5 General Tips/Tricks for Line 6 HX Stomp (for ANY genre)

hey guys so in this video i'm going to give you five quick tips and tricks to use with your hx stomp this should work with any genre of music it's just kind of just general tips on getting the most out of your hx stomp and just a few tricks that i've learned some of these you might already know some of them might not i'm going to post time codes on the screen right now so you can scroll through if you already know some you can skip it but if not you might as well watch all of these so this is just a patch i'm going to use to demo this this is my clean he's in his snapshot mode this is a little more dirt and then this is my more rock patch so it doesn't really matter this should apply for any of your presets in any of your genres it's just general tips so the first one is there's a input gate now i'm surprised how many people don't know about this i thought a lot of people didn't know about this but i've had i've shown a lot of musician friends this who use the helix and hxstomp and they've been surprised so i decided to include it in my video so actually at the very beginning of your chain right here there's input and there's a gate so you can set that on or off so when you're on a distorted channel see how you can hear you might not be able to hear that unless you're on good headphones right now but there's a lot of buzz coming out of this let me turn it up a little bit can you hear that turn the gate on and it's gone so usually what you want to do for this is turn your gate on and then turn your threshold down as low as you can before you start getting noise now we're starting to get noise there it's kind of gone at about negative 75. you can go up a little higher if you want just to be safe i'm going to turn this back down so now you don't get that buzzing sound when you don't play your guitar and you don't have to mute the strings pretty simple little trick and it doesn't take up any blocks okay the second tip involves so with the hx stump you only get six blocks you can see with this one i'm only using four and i'm using two pretty heavy amps so i'm already at a room on this one anyways however if you want to be able to do a boost you don't have to use a gain block so i have one in here because i have enough blocks but most people run out of blocks and don't have the ability to do a boost you can actually do that so in snapshot mode you can turn up the gain you know of each of your channels you can turn up the master and stuff if you don't know about snapshot mode i'll post a link up above and down in the description below to check out how to use those we can actually set it at the very end right here on this last block this doesn't take up one so when i turn on my boost see how it jumps up right there the main output jumps up by 5.5 decibels that's quite a bit there's the band that i use when i play on this patch once a massive solo boosted it's too much in my opinion but that's what they told me to do so when i hit my boost which i'll show you how in tip four i actually just boost the main output which is really cool and actually if you see i actually boost my feedback of my delay as well with that same with the mix so that's what i use for the boost so that doesn't take up another button in here and it also does not take up another block if you change your boost to this last output right there it's another way to save on space okay so the next tip is more of a tone shaping thing so on guitar with amp modelers i've found scooping out part of the lows and part of the highs really helps clean up your tone now you can do this in the global settings go here global eq so you can change your mid lows and highs and then you can cut your low frequencies here which i'm going to show you and you can cut your high frequencies by scrolling over here i personally just leave that off because sometimes i use this for base although i guess i could do it for high cut because i don't need that high end for bass but for me i like to do it in the cab section so this is the soldano amp and i'm going to scroll over to the cab right here and i have my low cut somehow i got a little bit lower set to 70 hertz so if you're on i'm going to turn that off if you if you're on a phone you're not going to hear this at all but oops i'm not in d sorry if you're not on nice headphones you're not gonna hear that actually let me do the same thing on this one because i have it on both because i'm using two amps so no low cut on any of these there's quite a bit of mud that comes in when you do that so i've found scooping everything below 70 at minimum actually 80 is kind of usually a nicer spot anywhere from cutting out from 70 to 100 hertz is actually really beneficial to just cleaning up your tone it might sound once it starts to sound just a tiny bit thin in the low end again not a lot just a tiny bit thin that's where you want to be because your base the base is going to fill in that low end so again it really just depends on you and your tone cutting out 80 to 100 you know when you cut up 100 that gets a little bit too much then you really start to lose it but that might work for you and your setup depending on how much your bass or your keyboards or your kick drum hogs up so just mess around with that and then also so let me put this back i'm just going to reset my block really quick the other frequency you can cut is all the high end so i have found cutting out all the way down to seven seven kilohertz actually really helps shape the tone when you get anything above eight kilohertz that's where you start to get like that fake sounding digital distortion amp modeling type sound the helix sounds phenomenal i'm a huge fan of modelers if you scoop out cut probably 8 000 you don't really want to go anything above that down to seven sometimes you can cut down to six even it really just depends on the tone you're going for but it really helps get just a cleaner sound out of it so i'm going to turn these off turn all of those off that high cut and just turn on and again if you're on if you're on your phone you probably aren't gonna be able to hear this so just