Zed A. Shaw, Painter

Finally that little Ep Booster is just a very nice very transparent very small very clean boost pedal, which you usually need if you're running a guitar through a ton of gear, and especially if you're doing looping like this. Next, I have to do a couple things:

1. I have to get the Gieger Counter into the main loop instead of the S/R of the plus. It's fun but it's kind of wasted there. 2. Clearly there's plenty of space still on this board so I need to fill that space with MOAR. 3. Continue to configure the HX Stomp and the MC6.

Finally is the HX Stomp: https://line6.com/hx-stomp/  I have mixed feelings on this little dude. It *is* a great sounding unit for the size. I mean, wow for how big it is this thing is powerful and easily controlled. But, it is clearly designed for a gigging musician.

I'm mostly running this into my studio recording setup, so it took forever to make it sound clean with no hiss. If you're playing live it totally doesn't matter, but there's lots of settings that sound like they were sampled off an 8 TRAK casette in a Firebird in the 1960s.

That's probably a product of how they generate the amp models. They used to generate them with physics modeling but now they just record all the pedals and amps and extract the audio responses. Problem is, they seem to not do basic audio cleaning.

As in, I think a dude just turned a Marshall to 11 and shoved a mic in front of it, hit a few standard notes, then went home. No attempt to use noise canceling to remove hiss and hum when silent. They also have random sound levels which is terrible for recording.

So, if you get one then first thing is load up the HX Editor and do this: 1. Set all main out volumes to 0db. Some are at +10db and other -8db. 2. Set all high gain presets to have a gate on the front (or just use your own). 3. Change the global EQ to drop treble and bass.