Line6 HX Stomp

Here is a possible Hot Take:
The Dirt options in the HX Stomp suck.

I’ve spent the better part of the afternoon playing around with that thing, looking for an option to get some Schmutz in my signal in a way that is pleasing to my ear. I went through the (impressive) list front to back and back to front, looking for something that makes my bass sound good, but I miserably failed.
If you ask me for my specific problem with all the choices the device offers, I’d say that I like a drive sound that can add some brightness and top end to my sound by creating those upper harmonics in the clipping process. These seem to be absent in this digital representation of the real dirt boxes. There are some copies in here where I can claim first hand experience with the original pedals, and I am quite sure the real deal pedals do something that is missing here.
They sound and feel dull. The whole lot of them. I started out with the Nobels drive because that is one I know well and liked a lot when I owned it, but while it does that impressive low end, it does not do the organic sizzle up top that I was quite fond of.
I continued down the list and tried more or less every guitar or bass drive pedal option, even used some amps and rode the gain high.
After using the Stomp HX for a fortnight, I want to say:
-I don’t like the UI.
-I don’t like most of the sounds
-It sucks both at compression and dirt

I’m not one of the “Digital is bad, only analog is true” sayers. I own and love several digital pedals. I just prefer it when they are done right, and while I was able to navigate and use the unit fluently after a couple of days tinkering, I don’t like the UI. I’ve owned a Headrush unit that I could use straight out of the box, no manual, no Youtube video tutorials, just a very good intuitive way of displaying and editing your signal chain.

It might be a great thing because it can do a ton of things with a tiny footprint, and some of you require a multitool like that. Not me, though.