This is great. This booster would be my first choice if I decided to go back DG.
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i agree itās cool. iām just surprised they did it.
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So itās a compressor, preamp, EQ, and cabsim?
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and di. yeah kind of a one box solution, minus effects. the only thing i donāt like is that it is hardly what i would call a hyper luminal, it really has little of the features of that pedal that i can tell. (maybe through the app?) more of just a generic DG compressor.
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I understand the practicality, but I donāt like menu diving on my phone for a pedal. Getting sort of close to āwhy arenāt I just doing this on a laptop and pluginā for me.
I also really want a helix lt. As a poet famously said:
āDo I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)ā
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yeah, but it isnāt really like your tapping away madly onstage on an app or anything. most of the time itās a set a few presets in your living room and your done type of thing.
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Iāve begun to appreciate things I can set with my PC or phone as bending is a royal PITA of late. Getting sorta old sucks.
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Bending is never fun! Thank goodness for those pedals/multiFX that have snapshots!
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i get winded 
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Iām with you on this @John_E My logic was it has to be able to sit on my desktop so I can see / reach it (built as a pedal board / powered as such)
and has to a small enough pedal board to sit on my bass amp so I donāt have to bend down to select another pedal in the HX One when we change songs.
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Good one, cause the next āissueā after bending is squinting at the tiny screen or knob positions 
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Can an HX Stomp be considered a one and done purchase for effects? I donāt have any pedals at the moment as I havenāt had a need for them yet. Iām pretty interested in adding/using effects but I donāt want a ton of pedals. I want minimalism, simplicity, and function. I know the stomp is more expensive than maybe some similar options but I donāt want something Iād feel the need to upgrade and have to sell things to get something better later.
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I had the Stomp. Very powerful but a huge learning curve. I spent so many hours learning how to use it.
I now have the HX One as a single pedal with 250 effects. But only one at a time, so a much simpler unit.
If I were starting out Iād take a hard look at the new Boss multi bass unit.
No menu diving. Looks pretty intuitive.
In fact I may still buy it!
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Thanks! Iāll look into this
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+1 to this. I thought this wouldnāt matter to me but man o man it does.
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any of the nicer multi-effects could easily be this. even the lower end ones like a zoom or joyo could if you are happy with the sound.
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Yep it does! The menu diving didnt bother me that much.
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I realize I may be necroing an old thread here, but Iām wondering why that is, or what the reasoning is behind it? (putting pedals before the amp instead of using the effects send/return)
Iāve been using the effects send/return on my Rumble 100 with the few pedals I have. Just wondering what the nuances are here and if Iām maybe doing something wrong or suboptimal.
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There are more knowledgeable buzzers in here who know much more about this topic, but roughly:
- your amp consists of a pre-amp stage (including an EQ section) and a power amp stage
- the pre-amp (together with the EQ) will color and āmakeā your tone while the power amp will bring up in volume whatever signal you feed it without adding or subtracting anything (ideally)
- if you want your effects to work on an already shaped signal, put them in the effects loop (where they bypass the pre-amp)
- if you want your effects to be further affected by the pre-amp, put them before the pre-amp
- while there are no rules, certain types of effects (especially modulation effects) seem to work better after the preamp (i.e., in the effects loop), as the overall results otherwise can get quite āmuddyā. But, at the end of the day, itās your call
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Thanks! This is very helpful.
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