Why did I not know about this?

[revtime]

Went to GC today. Never a good idea for my future retirement plans. But this was in the used pedal cage. Its a HO tone xtomp mini. Its a modeler in a pedal. It bluetooths to an app you get for free and the pedal cost me a hundred bux. I been playin with it all night and its pretty impressive. Cab sims, distortion, reverbs, chorus, tremelos, like 150 pedals in this thing.

 

[lbpesq]

GREAT PEDAL!

I have one on my board that changes depending on who I’m playing with. It’s currently an old MXR Phase 90. Extremely easy and fast to load, and the patches sound damn good! I just picked up a second one. It’s a great way to test drive a bunch of different effects without spending a fortune.

Bill, tgo

 

[Bane]

That's wild, the new way to do things

 

[Murdog]

That's pretty cool!

 

[Lonn]

First I’ve heard of it. I’ve been thinking about getting a small pedal board to go in front of my Marshall half stack since I seem to be playing that more than my multi effects pedal hooked up to monitors.

 

[Murdog]

@revtime Got a question for you. Does the xtomp emulate a single pedal or can it do multiple pedals at the same time via the software?

 

[Butcher of Strats]

I'm waiting for plastic guitars with built in smartphone docks.
Amps and pedals are so 2020...

 

[revtime]

@revtime Got a question for you. Does the xtomp emulate a single pedal or can it do multiple pedals at the same time via the software?

No just one pedal at a time. Some people buy more than one xtomp so they can run more than one effect.

 

[revtime]

I'm waiting for plastic guitars with built in smartphone docks.
Amps and pedals are so 2020...

It is pretty incredible what technology can do these days. Folks love the traditional stuff though. Hotone discontinued the xtomp. Nobody wanted it. And it seems no one even knew it existed. They are still supporting the app which is cool.
It would be interesting to see a major brand (fender, ibanez, etc) go all in with a quality guitar with quality software/interface built in. The xtomp, katana, helix, etc prove modeling is more than viable.

 

[Danny D]

Went to GC today. Never a good idea for my future retirement plans. But this was in the used pedal cage. Its a HO tone xtomp mini. Its a modeler in a pedal. It bluetooths to an app you get for free and the pedal cost me a hundred bux. I been playin with it all night and its pretty impressive. Cab sims, distortion, reverbs, chorus, tremelos, like 150 pedals in this thing.
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Good on you. Unfortunately I don't own an app phone so I can't enjoy this new pleasure. Fortunately, I was able to plug into my two amps in stereo today while my wife was out shopping. It was fun and loud.

 

[Butcher of Strats]

It is pretty incredible what technology can do these days. Folks love the traditional stuff though. Hotone discontinued the xtomp. Nobody wanted it. And it seems no one even knew it existed. They are still supporting the app which is cool.
It would be interesting to see a major brand (fender, ibanez, etc) go all in with a quality guitar with quality software/interface built in. The xtomp, katana, helix, etc prove modeling is more than viable.

Well the Line 6 Variax guitar moved in that direction, maybe too much even just guitar, in a guitar.

Given that modeling amps and digital FX can all run on the same piece of computer hardware, and most of the computerized boxes we buy have a tiny space taken by computer and much larger space taken by the interface, it makes sense to use apps or software based gear between guitar and FOH, or similarly run guitar into DAW.
Smartphones can easily have the computing power and storage, but we the people who buy and use the gear seem to still love last Century interfaces.

The Ho tone/ Hot one/ Hoe tone pedal there makes me as nervous as chatting with a robot that has empty eye sockets!
What ARE thos knobs doing!??

 

[Nick L Plate]

My own take is likely that of an outlier because I think the exploration of all that gear can do moves supposed musicians away from the greater creative fundamentals of music itself into a kind of super happy funtime fritterware playland. This pedal, like the use of more massively featured modelers, makes sense to me for a performer who is delivering music to listeners and who needs an efficient way of dialing up the sounds called for in a piece. As something to fiddle with in a personal tone quest, I think it's actually a bad thing. I don't think I'm wrong to say that across all human history and all human cultures, music begins with time intervals (rhythm), then pitch intervals (melody, then harmony), etc., with tone being far from the most basic element. The same song can be played on different instruments. Whether a phaser sounds more like a vintage MXR 45 than a current production 90 is trivial. I think we all need to be careful how we spend our musical energy. I don't see the gear industry and all the gear podcast pimps as being very helpful in fostering music. BTW, Debbie Downer is my sister. Waa waa

 

[Murdog]

No just one pedal at a time. Some people buy more than one xtomp so they can run more than one effect.

Ahh, makes sense. A lot of possibilities stringing a few of these together.

 

[Houdi Elbow]

My Line6 M5 models stomp boxes and effects, one at a time and stores patches.
On my board it can be more or less any pedal I don't have.
Sounds like a similar concept.

 

[Danny D]

Br

Well the Line 6 Variax guitar moved in that direction, maybe too much even just guitar, in a guitar.

Given that modeling amps and digital FX can all run on the same piece of computer hardware, and most of the computerized boxes we buy have a tiny space taken by computer and much larger space taken by the interface, it makes sense to use apps or software based gear between guitar and FOH, or similarly run guitar into DAW.
Smartphones can easily have the computing power and storage, but we the people who buy and use the gear seem to still love last Century interfaces.

The Ho tone/ Hot one/ Hoe tone pedal there makes me as nervous as chatting with a robot that has empty eye sockets!
What ARE thos knobs doing!??

A smart, thoughtful, and fair post.

 

[revtime]

Well I play as a hobby. I dont gig and never will. I make up my own little songs n stuff for me. Playing with all the toys is fun for me. They inspire me to play. Im never gonna be more than a pentatonic wanker and am perfectly fine with that. If you aspire to be more, then all the choices may not be right for you. Ima never be that guy. Bring on the toys.

 

[Wound_Up]

Well I play as a hobby. I dont gig and never will. I make up my own little songs n stuff for me. Playing with all the toys is fun for me. They inspire me to play. Im never gonna be more than a pentatonic wanker and am perfectly fine with that. If you aspire to be more, then all the choices may not be right for you. Ima never be that guy. Bring on the toys.

Exactly.