Line6 HX Stomp Reviews

Amazing!!!

Wanted this one for so long. Its amazing piece of gear, but it takes so much time to learn it (time I don’t have always). There are toms of sounds to play with and its up to you to find one you like.

Replacement for all pedals

As a bassist, I had a pedalboard with octaver, delay, tuner and a couple of more effects, and they sounded great. But when I bought HX Stomp, in about a month I sold all of them, leaving only the tuner (using it when i setup my instruments). I've got M-audio expression pedal with this, needs to be a bit modded but then works great (you can use two of them, but I use only one)

The effects are great for my taste. I compared OC2 with Boktaver and it's not the same, but if you put a Bass oktaver (from legacy) in parallel, and blend them you can get even better sounds than OC2, so equal and different. You can get more or less fuzzy, more or less bassy.

It's great for practicing as well, I use iPad to play the songs via USB, use headphones out to listen to it, and I'm waiting on Zoom r4 multitrak to record it like that (so I don't have to use iPad). Also when using iPad you can get quantiloop for cheap, which is a great looper and you don't even need pedals then. Cool for home, never played with it live.

I also like the send/return for adding pedals to the chain anywhere, and I did use ditto looper first, so I can mute it without pausing, it's a cool effect, but you have to time it right. So it can be creative way to use some pedals, like additional features.

So far what you get is a lot, a tuner, tons of pedals, audio interface, midi controller (though limited one), practice "amp", etc. I also like the simple programming of the unit, I don't use it with a computer, I know my way around the interface and it's just so easy.

The only dislike but I don't mind that much, is that it uses 2.5mm instead of 2.1mm barrel, so you have to make an adapter for it. I bought 5v to 9v adapter on ebay and changed it's 2.1mm barrel to 2.5mm so I can play on power bank instead of included power supply which is chonky.

Overall can't find anything better for bassists that's in this price range.

Extremely Useful Purchase

Generates excellent sound as a stand-alone gear as well as delivers efficiently as a sound interface; small and simple, keeps me motivated to practice, which has no cash-flow behind the screens, as I am just a non-professional, recreational noise maker.

Little and powerful device

So I've bought it for live performances using bass guitar. Had a lot of cheaper processors before, but they all seemed to ruin the clean bass tone. This one doesn't. And there's almost everything you would need for a bass. Cab and amp simulation is top notch. What I miss are easy to setup synthesizers. Yes, you can dial up a nice sounding synth, but it takes hours. Zoom processors win in this regard, but then again - they ruin the tone. So far - after 10 gigs - this little pedal is doing exactly what I bought it for. Recommended for bass players.

Love it!

Compact and simple.

Line6- own IR-s are so-so, better to get some better quality IR-s as extra, tremendously helps.

The only downside is that this doesn't have true preset spillover. Can mess with snapshots, but it limits the effect count and gets a bit tricky, but when set up works like a charm.

Great Product

Really easy to use, good quality and sound for this price

top all in one unit

very good, compact, good qualitty, sounds awsome

Portable and powerful

A great piece of gear to help minimize board size, but keep the power and flexibility of a bigger pedal collection. The onboard amp models sound great, and the recording options via USB are top notch too. The fact that you are able to record both dry and wet signal via USB, and perform internal routing for re-amping makes it a great tool for experimenting with your sound in recordings. If it was busted (which is not likely, based on the build quality), I would definitely replace it.

Just a great multi-effect in a small box.

my new fly rig and interface tool

Absolutely fantastic piece of gear cannot recomend it and its sounds enough

Best for price

I was rather sceptic at the beginning, but for price and possibility it is a killer. Disadvatages: you have only 3 buttons, so if you setup your sound you have to think. I use presets rather then buttons and I started to get use to it. Of corse application on computer is a must to create your profile. Those which are loaded up are in most cases s%^&. So you have to spend some time to build your own, and test. I did it for 2 weeks and got some basic sounds which I would like to expand.

Sold it and got an Fractal FM3

Had almost all LINE 6 products since 1996...

Liked them since I've first heard Fractal III. Also had Kemper (twice, FA II etc.).

Since the FAIII all of them (Kemper, Helix) seems like a plastic toys to me...

The FAIII is a hughe step forward in sound, feel, touch response etc. I have even sold my Friedman amps because of FAIII.

Awesome piece of kit

Bought this to downsize my home pedalboard and it ended up replacing 7 pedals, an amp and an interface. Im using it on bass and its absolutely brilliant. Leaving it on a table and controlling it with HX Edit makes it even easier while recording. Can't say enough good things about it

Like a Swiss knife

I wanted a all-in-one machine to play guitar and the HX Stomp has been the right choice. Amps simulations are pretty good, with a lot of hystoric amps and more recent machines.

There a lot of effects (od, fuzz, distortion, modulation etc.) and the new firmware 3.0 is a step beyond. Now you can get up to 8 blocks (until the dsp can run them), wich was the more requested feature by customers.

