Line6 HX Stomp purple special

The best bang for the buck piece of guitar gear ever created - now in purple!

This is not my first HX Stomp. I foolishly sold the previous one, thinking that I might prefer to outsource various HX Stomp functions to individual guitar pedals. That proved to be a surprisingly disappointing experience, and eventually, I decided to simply get the Stomp again. I couldn't be happier with it.

For a price of 2 boutique pedals, you get a device that can be your entire rig, or - like in my case - it can sit at the end of a small pedalboard, giving you everything you need: from direct amp sim/IR solution, to any kind of modulation you don't have the space for on your board. It can be a straight ahead reverb pedal. It can be an experimental reverb pedal (you can, for example, put a reverb on a parallel path and add various effects behind it that will affect just the reverb tails, designing any kind of "boutique, ambient, esoteric reverb" you can imagine).

The Stomp can be anything you need it to be, it sounds great (this is subjective of course, but to me, it sounds as good as anything I played though, including analogue dirt pedals that I put before it, not because they are better than the HX Stomp but because I like pedals too much to use the Stomp alone). Lastly, other companies could (and should) learn from Line 6 about how a product should be supported with updates post-launch. Since the 3.5 update (that introduced new and improved cab simulations) I stopped using external IRs.

All in all, it's an amazing piece of kit that's well worth the money.

P.S. The purple thing doesn't really matter, of course. In fact, I'd prefer a black one, but they are currently sold out and have been for a while.