Don't Make These Mistakes On Your Pedalboard! (Line 6 HX Stomp/TC Electronic/Gibson Explorer)

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In this video I share 3 mistakes I made when building my latest Mono Small pedalboard featuring Line 6 and TC Electronic gear.

0:15 Intro jam - A pdubbing Gibson Explorer
1:22 Why I built a TC Electronic pedalboard
2:20 Tip 1 - Thoroughly research your input/output needs
3:12 Tip 2 - Good power is EVERYTHING
4:18 Tip 3 - Consider your utility needs
5:19 Rig rundown
6:26 Tone samples
8:49 Closing remarks
9:27 Outro jam

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[philf]

The lead tone at the start of the video is outrageously great!

[Doorya]

Came for the tips, stayed for the shredding 🤘🏼

[javiercabrera]

Great video. Love your honesty and sense of humor. Fellow guitarist and lover of Jesus. I almost got a Plethora X5 a few years back when it came out, went for a Helix Effects instead. Ended up returning it lol, had a faulty output. I have a Pedaltrain Novo24. Pedalboard into my Kemper toaster. I like TC electronic pedals. I kept the Spark Booster (the one with the 4 knobs) and use it as a Mid boost after drives. Pedalboard has been powered by a True tone CS7 (will be changing it to a Ciosk DC7 due to power versatility requirements). I haven't gotten electrocuted yet LOL. I like your rig. Pretty versatile and also minimalistic at the same time. Im considering purchasing the new Plethora X3 to go after my comp-drives (3) - boost - Dunlop Vol Pedal - as a mod/pitch/lofi workstation before Delay and Reverb. Thank you for your video!!

[davidroden]

Great info. Thanks. Question - You mentioned that the Plethora is in the effects loop of the HX Stomp, and your drive pedals are in the effects loop on the Plethora. The HX Stomp effects loop converts digital to analog on the send, and converts analog to digital on the return. I'm assuming the Plethora does the same thing. How do avoid latency? Great stuff.

[squirelova]

3:19 "Your Mother's Radio..." Ouch, now that sounds vicious.

[jonathancara]

God bless you on your work for the Kingdom

[briansnyder]

I was planning on using the plethora x5 with my hx stomp XL and dedicating the HX solely to Amps and the plethora just to the effects with a strymon 'verb before the final fx return. It looks like I'm on the right track. As for quirky pedals, I use a Guptech Berryverb reverb pedal and its a very cool monster.

[priorwitness]

This video made me smile. Thanks! I'm a user of the Headrush MX5 right now, but I really want to move on from it. I just can't decide between going the switcher/multi fx route like the Boss MS3, the Plethora X5 or X3, or the HX Stomp, or just standing pat. I have weird needs I guess. My favorite music to play is hard rock and metal (stuff like Metallica and Soundgarden) where I have lots of distortion and then mid song go from searing leads to crystal cleans with chorus, reverb, and compression. I need something where I'm not tap dancing all day. I use a real amp as well: Mesa Dual Rectifier. I own a few other pedals as well that I love and use regularly: a JHS fuzz, a Dunlop Wah, a Digitech Whammy, a Maxon OD9, a TC Electronic Dimension, and a Wampler multi delay pedal. The Headrush was suiting these needs but I find the switches on it to be quircky; they don't always work, and the expression pedal on it doesn't work well either. Which is a shame because the unit itself sounds great, but usability is bad. I recently tried the Boss GT1000Core, but I hated it and sold it almost as soon as it came thru my front door. The interface was awful and I wasn't impressed with the effects or amp sims on it. This video made me laugh because here I'm trying to decide between the very two pedals you decided to integrate with each other. My budget won't allow for that so I need to pick one. Any suggestions?

[brunomotta]

You can totally do Stereo Input in Strymon Iridium … read the Manual … or you can do the 4 Cable Method with the Iridium and Plethora X5, which means put the Iridium Mono in the FX Loop of the Plethora … nice video …

[GettinBetterWithDave]

Great video, I’m wanting to add an X3 to my board.
You asked about quirky pedals, I have had a Ibanez DE-7 delay on my board for years, it makes the best space ship noises! Haha

[gitaraboyj]

Awesome content! I use HX Stomp and on the Send/Return Effects Loop I use a Y Stereo Cable. Send/Return R for my Overdrive Analog Pedals and Send/Return L for my Strymon Timeline and Bigsky. I am using Send/Return > Mono

[MrKichtopher]

nice video! i appreciate the info. nice playing too!

[bustanorms]

Nice gibson there, dream guitar for metal

[MartinMichiels]

For me it's a Line6 HX Effects and sometimes a volume pedal going to my Roland Bues Cube artist's effects loop, 4 cable way. Does almost everything I could dream of wifhout the cable/power supply hassle. Doesn't make coffe though ! :-D

[Azulnote]

Trying to set up 4 wire cable, but when I plug It into the send/return it kills my high gain channel on my Frideman amp. Same thing on my Blackstar amp. I got it used. Is there a setting I'm missing?

[SerkanBerksoy]

Nice video, interesting ideas for the pedalboard setup.
I have a pedalboard just with Tonex and Helix XL that I use for everything. I setup midi from Helix. Every song is a new preset. Every preset has snapshots that send midi and changes to the relevant amp on Tonex. I also now have a Dream 65 pedal which I really like, considering a new setup.
I am happy that I offload dsp heavy modeling to tonex captures. I can use helix only as an effects / snapshots device per song.
Are the reverb / chorus / octaver / delays better then Helix on Plethora? I never bought TC Electronics pedals. Worth the upgrade? Should I also get a X3 or X5 and combine with Helix + Tonex?

[redrum]

How you find Helix effects versus TC Electronic? I'm also a fan of TC and I'm thinking about buying the Plethora X5. The thing is it's a similar price as the HX Stomp which also offers amp sims

[bjmn]

Great video! I am considering the Plethorax X3 to use with my stomp XL. . . With the X5, do you have midi global tap tempo option from the stomp? Any way to control the tap tempo outside of tapping in each effect individually?

[MrAntpre]

Hi great video tks. One question how would you compare the quality of the delays reverbs and modulation effects you get from the plethora to those found in the stomp helix ? I LL be interested in your feed back on this. Regards

[carlromano]

Do you have any patches of hd500x line6