LOOPING with the HX Stomp 1 BUTTON LOOPER - A Complete Guide

hey guys in today's video we're going to go all over the one switch looper in the hx stomp we're going to go over how to use it different configurations what i think is the best way to set it up especially considering that you only have about three buttons that you can use with the hx stomp that will show you ways to expand that different gear you might look into in order to expand your options and some of the more advanced settings and what i think could be the best settings for this looper since it is somewhat limited but it's still pretty useful so before we get started i post videos like this all the time stuff on hx stomp helix gear reviews wireless in-ear monitors finding cheap stuff on amazon for musicians if you're interested in seeing more videos like this in the future don't forget to subscribe and don't forget to ring the bell alright let's get started so to access the looper you push this button right here in your chain scroll down all the way to the bottom you have looper you can choose if you want mono or stereo i usually do mono just because i'm just using one output but if you are using stereo go ahead and use stereo you do have this option between one switch looper and the shuffling looper i don't know honestly what the shuffling looper does maybe i'll do a video about that in the future but we're just sticking with the one switch looper so that is that block right there so now that it's enabled it's a little bit tougher to assign the best way to do it in your different modes right here so you have stop mode preset this mode and then the snapshot mode so it's probably best to use in stop mode so in order to assign that to one of these buttons right here you want to select the button that you want to assign in this case the looper push these two buttons right here and hit bypass assign now where do you want to assign that do you want it to assign the footswitch one two or three so i'm going to assign that to foot switch one you can also assign it up to one two three four five i did do an in-depth guide of all the different ways to assign the parameters in your hx stump if you are interested in watching that but now it's assigned a footswitch one so the way that this works is you push once it turns red and it's recording push it again it turns green and it's playing touch it one more time and it's an orange which means you're over dubbing over it so then you're after you record you'll switch between green which is plain orange which is over dubbing and if you want to stop it you double tap it really fast if you want to clear it you double tap it and hold it and then it clears are you able to see the colors on that on the screen red recording green is playing orange is over dubbing green is playing again to stop double tap fast to clear double tap and hold and it clears it out cameras are so tough to get these led rings because it always blinks like that drives me crazy so i'll just lay down a loop really quick [Laughter] [Music] most exciting loop ever so now it's green so it's playing i hit orange it goes to over dub mode so i can lay something down over [Music] my time is off because i wasn't listening but now if i'm done overdubbing i can't play and i can like soul over [Music] you know or whatever not the best looping example right there double tap it to stop it push it again to bring it back in double tap to hold and clear so now if i want to record again i can start recording pretty basic um but what i discovered is that it's a little bit limiting to do that one of the things that i like to do is i like to assign different buttons for these two right here so the way that you get more control out of your looper is you push these two buttons again and then you go to the command center right here i did a whole video on the hx stop command center if you're interested in finding out more about it there'll be a link in the description or up above but basically you have these three buttons right here you get control over what you want to assign foot switch 1 foot switch 2 and foot switch foot switch 3 2 so i'm at the very end so foot switch 1 i'm going to assign it go to the very end so you have all these different things you can do midi cc cc toggle all this stuff again i went into more depth about it but the very last one is looper so you get this behavior right here do you want press and release triggers it or press and hold so you have to hold it for it to work i bet most the time you just you just want to press it and we'll do the action that you want it to do so you have all these options you can set it to none you can set it to just play just stop play or stop record over dub record slash over dub play once reverse forward forward slash reverse half speed full speed toggle between half speed and full speed and undo so let's say i want to put this one as just play if you look out here now it's just playing obviously there's nothing to play because i haven't recorded anything so i'm actually going to assign that to record so now this button is just record but now you don't have any more buttons you can press you know it's just record that's literally all that it does so it's kind of almost useless to sign it to one of those so what i have it assigned to actually is record slash overdub and i'll show you why here in a minute and then on flip switch 2 which i'm going to assign right there i'm going to assign that to play and stop so now i have record slash overdub is right here play and stop is right here this is the way that i like to do it you can assign it and if you like just having the one button and then having two other buttons right here or having you know four more buttons which i'm going to get to here in a little bit but this was the way that i like to have it set up and then foot switch 3 i actually have that assigned to undo which is really nice to have an undo feature because i don't believe you have an undo feature with just regular mode correct me in the comments if i'm wrong i couldn't figure out how to do undo with just like the one button so now i have record overdub stop play and then undo so we'll do my super exciting recording again i'm trying to use my hand to do this because it's not on the floor so [Music] play and then i can stop it here or i can hit play again you can say dub out you can see that so none of that's recording now when i push the button it's dub in so it's listening for me to record something ah whatever i was talking so i couldn't hear the timing so don't judge me about my horrible timing and now i'm dubbed out and now i can do whatever i want over the top of it right stop and play stop and play say that other one sucked undo thank god because it did not sound good so i have an undo feature and then i can redo it again [Music] there you go now the timing's right makes sense and then stop and then the way you clear it is hold press and hold and it's gone or actually all you have to do is just hit record again because while it's stopped this is your play control so if i recorded