Nobody complained when Eventide came out with the H9, nor Strymon when it introduced the TimeLine. Both of those only do one algorithm at a time. The Blackhole pedal costs the same as the HX One and only HAS one bloody algorithm on offer! Nevermind the H90, which only does two algos at an eye-bleeding $900.00!
It's clearly an update and improvement on the M5, which has a diehard following, by many professional musicians. It's not a Helix. It's not a stomp. Many of us players have zero interest in either of those options. For those of us who still play with an amp, and like a regular pedal sized pedal, that runs on a standard 9V power supply, and gives us some variety when we're inclined, this is perfect. It's a swiss army knife for people who have no interest amp sims, plug-ins, speaker modeling, or impulse responses. I really don't get all the youtube guitar channel hate on something that's far more capable, and more affordable, than the Eventide and UA one trick pony pedals that everyone fawns over.
I had an Hx stomp. It was too much overly complicated. The Hx One is quick and easy. Feels like a stomp box and sounds great. I am getting a second one. It covers a bunch of pedals you may not want on your board
You sort of touched on my interest when you mentioned Strymon toward the end of the video. I've got an amp that gets most of the tones I want all by itself, including a decent basic reverb, but there are times I want to experiment with the huge reverbs of some of the high-end pedals(Cloudburst, Sloer, Afterneath, Dark Star, etc.) and those pedals tend to cost almost as much as the HX One. If I pick up the HX, I can then play around with crazy delays(any delay, really, I don't have any outside of plugins in my DAW), or pitch shifters, or tremolo, or rotary, or... etc. I might even find some OD/distortion sounds I like.
I find this can be used by people for integrating with something like a Boss ES-8 where you can set where it sits on the chain and control the presets via MIDI. Especially if space is of the essence. If they can update the FX return to be flexible on this to either before or after the preset, maybe it will open more use cases
Very interesting bit of kit, Think it could be great for real gear heads that swear by Valve amps, pop the HX one on you FX chain and use it for reverb/delay/flanger and other such Modulation FX.
I like the HX One. I don´t use amp modeling or IR. I don´t like menus or convoluted setups. This will be the Swiss knife I need to replace the chorus and phaser I have, open some space on my board and give me much more options to chose from. Yes, I never turn the chorus and phaser on at the same time. PLUS I will have a looper 😃 Genius product by Line 6, precisely what I needed, small and simple to use at a fair price.
2:18. Incorrect about before or after the amp. The HX ONE can be wired in 4 cable method (when in mono), so you can choose if effect is before amp, or in FX LOOP
Ordered one to replace my Drop pedal and it will be controlled with an HX stomp XL via midi. So the Poly Capo (half or whole step down tuning) is automatically chosen if I select a preset/song on the XL and avoid user errors with the Drop pedal this way. When down tuning is not needed an other effect could be used although the XL already covers that mostly. But yes, controlling the One with midi is the key to get most out of it.
Fun fact: You deserve an H90. It is the best sounding whatever effects it has. Reverb? The best. Delay? The best. Both? Sure! You will use this thing for years. After the first 3 months figuring it out.
Power, 800-1100mA requires a current doubler and adapters, for a busker say running a boss product, this thing can do what many other pedals do, yes one at a time but that is totally the point. Like any other 300€ pedal. You'll find many helix folks who use TC HOF or similar Pedals because they love those algorithms, similar concept, 4 times the algorithms though. It's very clearly NOT designed for helix users but more a gateway to integration where space - power - midi controllers are already part of the board. If you are one using a drop pedal, a whammy, any drive, filter etc once in a while, that's solving a whole lot of board real estate and will grow at the pace of a helix. Find another non helix pedal like it ??
You can, in fact, put it both in front of the amp and within the effects loop using four cables. Page 8 of the manual explains the setup.
When you consider the H9 can only do 1 effect at a time, this unit is getting a bit of a unfair roasting!
