The controls you will actually use
Not all of them — the handful that account for nearly everything you will do, plus the gestures nothing on the chassis mentions.
03 · 7 min
Learn three things: how to change what the footswitches do (step on the MODE switch), how to save (hold HOME and press ACTION), and how to reach more parameters than the knobs can show.
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Every control on the HX Stomp XL, and what each press, hold and turn does.
HX Stomp XL · Top panel · schematic, drawn from Line 6’s panel diagram
FS1 – FS6
Six stomp switches in two rows of three, plus a dedicated MODE switch and TAP/TUNER. In Preset mode the middle four become A, B, C and D.
- Touch, without pressing
- Assigns the switch to the currently selected block. HX Stomp XL Cheat Sheet (Rev A)
Worth knowingUnlike the small HX Stomp, tap tempo has its own switch. All six of these are genuinely yours.
Modes are the whole game
The footswitches do not have fixed jobs. What they do depends on the mode, and to change it you step on the MODE switch.
This is worth internalising because almost every report of a Line 6 modeller “breaking” is a unit sitting in a mode the owner did not choose. Nothing is wrong with it.
Save, or lose it
Changes are not saved until you tell the device to save them — hold HOME and press ACTION. Until then, an “E” beside the preset name marks it as edited.
Change preset while that E is showing and your work is gone with no warning and no undo.
Get into the habit early. Losing an afternoon's work to a preset change is a rite of passage nobody needs.
HX Stomp XL Cheat Sheet (Rev A)