Using Line6 HX Effects for acoustic and electric guitar via Left and Right Input + Output.
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- I show you how to quickly create 2 presets so that your electric guitar goes only in via the left input, and comes out only via the left output. And the same for acoustic using right input and output. All through the magic of stereo functionality in the HX Effects!
I am planning on trying this as well. 4 years later. I am a late bloomer. Thanks for posting.
Very helpful. I will set it up for my Tele and pedal steel guitar. Thank you.
amazing. This is so good. Waiting for the next video. Keep it up. 👌👌👌.......
Thanks Patrick, exactly what I was looking for and even better, it also works with snapshots in the same preset. I use one snapshot for acoustic and the three remaining for electric (verse, chorus, solo). The two pan blocks and my volume pedal take 3 blocks, but the remaining 6 are more than enough. Only thing that no longer works is the assigned footswitch for ext amp channel, but the Stupor will be good for a solo too.
Line 6 support suggested split blocks and dual flows, very complicated. I advised them your create solution.
Cheers!
Hey Guus thanks for the comments. Glad it worked for you. Very good point about doing it with snapshots too, that did not even occur to me at the time! But I do not know why an assigned footswitch would no longer work for changing the channel on your amp. The Control Center should not be related to this...? You do know that within a snapshot you can also change mode to Stomp and have access to all your effects and the switches assigned via Control Center? EG you can have a snapshot where a distortion block is turned on as default but you can still go to Stomp mode and manually toggle it via footswitch. Same thing goes for footswitches assigned to Command Center (eg MIDI commands, Ext Amp..) check it out!
Interesting. I need to try it out myself.
Good luck! Btw the DI box is optional I used one because I had it laying around.
@@patgiff101055 I have a Godin A6 Ultra with output for both pietzo and humbucker pickup. Imagine that with your methode :)
Thanks for this ! This method works well but does use 2 blocks. Add a volume pedal and your out 3 unless you can use one for both panning and volume pedal.
Thanks Brian! Yes it does take 2 precious blocks but there is no way around that as far as I can see. You could save one block by using an AB switch in front of the HX and switch between Left and Right Input. Your idea about using the Pan block for volume is an option interesting one! As you saw in the video I use a Blug Amp1 and my Expression pedal controls volume by sending a MIDI command to the Amp1. This is only a 10 DB range not 0-100% but it worked for me. On my acoustic preset I did need a volume pedal block since that preset doesn’t use the Amp1
Have fun experimenting.
Pat
@@patgiff101055 Thank you. Greatly appreciate your response!
@@patgiff101055 I did end up using an A/B switch for the input. A sterling suggestion. A quick question. I’m using a K&K mini equipped acoustic guitar into an L R Baggs Session DI/ Preamp then into HX Effects. I’ve struggled with an impedance input mismatch between the K&K and the Session but solved that with a 1M ohm resistor on a dongle. Now I realize I probably should be going into the HX effects first , putting the DI last in my signal chain? Is that correct?
@@brianlking704 you should try putting the Session DI into the FX Loop. At least that is how I would do it. Good luck!
@@patgiff101055 Will do! Thanks again.
Hey man, have a question, may sounds rude, but, does the HX effects have an audio interface? And, if so, you could still use the same acoustic/eletric preset, or it does need an specific combination/preseting to be used like an interface? And if don’t you bother to answer, it sounds good? (if there is an interface).
Thanks for you attention!
The HX Effects only has L & R input. No audio interface if you mean to run to a DAW...
You have the fx loop set up in your electric path, but not in your acoustic path. Why does it need the loop in one but not the other? Thank you and what a great video!
Hi Larry thanks for the compliment, I am glad you found it useful. You ask a good question! The reason I use the FX Loop in the electric path is that I am going 4CM to my amp. if I did not use 4CM but just wanted to go "old school" from the HX Effects into the front of my amp, I would not need that FX Loop either. I don't need an FX Loop for the acoustic path because I am not using an external amp for acoustic (I could - but then I would need 2 amps- one electric and one acoustic). I am only using the HX Effects for effects like compression, EQ, reverb etc and then feeding out to my mixer (in my case via a DI box - which is actually not really needed either). Hope that helps.
@Patrick Gifford I'm wanting to run my electric guitar to my regular amp and my acoustic to my acoustic amp. Any difference then? Thanks for the quick reply! And if i have to run a loop in my path(s), does it matter where i put the loop block in the path?
