3 Basic Presets for the Line 6 HX Stomp - Strat, Tele & Les Paul
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- In this video I create 3 basic presets for use with the 3 main food groups of guitar: Strat, Tele & Les Paul. These presets each have amp based distortion, a modulation effect and delay. All of these presets are created using only the HX Stomp. I didn't use the HX Edit Software. I didn't use any IRs. These presets don't require any external controllers either.
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Basic Ritch Strat
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Basic Ritch Tele
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Basic Ritch Les Paul
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It‘s not just your insane knowledge, or playing skills, it‘s the whole how your vids are made. You come to a point without blablabla. ☮️
Still coming back to this (July2022) when I get ‘preset fatigue’ (over blown with too much ‘mucky-muck’ added) and I need something I can actually use. Probably (IMHO) the most practical HX Stomp tutorial on TH-cam. Many thanks.
Wow! One of the best, most informative HX Stomp videos I've seen, and I've seen a few! Real world application from a true professional. Thanks, Richie!
Your hands on, candid approach to these demos is excellent.
I just got my HX Stomp this week and walked through your process to set up the strat tone, easily the most musical and usable tone I have ever gotten out of my strat! Also I love your approach in the video, not so fast that I'm lost, even as a new user, but also not painfully slow as these things can sometimes be. Fantastic - just subscribed!
I'm at a complete newbie to the HX Stomp and I have learned more in this one video than I've learned watching many others, precise and to the point.Thank you so much, this was awesome!
I've watched a ton and you're correct very, very, very concise.
Best of all a minimum guitar playing.....
Thanks Richie
Man, your videos have been so helpful. I have an HX Stomp for some time and just by watching a few of your videos over the last couple of days I learned so much and got through so many hurdles that I had with it. You get right to the point and a lot less jargon then some of the other over rated channels. Thank you!
by far the best HX Stomp videos!
Great tutorial Richie. Absolutely the easiest to follow with great pacing and engaging descriptions🙌
Awesome vid mate, I wasn’t sure whether one of these would do everything I wanted it too... after watching this, it seems it will do that and more! Thanks mate, you’ve gained a new subscriber!
Great Tone, You make me learn more about how to set up presets for the Line 6 HX Stomp. Thank You very much.
I just bought an HX Stomp. This has been the most helpful video that I've watched. Thanks @richiecastellano !!!
I’m new to Helix and this vid was very informative. I had a similar idea to set up several amps to use for different guitars. I did not realize you could switch from dirty to clean in one preset, so that was helpful to see you set that up. It was very interesting to see your thought process. Thanks for sharing!
I’ve been unsure recently if I should get either a Strat or a Tele. And so far it’s been Tele for me but when I heard the beginning with the Strat I was blown away. It sounded so good!!! I was sure the Tele was out of the picture until you switched to it. God is it phenomenal sounding. I then realized that it was your presets and playing that made it all sound so good. God I love both but if I had to choose it would be a Tele. So much damn attitude and personality.
sounds great! always fun to hear somebody scroll through and dial in sweet amps tones. thanks!
well played sir... well played! You are the Tommy (This Old House) of Guitar & effects.
Richie, I just ordered my HX Stomp and a have a week before the first gig with it. I'll use your settings as a starting point to get me up and running. Great video. Thanks!!
amazing patches here and very cool secret tweaks/tips that you did there. loved that Les Paul singing lead solo tone. Keep it up!
Someone who gets exactly what this is all about for the gigging musician!
Those chorusy strat tones in the beginning are totally old school King's X sounding. Sounds awesome.
Just purchased HX Stomp recently and watched many "how to" demo's. Some better than others but, Richie I gotta say Line6 should be using you to show their Helix stuff. Learned lots from your vids.
Thanks for posting.
Richie, this is great stuff! Thanks for making your insights available!
I'm new to the HX Stomp and I am learning quite a bit from watching this video. Thanks for the great content. Cheers
Great presentation, tone and amazing playing.
Awesome! I have the original Helix and almost always use snapshots. I did not think about the possibility of using the stomp mode and switching two amps and enabling a compressor in one of them while under snapshots. Thanks, my Helix just got twice as powerful!
Your patches are now the first 3 spots in my HX. I was burnin was burnin was burnin for them
I learned a LOT!
I’ve been thinking about getting an HX XL.
The possibility of switching between two amps with the same footswitch sold me.
Because that’s the kind of setup I would want from it
Thanks, man 👍
Richie. Just got tuned into this channel recently, and you are flying up my “must watch” list. Great stuff.
Thanks Richie. I always learn so much from you. You're playing is awesome and so are you.
I rarely leave comments. This video is by far the best approach I have seen to dialing in the line 6 Helix based presets. It is simple and your approach is much more in line with how I used to approach dialing in a pedal board. Focusing on the different guitars but having usable tone makes so much sense. Thanks for the video.
