Plugging it into things
Every jack, what it is for, and the two or three that regularly cost people an evening.
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For a mono rig, always use the LEFT/MONO jack of a pair. Using the right one on its own gives you half your effects and a thin sound.
The jacks
Click any jack to see what it does and what to watch for.
HX One · All three faces · schematic, drawn from Line 6’s panel diagram
IN — L/MONO, RIGHT
TS, ¼″rear panel
Your instrument, or the output of the pedal before it. Use both jacks for stereo.
The RIGHT input doubles as a loop RETURN, which is how HX One does the four-cable method.
HX One Cheat Sheet (Rev A)The mono rule
Outputs come in stereo pairs, and only the left jack of a pair carries a summed mono signal. If you take one cable from the right jack, you get one side of a stereo image: quieter, thinner, and missing anything that was panned away from it.
HX One's right-hand input and output double as a loop return and send, which is how one pedal wraps an amp.