A sensible, practical and ultimately exhilarating take on the Helix Stomp format, the XL's extra footswitches makes it more naturally suited to live performances than its smaller counterpart and yet ...

The HX Stomp is the counterpart to that unit, in that it contains 300 effects, including the Helix, M Series and legacy Line 6 patches, as well as the amp, cab and mic options of the full-fat Helix.

The midi footswitch uses a (cheap copy) Arduino Nano as the main unit for reading footswitch presses and sending corresponding midi messages to the HX Stomp. On top of the pedal there are two ...