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The real thing. Okay ✅ Counterfeit. Purports to be the real thing, but who knows what's inside? Not Okay ❌ Similar-looking; you know what they're aiming for, but you don't expect it to be as good. Okay ✅ Different-looking; you can guess they're aiming for, but you don't expect it to be as good. Okay ✅

AKG Y20 (cheapo in-ears), which are 16 Ohms, and Audio Technica ATH-M50 (entry-level closed-back studio headphones) at 38 Ohms. Apparently anything > 100 Ohms is considered high impedance, and may lack volume and dynamics when used with devices that can't supply enough voltage - which is why I wanted to check. This science is a bit beyond me though, so I may just be muddying the waters 😆

The headphone out on mine sounds the same as the line out/DI out. I haven't come across any volume problems, but what's loud enough is a bit subjective. Are you using high-impedance headphones? I can see how it would be a pain to have to rebalance the channel levels when using the "Mix" mode just to make the headphones louder/quieter.

Well I was all set to get an HX One, and then I started reading about how much more an HX Stomp can do... and realising how much of the extra cost would be covered by selling the pedals it would replace... I think you can see where this is going 😆

A pleasant listen! Vocals not strong, but characterful, and some nice backing/harmonies. Nicely recorded but not too slick. I liked the use of percussion. I bet they're fun to watch live. The track that stuck with me is Neighbors - it puts in me mind of a meek Jesus Lizard 😆

It might be me! I already have a compressor, drive and pre-amp that I'm very happy with. I have an MS-60B for one-off modulation, and I was thinking about buying/building a loop switcher to toggle its position between the pre-amp's FX loop and in front of the pre-amp (e.g. for use as an envelope filter). The HX One looks like it will do all of that in one box. The HX Stomp and HX Effects do a lot more for double the price, but they'd make all my other pedals redundant... not sure I'm ready for that! If the HX One did, say 3 blocks instead of 1, it'd be absolutely killer... but it's not in Line 6's interests to provide too much functionality at the entry level.

I see a headstock and I want to paint it black

Great idea!

Input impedance is 1MΩ when enabled, so you're not likely to have any issues there. It's true bypass when off, so I guess the question is whether there's a pedal further down the chain that needs a buffer in front?

Soooo, potentially a case of soldering a large (e.g. 1MΩ, 2.2MΩ) resistor between these two? 🤔 I appreciate that by saying this, I am literally That Guy the article mentions... 😆

They didn't call it "Pianoeo"? The cowards!

Some good info on switch pop causes and solutions: https://www.mrblackpedals.com/blogs/straight-jive/6629778-what-really-causes-switch-pop

45 songs on the disc, and a bunch more as DLC (including all the missing ones from Rubber Soul). They didn't do all the songs... no-one needs stems of You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) 😆

They'll have been taken from the video game The Beatles: Rock Band, so any isolation was done by Giles Martin from the original tapes - it's a lot cleaner than you'd get by sticking the full track through an "AI" stem separator.

Dunno - I'm just going by Amazon's price history. Maybe they've always been pricier there than elsewhere 🤷‍♂️ Source: https://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/product/B000B6IURS

They've crept up to £26.95 now. I'm amazed they didn't leap straight back to ~£60 after us lot started buying them up.

Those are some hairstyles 😆

Single band parametric EQ? Sine Effect Electronics do a very space-efficient one

Nice! 80% of the sound, 20% of the price.

Yep, looks the same to me. The switch itself takes very little pressure to activate - I'm guessing they just went a bit too far in trying to making it hard to accidentally switch off while sweeping the pedal.

My G1Xon and B1Xon have the same notch in the rubber pad - you have to really lean on the expression pedal to switch it on/off

There just aren't that many "standard" sized pedals with a DI - pretty much every pre-amp+DI on the market is a big box. The best M81 alternative I can think of is a Broughton Audio Messenger Jr, but good luck finding one A couple of things to consider: - Have you got room for a micro DI box tucked under the board? Or could you sit the pre-amp pedal on top of a fairly flat DI box? The extra height might not be an issue if you're not switching it on and off all the time - Do you definitely need a pre-amp, i.e. something that boosts your signal from instrument level to line level so that it can drive a power amp? If you're just after clean EQ and you can squeeze in a separate DI box, there are all kinds of great options available to you.