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@dannywmusic I solved my issue by adjusting my amp's bass. I run a Fender Hod Rod Deluxe III. Without a buffer I run the bass on about 3. With the buffer I run the bass on about 5. If my volume is high enough for break up, I usually run the bass at about 2-3ish with and without the HX. I generally play an HSH Carvin with stock pickups.

So Will form support got back to me and helped me work through my issue. Turns out I was not hearing the HX as much as I was hearing the absence of a cable. The HX is buffered so it was negating the high end roll off from the cable, I think I had about 30' of cable or so. So that image is not the affect of the HX but the inverse of the cable affect. Will asked me to take another buffered pedal and place it in-line with the HX and see if I still heard a difference. I put my HD500 before the HX so.. Guitar -> HD500 -> HX -> AMP. I could barely hear a difference between HX on and bypassed. Then I started thinking. I marked my amp settings with tape. I used to use an HD500 on a big pedal train board with pedals going through the loop. The bass on my amp was marked at about 4. Since I removed the HD500 from the mix ( My board was too heavy, about 40lbs ) I've been running my bass at about 2.5. When I used my HX with that amp earlier this week, the bass sounded better at about 4. I didn't connect 2 and 2 until Will set me strait. I hope this helps anyone else that experience this.

Not yet. Just Guitar -> HX -> Amp.

Thanks jstudio123. I've played with those settings. I'm using the true bypass. I get the same behavior when I power the unit on and off as well. I took the unit to my practice space yesterday to play it out of my HRDIII. This was with a different set of cables as well. Could hear the same high pass filter behavior there. But, the unit still sounded great. This is my first multi-effects unit where I like the drives. I was able to compensate for the bass loss by turning up the bass on my amp, but the guitar still sounded quite different. It was a little harsher. Not as smooth on the clean sounds, but not horrible. From the responses I've gotten here, I there may be an issue with my unit. Something is causing a high pass filter on the output before the relay. It seems to curve off around 110 Hz or so. That would likely be a non starter for a bass player. I've opened a ticket with Line6. I'll post when I have an update.

Thanks for the feedback. I've updated to the latest software and performed a factory reset with the same results. I'll try opening a support ticket.

I'm a long time line6 customer, but this is my first forum post. I recently purchased an HX Effects unit and I love it, mostly. I've noticed that the unit changes the base tone of my rig pretty substantially. I feel like there is a huge low end drop and the signal is a little hotter. The tone on my neck pickup is a lot thinner. Its like the neck pickup looses its gooey softness. I first noticed this when I had the unit all hooked up, Guitar -> Hx Effect In 1 -> Front of Amp, but the HX effects was off. I was playing through the unit bypassed then decided to turn it on. I could hear the unit turn on and could instantly hear the tone of the chord I was playing change. Its like there is an always on EQ. I was playing through a fresh preset with no effects blocks. The same happens when I enable bypass by pressing Mode+Tap. You can hear the tone difference. I started searching the web to see if anyone else has had the same issue and only came up with one result. Someone in another forum did a tone match between true bypass and non bypass. When I saw the EQ curve I was like "Thats It"! Exactly what I hear. To be clear. This is the EQ you would have to add to the non-bypass signal to compensate for the bypassed signal. I've tried changing the input and output line levels. I really want to keep the unit, but my clean sound just doesn't feel the same. My HD500, XT Live, and Zoom units don't do this. Does anyone know of a workaround that would get more of my base tone back?