I think it's 50% product maturity and 50% IR availability. I got the HX Stomp last year and I can't get it to sound bad. With that said, I bought the Helix when it came out and could never get a responsive high gain sound with it. Anything you can do with a Helix in six blocks you can do on the HX Stomp.
The HX Stomp is a Helix with fewer blocks and less I/O. Is the Helix Stomp a reasonable competitor at the lower price? Is Fractal worth the wait and the exercise of the price hike between the two? Is there some other floor unit stompboxy thing that I am overlooking and not thinking about? Educate me and get me up to speed. What is your opinion between the two? I want to hear from the Gear Wizards and Wizardettes here. I also know that Fractal has the FM3 for $999.99, not as much as California rent, but still a hefty price jump up from the blue helix stomp I am looking at. Is that Helix Stomp a good unit (if you own it and have been rocking on it)?
So whats the deal? Is it the same as the standard black Helix Stomp pedal? Pay a bit less for blue than black? Double you tee eff. The Blue Helix Stomp Guitar Center unit is a bit cheaper too, and I can't seem to find it anywhere else besides Guitar Center.
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I was looking to pick something up that was reasonably portable and sounding awesome! I currently have that Axe FX 2 XL+ that everyone is raving about and its great! But I was thinking about picking up the Line 6 Helix Stomp (and I kind of like the blue color at Guitar Center) for some late night early morning mid afternoon fun. I've been out of the FX loop (lol) for a while now. That may be useful for a quick tweak on stage, but the hands-on front-panel editing is already straightforward, helped along by block selection through brushing the cap of the relevant footswitch.SevenString Rockers and Gear Experts !!!! The other mode is Pedal Edit, which effectively offers hands-free adjustment of parameters using the footswitches. One is a Looper mode, which assigns looper controls across six footswitches – flexibility that was previously only instantly available if you added external footswitches. When you’ve selected a preset, you can then simply hit the Mode footswitch to enter Stomp Mode where six blocks from the preset are assigned to the main array of six footswitches, all with colour-coded LED rings, mirrored in the ‘Play view’ display, which is divided into six coloured rectangles. In Preset mode, the four presets in a bank are mapped to footswitches A to D and you change banks by using the up/down footswitches. The two main modes we’d most likely gravitate to for practical stage use are Preset and Stomp. In fact, the switching between different modes is really uncomplicated on the XL. These come into play in Snapshot mode (entered by pressing the two up/down arrowed footswitches together) where they are instantly accessible. What has changed, though, is that you now get four snapshots instead of three in a preset – a snapshot being a preset within a preset, which can have altered parameters, a different number of active blocks, or a combination of both. The XL has two more presets than the smaller unit, but, apart from those, it’s still the same set. Granted, it’s probably a little bit harder to tweak the output volume now, but the nature of the pedal pretty much means it would be a set-and-forget control anyway. This means you can set your volume and push it back into the chassis, so it can’t be accidentally knocked during a gig. Something else that’s migrated to the back panel is the Volume knob, and it’s now spring-loaded. By contrast, the XL puts all its sockets on the rear panel, meaning those side cheeks could easily butt up against other similarly equipped pedals on your ’board. What’s more, that width difference isn’t quite what it seems, because the smaller HX Stomp had socketry on both sides as well as the rear, so any plugs into those side sockets would increase the footprint.
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