41Hz

I hadn’t considered that, I don’t suppose how much you shaved off with this mods?

These are £1.02 from CPC, they will let you use headphones with the HXFX, in fact you could get two and use the other for line in to play along with audio. Glad you like the HXFX, I was wondering if I was missing something not having the stomp, but the HXFX is so easy to use playing live, I think I’d struggle with the stomp.

That looks lovely, are they chambered as standard, or did you get it modified?

Any suggestions, my shoulder has been giving me a bit of grief recently. My pbass is about 8.8lbs and the jazz 8.5lbs, so not exactly heavy. I used to have an Ibanez SR1400 which was a lovely bass and nice and light but found the neck a bit narrow, also the D and G string were a bit thin sounding and I wondered if this was down to it being so light. so ideally something in the 7-7.5lb range, but with a pbass size neck that doesn’t sacrifice tone for weight. Any ideas?

Thanks, yeah, it’s my index finger too. Will try some voltarol

I got a shure MV88 recently and the sound quality is very good. There is an audio and video app where you can control the Mic gain, stereo separation, add compression etc. It has onboard DACs so it isn’t relying on anything on the phone. Somebody else in the band has a hand held zoom recorder and reckons the MV88 sounds better.

You could try doing this way with 2x hxedit windows....

I’ve found a fairly quick way to do this - press and hold the mode button to go into pedal edit mode. Tap pitch shift, it defaults to interval as the first parameter, then use up/down to change between -1/-2. Just timed myself and can change the pitch in 3 seconds with 3 taps. Probably quicker than me bending down and twiddling the knobs....and better for my knees/back!

My M Audio EX-P expression pedal came in the post today. At £14 it’s an absolute bargain. I just found something really cool on the helix with the expression pedal - apologies if you already know this..... On the B7K model I set the pedal to control the drive from 0-10, but I also set it on the level but reversed min/max to sweep from 10 to 6, so as I increase the drive it simulataneously backs the level down a bit so it maintain a more even volume with distortion. I thought that was pretty cool, you may already be doing that so apologies if this is old news.

Thanks, it’s eased off a little, just tried my jazz bass that has lower action and floppy TI flats and its bearable to play that.

4 weeks! I hope it doesn’t last that long, did you have to stop playing, mine is too sore to play

I’ve not been handling fibreglass. I did get a shard of glass in my thumb a few years ago about 5-6mm long that was totally invisible. I had to go and have a surgeon remove it.

Yes, found this too..., suggests more common in bass players over 40

Strings are D’addario EXL170BT nickel wound. I’m not sure tape will work as it seems to be any pressure on the skin that causes the issue. Just tried dipping my finger in PVA glue and peeling it off but that didn’t work. Now icing it and taking ibuprofen. Had another look with a magnifying glass but can’t see anything.

Not that I can see, probably need to find a magnifying glass

I was practicing last night and got a sudden sharp pain in my fingertip. It feels exactly like I have a splinter and is still sore this morning when I touch the end of the finger. I fitted new strings a few days ago and when it happened I was doing a string bend. I’m wondering if it dislodged a metal shard from the string. I’ve done a bit of googling and found something referred to as phantom splinters for players of stringed instruments where the finger callous pinches a nerve. As it happened so quickly and I have new strings I’m thinking it is more likely a real splinter. Anyone else had this? It’s so sensitive I’m going to have to cancel band practice tonight.

Thanks! I’ve not played with snapshots yet, will have a try later to see if I can get it to work

Wondered if this is possible...... I would like to assign a single footswitch for pitch shift, I need to drop either a semi tone or a whole tone (Eb or D) for some songs. Ideally I’d like to cycle through 3 options on a single switch, ie OFF, -1, -2, OFF etc. I can do it with two switches, either two separate pitch shift blocks on separate switches with the interval set to -1 and -2, or a single pitch shift on one then assign a different foot switch to toggle the interval with max/min values of -1,-2. Is this possible using just one switch? Thought I’d read you can toggle multiple effects on a single switch, but so far I can’t see how.

Yeah, the more I play with it the better it gets. I’m finding the pitch shift is really handy for songs that need Eb or D tuning, it can warble slightly on low long sustained notes, but not noticeable in the band.

I just measured the spacing between two adjacent switches on my HXFX at 6.8cm or 13.6cm across 3 switches (measured centre to centre)

I’ve not tried it but I think you can use an iRig straight into a PC as an interface. Would I need to use helix native with something like audacity or will it work standalone?

I’ll look into that, I have an irig I use with my iPad for recording, need to see if that would work with it

I'm still a bit on the fence whether to stick with the HXFX or go for a stomp. I just looked up the the sansamp v1 manual and got the setting for an SVT sound, tried it on HXFX, it did sound fairly similar to what I remember when I tried the SVT model in the shop, but if any stomp owners want to try it and see how it compares to the built in SVT model, I'd be very interested. They just gave knob positions in the sansamp manual, which I roughly translated to... Drive = 5.0 Bass = 6.0 Treble = 4.5 Presence = 7.5 Blend = 10 level = 5.0 Interested how close this is to the SVT model. Cheers!

Ah ok thanks, I guess its a pity you couldn't press say FS1 and FS2 together to do the bypass, as if you use FS3 then you are down to only 2 foot switches for changing presets which would be pretty tough. Sounds like the external foot switches are pretty essential if you want to gig with it

I tried the stomp today in the shop (I have an HX effects on a 14 day trial, which is about to expire, so wanted to see if I should swap) It was a bit more fiddly to use vs the HXFX but on the flip side I did quite like the SVT amp sims. The thing I was struggling with, is bypassing the unit when I don’t want any effects/amp sims. On the HXFX you just press the tuner+mode Footswitches together and it is completely bypassed. As far as I can tell you can’t bypass the stomp with the Footswitches. Is that correct? Not so practical in a gig to bend down and start pressing buttons to bypass it. I think that might be the deal breaker for me unless anyone can advise a way to do it?