H9 (€689) vs HX one (€300) 😊
Nobody complained when Eventide came out with the H9, nor Strymon when it introduced the TimeLine. Both of those only do one algorithm at a time. The Blackhole pedal costs the same as the HX One and only HAS one bloody algorithm on offer! Nevermind the H90, which only does two algos at an eye-bleeding $900.00!
It's clearly an update and improvement on the M5, which has a diehard following, by many professional musicians. It's not a Helix. It's not a stomp. Many of us players have zero interest in either of those options. For those of us who still play with an amp, and like a regular pedal sized pedal, that runs on a standard 9V power supply, and gives us some variety when we're inclined, this is perfect. It's a swiss army knife for people who have no interest amp sims, plug-ins, speaker modeling, or impulse responses. I really don't get all the youtube guitar channel hate on something that's far more capable, and more affordable, than the Eventide and UA one trick pony pedals that everyone fawns over.
If you can't figure out, why you would want or need one, it clearly is NOT for you.
I had an Hx stomp. It was too much overly complicated. The Hx One is quick and easy. Feels like a stomp box and sounds great. I am getting a second one. It covers a bunch of pedals you may not want on your board
yes! have a helix but most of the time I use uafx amp pedals (lion, dream, ruby) with pedals and I use the hx one for Modulation and pitch shifting 😊
You sort of touched on my interest when you mentioned Strymon toward the end of the video. I've got an amp that gets most of the tones I want all by itself, including a decent basic reverb, but there are times I want to experiment with the huge reverbs of some of the high-end pedals(Cloudburst, Sloer, Afterneath, Dark Star, etc.) and those pedals tend to cost almost as much as the HX One. If I pick up the HX, I can then play around with crazy delays(any delay, really, I don't have any outside of plugins in my DAW), or pitch shifters, or tremolo, or rotary, or... etc. I might even find some OD/distortion sounds I like.
I find this can be used by people for integrating with something like a Boss ES-8 where you can set where it sits on the chain and control the presets via MIDI. Especially if space is of the essence. If they can update the FX return to be flexible on this to either before or after the preset, maybe it will open more use cases
100%
The very definition of crippleware
Very interesting bit of kit, Think it could be great for real gear heads that swear by Valve amps, pop the HX one on you FX chain and use it for reverb/delay/flanger and other such Modulation FX.
I like the HX One. I don´t use amp modeling or IR. I don´t like menus or convoluted setups. This will be the Swiss knife I need to replace the chorus and phaser I have, open some space on my board and give me much more options to chose from. Yes, I never turn the chorus and phaser on at the same time. PLUS I will have a looper 😃 Genius product by Line 6, precisely what I needed, small and simple to use at a fair price.
One FX at a time, no amps, not exactly genius.
Complete waste of money and time
2:18. Incorrect about before or after the amp. The HX ONE can be wired in 4 cable method (when in mono), so you can choose if effect is before amp, or in FX LOOP
Ordered one to replace my Drop pedal and it will be controlled with an HX stomp XL via midi. So the Poly Capo (half or whole step down tuning) is automatically chosen if I select a preset/song on the XL and avoid user errors with the Drop pedal this way. When down tuning is not needed an other effect could be used although the XL already covers that mostly. But yes, controlling the One with midi is the key to get most out of it.
Fun fact: You deserve an H90. It is the best sounding whatever effects it has. Reverb? The best. Delay? The best. Both? Sure! You will use this thing for years. After the first 3 months figuring it out.
Power, 800-1100mA requires a current doubler and adapters, for a busker say running a boss product, this thing can do what many other pedals do, yes one at a time but that is totally the point. Like any other 300€ pedal. You'll find many helix folks who use TC HOF or similar Pedals because they love those algorithms, similar concept, 4 times the algorithms though. It's very clearly NOT designed for helix users but more a gateway to integration where space - power - midi controllers are already part of the board.
If you are one using a drop pedal, a whammy, any drive, filter etc once in a while, that's solving a whole lot of board real estate and will grow at the pace of a helix.
Find another non helix pedal like it ??
TC electronic made ,,mash ,,control on their plethora 3 and 5 so nothing new here