devices · HX Effects · learn · 03 of 08 · 7 min
the controls you will use
the one thing
Learn three things: how to change what the footswitches do (step on the MODE switch), how to save (press SAVE twice), and how to reach more parameters than the knobs can show.
click anything
Every control on the HX Effects, and what each press, hold and turn does.
controls and footswitches
HX Effects · top panel · schematic, drawn from Line 6’s panel diagram
FS1–FS6
Six stomp switches in two rows of three. Each has a scribble strip above it and an LED ring whose color shows the kind of effect it holds.
- Press, in Stomp mode
- Toggles that switch's effect on and off.
- Touch, without pressing
- Selects that effect for editing.
- Touch repeatedly
- Cycles through multiple assigned items.
- Touch and hold
- Shows all of that block's parameters.
- Touch and hold two switches
- Swaps their assignments.
- Worth knowing
- The ring color shows the effect category. Orange is distortion, yellow dynamics and EQ, blue modulation, green delay, red reverb, purple pitch, synth, filter and wah. Learn six colors and you can work the board without reading it.
modes are the whole game
The footswitches do not have fixed jobs. What they do depends on the mode, and to change it you step on the MODE switch.
A Line 6 modeler that looks broken is usually in a mode you did not choose. Change the mode and it works again.
save, or lose it
Changes are not saved until you tell the device to save them—press SAVE twice. Until then, an “E” beside the preset name marks it as edited.
Change preset while that E is showing and your work is gone with no warning and no undo.
Save before you change preset. An unsaved edit is lost on the switch.
HX Effects Cheat Sheet