Community: Message List - Making the Transition from XT to HD 500- Tips Wanted

Re: Making the Transition from XT to HD 500- Tips Wanted

support@line6.com — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:25:04 GMT

The other thing you might want to try which will jumpstart you is go to custom tone and download whatever interests you. This way you can audition and keep stuff you like and then use them as a baseline to tweak against. THE HD has quite a bit to it and some users get lost in all the options and need a little focus (like me).

The sound of the unit will blow you away especially upgrading from the XT

Re: Making the Transition from XT to HD 500- Tips Wanted

support@line6.com — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:42:31 GMT

Hi Zach,

I did the same thing. Hope you like programming and tweaking. Basically the tradeoff is:

XT - works for 80% of people's use cases, minimal effort to set up

HD - works for 98% of people's use cases, you have to set up everything yourself

Basically I'd start from scratch with empty patches and play around with:

- How to assign various foot switches to various controls

- How to set up wah / volume pedals

- Which "input settings" you want to use

For that last one, there has been a huge amount of debate, but it boils down to - if you're only going to use one input, start with Input 1: Guitar (or Guitar/Variax if you're using a Variax), Input 2: same. This will make the unit behave predictably no matter what combinations of effects you use.

Setting it to Input 1: Gutar and Input 2: (some unused input) will sometimes cause your guitar signal to be reduced by 6dB pre-modeling and sometimes not, depending on the specific effects in your chain. With some people's setups, it can sound better to have a 6dB lower signal, but it's more reliable to just build your tones around Input 1 Guitar/Variax, Input 2 Same.

Matt

Making the Transition from XT to HD 500- Tips Wanted

support@line6.com — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:39:25 GMT

Hey everyone,

So after seeing a great deal on Hello Music for an HD 500, I bought it. I've had an original XT for quite sometime, and it was time for an upgrade. With this upgrade, are there any tips you guys would like to bestow upon me that would help me along with the upgrade?

Thanks!

Zach