if you're on your phone watching this try it at home on yourself hear that there's kind of that nasty just high-end just uh type of sound that comes with it that you don't really need so i'm gonna reset it back see how it just clears it up a little bit so it just really helps just to cut everything below 70 to 100 hertz and cut everything below 8 000 possibly down to it at the extreme 6000. so mess around with that in your specific amp and i think you'll find that in any genre you're going to get just a nicer and cleaner tone all right tip four is to get an external switch so this one is great this is the mission engineering one it's so tiny and part of the the benefit of having the hx stomp is that it's already so small this is just an external foot switch that's also super tiny so i highly recommend this one i will post links down below and up above to other ones that i found some of them have like six switches to me at that point it's like well just get a helix although you know it's still smaller than the helix it's really up to you and there is another two button one that you can find on amazon this one you can't find on amazon i'll still post a link to it in the description down below so for me having the five switches in such a small thing that you know i mean it fits you know in the palm of my hand it's so tiny so what i use this is my tap tempo and you know my tuner because i i like having my my delays synced up and then i have this one programmed to hit the boost for any of the channels so if i'm on clean and i want to clean solo or if i'm on this like half overdrive type of thing and i want a boost i can do that but this thing is really easy and actually all you need to do is so you know just in the same way that you have patch foot switch one two and three whatever you want to assign this for this is just foot switch four and this is foot switch five so the way i did it is in here remember when i push that button it turns it up by 5.5 decibels hit both of these switches controller assign what parameter do your excuse me what parameter do you want to control so mine is level it's set to foot switch four so again if you wanted to set it to foot foot switch one two or three you could do that leave it on latch unless if you want it to be a moment you only want to boost when you're holding the button scroll over minimum value is what's it at when it's not engaged maximum value 5.5 so if i go to another band with this one i still think like about a three or 3.5 decibel boost is usually best i think 5.5 is too much so if i wanted to change this for a gig i can change that right here another thing that you can do is you can hit learn and it's listening for the switch i pushed the switch and it figured out that it was foot switch 4. so you don't even have to manually sign it you can hit that learn button and then push the button that you want to use in order to change the parameter so this is just really helpful just to get two more controls out of this if i wanted to turn my delay on for example so bypass the sign foot switch is going to be four so now when i push four it turns on and off my delay makes sense so just something like this really helps there's also a single one let me reset just everything that i just did there's also a single pedal one by dunlop which is so tiny it's the smallest it's like one it's about the size of one of these buttons right here it's it's incredibly tiny so if you just need one extra one that one's like 30 this one does require a trs cable to work i'll post the link down below to the one that i use that way you don't have to get a splitter you can just plug one because it because the hx dom only has the one input for expression pedal trs allows it to operate both of these whereas otherwise you'd have to get like a dual into one it's just unnecessary so really really helpful okay and then my last tip is kind of just a general suggestion just mess around with your with your cabs you get so many different sounds with your cabs it's ridiculous so i'm just going to scroll through some of them [Music] i mean all the different sounds that you get from just doing that and then changing your mic with that one you get so many different types of sounds with that so if you're happy with your tone with a general tone but you're like something's not quite right changing the the cabs is such a huge thing the cabs inside here are great um if you can get some third-party irs that's also impulse responses that's also a good option everyone's looking for a different type of tone so if you just just mess with the cabs just change the cabs that come specifically assigned with the amp in here you get so many so much different variety out of all the different cabs the cabs are really what changed the tone in my opinion here some of those were awful some of them sounded really cool it really just depends so really mess with that so that's basically it another little uh bonus thing i did create a video on this this isn't the standard line 6 power supply it's actually being powered battery powered off of this like phone charger thing this is the my volts rip cord i did a whole video about that you can click up there or down below in order to watch that video super cool you can power it with usb it's really convenient as opposed to that the big bulky power block so that's kind of a bonus tip if you're interested in finding out more hope this helped you guys out don't forget to like and subscribe that really helps out my channel don't forget to leave any comments i usually try to respond to as many comments as i can links to purchase some of these items are down in the description down below that also helps out my channel because our amazon affiliate links and i hope this helps some of you guys out if you have any other tips that you found that really help with the helix or the hx dump specifically since you only get six buttons i'll leave a comment down below as well thank you guys for watching and i'll see you next time

Channel: Scott Uhl

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Length: 11min 32sec (692 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 16 2020