Line6 HX One

Très bien fini, matériaux sérieux, potards , écran et connectiques qualitatifs.
Inspire vraiment confiance, design élégant
Niveau sonore, aucune révolution flagrante, couteau Suisse d'effets.
Certains presets sont des bonnes bases de travail à resculpter, d'autres sont beaucoup trop délirants pour mon usage, mais j'imagine qu'il y'a un public que ça ravira certainement .
Je l'utilise en réamp parallèle sur mon Tascam SP24 donc c'est un usage préférentiellement stéréo pour mes pistes de guitares. Sa configuration à 1 effet est complètement adaptée dans mon cas. La qualité de son est très bonne, sans dégrader le rapport signal / bruit ( attention je ne parle pas de la section hiGain car on ne peut pas superposer les sections Noise Gate dessus par exemple, un seul effet à la fois... ) Je l'ai trouvé moins convainquant sur mon pedalboard car chacune de mes pédales a déjà un rôle bien défini et mon set n'est pas très évolutif en jeu live donc j'aime pas le changement de ce type. Je suis pas le genre à me pencher entre deux morceaux pour passer du preset chorus à tremolo par exemple. C'est devenu mon compagnon à tout faire pour l'enregistrement, il est solide, ne chauffe pas, relativement bien pensé pour trifouiller dedans ( quand on est comme moi, habitué à la maison Line 6 ) offre des jolis effets de bonne qualité et ne prend pas de place sur le côté de la console.

Cette petite boite contient la plupart des effets line 6 de modulation ,delay, reverb , disto, filtre, looper. Attention on ne peut utiliser qu'un effet à la fois et il n'y a pas de simulation d'ampli, le hx one est parfait pour celui qui a besoin d'effets de qualité (flanger, chorus , phaser et delay ou d'une reverb, une disto plus beaucoup d'effets supplémentaires créatifs et intéressants ) en évitant l'empilement de pédales. La machine est très bien conçue et permet d'organiser ses sons facilement pour un accès rapide grâce à une application sur l'ordi et un port usb. La fonction Flux est très intéressante et permet de faire évoluer l'effet en temps réel. Machine très bien conçue, je recommande!

Line6's Helix (and legacy) lines of effects are well known and loved. This unit refresh of the legendary M5 into the Helix line: the perfect "multi-tool" pedal to cover those effects or utility functions that you don't have dedicated pedals for.
The modulation and pitch effects in particular sound really good and the reverbs are pretty great as well.

The interface is simple and intuitive, albeit with a couple of small issues:
- unlike in the HX Stomp/Helix, the effects are only split top level between effect type; there is no separate lists between Helix and "legacy" (from DL4 and M series) effect models.
Instead, legacy effects are shown in succession to Helix effects within the same effect type.
This makes it sometimes a bit frustrating when trying to find a particular model, since there is a huge amount of items in each effect type list. Maybe a "favorites" feature which would allow to only show some of the effects per list could solve this, hopefully they will provide some improvement in a some future firmware (?)
- the computer preset editor is really basic just for saving/recalling presets, there is no UI for live editing of effect parameters which is a real downgrade compared to the Helix/Stomp which can be tweaked live from the computer.
Both of these are really minor inconveniences that may be just my personal preference, so I still give it a 5 star rating on the "handling" category.

Overall, a great piece of gear.. so, why the poor rating you may ask?

Well, I'm waiting for my second replacement unit currently due to production defects!
- first HX One that I received was very noisy. As soon as the pedal was in the signal chain, even when no effect was in use, the noise floor was terrible: any gain boost/distortion after the pedal output made this very evident; Other people have reported this same issue and it's easy to find examples in youtube or gear forums illustrating it.
- the second HX One I got in replacement did not have the noise issue, it was super quite.. however it was malfunctioning when using it mono in - stereo out, even though the settings were properly configured for stereo operation: in most of the effects models, the effect's sound came out in stereo, but the clean signal was only coming out of one side, which made the pedal unusable when running stereo effects!

I'm now waiting on my third HX One hoping that the third one will be the charm .. normaly I would have already given up, but because the HX One is indeed otherwise perfect for me (and I have used other line6 gear in the past with great satisfaction), I will give it one last chance.

Seems like Line6 really dropped the ball on quality control this time around, or I was supremely unlucky .. or both! I can only recommend that anyone who purchases an HX One really gives it a proper check before committing to the purchase.

I unfortunately had to return my HX One due to a weird noise issue. When I got the unit I added it to my pedalboard in pre/post and I noticed that it added some bad noise to some of my drive pedals. I confirmed it was the HX One by taking it out of the chain and the noise was gone. No amount of settings on the HX One helped. It’s a pity as the sounds from the HX are fantastic. I ended up getting a H9 as they were reduced and all is well.