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Re: I miss my...

support@line6.com — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 04:46:42 GMT

Here's another question: Is there a website out there that is dedicated to sharing settings for getting specific tones of other players? Say, for instance, I wanted to capture Eddie Van Halen's tone on the studio version of "Eruption." Is there a place I can go to get the settings? I'm also interested in capturing Alex Lifeson's tones in the pre- Exit Stage Left albums.

Re: I miss my...

support@line6.com — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 03:34:15 GMT

Awsome support on this site. Thanks for the help, guys!

Re: I miss my...

support@line6.com — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 05:23:16 GMT

DeanDinosaur - Really appreciate your well thought out response, however... You totally spoke over my head. I don't know what you are talking about. The problem right now I have with the HD 500 is that I am a good guitar player. I play guitar. I want to plug into a rig, move a couple of knobs, and get a good, inspiring tone. What you describe is for someone who is a gear head, who likes to program stuff. Dude... I just want to plug in and play, ya know? I'm in a situation right now where I think about playing guitar and then I remember, "oh yeah. I don't have an amp anymore. I have to figure out how to program a computer before I can play. F--k it. Guess I'll play video games." Don't have the aptitude nor patience for this thing. If it can be SIMPLIFIED I might get into it. Sag? Input 2/Variax? Bias excursion? WTF????? I think I seriously need an 8 hour hands-on class that I can take to get a handle on how to use this thing. = (

Re: I miss my...

support@line6.com — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 20:24:31 GMT

Okay.... I'm a Homer. DOH! I was doing these experiments late at night so I was NOT plugged into a speaker cab. I was using Sennheiser HD 280 Pro headphones. Didn't want to disturb anyone's sleep. Today I plugged into my cab. It is a homebuilt 2x12" job with a Vintage 30 and a G12T-75. OMG. Night and day difference. The lovely creamy tone is now there. Now if I can just get over the STEEP learning curve of dialing in nice sounds, I might have something goin' on. Oh, btw, I'm using an Electro-Harmonix Magnum 44 "stomp-box" digital amp to drive my cab. It works really nice. Any advice for simplifying dialing stuff in? I downloaded the HD 500 owners manual and printed it. LOL! How many pages is it??? Holy cow. I burned through an entire printer cartridge. It is simply too much, and I don't learn things well by reading how to do it. I need to have someone show me how, and then do it. I wish I could take an 8 hour class on using it? Oh well. Thanks for any other thoughts/tips/wooden nickles/etc. <=D

I miss my...

support@line6.com — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 06:59:48 GMT

Mesa Boogie DC-5. I sold it and bought a HD 500 thinking that this would do more than one amp could. Where do I begin... I miss the total intuitiveness of getting a REAL tube amp to sound good. Takes a good player literally a handful of seconds to get good tone from a good amp. I feel totally overwhelmed by the learning curve with this unit. But mostly I am deeply disappointed in the amp sounds of this thing. After playing my Mesa for at least 15 years along with various pedals, I had my tone dialed in. I did an experiment w/ my HD 500. IMO good tone comes from two main sources: Guitar. Done. I have a lovely instrument that blew me away w/ its tone when I had it plugged into my Mesa. The second source is the amp. That being the case, I went through every amp and speaker cabinet model on the HD 500. I did not find one pleasing sounding amp in the bunch. Not one. There are almost passable clean amps and crunch (almost), but when it comes to lead tones, it just leaves me cold. There was a certain butteryness, a silkiness, milkiness, a certain kind of saturation in the overdrive sounds to the tone of my Mesa that is TOTALLY absent from the HD 500. My Mesa would inspire my playing. The sounds I'm getting from the HD 500 make me depressed. That buttery, saturated tone is far away, and to me, all the speaker tones - combined with the amp tones - sound like a speaker cab that has a blanket thrown over it, or a wah pedal stuck half open. It is missing a certain sparkle, a presence, without sounding harsh, and a fatness without sounding flabby. Harsh, flabby, DIGITAL are all words that come to mind when I try to explain the tone of my HD 500. I'm not ready to sell my HD 500 yet. I'd really like some direction from somebody here. I could go on but writing down my feelings right now after spending about 3 hours straight trying to get a good tone out of my HD 500 has me really bummed. Thanks for listening.