ebrady Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 I am currently running a Taylor T5 into my HD500x then straight into the mixing board. The 500X offers many great sounds (acoustic and electric) but I would like to add a specific overdrive / distortion pedal in the chain. My question is how the input stage of the HD500x will handle a gain pedal. Is there a better way to achieve this? Thanks in advance for any input. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfsmith0 Posted October 5, 2015 Share Posted October 5, 2015 You can either add it before the HD500 (Guitar -> pedal -> HD500 -> external mixing board) or you can use the FX send/return int he HD500 (Guitar -> HD500 Guitar Input -> FX send -> external pedal -> FX return -> HD500 -> external mixing board). The advantage of the latter is that you can put other FX or amp sims before/after the external pedal, giving you much more flexibility. The disadvantage of the latter is the FX send/return takes up one of the 8 FX blocks the HD500 has. I suppose you could also put the external pedal AFTER the HD500 as well. Any of these will work and give you different sounds/options. You won't break anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebrady Posted October 5, 2015 Author Share Posted October 5, 2015 Pfsmith0 thanks for the input. I will give it a try each way to see which gives me the the best tone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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