@@recruiterlb no difference. If you use 4CM, your FX Loop block should be positioned so that your compression, noise gate, distortion blocks are BEFORE the FX Loop (so they feed the preamp section of your amp). Your time-based effects like reverb should be positioned AFTER the FX Loop block so they don't feed your preamp but they sit in between the preamp section and power amp section of your amp (all assuming your amp also has an FX Loop!- if not there is no 4CM possible). If you are not using 4CM then it depends what you plan to use that FX Loop for... if for a distortion pedal, put it early. If for a time-based effect, put it later. On the acoustic side, same advice. I doubt you want to use 4CM with an acoustic amp (many acoustic amps do not even have an FX Loop- I had a Fishman Loudbox which I bought mainly because it DID, but I rarely used that FX loop anyway)... but there is no reason why you couldn't (just a lot of cables!). Good luck!
@@patgiff101055 awesome, thank ls again!
Thanks Patrick - very informative. I am also interested in using an electric with an inbuilt piezo through left and right channels - and to possibly have both channels operating at the same time. However, I would obviously want different effects on both channels within the same patch e.g. an IR on the piezo, but not on the electric pickups. I don't think it is possible to have different effects in the left and right channels - although it may be possible to add a split to an alternate output. Any thoughts?
Hi Peter
Glad this is helpful
The one possible way I can think of to do what you want is to put in a split and then a left and right Pan block on the 2 paths. If you want everything coming out of the same output of the HX there is no need for another pan at the output. If you get this working you should also make a video :-). Good luck!
@@patgiff101055 Thanks for your response. I will experiment with a few options when I get a chance - but I think you are correct. I should be able to split the signals, and use left and right pans - then apply effects to the pickups separately to the piezo (which will get an IR). I should be able to combine them back together to both go to my amp - or keep them separate to go to an amp and a PA. Thanks again for your video.
I use a wireless and an a/b switch for the outputs after my signal chain, a to direct box and board for acoustic, b to amp for electric. Can I eliminate the input pan and use the mono input and then have a/b outs (pan L for electric and pan R for acoustic)?
yes you can definitely do this. I was doing it that way when I switched to wireless for all my guitars. And I know of another guy who just did this too.. works perfectly!
@@patgiff101055 I've never done multifx, I've always been a stompbox kinda guy. surely I can figure this out... thanks for the great insight!!!
Hello there, great video, I was wondering if this config could also work: guitar into left input, analog overdrive in the 1st send/return, booster in the 2nd send/return and then left output in front of the amp. Then from the amp fx send to HX right input (in order to program all the wet effects in the right path) and finallly back to the amp fx return. Will It work properly mantaining the 2 pedals before the gain stage and HX modulations after in you opinion?? Cheers
I think this would work in theory, although I don't always have a good experience putting overdrive pedals into the FX loop. I tried this with a Fender Twin reverb and the thing was howling like a wild coyote :-) But give it a try! You cannot hurt anything by trying.
Hey, really appreciate this video. I can get it set up like this but then it seems like I have to redo every time - even after saving the pre-set the acoustic comes out of the amp unless I go and set it up again. I'm wondering if its because I don't have everything plugged in at all times?
Yes… if you don’t have L and R plugged in, things revert to mono because the HX Effects is very Smart. But once you have saved your presets it should work properly everytime if both inputs and outputs are connected.
@@patgiff101055 Cheers very much - need to get my board set up so everything is always plugged in!
Patrick, please, do you know how to play two guitars simultaneously and using one preset ?
If you plug in two guitars at the same time to Left and Right, *without* any PAN blocks, both guitars will go through the same signal path and both will come out of both outputs. Sharing all the effects along the way.
@@patgiff101055 thanks for answer!
One more question, is it possible to plug in guitar in one and microphone to another input?
Maybe you can help me with this. can't find it anywhere in the HX owners manual...
If I'm using the HX, and two amp simple stereo set up from the Hx...Can the HX send one effect to one side and a different effect to the other side? or is this not possible?
I would like to say I know the answer to this one, but I actually don't. However don't think I am ignoring you :-) But I do think it's possible however you need to experiment. I only have one amp connected via 4CM and the right channel is reserved for my acoustic guitar, so I cannot test your idea.