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Mandatory sales tax for online purchases almost nullifies discounts in some instances, but I still sprung for a Red Panda Particle V2 and Mooer Slow Engine that were 16-20% off each. It will be interesting to directly compare the Particle with my Bananana Mandala and granulate reverse swells.

Sonar arrived the other day, and it's a really fun pedal! It really chops more than most trems, and all the extra controls are great.

Digiverb inbound. Thought I had made it through the holidays unscathed and just happened to stumble upon a decent deal. Looking forward to trying out the reverse and gated reverb.

Just picked up a Longsword via the norm sale he’s got going on Reverb. Been wanting one for a while so looking forward to it.

Welcome back home

Inconuucl wrote:

Welcome back home

Love the mini, and that colour way is awesome!

The cherry on top of the heap of Black Friday 2019 purchases (after also snagging a discounted Subdecay M3) will be a DOD 250 RI (should never have sold my prior one/double thanks @echorec). Definitely need those new Sterlite cabinets now.

Just bought my self an Xmas present, a bias grid rack head processor. black Friday deal, got a free delay pedal with it.

FInally accepting that I like working on the computer, I bought Eventide's Mangledverb plugin on sale for $20 and some Soundtoys for $25 each.

Debating buying Presonus Studio One while it's on sale.

Got last week an HX Stomp, what a wonderful machine!

Inconuucl wrote:

Welcome back home

What do they call that color combination?

gila_crisis wrote:Got last week an HX Stomp, what a wonderful machine!

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Besides the multiple switches thing, and all the extra functionalities, how do the patches sound compared to the zoom? Are they more realistic? Just curious.

Dowi wrote:Besides the multiple switches thing, and all the extra functionalities, how do the patches sound compared to the zoom? Are they more realistic? Just curious.

Like a friend said: the HX Stomp is like an hifi version of the Multistomp. Soundwise it's the very same hi-end quality you'll find in Strymon, Meris, Eventide, etc...
For example the Particle Reverb: the Line6 original sounds brighter and wider than the Zoom, which is a bit dull in comparison. But they do both to very same job!

In some ways you can compare the HX to the MS (presets are a chain of multiple FXs), whereas the HX gives you a lot more possibilities of switching, control, and setup.
For example I've prepared a preset for a gig I'll play this very week: a 45 minutes live soundtrack for silent movies. I created this preset so that the 3 footswitches can turn on/off different blocks of FX (mostly reverbs in this case), which I can also combine together to achive more sounds, plus I'm using the snapshots to access 2 additional presets of reverbs (a synth ambient pad one, based on the particle with 100% wet mix, and a huge super long almost infinite reverb), the FX chain is the very same, only the setting on the FX are different.
This ways I can spare a lot of time, which would lose on the MS70 scrolling thru all the presets.

Also the idea is to use the HX in case I need a very minimal setup (for example: HX, SS20 preamp, Drop, and maybe 2 more small pedals, which can easely fit on a Metro16 frame for example).

But I'm keeping the Multistomps: these are still wonderful/powerful tools, depending on the situation/needs, and to be honest... from an audience point of view (or listening): who'll tell the difference in a live setup/mix?

Man, I knew this was impressive from the reviews, but it feels like a dream.