SaschaFranck

The entire HX series IMO has a rather huge visibility issue (one of the reasons I sold my Floor), but for me it's never been worse on the Stomp (which I still own) than it was on the Floor. You rather get used to remembering what's behind a patch number, though.

I actually doubt there'll be any updates worth much, if at all. But ok, let's see once there's something beyond (as in: new FX) amps coming up with the Stadiums. Then we will know. One thing is for certain: There won't be any noteworthy usability updates anymore. And these are in fact the things I'd want.

This is one of the things I constantly use. But I'm not trying to make an electric sound like and acoustic but rather enhance the piezo signal of my acoustics. Recorded the same stuff twice through the piezo and a decent mic (Rode NT2-A), then used Spectrum Thief (freeware Match-EQ plus IR generator from Ghost Note audio, one of *the* most excellent tools!) to obtain an IR from the mic'ed signal. Now I can just slap that onto the piezo signal. Getting incredibly great results IMO.

What silverhead said. I'd possibly not bother too much as the latest internal cabs of the HX series are pretty damn good, so you'd likely be wasting a lot of time hunting IRs without much of a substantial win (if any). Add to this that you'd have to "waste" an extra block for them whereas you could just use a single amp&cab block in case you're doing fine with the internal cabs.

It's quite weird. I never got it to work until I did a single quick voice memo recording with the Stomp connected. All of a sudden, playback from Android to the Stomp would work as well. Doublechecked on two devices (Samsung A55 and Tab A9), so you might want to give that a try. Edit: Just tried again, worked one time, then, after a dis/re-connect, it wouldn't work anymore. Pretty bad.

No, that's not possible.

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.

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