Can a Line 6 HX Effects replicate a £2k pedalboard? 

10:42 "DON´T TOUCH ME" best part of the video

Really helpful gentlemen. I appreciate the deep dive. I may start out with HX as I just got a new EVH and I am in love with it’s tone.

Don't touch me hahahahabaha

Yes. But don't touch me 😂😂😂

Great playing as ever. Great unit. I love mine. I like the fact that it will take me months to get to the bottom of what it can do. I also love the small footprint for the small stages I usually play on. Great series of videos on this Peach. Thank you!

This is the best demo I've seen, well done guys, you sold me one 👍👍

I don't know how you guys record but the guitars on this channel always sound SO good. levels are always high enough that you can get an idea of the power of the sound. Well balanced with the voices. Well done!

The dont touch me line made it so were all harassed. Thanks a lot!

Dont touch me. The best part of the video

I have mine running in front of a Marshal Origin 20c (dry) and a Benson modded HRD (wet) and I couldn't be happier. I'm only limited by my imagination and it's such an integral part of my rig that I think I should write the product team a letter telling them how happy I am with it.

That Helix is nice.. Will have to check out..

IT SOUNDS MEAN & BEAUTIFUL!👍🏻 🎸

I am gonna need more of that OCD like I need my cowbell!!

Is there some sort of Plexi pedal were you can get a decent amp like to tone to base your setup on? Clean until the edge of breakup as you roll up the volume?

Well, the Line6 Helix Floor replaced my €5000 Pedalboard. I had the best Stuff on there: Gigrig G2, all big Strymon Pedal, King of Tone, Jhs, Suhr, Xotic, Providence Pedals, Custom Cabeling with Evidence Audio SIS and Custom built Case. It needed 2 People to move around and I couldn't fit it in my normal car so I had to drive with my VW Bully. Now: One Bag for the Helix done. Sound: better than before because all the cables even with high end Buffer ate a lot of tone. But the best thing is that I can dail in my sounds within a few minutes. With the Gigrig and all the Strymon it was a nightmare to program and I can say that I'm pretty fluent with programming Midi and never had problems with it.

Good,answered my first questions right out of the gate. I do NOT need (or want to pay for) amp modelling and I want better algorithm/audio quality than the M series(which I already have,I want an upgrade into Strymon territory)

hello friends. im planning to get just the helix effects (without the amp sims) was wondering whether the dry signal of my amp will be lost when i dime the reverb mix since ill be running the fx in front of my actual amp. thanks in advance!

After living with the HX Effects unit for a while now, I'm selling all my other pedals and pedalboards. The HX Effects does it all so convincingly and with a very low noise floor.

HX effects is a monster. I like it

Great vid! Great player

Dude. It's been proven through multiple studies that auditory memory lasts for seconds at MOST!! If you want to "A/B" something, you can't play "A", ramble on for 15 minutes in that very British way, and then play "B". I've already forgotten what "A" sounds like. It needs to be quick and immediate so I can make a true comparison! Tighten it up!!!

I used to have the HX Effects and ran it in 4 cable. It sucked tone. I really need the flexibility of this pedal and I'm wondering if there is a fix for the tone loss? Maybe a buffer somewhere?

i'm pretty sure in my live situations no-one could tell the difference. That's what worries me...I have a 3K pedalboard and I keep telling myself hauling around a 30Kg case is worth it....but it's not...

Would use this, but in combination with a couple of drive pedals.

I am really interested in buying this unit to use in front of a clean Fender HRD (my go-to amp for clean tone, that I use at least 50% of the time). My big concern is: does the Helix HX changes the basic tone of the amp when bypassed? Or should I use a buffer, specific settings, change the amp EQ etc?

8 minutes into the vid - 2 chords played - wake me up when it’s over...

For us low volume bedroom players that use smaller digital amps, can you run the HX into a small practice amp like an ID Core 10, Spark, etc?

The only question I have is. What’s the difference between threw that unit and straight to the amp. How much A/D - D/A tone suck is there? I know it’s true bypass when off but how about when on. Say with a reverb on vs a reverb pedal. I want to go digital because the convenience but I can’t deal with the tone suck they all have had so far. How’s this one compare?

10:42 "DON´T TOUCH ME" xD

Don’t touch me 😂😂😂

Watch Frogleap or Twelve Foot Ninja live using Line 6...the people were enjoyed the sound. 👍😊

My biggest problem is that until they get the HX edit to work properly I am getting a seriously bad back bending to adjust it otherwise its superb

Should have played ‘Please don’t touch!’ by Steve Hackett.

Has anybody figured out how to save more than six effects at once? It's not in the manual.

Hope they make a HXFX even smaller for 2022

The answer is YES! Period. I don't know why people still do these comparisons. Digital effects have been around for 30 years and have gotten nothing but better. I used a Digitech GSP 21 Pro from about 1989 til about 2006. Recording, live, whatever, it was awesome. Some effect were a little plastic-y but it did all I needed it to do and sounded great overall. Had a Boss GT for a bit, it was ok, not a big fan of Boss's delays and compressors, then went to Line 6 products and they are amazing. I still have a Blackstar HT 40 tube amp and a small pedalboard (Chorus, delay, reverb, phaser flanger, wah) for playing all the 80's rock in garage jams and small venues, but my main rig now for serious work is a Mesa JP-2C signature and a Helix. 4 cable and a midi cable controls everything from the effects to the head. I would never go back now, so convenient. One board on the floor and with more functionality than any stomp board I ever had. I also have a friend who is a total tone snob come over a few weeks back and try it out for the first time. He left saying his mind was seriously changing after a test run, he couldn't tell enough of a difference to complain about..

is this a talk show or an AB test?

