whenever I need the Stomp as a standalone unit. No issues, either.

If it doesn't play from there already, go to 5:20:

No. In fact, a rather suitable way would be to capture the amp using the instructions and capturing abilities of Tone3000, take a handful of captures of the best amp sounds and then use the NAM plugin to play them back inside Logic. Works really, really well and isn't too tough to do, either. No need for "realtime" re-amping, you'd only use the Stomp to feed the amp with a proper signal of the recorded DI track (which it is very good at), then listen and adjust through the HP out of the Volt and finally record the testfile sent through the amp to upload it to Tone3000 which would then create a NAM capture. Best of all: All of this is completely free.

There's likely gonna be a plethora of space for IRs. At least that's what Eric Klein said. Add to this that there's an SD card slot, so you will likely be able to use that for IR storage, too.

I would respectfully disagree. Some of the clean amps are serviceable, sometimes even good. But anything dirt is horrible. And the guy is used to the Stomp's quality already. If at all, I'd rather get Helix Native.