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Plugging it into things

Every jack, what it is for, and the two or three that regularly cost people an evening.

04 · 7 min

The one thing

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.

LEFT SIDE — MIDIREAR PANEL — IN / OUT / POWERRIGHT SIDEINOUT/THRUL/MONORIGHTL/MONORIGHT9V 500mAUSB-CEXP · FS 3/4

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.