saTa Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 Hi guys, I've been using a HD500 ever since they first came out. Usually, I use it live with my DT25 and everything seems fine. However, I've been taking it home to do some recording and couldn't for the life of me get it to sound right. The distortion sounds absolutely horrible and I don't remember it being this bad. After a lot of tweaking, I decided to get a HD bean. I've been thinking of getting one forever to save me from lugging the HD500 around all the time or being unable to record ideas and tweak sounds at home. (As a sidenote, I wish getting sounds from HD500 to HD bean and back were easier but that's for another thread...) I just plugged in the HD bean and installed the latest firmware onto it. Then I tried some factory presets and holy lollipop it sounds amazing! I was unable to put the guitar down for an hour or so and it left me completely confused. When I tried the same factory preset on my HD500, using the same guitar, the same cables and making sure the presets were exactly the same (see screenshot), it sounded horrid... thin and unpleasant distortion... I have no idea what's wrong and what I should do? Can you guys point me in a direction? Attached you find the screenshot of both Doctor Crunch presets, as well as an mp3... it shouldn't be hard to figure out which is which and that something's very wrong here! I've also attached both presets just to be sure... but they're factory presets so you guys should have them. Oh... and this happens across the board with all sounds. Even when I build a new sound from scratch and put nothing but an amp in there, the HD500 sounds completely terrible. :( hdvshd500.mp3 Doctor Crunch.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saTa Posted June 3, 2014 Author Share Posted June 3, 2014 Update: I just reinstalled the latest firmware on the HD500 and made sure to overwrite all the sounds on it, so the factory presets are fresh from Line6. It sounds different but still useless, see attached mp3. I'm confused. hd500afterreset.mp3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saTa Posted June 3, 2014 Author Share Posted June 3, 2014 Nevermind... this solved it... it was the output mode... http://line6.com/support/topic/3666-horrible-buzzing-sound-for-most-patches/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triryche Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 The 1st thing I notice is the Guitar In-Z and Input Setup are different. Also check the PAD switch on the HD500. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie_Watt Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 It's usually all about the Output Mode! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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