HX stomp inputs

[markellis]

I have an HX stomp for a jazz band rig and am thinking of getting one for the bass player. He plays an NS designs upright (with active pickups) and a p bass. I'd like for him to be able to leave both basses plugged into the unit at all times, and have two patches, one for each bass. It would be awesome to be able to have one bass plugged into the left input, and the other into the left return to be able to take advantage of the HS Stomp's input selection capability and have each patch have the input programmed in for the correct patch. Does that work in practice, though? Are there any pitfalls and/or a better way to do it? I assume he could also plug one bass into the left input, and the other bass into the right input, but that might cause impedance mismatch and ground loop issues. Thanks!

[rd2rk]

You can plug them both into the main L/R inputs and just turn the volume down on the one that's not in use.

Or you can use the Left (TS) Return for one of them.

The only advantage to using the Main inputs is the Auto Impedance feature, which isn't really an issue with bass anyway as I don't think any of the bass FX are <1M impedance.

Even if you use some guitar FX that are <1M, that causes a slight attenuation of the highs so, again, not really an issue for bass.

I don't see there being any phase or ground loop issues.

Whatever way you go, make sure that in Global Settings>Ins/Outs the input you use is set to INST.

[lou-kash]

16 hours ago, markellis said:

I'd like for him to be able to leave both basses plugged into the unit at all times, and have two patches, one for each bass.

 

If he doesn't need that many unique effect blocks for each bass, it will work even within just one preset.

For example, I'm playing an acoustic bass guitar and a stomp box (a self-build plank with a piezo pickup inside creating a bass drum sound) in parallel through the Stomp.

Heck, I've already been using my Stomp as a 4-channel mixer, with two mics, an acoustic guitar and my acoustic bass guitar. It needs quite some fine tuning to set up properly, and the exact sequence of blocks matters, but it works.

 

The Stomp is so flexible that often the user's creativity is the actual hurdle … :)

[DMerrick]

Maybe you can help me set up what I'm trying to achieve? i posted it but nobody has anything to say.

 

I want to capture a direct signal before I use hardware FX pedals in front of my stomps  amp blocks .
Would this signal path work for me? 

GTR into input one ~
USB block to Daw ~
,stereo Send and return to 
My Eventide H9 ~
followed by my amp blocks ~
then out the main outs to another H9 ~
to two inputs of my sound card. 

Id make a aggregated Sound card in my Mac so I could use my stomp USB for my direct signal and my sound card to record the second H9 feed from my main outs . 

Would this be the best way to  get a DI and my effected signal in my DAW? 
My plan would also be to Re-amp through the Stomps USB Send return path

[datacommando]

8 hours ago, DMerrick said:

Id make a aggregated Sound card in my Mac so I could use my stomp USB for my direct signal and my sound card to record the second H9 feed from my main outs . 

Would this be the best way to  get a DI and my effected signal in my DAW? 
My plan would also be to Re-amp through the Stomps USB Send return path

Yes, you can create an aggregate device setting for the HX Stomp and your Audio Interface. It’s very simple to record a DI audio signal from your Stomp by simply arming a track set to record from USB 3&4in your DAW. This provides a stereo unprocessed signal that you can use to re-amp by sending that track back out to the Stomp set to receive on USB 5&6. 

 

The HX Stomp 3.0 Owner’s Manual - Rev D - English has the details, and diagrams of recording and re-amping on page 56.

 

Hope this helps/makes sense.