Which COMPACT expression pedal with toe switch for the HX Stomp?

[luckymethod]

hello folks, I'm making a compact pedalboard to bring with me when I practice with my office band and I'm having a hard time finding a compact expression pedal compatible with the HX stomp that has an integrated toe switch. It's my understanding that for example the Ampero Press 2 will work with my Axe FX 3 but not with the Stomp (please correct me if I'm wrong).

Do you have a pedal you are absolutely certain will work and it's not a huge hunk of metal like the mission engineering SP1-l6h that I already own and work great but can't fit on the pedalboard?

UPDATE: much to my chagrin I couldn't find a compact pedal compatible with the HX stomp so I ended up getting a Hotone Ampero Press 2 and rewire it to make it work with the unit (it's not compatible with the Stomp out of the box, you can get the expression pedal OR the switch but not both at once).

If anyone wants to follow my lead this picture will tell you everything you need to know in order to mod yours to work with the Stomp. Note that while I was trying to de-solder the PCB board from the original toe switch the heat ruined the switch so I had to replace it, I put a silent temporary switch instead which you can find on amazon >

 

[JiveTurkey]

What's an office band?

 

[unix-guy]

I wasn't even aware other expression pedals besides Mission even have a switch.

 

[norminal]

Just grab an EV-1 or EV-2 and make your own:

Modding the EV-1 with a foot switch!

Today is our independence day in Honduras, so we have the day off, and i had the free time to do this mod that i had in my head for a very long time. I gave the EV-1 pedal enough time to convince me that i would not need a footswitch to engage the whawha but i just can't accustom to the...

forum.fractalaudio.com

 

[luckymethod]

What's an office band?

A band composed by people that work where I do and rehearses in one of the buildings where I work.

 

[luckymethod]

Just grab an EV-1 or EV-2 and make your own:

Modding the EV-1 with a foot switch!

Today is our independence day in Honduras, so we have the day off, and i had the free time to do this mod that i had in my head for a very long time. I gave the EV-1 pedal enough time to convince me that i would not need a footswitch to engage the whawha but i just can't accustom to the...

forum.fractalaudio.com

I don't want to diy it, I've got too much going on to take on another project. I just want to use my credit card to solve a problem

 

[laxu]

A band composed by people that work where I do and rehearses in one of the buildings where I work.

Hope you never end up with creative differences. Think of the talks around the watercooler!

 

[luckymethod]

Hope you never end up with creative differences. Think of the talks around the watercooler!

Fortunately we have hundreds of musicians so I can switch people around if I don't enjoy a band and have in the past. We're so large you really don't have to interact much if you don't work exactly in the same group, but it's a thought I had at some point. Any suggestions about the pedal?

 

[Sascha Franck]

Have a look:
Hotone Ampero II Press

Hotone Ampero II Press

Hotone Ampero Press II; Effektpedal für E-Gitarre; kompaktes 2-in-1 Passiv Umschalt/Expression Pedal für E-Gitarre; Geeignet zur Steuerung von Multieffekten der Ampero II-Serie und vieler anderer Effektgeräte; Poti Widerstand: 10kO, linear;...

www.thomann.de

 

[ericbr1]

Have a look:
Hotone Ampero II Press

Hotone Ampero II Press

Hotone Ampero Press II; Effektpedal für E-Gitarre; kompaktes 2-in-1 Passiv Umschalt/Expression Pedal für E-Gitarre; Geeignet zur Steuerung von Multieffekten der Ampero II-Serie und vieler anderer Effektgeräte; Poti Widerstand: 10kO, linear;...

www.thomann.de

Read his OP

 

[Lysander]

Just grab an EV-1 or EV-2 and make your own:

That's really cool. The OEM pedal Fractal is using was evidently designed with a switch option in mind, because it fits just too perfectly to be a coincidence.

 

[luckymethod]

Have a look:
Hotone Ampero II Press

Hotone Ampero II Press

Hotone Ampero Press II; Effektpedal für E-Gitarre; kompaktes 2-in-1 Passiv Umschalt/Expression Pedal für E-Gitarre; Geeignet zur Steuerung von Multieffekten der Ampero II-Serie und vieler anderer Effektgeräte; Poti Widerstand: 10kO, linear;...

www.thomann.de

Do you have it? Does it work with the Hx stomp for both expression and switching?

 

[Sascha Franck]

Read his OP

Whoops, sorry!

Do you have it? Does it work with the Hx stomp for both expression and switching?

No, I don't, but I will possibly buy one - and I don't see why this wouldn't work. There's a switch out and an EXP out, both of whidh you can assign any way you like.

 

[luckymethod]

Whoops, sorry!



No, I don't, but I will possibly buy one - and I don't see why this wouldn't work. There's a switch out and an EXP out, both of whidh you can assign any way you like.

It's not that simple. Expression pedals for the helix and the axe are wired differently.

 

[Sascha Franck]

Expression pedals for the helix and the axe are wired differently.

Which is why there's options to switch polarities inside the HX series.

 

[luckymethod]

Which is why there's options to switch polarities inside the HX series.

I bought the Press 2 and I can confirm it DOES NOT work completely with the HX. You can use the toe switch OR the expression pedal but I haven't found a straightforward way to configure the Stomp so it works with both at once. Looks like I would have to do some rewiring inside the pedal for that to work and I'm not up for it. Disappointing.

 

[Elf]

If I was giging I think I would opt for this solution

 

[Sascha Franck]

I bought the Press 2 and I can confirm it DOES NOT work completely with the HX. You can use the toe switch OR the expression pedal but I haven't found a straightforward way to configure the Stomp so it works with both at once. Looks like I would have to do some rewiring inside the pedal for that to work and I'm not up for it. Disappointing.

So, either the switching out or the EXP out isn't active all the time? Because that'd be the only reason I could imagine.

 

[pipelineaudio]

I thought Helix didn't have switch inputs, only expression pedal

 

[Sascha Franck]

I thought Helix didn't have switch inputs, only expression pedal

You can set the FS inputs any way you like. It works with pretty much any footswitch (latch or momentary, plus you can reverse the polarity in the settings) and EXP pedals. So you could have, say, FS4 (referring to the Stomp here, the numbers vary on the Floor/LT/Rack) act as a switch and FS5 as an EXP input. Pretty much any combination imagineable is available, so I can't see why the Hotone wouldn't work. Yes, it takes a while sometimes because the menus are small and not on one preference page (in fact, they're in 3 sections), so that might be a little confusing (it was for me), but it's all there.
The very thing lacking is a global curve parameter for the expression pedal, the only thing allowing for adjustments would be the volume block (and it's just linear and logarithmic you can select), so you're pretty much at the mercy of the EXP pedal maker. I really wish Line 6 would add that. I could not use an external EXP I had around as a wah because the curve was just so bad.