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Buy the Kemper and profile your own amp, so you will gig with the KPA alone, no amp at all. Buy a good FRFR monitor or, even better, buy a Red Sound RS LG-12 to work with your KPA. Don't excpect to use the KPA and the Mezzabarba togheter. If you need some more advices with the KPA, join the "Kemper Amp Italia" facebook group, there you''ll find more advices

I do it. I put the fxloop after the mixer block and use send/return to link the HD500x to an MXR 10 band eq. Why I don't use one of the hd500x eq? Well, because I need more band than what HD has to offer. HD500x does not have a 10 band EQ for example. Sure, if you only need a low pass filter to kill high freq, you can use a parametric EQ or a vintage-pre or the global EQ but, if you want a better control, an external EQ is not a bad idea IMO and that's why the fxloop exists, to expand the HD500x capabilities with external gear.

I use PA/reference too

You can try the XLR out from the HD500x to the L3T, but I doubt you'll get better results. The L6Link does something to the tone (apart from a big boost in volume) that I wasn't able to reproduce with XLR output

Yes, I've tried before the amp, after the mixer and, finally between the amp and the mixer and this is where I had best results. Placing it before the amp, I couldn't hear that much difference, Placing it after the mixer, was a better guess. It works more or less like putting a tube compressor after the mixer, even if the MP sounds better than the tube comp in this position. But, moving the MP between the amp and mixer made my day :)

both input and output at 50%, the idea being that the overall volume should be the same with the pedal on or off

So, I tried the ART TUBE MP with HD500x and I must admit that it makes a big difference. I just drop the TUBE MP into a pair of patches that I use daily, no special fix to the patches itself (one high gain, one clean). The chain goes like this: guitar > HD500x pre-amp effect (tubescreamer, noisegate) > HD500X amp with cab sim and mic > FXLOOP > TUBE MP > HD500x mixer > HD500x effects (reverb, delay...) > L2T The sound gains fullness, and loose that "digital factor" that you surely know. While playing, I use to switch between FXLoop on and off to hear the difference and, believe me, I can't play without it anymore!

I'm gonna try it tomorrow, just ordered the ART MP

@robbieb61: would you mind to give it a try on the HD500x? guitar -> fxloop -> ART MP -> HD fullamp with resonator at zero -> FRFR

You can also use the volume pedal to turn the distortion on/off (by playing with mix parameter). The volume pedal is big enoug that you won't miss it. I use it to move from rhythm to lead sound because, as you said, I sometimes find hard to hit the right FSx

How is it possibile that you do not open your mouth while using the wah? :) I can't play wah wah without mimic it with my mouth. Nice video BTW :)

Ahah hurghanico, you're right 😊 It was not so loud as it seems from the video, but you know, with double bass drum kicking all the time, you have to raise the volume quite a bit.

To close this thread, here's a video of the show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvztZMMqpOU It was filmed with a mobile phone, so quality is not excellent but you get the idea; the sound you hear is no different from a standard guitar amp (IMHO) and it's 100% HD500X throught local PA. I had the L2M as a monitor on stage (you can see on my left, over a keyboard stand in the dark).

Just finished the show, I went directly to PA from hd500x, was perfect. I used the L2M as a monitor, at 40%, no issue at all. I'm happy 😊

Good advice pianoguy, but I have to be louder than my drummer and usually this means having L2T on 30%. Not sure what happened yesterday night. Anyway, tonight I have a gig, let's hope that 30% will be enough 😊

Usually I set the L2M on 30% and it's already very loud but, yesterday, we went to a new rehearsal room and, for some reason, I had to push it up to 70% and still I was barely audible. It was at 70% that I noticed the red light for the first time. Guess we better go back to previous rehearsal :)

Thank you hurghanico, it's a good answer and I bet you are 100% right.

I guess you're right, since the sound change a lot when the light turns orange/red. Anyway, I don't understand why it happens. While keeping the pod at the same volume/master volume, if I rasise the L2M volume eventually the limiter will kick in. I mean, keeping the input constant (ie the pod) while raising the L2M output should not be a problem, I should be able to raise the volume up to 100%. I think 50% is the max value I can reach before starting to see the orange lights.

Hello, I've noticed that sometimes, when volume is high, let green led near the master volume of L2M becomes orange and sometimes even red. I guess it's not a good sign, but I've found nothing on the manual. This happens when I raise the volume. I mean, with pod master volume at 100%, and L2M ad 30%, it's green. Raising L2M to 50%, become orange/red (only when I star play). The sound I hear from L2M seems to change whenever the light goes from green to orange/red. What does it means? Am I pushing it too hard? Thank you

I use the pod at night so that I can play guitar thought the pod, have a metronome coming from the pc ( or a backing track, or a drum machine) and listen to the whole mix with the headphone attached to the pod. In the meanwhile I may want to record myself playing and in this case, a low latency helps a lot because I must play in sync with the backing track/metronome I hear coming from the pc into my headphone

Yes, I've resolved. I was aware that in order to reduce latency you've to use small buffer, BUT the ASIO config windows that comes with ASIO POD driver is not very clear. As you can see from the picture, there's a nice slider near the bottom of the window (red arrow) that talks about latency and buffer size. This is the first thing I've noticed; I set it to the left and close the window. What you want to modify instead, is the buffer size near the green arrow. This will reduce the latency, not the slider.

Reducing the 4096spls to 256, improved the latency to ~8.1/16ms Thank you

With POD ASIO driver selected, mine says 44.1 Khz 320kbps MP3 2/2ch 4096spls ~96/190ms ASIO Quite different, expecially the 4096 spls

I'm using the HD ASIO driver that's why I was asking. Anyway, switching to ASIO4ALL drivers, I get a latency of 2.5ms. Problem is that with ASIO4ALL enabled, I can't hear any other sounds, just the guitar and the output from reaper (and this is not a fault, it's how ASIO4ALL works). But if you guys have nice latency using HD500 ASIO driver, I guess I should too... I'm gonna investigate further

Hello. I'm using HD500x and reaper to record some stuff (and slow it down to listen to my mistakes) Reaper says I've a latency of ~95/190 ms and, to me it seems way too much. For example, at 150bmp 16th notes, you're going to play 10 notes per second that means 1 note every 100ms that means that with 100ms of latency, I'll be always "one note" behind while recording. How is your latency? Maybe I need to download something to upgrade the ASIO inteface