SteveEds

Firstly am I allowed to do this on the forum, if so here's the guff In Christchurch New Zealand and will only sell within NZ and only to a person who comes and either picks it up or has a friend who will (saves the "rip-off" thing we are scared about) Bought it new 6 months ago Has been sitting on my table only and have been using the onboard sound card for recording, never out of my room, it's just perfect new condition, it's a brilliant thing and hate to get rid of it..and everything I have a lot of gear to sell Have a brand new severe illness (yes that's always fun :) ) so am selling everything I've bought over the last 20 years, my Strat I bought 36 years ago new Just PM me If I'm not allowed to advertise just delete this, it will then go onto the local auction site "TradeMe" thanking you

Like a few here I also started at 12-13 years old, now 58. I'm one of those with no talent at all but just loved playing. At around 18 I took lessons in playing lead and I remember taking one year to learn the lead to sweet home alabama which I promptly forgot about 3 months later, it was an expensive lead to forget (smile) I played in bands as a very average player but I did bring my passion along each week and which was mistaken for talent by the other very average muso's in the group but the fun factor was very high. At around 30 it occurred that my old teacher could "jam" along with any chords I played and that started to fascinate me so I played over and over SHA for at least another year and worked out the pentecostal scale all by myself (no Jesus had nothing to do with it) I worked out (this is still pre-internet) that playing in a different key meant I could switch patterns and it all opened up. Now this was a big thing back then and I was slightly miffed that my teachers never showed me but he did get the money and that was fine. I also found you can play lead guitar and sound ok without actually having to know a chord, just the key it was in, I jammed everywhere and even with no ability I sounded ok, that led onto the sound and after awhile I saw if you can get the sound of the band you could trick anyone into thinking you not only knew what you were doing you had this mystical talent. When skynet came online and youtube arrived I did a we video showing how this worked, since then there are so many brilliant "how to" videos out there now, but, I'll show you mine, remember I worked this out by my myself and this is a place just to talk about guitar stuff. I was talking to a friend who had being playing in a band and told him about it, this was 20 years ago he went away for 15 minutes and called back and said it was like a jigsaw puzzle coming together for him after years, this completed it all for me. I tried to find the y/tube video but can't, it's their somewhere called "the trick" anyway it's not important.

I did this yesterday with no issues, just followed the page, sorry if that doesn't help but may ease your mind.

We had a residency a couple of years back and I'm sitting here reflecting on how it all went then my thoughts focused on the one guy who thought I was some sort of God. I didn't see it at first but through the break he'd come up to me and tell me how the guitar sounded in each of the PF songs I did, he just wanted to be around me (even my wife doesn't like to be around me). A nice guy and he would be there each week, he didn't want to be my friend as such and was always there to encourage, I'm one of those "all back of the buss" players so it was always a surprise as he talked to and with me. There is something about being in a band when you don't have an ego or care about anything apart from what your playing, that all changes when you play to real life people Just an observation that still fascinates me.

Using amps you get a free volume pedal. The important thing is global EQ, it sets the overall color of the sound and can be matched to the gear at/in the moment especially for the darker music where overtones shatter the output EQ's. (those out of harmony collective sounds)

Jandiro I did a side by side of your money patch and my hiwatt patch, in the room yours was indeed noisy and a bit much fuzz while mine was smoother, yet in the recording your's sounds more alive. Yours is the second solo No disclaimers on the playing, it's to late for me to start again (oh dear that was a disclaimer) My patch wasn't designed be Steve B to work through a computer (I has the GT-8 for that) but it'll pass A Strat MONEY.mp3

I think I did it. I do know most will hate them, it's ok I'm on the road to enlightenment so can't take offence, I am just starting though so may have to just maim those with to much negativity. :) Oh bother it says "Error You aren't permitted to upload this kind of file" it's was a 7 zip Time to move on one would think., I'm keen to try your money patch, thanking you

"My curiosity was piqued by your subtle innuendo" I think I had two running there (smile) I have mailed to three people so far who mailed me, if there is any feedback (would have to be outstanding) I will post them or they probably will. I did trust my original post and for me there is not really a disclaimer. I'm not trying to be mysterious just protecting the new member, me Power user I did try a few things to upload but I'm keen to see if Steve is onto something or it's just another let down (they have not been for me but I'm no power user of anything)

I'm all for "shameless plugs " it is the end user point of using the 500 :) And that's some of what it's about. Plus we get to hear real world use, thanks for that.

Thanks, I wasn't confident enough to upload to the dedicated place, we know that we all think our patches are perfect :), a noob (like me) will always make this mistake but gladly getting older has some benefits. I can email it ..

I bought it new around 3 months ago I looked online for the Pink Floyd patches and ended up d/loading 100's of patches, I sat there and tried them all. The perfect PF patch (from a youtube vid) was indeed perfect running through headphones so away I went to band practice, it was terrible and I was just cut. The drummer Steve Bartlet (BAJA) who builds effect pedals gave me his Line 6 500 best 4 patches and well , just outstanding. He's an old bugger like me and has the early live sounds in his head that he works with, I have the Boss GT-8 conditioned sounds in mine. The thing is it works and is just brilliant, when you do it right it covers many sounds, the PF sound is part of the one coverall patch I now use. It does SCM, PF, Santana spot on, take off the overdriven valve sounds and you get that 60-70"s sweet home Alabama sounds, move the volume pedal down and it brings on a deeper delay and Chorus for a full sweet sound. The point is when you actually know sound you can get it, it's taken him 4 years of working with his 500 to do it though. I thought nothing could replace the 10 years of building sounds on the GT-8 but this 500X has proved to be simply outstanding. I run the 500X into a pair of 600 watt powered Wharfdale speakers I have four what I call "coverall" patches if anyone wants them. They are in stomp mode and will take a while to learn but they are all mostly the same with subtle differences, the y are built to go into a PA or a EQ flat amp. I see I can attach a file, This is the one I mostly use, it's a 500 patch, select "all files" to load it to the 500X, I'd be interested to hear others takes on it good or bad, I won't take offence at all. I see I can't attach the patch