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