I swore I’d never

[Piing]

 

[ragingplatypi]

Welcome to Stomp Club. The first rule of Stomp Club is that if you sell your stomp, somehow in the future you’ll wind up having to re-buy it twice.

 

[the swede]

Welcome to Stomp Club. The first rule of Stomp Club is that if you sell your stomp, somehow in the future you’ll wind up having to re-buy it twice.

You’re always in the Stomp club from the first Stomp. One doesn’t leave the Stomp club. Even if you sold your third.

It’s a curse I tell you! I still have a Stomp (spiritually).

 

[FuzzyAce]

I swore I’d never​

I said the same thing.
Now I own a stomp, pod express, opus and often post in Fractal related threads.

 

[the swede]

and often post in Fractal related threads.

our membership here is built on that very criteria! If we’re here, we post in fractal threads, whether we have one or not.

 

[FuzzyAce]

If we’re here, we post in fractal threads, whether we have one or not.

 

[Sascha Franck]

As much as I may have issues with the Stomp, as much as I might prefer a GT-1000Core for some things (as long as we stay in the same form factor ballpark), if anything, among all existing units, the Stomp has got to be *the* goldilocks device to serve as a true swiss army knife for guitar players.
Right now, I mainly use it as a spatial FX unit and level booster on my somewhat bigger board (might use the amps there as well, undecided yet), but I also use it it pretty much regularly as:
- The brain of a very small pedalboard (along with 1-2 analog drives and some utilitarian stuff) for both electric and acoustic guitar.
- Just on its own for acoustic gigs, in this case I have two switches dedicated to the looper, one for the tuner. Don't even need external switches.
- Just on its own for electric gigs. I usually connect a single tap/tuner switch, though.

Just out of interest, I also connected it to my dusty Laney LC 50 (4CM) a while ago and it's been quite glorious, too.

As said, could likely do all that with the GT-1000Core as well, but having a sort of 100% compatible plugin version is something I absolutely love. I have DIs of pretty much all my guitars recorded and can just grab the Macbook anywhere to create or refine some sounds, then beam them into the Stomp later on. Did so just recently on a longer travel to a gig, great.
Also, having access to all those amps pretty much any time is really nice.

 

[mbenigni]

To be fair, there’s a solid chance I’ll walk back the idea of going direct at practice… I already tried and abandoned going cabless with my captor and IR loader… but that was before switching to the Behringer x air which just sounds leaps and bounds better than the ancient mixwr we were using for anything…

Get a half decent cab and a solid state power amp to leave in the practice space, and run the Stomp into those rather than the mixer/ PA. I think that'll make you much happier much faster.

 

[TubeStack]

Hey, I just realized the HX One has struck again as "gateway drug" to all things Helix... well done, @Digital Igloo.

(For me it was the HXFX, long ago...)

 

[TubeStack]

Also, excellent click-bait title, @spawnofthesith.

 

[spawnofthesith]

So you bought this instead of the Electra Dyne, eh…

Kidding… have fun! Stomp is a super cool unit, even if you end up having it for effects, it’s crazy good.

Not sure what happened there, wish they wanted to sell it to me

This will be mostly just for fx still with the added bonus of side entertainment/backup scenarios lol

Get a half decent cab and a solid state power amp to leave in the practice space, and run the Stomp into those rather than the mixer/ PA. I think that'll make you much happier much faster.

I feel like doing that i'd be treading backwards, If I didn't like how it sounded direct to IEM I'd probably just continue leaving an amp there rather than buying more stuff lol

 

[JiveTurkey]

You've never truly dove into modeling without buying a 100 watt tube head and 2 2x12/4x12 cabinets to properly amplify it!

 

[Piing]

Get a Fender FR-12 to properly squeeze the juice out of it

 

[Lysander]

Welcome to Stomp Club. The first rule of Stomp Club is that if you sell your stomp, somehow in the future you’ll wind up having to re-buy it twice.

It's a rite of passage. We've all been there.

 

[mbenigni]

You've never truly dove into modeling without buying a 100 watt tube head and 2 2x12/4x12 cabinets to properly amplify it!

“My modeler plus amp in the room just about nails that amp in the room sound!”

 

[sashimi]

Love my stormtrooper white stomp. Greatest pedal ever made if you ask me. Grab a cheap two button hotone foot switch on Amazon. I only wish it could do two switches and an exp pedal. If you go back to amps it’s still an awesome effects unit. I use mine in front of an amp as much as I use the modeling. The distortion and fuzzes all sound great. The reverbs sound as good as anything I’ve heard.

 

[Sascha Franck]

I only wish it could do two switches and an exp pedal.

Same here. Unfortunately, all MIDI expression pedals are quite expensive and due to the nature of things, they won't do "active sensing" (as in reading out the pedal position globally). I do have a Jet Micro switch, though (basically got it thrown in for free when I bought the Stomp), might try to get rid of the stupid middle switch and then use that instead of the Hotone dual switch.

 

[itchyfingers]

Who is this and what have you done with the real SotS?

You've inspired me to buy a wireless guitar system, something I never thought I'd do either.

 

[spawnofthesith]

Who is this and what have you done with the real SotS?

You've inspired me to buy a wireless guitar system, something I never thought I'd do either.

It's really just for weird FX (mostly) I swear!

Nice! what system?

 

[JiveTurkey]

Think about the fuzzes, tho, Itchy!