Well......maybe that ones borderline. Just the same..the guy keeps begging for it. I woulda quit a couple of pages ago..really!

OK...but I think this guys a self starter!

Im not offended at all from the artwork.  No reason to be, the attempts are futile.

Go enjoy your HD.  As well as your chevy cavalier.

Hehe... you hate Chevy as well?  You probably hate apple pie, too!

leesguitar wrote:

 

+1n on that.

 

Some of the amps (especially the higher gain ones) Sound muffled, like there is a blanket over the speakers and the eq on the unit is nowhere near good enough to sort them out.

Hi leesguitar,

What did you have the HD500 plugged into?  Getting the best out of the gear does depend on how it's amplified.

What you have described is lightyears away from the tone and feel of what I have experienced playing either direct to active PA speakers using studio direct or through the DT50 via the L6 LINK.  I definitely get the impression that what you were using to amplify the HD500 might have spoiled things for you.

Cheers,

Crusty

All I know is I'm falling deeper in love with the HD500 with each passing day.  It sounds great through my amp, and it sounds great through my pa.  Actually talking about nitpicking, I'm going the other way, I'm mean I could make separate set lists, one for my amp and one for my pa but I have decided to tweak my patches so they sound good through both.  If that means a little bit of compromise then so be it.  For one thing, if I decide to just bring the HD500 and my pa to rehearsal, I'll have a fairly good representation of my sound and I won't have to change any settings.  And I won't forget to change settings back before a gig to go through my amp.   Most importantly, if I want to run left mono out to my amp and right mono out to the pa I'll have fairly consistent tone in both places. To put all this back into the perpsective of the thread and the recent flavour it's taking.  I play in a cover band, I've been playing in bands for about 35 years, but there is a lazy side to me, so I try to create some bread and butter tones that will work across multiple songs. I'm not the kind of guy who is going to try to nail every tone from every song to a "T" and make 45 + patches for a night. I have a few specialty patches, but I get through most of the night with 4 patches ( which of course have some variations on the footswitches).  And my guitar tone sounds great for every song.  So, just as we realize that we don't listen to songs and say that could have used a better guitar tone, or perhaps notice that there is a terrible guitar tone in a song that has been really popular, the truth is if we play those songs live, we can use a tone that we think sounds fine for the song. Heck in the early days I did all my covers with a single channel amp and a few stomp pedals.  Now that I have the HD500 I have so many choices but choose to keep it simple.  Don't get me wrong good tone is as important to me as it is to anyone, but I can get everything I need from the HD500 and I can't ever imagine wanting or needing the axe fx.  When I watch the YouTube comparisons, I don't think either one sounds better, I think it's sounds different.   The fact is they are both modelers, its true you will get fairly consistent tone from two different rectifiers, or twins or vox's, especially if they are fairly close in era.   But there may be some differences especially if you are talking about vintage pieces.  So, taking that into consideration, and the fact that those amps were modeled by different people in different labs using different items, and yet look how close they sound.  It could very well come down to the fact that if you choose the same amp model on the axe fx and the HD500 and set all the settings the same, they sound a little different.  That doesn't mean you couldn't tweak the tone a little closer.   Personally, I could give a crap if any of the models sound exactly like the amp being modeled.  The model names are just reference points that help me figure out where to start.  Ultimately it's the final tone I achieve that matters, not what's inside the box or how much I paid for it.  After all the years I have been playing, I'm so inspired by the tones I get from the HD500 that I'm playing my guitar 2 to 3 hours a day.   My fingers are raw!   Now I have just ordered, a JTV59 to go with it, I'm really excited about the combination.