Please help before I throw my pedalboard out the window 🤣

[bassben1]

Hi, I'm a newbie. Sorry. Lol.

Trying to put together a pedal board and it's not working. I'm so frustrated 😠.  This is the equipment I've got:-

Schecter evil twin bass guitar 

Seymour duncan powerstage bass 700
Darkglass dg212n 
Hx stomp xl 
Boss chromatic tuner 
Ampeg opto comp 
Jam red muck 
Jam rattler 
Tc electronic sentry
Ckk electronic space station pro Reverb 
Flattley bass nirvana delay
Flattley bass valkyrie chorus 
Mooer gl 100 Looper

 

The problem I'm having is getting the pedals to work with the hx stomp xl. I can get the hx stomp to work with amp, but the pedals i can barely here at all. I've tried global settings, all combinations. Tried every pedal and cables individually(they all work).

I would like my tuner, Compressor, fuzz, distortion before the hx stomp. Has anyone got any ideas what I'm doing wrong.

Many thanks 

 

Edited Saturday at 22:18 by bassben1
Missed something out

[NoirBass]

Start with you bass straight into the amp and then add each pedal individually (one by one) until you recreate the fault.

[uncle psychosis]

If the problem is that you can't hear the external effects at all then it's probably going to be something silly.

 

Check that you are correctly connecting inputs and outputs for starters. Maybe take a photo of everything connected together so we can see what you're doing. 

[Jack]

Can you post a photo of your setup? What do you mean when you say you cant hear the pedals? As in you can't hear a different whether they're turned on or off?

[chris_b]

You've got 10 pedals. . . . . . ?

[Gank Bass]

Intrigued to know what else you're using the stomp for! 🤔

 

Sounds like something is plugged in the wrong input? Could you post some photos of your setup to help diagnose?

[BigRedX]

13 hours ago, Gank Bass said:

Intrigued to know what else you're using the stomp for! 🤔

 

Alternatively intrigued to know why you need any additional pedals.

[Sibob]

On 02/08/2025 at 23:14, bassben1 said:

Hi, I'm a newbie. Sorry. Lol.

Trying to put together a pedal board and it's not working. I'm so frustrated 😠.  This is the equipment I've got:-

Schecter evil twin bass guitar 

Seymour duncan powerstage bass 700
Darkglass dg212n 
Hx stomp xl 
Boss chromatic tuner 
Ampeg opto comp 
Jam red muck 
Jam rattler 
Tc electronic sentry
Ckk electronic space station pro Reverb 
Flattley bass nirvana delay
Flattley bass valkyrie chorus 
Mooer gl 100 Looper

 

The problem I'm having is getting the pedals to work with the hx stomp xl. I can get the hx stomp to work with amp, but the pedals i can barely here at all. I've tried global settings, all combinations. Tried every pedal and cables individually(they all work).

I would like my tuner, Compressor, fuzz, distortion before the hx stomp. Has anyone got any ideas what I'm doing wrong.

Many thanks 

 

 

There’s not really any point in further comments until you post a clear picture of the setup. It will be helpful to see a clear, top-down, image so that we can trace the cabling etc.

 

Si

[fretmeister]

@bassben1 We need more info to help.

 

Can we have photos and a clear description of your signal path?

[LukeFRC]

Otherwise tell me which window to stand outside to catch …

[fretmeister]

On 04/08/2025 at 09:18, BigRedX said:

 

Alternatively intrigued to know why you need any additional pedals.

 

Well, the HX fuzz models are not very good, and really the filers and synths aren't great either.

[BigRedX]

2 hours ago, fretmeister said:

Well, the HX fuzz models are not very good, and really the filers and synths aren't great either.

 

Depends whether you need any of those things.

 

There's well over 100 amp and distortion pedal models on a Helix. I'm sure there must be one that will give you the sound that you want. Remember that can run them in parallel with a separate EQ. I've never had a problem getting a distortion sound I like out my Helix.

 

The only filters I've come across that were any good were MIDI controllable and really what I should heave been doing is playing a keyboard synth and no wasted my time trying to make a bass or a guitar sound like one.

[fretmeister]

1 hour ago, BigRedX said:

 

Depends whether you need any of those things.

 

There's well over 100 amp and distortion pedal models on a Helix. I'm sure there must be one that will give you the sound that you want. Remember that can run them in parallel with a separate EQ. I've never had a problem getting a distortion sound I like out my Helix.

 

The only filters I've come across that were any good were MIDI controllable and really what I should heave been doing is playing a keyboard synth and no wasted my time trying to make a bass or a guitar sound like one.

 

I've been using it since the day it was available. I have run multiple paths, different EQ and compression settings etc etc.

It still can't do a good Fuzz Face - and that's at full guitar volume, let alone the way a FF reacts to guitar volume being changed when it's first in the chain.

 

TBF I don't think any modeller has cracked that yet.

[Gank Bass]

Has he had a fall?