Thanks, Richie. Playing in a cover band, I love the convenience and variety of multi effect pedals, but don’t enjoy all the tweaking. Why can’t manufacturers create decent factory patches? It’s no wonder most guitarists prefer to just use an amp and pedals!
Hi Richie. Really helpful this vid. I downloaded the presets and sounds really good with my guitars. Put in a HX stomp XL and test with headrush frfr212. Perfect. Thank you very much for sharing your experience.
Great video RIchie, appreciate it. I have the full sized helix floorboard, but watching this makes me want the stomp. I learned so much from watching this. I need something smaller and easier to setup and tear down doing the coffee house circuit. Anyway, this was like a master class...best helix video i have seen to date. Line 6 should pay you to do training. Appreciate you sharing this
Great info to see your thinking process and explanation on why you pick certain parameters. Thank you!
Rich , you a master , bro ! Killer tone , Killer player . Line 6 has made guitar playing interesting again ! Thanks for the great vids
Thanks again for this video, Richie. Now that I have an HX Stomp I wanted to make these along with you. I didn’t forget!
Just bought the HX Stomp because of this video! Thank you!
I love your approach to creating presets. Had the HX Stomp now for a couple of weeks. Had to figure out how I wanted to integrate into my existing pedalboard. Finally decided on using more as an amp/cab model and using the send/receive to loop my delay and mod pedals through the stomp. The amp models are very good. I did use a third party IR. Its worked great thus far.
Can you choose where the external pedals go in your chain when you use the effects loop? Or is it post only?
Jose Pineda you can choose. Place a blocking’s the chain for the loop and you can move it anywhere you want along the line.
Incredible walkthrough! This video totally convinced me, just ordered my HX stomp!
Great video Richie, I never miss anything you put out. Couple of ideas if you need more blocks, say for reverb and a couple of effects. If you experiment, you can find a single amp with enough control of the gain and master to be able to handle both clean and dirty with the same amp. Derailed Ingrid seems to work pretty well for this. Using your Cab high-cut trick, you can control the amp fizz on on the dirty setting without having to sacrifice high end on the clean setting. Presence is also useful for this as it tends to disappear as the power amp distorts more (keep the master higher for this). Amp sag can play the compression role to get rid of that block too. But you have to be pushing the amp a bit to get this to work. But your clean tones do this already, so that shouldn't be a problem.
wow.. how much LINE 6 has improved the sounds! distortions sounds really good.. oh my.. I´m an analog guy but.. this do the job seamlessly! I´m thinking in getting one since I work in a cruise line and traveling with pedalboards.. ugh.. hate it. jeje Nice Job Richie!
The leaps they've made with this tech over the last years is incredible. I used to own a Boss GT-8 back in 2006 and the effects were very good, but the amp/cab simulations weren't really usable. This is something else though and it really feels to me like playing through tubes. I think for a cruise ship gig it'd be ideal.
If you wanna see how it sounds on Rush and Muse stuff, I have two covers on my channel.
Also worth checking out for a ship gig are the Kemper and the Axe FX, but they are on a very different price tier.
the minute you played a lead riff, I thought "wow, that is a great Funk 49 Joe Walsh sound"
Nice, I learned some cool tricks from this vid! Thanks
You did a tremendous work. Thanks so much for your dedication. Greetings from Chile!!!!
Excellent video, great tones, and fantastic playing. I just picked up an HX Stomp and this really helped me. Thanks!
Great video...........................this make it easier to understand for us not so tech players. I have used pedals that are simple but found this box impressive with sounds that can duplicate other pedals and simplify my set up. thanks richie this has been the best video i have seen so far.
So I've had the HX Stomp for 6-7 months now, and I'm so obsessed with dialing in a tone per ONE preset. This video (along with Richie's tutorial on Snapshots) literally opens an endless blueprint on how this little stomp box can be an all-in-one rig for studio/gigs. Per ONE preset, you can switch from clean to dirty amps with just a simple "stomp" with your 3 foot switches.
What's amazing is, Richie is utilizing the Stomp BEFORE the "Along Came Polly" update where there were only 6 blocks allowed. So the additional 2 blocks that you gain after the update just gives the end user even more expanded options. That's insane.
@Richie - Dude, thank you. I'm not sure if you ever got "stumped" with this Stomp related question, but would you be able to combine this technique with using the Snapshot method? Cheers from Los Angeles, CA btw 🤘
Best video I've watched on creating HX Stomp presets. Thanks Richie!
Best vid on the HX. Great info!! Cheers!
Thanks RC! I have been using my Stomp as my main acoustic duo rig, but am now looking to get some acceptable Helix backup "in case of emergency" tones from my Stomp. Love your approach, as always. Appreciate what you do for the community good sir!
