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Oh my GOSH! Thank you for the laugh. I needed that. Am I still cool if I still like DJENT? I feel kind of geeky after watching those.

Yes I think you can with the HD. Regarding your Vetta, you can use your SPDIF on your HD (and the X3 has one also I think) into your Vetta's SPDIF input if you have one to use the Vetta as a power amp. This also puts your HD or X3 before everything In the Vetta so you can still use it! Just make a patch with nothing in it on you rpedal board. Although right now it looks like the SPDIF in on the Vetta sums it to mono. I'm still checking that out. You could also try the FX loop input of you Vetta to use it as a power amp as well but you then can't use the Vetta's amps. This is a very basic explanation of what can be done with your Vetta and floor unit. There is more to it. Back to your setup... You do have significantly more "moving" FX and amp around options with the HD than either the Vetta or X3. Based on what you want to do, I think the HD would do exactly what you want it to. Definitely moreso than the X3. You'll need several MIDI cables to control everything. Download the manual. You'll get a good idea if it's for you. Go here for more on how you can use your Vetta with the HD500. http://line6.com/supportarchivenew/thread/63589/

"Younger folks coming up today are just fine with digital because they don't know what things used to be like. I feel very lucky really to be able to see both sides of the divide so clearly and have been able to live it." There does seem to be alot of this "you weren't there so you don't know" attitude among the vinyl crowd. I was there, I have seen both sides of the divide, lived it, and I love digital. Analog audio reproduction was never an accurate recording medium. It had several limitations including the dynamic range and frequency response (any of you old recording engineers remember the hysteresis loop?). Digital actually captures the exact sound of something more accurately than the analog gear did. What all the vinyl people call better is actually a more processed signal partly because of vinyl's limitations, which in itself could be considered a type of processing, and partly that because of vinyl's limitations, the signal was processed even more to make up for those limitations during the mastering process. It's why good mastering engineers were like gold in those days. You really had to have a wizard's grasp of analog/vinyl's limitations and how to best overcome them to get a good sound. One of the reasons CD's sounded so crappy at first is because they just slapped the old master tapes onto the CD's which were EQ'd/processed for vinyl's limitations. Therefore everything that was "processed" for the vinyl world wound up sounding terrible in the more accurate digital world. That's why they had to be "Digitally remastered" for the CD world. And, given the state of digital recording these days, just about all of vinyl's limitations can be added to a digital signal to reproduce that wonderful "warm" sound that's caused by a limited dynamic range and limited frequency response, among other things. I'll bet the hysteresis loop could be recreated for whatever gear you wanted to emulate. Now I'm not trying to say digital is the perfect medium but to make a blanket statement that analog/vinyl is just better because, uh well, it just is, is uh, well, a bit myopic. At the very least it would be just as bad as me saying digital is a superior medium. Afterall, all of the data says it is. That statement is myopic.

What amp are you using?

I thought I was clear. They don't quite cut it.

One of the hardest tones to get is that Boston tone. I still haven't been succesful at it. If someone found one, I would be very impressed. There are some on Customtone but they don't quite cut it.

One thing I have found when transferring patches from 500 to 500x is you should always save it from your unit. Don't just "send" it from the edit program, actually press the save button (twice) to make sure it gets to your device.

Thank you all for your advice. The SKB looks like what I'm looking for. Thanks again.

Well I only know about the "feel" because I have felt it. It's hard to describe but it feels like you're interacting with the amp itself. How you move, how you handle your strings, etc., something a listener would have no way of feeling. And I've only experienced it with a tube amp. I have never owned a full tube amp but have played through a few and the "feel" phenomenon was very pronounced each time. And it wasn't psychosematic (sp?) since the first few times I new nothing about the "feel" other than I was feeling it when I played through that tube amp.

As far as I can tell, the only person that benefits from the amp in the same room feel is the player. No one else "feels" it. Having said that, the "feel" is absolutely there and makes the playing of the guitar more enjoyable, musical, interactive, etc. It IS there and makes a difference for the player.

