Love my stomp! Thank you for showing your stomp settings for all your effects. It has such a steep learning curve, and seeing your settings gives a great starting point!
I felt the same way with the learning curve. But once I understood some basic functions, it was actually way easier than I thought. And I'm now doing a lot of stuff right in the unit, rather than plugging it into the computer and using the HX Edit.
Great Vid Janek, my five cents, I've owned the PN-2 from back in the day, even when it wasn't engaged you could still hear its clock which I found a deal breaker mind you its square stereo panning was gorgeous :)
Ha! I literally just bought that $420 PN-2 off reverb. Couldn't believe it when you showed it in your video! I can't wait for it to arrive. Also, I love your videos. : )
Came down here to second the Hummingbird. Super choppy saw wave, expression in for speed, and the newest ones have a momentary function (also fixed the super clunky foot switch). Killer trem.
Great video Janek! Love the series and the crazy sounds and of course the playing. Would love to see a video about the Synth sounds. Also, could you maybe make a video about the HX Stomp and how you use it? Maybe compare the synth sounds in the Stomp against the H9. Thanks
Definitely going to do a video on JUST the Stomp at some point, and a video comparing some of the features of the Stomp and the H9 will be a fun one to do also.
hello Janek another excellent video! I had a BBE optical tremolo for a while, with two footwichs one that connected the pedal and the other to change the speed a little spoken and seen pedal, but that is a powerful tool for these synths effects.
The Hotone Skyline Trem is good. It gets nice and choppy but still in a musically pleasing way. And it’s only $50 new! The delay they make is pretty stellar as well.
Janek, you mentioned, "you can affect the size of the square wave" (13:56). That (Duty Cycle) is what will get HX Stomp sounding closer to the PN-2. Try out the Duty Cycle parameter around 40%. I kinda wish they just called it Pulse Width. Another fun thing that I love doing with the HX Stomp Trem, is placing reverb/delay BEFORE it, and using the sawtooth up. It feels like a synth pad with a sidechain compressor. Cheers!
I haven't... looks like a beast of a pedal though. Maybe a bit large of a footprint on the pedalboard for my tastes, but I'll definitely look into checking it out.
I’ve owned both! I bought a pn-2 two years ago for 150 dollars makes you want throw up seeing the prices these days. Funny thing is I sold it plus a few others for a hx stomp and it’s like two different sounds but not in a bad way the hx stomp is so clean and the pn-2 just shows it age both are so very useable in there own way. Honestly I’m more of a less is more kind of guy and the hx stomp is literally all I need plus more.
Great vid! I’ve been looking forward to a video with the stomp. What’s with the rings on the stomp switches? And do you ever use extra foot switches for the stomp?
The buttons on the switches are from Barefoot Buttons. They just give me a bigger target when I go to change something on the pedal. And I went for the clear ones so I could see the different colored feedback underneath. And I'm using a Boss ES-5 switching system to control the stomp via midi. I get a lot more functionality out of it that way, and I get to control all my sounds from a central location, rather than tap dancing all over the board.
Great video Janek! Have you ever tried the vintage Nobels TR-X Tremolo? Not sure if its as aggressive as the PN-2 but its very versatile and really affordable.
Super nice review of this no-so-common pedal, that definitively deserve a Waza comeback. I've used mine on bass for a very long time, but in another kind of feeling, no square wave / chopping tremolo (softer on the depth level), rather a soft attack trem that borders on vibe, with or without a chorus just before it's definitively spacey. Kind of leaning towards the VB2 territory, but the VB2 goes too much in sea-sick levels of motion sickness too rapidly ... And Vibe is not Trem, not the same flavor. The strong advantage of this PN2 over the TR2 trem is the different waveforms that are a must to tune the way the tremolo will get through the mix in a given room or mix. For some reason, the waveform mix button on the TR2 does not even come close to the different ranges you get from this one. If a Waza was to comme to life I would advocate for a tap tempo jack input, but most of the time, the blinking LED is enought to get approximately where you want it to go.
was his threshold on his compressor compressing heavily or lightly (asking because on some pedals the threshold nob is reversed-when its all the way -five oclock- its really all the way off)
Anyone here with better ears than me who could tell me if the harmonizer pedals moving fixed voicings around or if it’s adjusting the intervals depending on the input note?