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controls and footswitches
Every control on the HX Effects, on a diagram you can click. Pick anything to see what it does, including the gestures not printed on the chassis.
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.
The things you have to be told
Some of these are printed on the box. The rest are in the manual, or nowhere, and they are the difference between owning this device and being able to use it.
MODE + TAP
Bypasses every effect at once—a true global bypass.
Use it at soundcheck.
manual only
HX Effects Cheat SheetPress FS1 + FS4
Hold FS1 + FS4
Hold MODE
Touch and hold a footswitch