Has anyone found a good tight fitting guitar case for the JTV-69. Seems to me someone mentioned that a case built for a Strat or Ibanez guitar worked but I don't really remember. Any advice? I know I can have one custom made. I'd like to spend a little less than that.

One thing you won't get (or, at least I haven't) is that really rich reverb at the beginning. Try using the paticleverb, it can get you close, also the cave reverb, but I've never been able to get EXACTLY the reverb I would like. I'm a Variax/Pod guy because I love the vesatility so I'm sticking with it. Guess I will put the reverb I want in the effects loop if it's that important to me.

The SAG knob in DEP Amp Parameters acts kind of like a compressor. The higher the level the more "tight" it is. Try turning the SAG parameter down.

With all this talk about losing the bright "high metallic frequncies" of the strings and how changing the strings will fix that, here's something from the Guitar Center page for one of the recommended strings, D'addario half rounds. Ground flat for playing speed and comfort. Heat treated for extra brightness. Just kinda funny. Bottom line...if it works, it works.

I have a setlist called amp room. That's where I put all my default amps.

Do you have HD Edit on your computer?

It's been said that the best way to use the tuning feature in the Variax is to keep your guitar in standard tuning. It has to do with how it was programmed to work.

The month March was mentioned in some threads. I think it's accurate. I think DigitalIgloo actually said it but not sure. I'm pretty sure that's accurate. Sooner would be GREAT! But I'm expecting March sometime.

I love my JC120's chorus, but ya ain't gonna get it in the amp sim. You'll have to add that effect like any other amp.

I figured they were but these are strong enough, I can create my own at will, and I've found I'm not that interested in them anyway. If I was I might have considered the ones you got.

Yeah, I have a template I use in Publisher. Create whatever I want. I then print them to sheets like you describe only you can print on them. Presto chango, magnetic labels for the HD500. The magnetic "stick" isn't that strong but definitely strong enough for this purpose

I do have a JTV Variax. I hope you are wrong. I fnally got a good acoustic sound out of my Variax 500 using the mic preamps and boom....No preamps in the HD500. Anyone else know for sure?

I think my question got buried in a couple of threads. Can anyone out there explain to me what is meant by POD Farm acoustic that's being offered with the Vintage Model Pack? I'm hoping it's the mic preamps but I can't tell. Went through the POD Farm manual to no avail.

Just a few comments. The model pack idea is not a new one for Line 6. They did it for the XT line. Had the same model pack names. They are still available I believe. And if they follow their history, all the packs will be available on a new HD unit like they were when they went from the XT to the X3. Not gonna stop me from getting the packs bu something to consider. In regard to ideascale I would hope that most people would realize that it is a way to get free advice. I like it since sometimes employees spend so much time with a particular product, they start to lose sight of what Joe Schmoe wants. Of course we've all seen that with many products. An idea I submitted on the forums a long time ago, way before ideascale, was implemented in the X3 that was an issue for me in the Vetta amp series. That was the FX loop was only after the amps. I suggested being able to put it before the amps was a very good thing. Next thing I knew, you could. And of course it's in the HD series moreso. Now I'm not saying that it was only because of me this happened. But I'm still waiting for my residual check. ;) There was at least one other idea I had suggested a long time ago that was implemented. So if it means ideas that wouldn't have been thought of by the people who might be a little too close to the product are considered and used, then I'm all for it. But, as you said, when you do that you're kind of doing their job for them. I also am excited about the new amps. Here's an interesting little fact. For the original Variac'd Marshall model, on the Marshall they used to model it, the Variac voltage going to the amp was turned up. As you should know, this model was an attempt to get you Van Halen's amp sound. I enquired that I had heard Mr. Van Halen actually tuned the Variac voltage down and lied about it so no one would copy him. It was stated by the Line 6 employee on the forums at the time that they had tried it turning down the Variac voltage and it sounded terrible. So the model is the Marshall with the Variac tuned up. Well it tuns out I was right. Mr. Van Halen has admitted to turning the Variac voltage down to get his brown sound, not up. He originally did it in an attempt to be able to crank the amp and keep the volume low. Liked what he heard. Just a little tid bit of info I thought people might find interesting.