Just discovered this video, absolutely awesome. I would say a must see when you buy an HX Stomp
Great video on setting up a good tone with any rig let alone the HX Stomp very very cool thanks
straight to the point! thank you !
I am looking to get 3 good sounds, clean, Plexi rhythm, and boost lead with delay.
from my experience with recording , I remember boosting the mid on lead guitar and low passing to get it to pop out of the mix
I just see lead and rhythm as 2 different things
Just got stomp to add to collection, have rack and floor …building a tiny board with powerstage 200 and stomp, also ordered live logic board ..thanks fir the great demos ur helping build this killer little board, fir practice ..,m also try to just take my MacBook Pro to practice use native with live logic 😂😂🤘🏾👍🏽
I like that you're just using amp distortion - makes so much sense with a device that has snapshots - and won't deafen anyone like a real amp (unless your monitor volumes accidentally too loud )
Came here for the hx but stayed for great fusion/prog playing!!
I subscribed for those chops 🤟
Dude, you're a genius. Complete control of the tool, congrats =D
Killer tones and even better playing!
" Because I am a crazy person and that's what we do". Made me sub lol.
Genius. Richie, you are seriously amazing.
Straight up.
17:22 to 17:27... Damn!
Awesome ideas! Keep’em videos coming!
That was F*&%ing fantastic...
To where do I mail my lesson payment?
I'm 73 years old and needed all the explaining I can get!
Thanks a ton Richie....
very informative! Like your way of explaining Richie!
Really nice video!
Fantastic, thanks Richie!!!
i had no idea you could use one footswitch to do so much, great video!
Fantastic video. Love your approach to creating a great tone. One question tho. Do you use the global EQ in a live setting or just alter the preset on the low and high cuts in the cab block. If you find the tone at a venue not sounding quite right as it should.
Thank you Richie ,for your fantastic videos. 👍🏻😎🎸
Very detailed great program tricks very versatile unit :)
Awesome video - thank you Mr RC!
This preset is a amazing! Question: Did you use the mono versions of the compressor and delay on purpose? I know it defaults to the mono versions of these things so I am not sure if you preferred the mono versions for some reason?🔥
Nicely done, thank you sir!
Great video. Thanks!
Thanks for the video. One thing was not clear to me, though. When having multiple things assigned on the same stomp button, how do you set it to alternate and not simply turn them all on or off ate the same time?
Awesome tones and learned a lot
Thank's a lot for the presets and cheers from France ;-)
Big thanks for this video!
Brilliant you mentioned IRS how do
you drop in a 3rd part IR into the arrangement? Thankyou
This was an extremely useful video for me. Made me think outside the box a bit. Thank you!
I bought the Helix LT last Thursday...when I opened it I was like wowow huge learning curve. So the next day I just decided to get the rack version. Saturday the Helix rack arrived...Finally got it going 4cable method using my JCM 2000 n it had killer sounds coming from the factory presets. But seems like a lot for what I do. Now watching this makes me think this might be better! I have to return the LT first...but most likely end up keeping the Rack... and find a $300-400 of this on Reverb.
That's genious! Can't wait to try this idea of switching between amps. Thanks, man! glhf
Great video.. and great playing 👌🏼
Thank you ! That helped me a lot to understand that Helix World ! Best Video I saw about that.
Great video man. I suggest to use a looper block to build the sound. It helps me a lot because I can focus on the over 9000 parameters of this amazing stomp 🤓
I do like that idea, but sometimes I’m trying to feel the change too.
You know your part, for sure. I'm not a helix user (not yet should i say), never the less it's a great vid...
Bro when u bringing your dad back, he was so so cool bro
These have been working and sounding great! Question: the foot switches have multiple features (example, switch 1 switches heads, adds compressor etc). I notice when playing the switch changes colors like it’s cycling through the various features. Is there a way to stop this so only the head switch status shows? Thanks in advance
I'm not even a guitar player, and it helped me. 😂
Hi Richie, I am having the hardest time getting the sounds I hear from musicians like you with the HX Stomp. I have a 91 Strat but it has emg pickups. I don't know if that is the issue but I am interested in the Essex 30 Strat sound you achieved in this video. It is a sound I can never seem to emulate. I have tried through direct recording into Reaper and for live playing. I use a Bose L1 Compact with the T1 Tonematch mixer live with backing tracks. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Rich
Amazing stuff man!
This is a great! Stumbled upon this while looking for Line 6 Pod Go presets. Any plans to make a similar video for the Pod Go?
It's exactly the same
The Placater Dirty is by far the best amp on Helix in my humble opinion.
Agreed.... Archetype Lead is my 2nd fav
great sound
Dang, you rock!!!! Great video.
Excellent
Outstanding
Line6 here this man.
Awesome video!! Thank you for the presets..
Sounds amazing no matter what you choose! Lol
Nice Richie up right killin , it !