This Is NOT A Helix (So Why Does Everyone Care??!) 

Honestly, as a touring guitarist and audio engineer. The only reason to move to an all in one thing is if you're traveling. The beautiful thing is no wires that can go wrong. And cheap an easy travel. If you're giging with an amp and don't have your own guitar techs and tour tech crew with you. Traveling with an amp is not it. Nowadays all the touring guys do it with the all in ones. It's basically a relay midi switcher that has the effects built into it. It saves a lot of money for the none touring guitarist as well. You can essentially have a pro midi relay switcher with a bunch of pedals for a 3rd of the cost. Now the only reason to switch as well is if you're not using any pedals that are unique. For example I have a hybrid board. Meaning my dry is analog for my fuzz, plasma coil, and octave pedal. But all the wet effects are being dealt with by the fm3. The best chorus delay and reverb pedals are already digital. Where the digital fails 90% of the time is dirty tones. like solid state amps. They don't react the same for soft gain. However if you're a metal or grunge player you'll be in heaven. Also the people who like staying on clean with no distortion that's where the solid state and all in one rigs excel. Understand that the Fm3, Helix, Kemper, and Headrush boards and racks were never meant to for the in home guitarist. That was never the target, they were made for the idea of traveling and performing live.

I would also like to note that you'll see people complain about the recording process with all in ones when they need to change the tone. Keep in mind none of these guys are trained audio engineers. So when they complain it's because they hate the process of being their own engineer. The fact that you're even in the room during the re-amp process is crazy. That's the engineers job to do behind your back. (Don't tell him we re-recorded his guitar parts through different amps for a better sound because he will get pissed off) As a trained audio engineer I hardly ever have to re-amp. Most of the time it's because people aren't mixing properly (EQ goes a long way) or they aren't tracking correctly. A good tracking engineer is half the battle. Since musicians are having to where all the hats without the proper training, they will bash gear when really its a lack of knowledge. Moral of the story if you don't see yourself touring or playing shows. Enjoy your amp and simple set up. My brother is starting from scratch now. Because he isn't playing shows like me or touring he over complicated his rig. He feels he is tweaking more than playing. And for him who just plays for fun in his apartment. The all in ones will kill the plug and play fun. Don't let RU-vid scare you into something that you don't need. I toured once with a head and cab sold it at the end of the tour 😂 When I tour with a crew I do take my FR speaker for stage noise but if I have to take everything myself for a tour that stays at home. 🤣

The HX Effects might be a better unit for you. You can use the 4 cable method to have the effects both in front of and after the amp (if your amp has an FX Loop).

truth, tour Europe with an Amp pedal, something as the one here a shure wireless pedal built in tuner. @@noelgallard1128

You can already run the HX One in mono using 4 cable method and have its position in your rig change dynamically from preset to preset. Eg: poly capo at the front of your chain and then when you switch to delay or reverb it's in your loop instead without any additional hardware or re-wiring.

I'm really late to this party, but I use a RJM PBC6X pedal switcher, which allows me to set the pedal order per preset. As a result the HX One on my board isn't "locked in". For example when I set it as a fuzz, it goes before my overdrive, and when it's modulation/delay, it goes after, depending on the sound I'm going for.

4 wire lets you pick. Mine is both before the preamp, and in the loop. Position depends what effect I’m on and saved in the preset

Exactly how I feel. You have collected 10 effects that you absolutely love. Those make up your core tone. But every once in a while you want something totally different, like a bit crusher, but you don't want to create room for a bit crusher you will use once every 6 months. This is perfect.

Except you can only do one thing at a time.

@@miketarr1287- I bought 2…and they’re fantastic….

“This does one thing - with the option to change that one thing as needed.” And, of course, THAT is the whole point. What a great idea.

My first thought with this was i bet hx stomp users would love this. I see alot of stomp users saying they occasionally run into dsp issues. This would open up alot depending what effect you used in the HXOne

Same, my long standing Mobius is getting replaced and I get more options plus some additional pedal board real estate

Zoia is my favourite pedal. If I HAD to get by with one pedal, that's the one I'd keep.

Ok but do you think Ampero effects hang with helix? The complex modulated reverbs and delays?

M5

For me its the faces 😂 the neck shaking gets a pass if it's organically moving.

​@@18JR78What gets me is how so many players slide up or down the neck in between phrases for no reason, like they're trying to be hendrix or something...once you start to notice it, it's hard to ignore

Is thed Hotone Xtomp a MIDI device? I am definitely not going to put an amp on my phone to control a guitar pedal, but if I can do it all through Ableton live that's a different story. An app can control one pedal, and that's ok, but if I can use ableton to sync up my modulation with another player's modulation pedals that's worth it to me.

Oh, he makes faces and moves his guitar! Y'all some shallow, simple motherfuckers.

Yes but like the HD500X to the helix, this is the m5 to the Hx One. It has all the upgraded dsp effects from helix

What do you mean by "stack" effects? What does the M5 do that this can't?

HX Effects

Huge waste

I've got the HX Effects and it's phenomenal but you get so much more usability. I really can't figure out why you'd get the HX1 aside from budget reasons, but then you could get something like a Mooer or Behringer.

What do you know?

And................?

I know, bro, it's like he only knows seven notes