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paisleywookiee said:
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I loved using it. Super easy, IMO.
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Absolutely easy. But 3-knobs is 3-knobs, and using page buttons just to adjust gain on a drive block (and then adjust level commensurately) is a thing.
 
Boudoir Guitar said:
Read my post in context. I'm not shitting on the Stomp. But going from Helix floor, rack, or LT with 12 capacitive switches, and 6 knobs down to 3 switches and 3 knobs...is significant.
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HX Stomp is as good as one could hope given its size and versatility, but in absolute terms it's got a couple of "pain points". To be fair, I don't use mine all that often, and I'm sure a lot of the "issues" vanish once you get your muscle memory dialed in. Until then, the Save, Settings menu, and Tuner double presses can feel a little arbitrary; it's really easy to mix up the two larger knobs (preset vs. model select vs. etc. depending on context) and lose your work; fewer encoders often result in the most important parameters being scattered across pages; and their size and placement can be reminiscent of:

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mbenigni said:
HX Stomp is as good as one could hope given its size and versatility, but in absolute terms it's got a couple of "pain points". To be fair, I don't use mine all that often, and I'm sure a lot of the "issues" vanish once you get your muscle memory dialed in. Until then, the Save, Settings menu, and Tuner double presses can feel a little arbitrary; it's really easy to mix up the two larger knobs (preset vs. model select vs. etc. depending on context) and lose your work; fewer encoders often result in the most important parameters being scattered across pages; and their size and placement can be reminiscent of:

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Lemme try making my point again for the peanut gallery...

DESPITE all of this, I still love my Stomp. Because of its size and what's packed inside it.

I continue to to be Neural curious. Because of its hardware. Its size, its loads of knobs, its mic pre with phantom power, etc.

I still don't pull the trigger because I look at included amp models and see loooots of stuff that I use a lot that is missing.

So if you reduce the hardware of Neural...there's no "despite the fact that this is kind of a pain in the ass compared to the Big Dawg, I still love it because..."
 
metropolis_4 said:
Let’s not forget I beat that guy on TGP in a preset building speed contest, proving once and for all that the HX Stomp UI is superior to the QC
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Some of this stuff isn't even so much a speed thing. Like, hitting that page button and dialing back the level after turning up the gain on an overdrive isn't so much problematic because of the time it takes as just the fact that it has to be done is ugh worthy because . . . lazy son of a bitch?

It's like when you just finished loading the dishwasher and are filling it up with detergent and the kid comes in with a plate, two glasses, a knife and fork and you're like "REALLY?!?!? I asked you 30 minutes ago to bring any dishes you had in" and you sigh and grumble and wonder why you ever decided to procreate...and it takes all of 30 seconds to grab those dishes and add them to the machine. Or maybe that's just me....
 
Boudoir Guitar said:
Some of this stuff isn't even so much a speed thing. Like, hitting that page button and dialing back the level after turning up the gain on an overdrive isn't so much problematic because of the time it takes as just the fact that it has to be done is ugh worthy because . . . lazy son of a bitch?

It's like when you just finished loading the dishwasher and are filling it up with detergent and the kid comes in with a plate, two glasses, a knife and fork and you're like "REALLY?!?!? I asked you 30 minutes ago to bring any dishes you had in" and you sigh and grumble and wonder why you ever decided to procreate...and it takes all of 30 seconds to grab those dishes and add them to the machine. Or maybe that's just me....
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I totally get having things about the way a device works that annoy you. I definitely have my share of those with several devices
 
Boudoir Guitar said:
Nobody ever loved their Stomp because of how fun and easy it was to build/edit presets on.
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TubeStack said:
Except me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I love the Stomp UI and find it super quick to do almost anything on. Also easy to remember, if I haven't used it in a while.
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Digital Igloo said:
As do the vast majority of HX Stomp users, unless they're all lying in our surveys.
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paisleywookiee said:
Donald Trump GIF by Election 2016


I loved using it. Super easy, IMO.
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Me too. It's become muscle memory now
 
Boudoir Guitar said:
Lemme try making my point again for the peanut gallery...

DESPITE all of this, I still love my Stomp. Because of its size and what's packed inside it.

I continue to to be Neural curious. Because of its hardware. Its size, its loads of knobs, its mic pre with phantom power, etc.

I still don't pull the trigger because I look at included amp models and see loooots of stuff that I use a lot that is missing.

So if you reduce the hardware of Neural...there's no "despite the fact that this is kind of a pain in the ass compared to the Big Dawg, I still love it because..."
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Not sure whether I'm getting lumped in with the "peanut gallery", but I totally get that you love your Stomp. I love it, too, though I am more and more of a mind that it's not quite what I need anymore. In and of itself, it's just an amazing piece of engineering. I bought it "on principle" as soon as it came out, despite already having a floor. One of those rare, "I must have it simply because it is so cool" purchases.

But... with QC, FM3, and HX Stomp all at arm's reach, I just about never turn on anything but the QC. :idk All the knobs and the big screen - meaning 9x out of 10 all of a block's params are on screen and immediately tweakable - are a big part of it. That's why my mockup doesn't sacrifice any of that. Losing the 2nd input with phantom power is significant, but we'd be talking about a less expensive product typically used for guitar only.

True that the amp selection is far smaller than Line 6 or OMG FAS, but there's enough meat and potatoes that I can find something ballpark and tweak if that's what I feel like doing. If I want to land something "just so" that's less common... captures.
 
mbenigni said:
Here's a very crude mockup (good ol' MS Paint LOL) of where NDSP could take a "Dual Cortex" design without significantly impacting UI/UX. Move a hard power switch to the back, make the top right footswitches assignable to bank up/down vs. tempo/tuner per user preference, and make the top right encoder assignable to various global volumes similar to the QC "big knob" at top left. Take my money.

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Make that two less switches (so just 3 in a row) and add a little more space between the rows, so people with non-dwarf feet will be able to use the thing live, too.
 
Boudoir Guitar said:
It's like when you just finished loading the dishwasher and are filling it up with detergent and the kid comes in with a plate, two glasses, a knife and fork and you're like "REALLY?!?!? I asked you 30 minutes ago to bring any dishes you had in" and you sigh and grumble and wonder why you ever decided to procreate...and it takes all of 30 seconds to grab those dishes and add them to the machine. Or maybe that's just me....
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Hilarious that I was just Googling "Low Frustration Tolerance", to use as a reply illustrating the importance of UI, but decided it would only be used against me here. :rofl
 
mbenigni said:
Not sure whether I'm getting lumped in with the "peanut gallery", but I totally get that you love your Stomp. I love it, too, though I am more and more of a mind that it's not quite what I need anymore. In and of itself, it's just an amazing piece of engineering. I bought it "on principle" as soon as it came out, despite already having a floor. One of those rare, "I must have it simply because it is so cool" purchases.

But... with QC, FM3, and HX Stomp all at arm's reach, I just about never turn on anything but the QC. :idk All the knobs and the big screen - meaning 9x out of 10 all of a block's params are on screen and immediately tweakable - are a big part of it. That's why my mockup doesn't sacrifice any of that. Losing the 2nd input with phantom power is significant, but we'd be talking about a less expensive product typically used for guitar only.

True that the amp selection is far smaller than Line 6 or OMG FAS, but there's enough meat and potatoes that I can find something ballpark and tweak if that's what I feel like doing. If I want to land something "just so" that's less common... captures.
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Not peanut gallery.

Some of my Fractal-love is likely due to my Fender amp love. Going from those options to "small tweed, big tweed, black panel" kinda sucks. Helix would be in that camp but for the Voltage Queen, which is awesome.
 
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