This is a great idea for a vid - much more interesting than a straight review. (P.S. I thought Coutinho had gone to Barcelona).

I think the biggest thing I took away form this video is that I need an OCD.

lots of whining in the comments, but I thought the video was an efficient half hour for someone like myself wanting the gist of the hx effects. Just purchased. Liked the candor and dry humour as well. Great stuff as always, guys. And holy smokes he can play guitar!

Talk about talking Geek!!!!

We can hear someone playing into the room next to theirs. And maybe some construction works machines that "blip" and destroy things ! haha Isolation isn't working on this HX thing (joke of course).

Was the "don't touch me comment" at 10:42 a very subtle Mighty Boosh reference or an uncomfortable exchange? I genuinely can't tell and I'm Australian, so we're used to being jokingly rude!

36 minutes is no way enough time to dial it in...plus, don't forget, you have two external loops for favorite pedals....I love mine.

Yes it will

dont touch me! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

32:20 so no latency paralel delay. Nice

That pedalboard is easy to replicate with HX. My setup is difficult to replicate... I use tube screamer (provides color) and line 6 (analog delay sound) among others, and I have not been convinced to switch to HX. I would love to simplify at the time of each show 🤷‍♀🤷‍♀😥😥😭😭😭😭

HX Effects is great. I have one.

So this is what happened to Ray Donovan after the series

10:43 the mighty boosh. Lol

As someone who is looking to buy. I would love it if was not such a sales pitch where everything is wonderful . With more straight,this is what it does and this is how you do it !

LoL That made me feel very uncomfortable when he said don't touch me... But I have OCD disorder so I hate it when people touch me...

10:38. Dont touch me😂

Playing hard to get

No one could tell the différence in live situation BUT there is à HUGE différence in a matter of dynamic ; i had both nothing replacé à tube amp

HX cuts some warm lows

Is the answer yes? I don't have 35 minutes

Way too much talking and not enough playing guitar , I wanted to hear the differences but I didn't get that much from the video. What you were saying may have been all valid but I was trying to skip the talking and get to the playing but it was difficult to find.

How come there's a ton of reverb both while it's not set up as an effect? Any external processing that's not shown? The od's sound fine, but I'm not impressed by the reverb/modulation/pitch/delay effects. Basically, that's my entire board, minus a distortion and tuner (which cost like 100 euro's together). If you want bread and butter sounds the HX might be fine, but for more experimental, ambient stuff the value isn't really there imo. So while it might replicate this specific board (why you'd have have two compressors, a booster, preamp and an OD on a board is beyond me, a single good quality preamp/OD into a tube amp can handle all of that just fine imo), I can't see these all-in-one things replacing a well thought out board any time soon.

Thinking on getting the HX as back up to my big board with all real pedals. I wish Line 6 would update their overdrives. Minatour kinda harsh...Compulsive Drive = outdated Pay JHS some coin and put Angry Charlie AT edition on their and a BB preamp pedal! Also a little less commentary and more audio sampling.

Omg British Remy Mallick didn’t like being touched!! Hilarious

Was that, don't touch me, comment a joke? British humor is so illusive to me, an American. I took it to be a very serious and diva-ish comment, but I'm totally open to it being a joke. Now I'm more curious about the joke than I am about the gear.

Don't touch me....... Seriously?

I guess we’ll Never know

To much talk and not euough action

Undoubtedly a good product, but these guys talk some waffle. The modelling is accurate, until it’s not accurate, then it’s the fault of the pedal manufacturer because their products are not consistent.........Mmmmmm

DON'T TOUCH MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The problem is that 99% (not scientific #) of folks today listen to crap MP3 on crap earbuds or mini-bose/apple speakers, so they would NOT know good sound if it bit them. My solution is 2 fold, playing a club where the folks are "respectful", take out the A-Game. Playing the corner bar, take out my GNX4 & B52 amp....still gets a solid sound, but if any of it gets damaged I don't go to jail! LOL! This pedalboard would still be a $$ loss for the average joe....

It need a expression pead

All about the TOAN!

10:50 Don't touch me?😅😂

It’s fishing around for the right pitch!! Bummer.

10:41

From my experience with the Helix Drives: really good models, although probably missing whatever your favourite boutique drive is. Modulations: really good Pitch effects: not so good, not polyphonic at all Filter effects: pretty good, missing some things (I want a really chewy LFO filter like the subdecay prometheus) Delay effects: good Reverbs: Ok, not outstanding.

I have the Line 6 Spider III 30 watt/12 inch, and it does me for everything imaginable i'll tell you. I can replicate Jimmy Page, Mark Knopfler and David Gilmour effortlessly and for a 'relatively poor man' like myself, it is great.

10:42 😅

31:08

3 knobs above will last maybe 1year same as other line 6 products🧐

20 mins in, 4 ads.

But if you want something significantly better than the 3k rig And the helix get an AX8 blows it away !!!

More waffling than the every Belgian breakfast.

nice hair

no

Way too much talking. Just want to hear a back n forth comparison. The hand touch was nice tho :) lol

Ok boomer

Conclusion: the pedals sound far better.

Sweet lord ......play something ........please.

That's because it is digital ,,,so stop whining bout how digital these things sound allready golly !!!

Digital Harassment.

too much talk

No, it definitely definitely can't.

Way too much talking in this video lol...

The OD tones are awful and the Line 6 guy puts his hand on his knee WTF.

Never touch another man's thigh, lol. At the same time, never say "don't touch me" when you are recording a video. You guys might want to take this one down.

@luissal Is here

10:42 don't touch me :)

Too much talking