So I had my first gig with this today. My initial writeup was after borrowing an L3T.

Local distro let me pick up the L3T again for my current tour. 15 minutes into the drive back I got a call from their head office to say that they have a few L3Ms. Went back and got the L3M instead. L3M makes much more sense for me, as the only difference is the L3T has an additional DSP control panel and additional inputs with their own effects on them (delay, reverb etc, accoustic emulation, they are there for the singer/songwriter who would do an accoutic gig and use it for vocals/accoustic guitar. Very cool feature but of no use to me as I simply want a FRFR system for the HD500

First show on our saving grace tour was Ohope. Incredibly small town, blink and you miss it kind of dea. Was dreading the worst as it is a tiny town and we were playing in the middle of nowhere with no cellphone reception.

It was AWESOME! Great turnout (it was an all ages show) and the crowd was great and got looked after really, really well!  On a side note, small town crowds are usually 500% more enthusiastic and energetic than bigger towns. Kids were having a great time and not woried about what was cool or what other kids were thinking of them like they do at auckland shows, haha. I'm siked to do a 'small town tour' of NZ now haha.

Anywho, our turn to play, got up on stage, took the 4x12 backline off, put up the L3M (standing up), put our stage scrims up to hide the backline and had the HD500 out front with one lead running back to it. Also then took the XLR cable from the cabinet mic and stuck it into my unit, and just told the soundguy to treat it as per normal i.e a mic'd cab. Said that the HD500 emulates a lot of the 'mic placement' details so he won't need to do much. The P.A looked to be doing mostly kick and vocals anyway, so I cranked my stage sound up for good measure.

It was loud, VERY loud. Other guitarist was using a 5150II and Hiwatt 4x12 and it kept up  with it easily, I was at half volume and drowing him out. Also for it's size, I was amazed at how much bass/body I was getting out of it. Rest of the band were totally sold on it as well, our bassist said it sounded just like a 4x12/traditional setup and he couldnt tell the difference what was behind the stage scrim.

Was also siked to have kids come up while I was packing down going all 'brooooooooooo what is that?' haha. Got a lot of 'where's your amp' haha.

Love my new L3M/HD500 setup. I'm doing a HD500 clinic for our line 6 local distro in September, hoping to have an entire Line 6 P.A setup to crank through!

No problem at all

Would it work just the same with a small amp like the dt25 behind you rather than the lt3? I've got no experience with the DT25 but I choose this as it's a Full Range Flat Response setup, the HD500 is doing everything and the L3M is a flat E.Q, it does not colour the HD500 signal at all. I'd imagine the DT25 would, as would the cabinet that I'd be choosing to use with it. And then the D.I signal being sent to my drummer would be completely different to what I am hearing on stage. Plus I wanted to elimate a mic'd cab on stage and have a straight D.I to soundguy/p.a

What's it like having the lt3 acting like a monitor in front of you rather than behind you? I just played two gigs this weekend and I had the L3M behind me standing up where a traditional cab was. I preferred this as it still gave the soundguy a loud 'stage sound'. Some of the venues we play at can be small bars and I've had a sound guy once tell me he relies on a bit of stage bleed/stage volume as his p.a was quite small. The L3M was louder than the 150w tube amp my other guitarist uses so there was no problem there. I've yet to use the L3M as a monitor on front of stage, but for the last two months I've been going D.I with just house monitors so I'm used to having a fairly quiet stage.

Would you use the lt3 at a big gig in front of you or just use the house monitors, or, could you use the lt3 in front of you just for your own sound and still have the house monitors to give you the rest of the band? Well that's the great thing about this, I could really do whatever I wanted to do. My personal preference would be to have the L3M behind me acting as a tradtional 'cab' for stage sound, with an XLR from the HD500 going out to the soundguy, and still use the house monitors for traditional mix of the rest of the band. I'm going to be playing Parachute in January on a 20,000 capacity main stage so I'll probably just follow this route. We have stage scrims that our backline hides behind anyway so it makes it nice and tidy.

Can you explain further what output you use to send to your drummer and what he is hearing through this?just one of the XLR outputs. My I have a 'mono' signal, so to speak, so I have one XLR going to drummer, one XLR going to p.a and the standard left output 1/4" jack going to L3M. Everyone hears the same thing.