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Line 6 HX Stomp
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This is a bit niche but - players like Janek Gwizdala will often do Black Friday sales on their merchant, and I'm wondering if anybody recalls from previous years if that applied to his Stomp presets.
Edit - realized I could search my email history, which shows in 2022 a 22% sale that applied to the presets. I'll hold off buying them until next week.
Edit - realized I could search my email history, which shows in 2022 a 22% sale that applied to the presets. I'll hold off buying them until next week.
I just realized the stomp xl had global eq settings. Holy crap what a game changer. My bass sounds so much better with it dialed in. Also the harsher notes don’t distort now. I’m sure this is old news but I’ve only really sat down with this thing a hand full of times.
Starting to go through my pedal collection and decide whether boxes stay or can be replaced by the Stomp - first up is the Source Audio Aftershock. What do y'all think there, are the drives in the Stomp good enough to sell off the AS?
I think the SA Lunar is easy to sell. I've been pretty happy with the Stomp's versions of those effects. C4 is likely not going anywhere, and Artifakt is a tough call. While it is a bit extraneous as I have other sources for envelope filters, the video that SA recently released diving into the ladder filter was preeetty sick.
I think the SA Lunar is easy to sell. I've been pretty happy with the Stomp's versions of those effects. C4 is likely not going anywhere, and Artifakt is a tough call. While it is a bit extraneous as I have other sources for envelope filters, the video that SA recently released diving into the ladder filter was preeetty sick.
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On my never ending quest to find a good fuzz tone....
Has anyone found a way to get a dying batter/power sagging effect? I really want a warm vintagey sounding fuzz, I feel like I've tried every pedal in the distortion category without much success, so thinking I need to pair it with something else to help achieve what I want. Any thoughts? Or, anyone have a killer fuzz setting they like?
Has anyone found a way to get a dying batter/power sagging effect? I really want a warm vintagey sounding fuzz, I feel like I've tried every pedal in the distortion category without much success, so thinking I need to pair it with something else to help achieve what I want. Any thoughts? Or, anyone have a killer fuzz setting they like?
How about a concrete example of what that should sound like?
Not much of an answer, but it kinda depends on how you're using the Stomp and how you're using the Aftershock. If you're mostly sticking to the usual suspects - muff, rat, tubescreamer, etc - then you're probably not going to notice much difference between the two. But if you're making use of some of the more esoteric engines in the Aftershock (e.g. foldover), you're running multiple engines in series or parallel, or you're making heavy use of EQ or blend, then the Aftershock may have an advantage. You can achieve similar results in the Stomp, but doing so requires multiple blocks and paths. So if your Stomp presets are already a bit full, then it could well be more efficient to add an FX Loop block and let the Aftershock handle drive duties.
Personally I find dialling in dirt on the Stomp to be a lot easier than it was on the Aftershock, and so I don't really miss it.
The real problem lies in making a decision. To commit. I don't mean the hardware, the stomp or the aftershock. I mean the sounds.
I recreated the sounds that were really important to me in the Stomp. And that sometimes required more than one block. So what?
You cannot simply transfer the controller settings of the hardware pedals to the models. But that doesn't have to be a disadvantage.
An example. I have the B7K, which is exactly the hardware of the Omicron on my board. The Stomp can imitate the hardware very well in the range of 80 to 95%.
But! I can set sounds in the Omikron model that the hardware can't do and they are very, very good.
Do you mean you have a Darkglass Alpha-Omicron on your board? It is definitely a different pedal than a B7K (totally different clipping architecture, different voicing, etc) so no surprise the Helix B7K model ("Obsidian 700") doesn't really match it. I've never really been able to dial in something like the DG Alpha-Omega on my Stomp, though I find the B7K tones are pretty close to the real thing.
FYI: the Janek Gwizdala presets will be on sale on cyber Monday, according to JG himself in his latest podcast/video.
Sorry I have too much stuff, you can get confused. It was about Obsidian and B7K.
Thanks for the hint.
Like a warm vintagey sounding fuzz is what I've been chasing. Stuff like the Seamoon fresh fuzz, the guitar fuzz from Spirit in the Sky, don't recall which ones but some of the Sun Face fuzzes , the amianto fuzz, mxr super badass variac fuzz with the voltage sag, etc.