How do you organize your HX Stomp presets?

[djpgreek]

Don't know if this has been covered, but I'm curious how folks are organizing their presets? I'm asking because I'm starting from scratch so I can control my presets / snapshots with an rjm PBC6X switcher via midi.

 

For example, do you organize them all by direct, FX only, etc.. like they come out of the box?

Do your organize by stereo and mono?

Do you do a preset of only one type of effect and use snapshots to change them?

 

 

I think you get the idea...but I'm wondering what others do.

 

I have a bunch of analog pedals I use in the rjm switcher. I put the entire switcher into the FX loop of HX so I can move all that stuff around amongst other blocks. I also don't use much amp sims at all, as I use external analog tube pres.

 

Any advice or insight would be welcome. Thanks!

[lou-kash]

22 hours ago, djpgreek said:

I'm wondering what others do.

 

All my guitar presets go from 01A forward.

All my bass presets go from 42C backward.

 

I have backed up the factory presets after inspecting most of them. Not much of use for me. I'm keeping only about 15 of them for further "investigation" somewhere in the middle of the list.

 

I don't switch presets within a song, utilizing snapshots and footswitches for variations instead.

I have an expression pedal on FS5 and a footswitch on FS4 that switches the pedal between EXP1 and EXP2.

And a Disaster Area DMC.micro MIDI footswitch with an external tap tempo footswitch attached to it.

That's a total of 7 footswitches and 1 pedal.

Desperately trying to avoid tap dancing though…

Still need to work on specific snapshots for specific songs, as in "1) intro, 2) verse, 3) bridge" and the like.

 

For guitar amplification, I'm currently using some small old Yamaha PA power speakers "Made in Italy" (don't remember the model number off the top of my head) that I bought very cheap from my former guitarist earlier this year. They sound pretty linear to me, so they are OK for amp modeling.

For bass guitar, usually I'd plug the Stomp into the power amp of whatever bass amp is in the respective rehearsal room, using the Stomp's Amp block without Cab. Live I go straight into the PA from the Stomp via a self-soldered TRS-to-XLR adapter, using my bass combo as a stage monitor via Stomp's FX send before the Amb+Cab block. But well, given the Corona circumstances, so far there was only one live gig this year since I bought the Stomp. Bummer…

 

So in general I can plug the Stomp's line-out into whatever there is to plug it in: mixing console, DI box, power amp, active speaker, whatever. Global EQ is my friend. It just works. :)