something it doesn't matter what it is and then i stop it and then i hit record again that starts a new recording so either hit record to start something new or hit play to redo what i just what i just recorded makes sense so having that undo feature is really nice so that's just that's just the way that i decided to set up my looper and i usually do live looping and i use my hx stomp a lot and if i use a quantum looper app i did a whole video on that it's probably one of the best louvers i've ever used check out that video if you're interested in seeing more about it but you know it's on an ipad so in case of my ipad craps out on me i still have an option on how to do one button looping if i need it which is nice couple of things just to know if you're gonna assign this third one right here you have to go into your global settings right here foot switches and you have to set stop three most the time it's set to tap slash tuner but you have to assign that to stop three i did go i did also do a video of all the global settings in hx stop i'm just promoting all my videos i guess but i do have a video explaining all the global sayings as well if you're interested in checking that out so that's the way that i set it up and now just a couple of things to think about it's kind of weird that they give you this option you can either do half speed or full speed but what's weird about that let me set up a loop that doesn't suck it's not interesting but then you push half speed it's half speed now but you have no way to get out of half speed it's basically half speed or not half speed so i would never assign let me go back to foot switch 3 and assign it to toggle speed because now you have switch between full speed and half speed so if you ever wanted to do that or the reverse forward it's the same thing oops oh no i signed the wrong one [Music] so reverse forward if i sign it to just reverse i just get reverse and i have no way to set it back to forward so it's pretty much pointless to use that i would use the reverse slash forward so you can switch between the two makes sense if you plan to use it that way there's something else you might have noticed in the command center up here you do have foot switch 4 and foot switch 5 as options so you plug in it you know in the expression input right here and i'm using this this is the mission engineering tt2 i'll post a link down below i love this thing it's so compact so easy to use and it gives me two extra buttons but say i want foot switch four to be that forward and reverse and then foot switch five i want to be that toggle between the speeds so now i have record over dub play and stop undo this is my reverse and forward and this is full speed and half speed so now as this is playing i can reverse it [Music] and then set it to normal speed and then this one is that not a sign [Music] oh i know why i was like i don't know why that's happening so the reason why is again you have to go to your global settings and make sure that your foot switches are set to so foot switch three has to be sent to stop three foot switch four has to be sent to stop four and foot switch five when i normally use this this is my tap tempo and tuner so i need to set that to stomp five now it'll work so now hit play reverse forward speed which speed is also that pitch which i wish it didn't do that but it's and there you go make sense so that's just kind of more ways to get more options out of your looper it's you know you only get one loop but it's still worth it to have something in your hx stop so just something to keep in mind also just think about where your looper is going to be so since it's right here everything before it gets recorded into the looper so if i turn so the distortion is on before it so now if i'm going to record something over that it doesn't affect it doesn't affect the loop in general however if i move that after the looper hear how everything's distorted but beforehand i record something distorted and it goes into the looper and then everything the effects after it hit my reverb because i want a little bit of reverb on everything but i don't want to record reverb going in so just make sure you're thinking about the order of your path before you start recording so just something to keep in mind so i do recommend this mission engineering tt2 it's a great little device to just get two extra buttons out of your hx stomp you plug in here in the top with a trs cable and then you get two extra buttons in here lights are back up so this thing this thing's awesome i i love having it it's one of the best things i've added to my hx dump you can get more controls out of it with midi you have a midi port here in the side that you can plug in a midi controller and get more use out of your hx stop so again i did another video about all about programming your hx stomp and your helix using midi check that out if you're unfamiliar with midi i also did a master video of what midi programming is and explaining all the terms and stuff like that so if you're interested in that go ahead and watch that but you can see you have midi commands in the manual you have 60 through 66 so you know midi cc 60 is record slash overdub 61 is play and stop record once so on and so forth but you have six different controls in here so if you get a certain midi controller specifically the one that i've seen that's really cool i've never used it but it looks really cool is the mc6 by morningstar this one has six different assignable buttons that you can do and you plug it in with your hx stump and you can sign each of those buttons to do each of those controls so for example a could be your record over dub b can be your play and then stop c can be your undo and redo and then you have three more controls up there which again you can even you can even assign to different pedals or something in your in your hx stump it's a really cool way to get more options out of your hx stop so i'll post links to both of those down below that can be really valuable to have just that as your looper or something like that since you know you are limited with the number of blocks that you get with the eject stomp although if you do find yourself anymore there is always the hx stomp xl which is something that i've considered getting for a while now and there's also of course the full helix or the helix lt so you can always keep that in mind but hopefully this helped you guys out and you see more options of how you can do looping with your hx stomp if you made it to the end of the video just do me a favor and just hit the like button it does a lot to help out to please the youtube algorithm gods and suggest my channel and video to more people so i'd really appreciate it links will be in the description down below to purchase any of those items that i was talking about they are amazon affiliate links so it is a free 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Channel: Scott Uhl

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Length: 14min 33sec (873 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 14 2021