These presets are compatible with HX Stomp and HX Stomp XL, and can be used in conjunction with other pedals, or as stand-alone rigs. All demos and clips are direct from the HX Stomp with no other pedals or effects, unless otherwise noted.
Update HX Edit and your hardware unit to the latest firmware before installing presets, or you will get an error in HX Edit when importing.
My presets are designed for loud live performance in a band mix, so the amp and drive tone is darker than you may be expecting. This may not sound as full as you are used to when listening in isolation but in a live mix it will stand out and sound great because our ears are more sensitive to higher frequencies at higher volumes. Google “Fletcher Munson curve” for more info.
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Assuming you want to use the unit for amp modeling, there are two main ways you can position the HX Stomp. I strongly recommend option 2.
At the end of your pedalboard, used mainly for cleanish amps and maybe a reverb at the end of your chain.
Between your dry and wet effects (or with your wet effects in the HX Stomp’s FX Loop). This way you can crank the drive on the amp block, AND you can optionally run stereo out of your wet effects into 2 DIs to FOH.
If you choose to run your entire pedalboard into the front of the HX Stomp (instead of after the amps in the stereo loop as I recommend), you will need to do two things:
Disable the compressor that is usually first in the chain in most of my presets.
If you’re running stereo effects into the front of the Stomp, ensure that the stereo image from your wet effects is preserved through the HX Stomp. If the preset you purchased has two amps, delete any mono blocks before the split block, and hard pan the split block. This will ensure that the left/right signals from your pedals stay separate all the way to HX Stomp’s output.
Use a dummy plug on either the left or right output so your wet effects don’t sum to mono (summing to mono modulating wet effects sounds suboptimal).
If your preset has a delay on path 1B, bypass it (this is a stereo widening trick called the Haas effect that I include on most of my stereo amp presets).
On stereo amp presets, put a mono gain block after the EQ block so the 2 amps sum to mono before the wet effects. This way you get the sound of both amps instead of just one or the other.
I recommend adding either a midi controller or 2 button TRS footswitch (option 1, option 2) to add additional footswitches to control the compressor, drive, and delay blocks. You can also get by using just the unit’s 3 snapshots.
3rd party impulse responses are not necessary to achieve good tones on Helix. All of the demos on the product pages I tracked with the presets as they come out of the box with stock cabs, so with my presets there’s need to try to remember which IRs match up with which amps in which presets. However, if you wish to use impulse responses, some of my presets have optional recommended IRs listed.