The interface is really simple to understand and the construction quality is remarkable (well made plastic knobs and solid metallic chassis). If you need an exp volume or two more switches you can add them plugging them easily.

You can use it as a all-in-one machine or a multieffects stomp. At this price it's probably the best gear you can get

Amazing sound for the price

For it's price, it sounds and feels amazing. The block limitation is rarely an issue, especially since the 3.0 update increased the block limit to 8, but for this price I could not ask for more. I needed something that felt great to play through and was easy to use (I didn't want to have to connect my laptop to an interface, boot up a daw or anything, just plug and play) and for that it is perfect. If I later buy another amp, I can still use this as just fx stomp boxes.

Awesome product. Changed my all analog rig.

Hi, first of all i want to say that i fought over having digital stuff in my rig. I was a tube amp guy, expensive boutique pedals, expensive pedalboard, good cables, stereo routing, etc etc. But the truth was that i was always afraid of the amount things that could fail in a live situation. Unfortunately that happened and it was really frustrating. So after years i finnally decided to give a try and i bought the Stomp. The goal was to have a reliable pedalboard, with great sound, no more tons of cables, something almost plug and play. The first impression when i got the Stomp was how tiny but sturdy and weel built it was. Also very good looking. i tried some factory presets trough the PA system and i knew instantly that it would soung as good as my analog rig. Of course that some tweaking had to be made but he sound was there. At the present moment and after some rehearsals done and exploring the Stomp i have to say that my rig chanved completely. Now it?s Guitar into STOMP, midi switcher that i had already and an expression pedal (very needed in order to have flexibility, options and to take advantage of the full optential of the Stomp) straight into de mixer and PA systems. No more Amp, cabinet, pedalboard, mics and spare tool kit. It?s my guitar and my case with the Stomp in it. Simple, light, reliable and with a 3D sound as i?ve never had!

Also the software is really really user friendly. One of the best if not the best.

Don?t compare this with Helix floor. Their purposes are different. The only downside is that right now you only have 6 blocks. i can manage with that perfectly. Line 6 has confirmed that is going to release an update which allows 8 blocks. It?s going to be awesome and enough for 98% of players.

And the price for this little and powerfull tool is a must. So much money spent in boutique...not worthy.

Perfect pocket solution for recording, rehreasing and live playing

Ok Here is little story. I've tried lot of units. I originaly started with pod hd500x back when it was the hottest modeling unit out there. Then I started to experiment with other units and effects, went through Boss GT-100, TC electronics nova system, analog effects pedalboard, back to GT-100 and then Helix and Helix LT came out. It was perfect. Had everything I ever needed but it was little on the large side of floor units. So I sold my Helix LT and tried smaller Boss GT-1000, which was, for me as Boss fan, one of the greatest let downs ever. I was back with large and for my three and half (ambient clean/drone sound, overdrive, hi-gain) simple presets overly capable Helix LT. So what now?

Long story short, I sold the LT and bought this little piece of greatness.

There are few things worth mentioning if you are still deciding on buying:

1) It is built like tank. No bendy, soft sheet but thick casted metal stombox

2) Sound quality of amp models is, as with whole Helix family, exceptional

3) Controls and UI are amazingly intuitive. You really don't need to use PC to create sounds (except for updloading IRs)

And some little flaws I just mention so I won't sound like payed Line6 fanboy:

1) It gets warm after some time of use - lots of circuitry cramped in small metal box

2) Some of the effect models are little lacking compared to others

3) Powersource is almost as big as the unit itself and you can't use your pedalboards powersource out of the box thanks to HX stomps power demands and inverted polarity. Might be issue if you want to use it as part of bigger pedalboard.

4) It really could use some controls cover or software lock to prevent accidental switching when you misstep.

I use it for both home recording and live situations and if you are looking for all-in-one pocket solution or want to expand your pedalboard look no more. This thing is no-brainer.

Great tool

I use it in live gigs and studio recordings. It is a very usefull all in one, small tool. Most of the amp models are very similar to originals when you set it properly. I recommend it.

Best Investment Ever for Recording

I use this at home for practice and recording, through monitoring headphones and through studio monitors. Highly recommended.

The amp models sound amazing, the effects sound amazing. Professional quality. This unit has saved me literally tens of thousands of dollars/euro in gear if I had wanted to buy all of the amps/effects modeled. Does it sound 100% like the originals? No. Does it get you at least 90% there? Yes!!!

The only caveat I would add is that the best tones require some time to dial in/EQ/etc. But if you are willing to spend a bit of time getting to know the unit and tweak parameters, you will be rewarded with delicious tones.

Line 6 has updated the firmware several times, adding more amp/effect models, improving features, and the 3.0 update will expand the available blocks from 6 up to 8.

High quality unit. Zero complaints. Two thumbs up.

Mini Helix - universal pedal in small package

I bought it for my bass rig to spice things up and have not looked back ever since. HX stomp is versatile, it has ton of features in ultra small package. Sound quality is superb. There are no cons that I could think of.