I've been a pod user in worship since pod 2.0. That's like, 10 years ago lol.. But I used that, then the xt live. On the xt live, all my tones revolved around the ac 30 amp.. I was able to closely match just about any lead worship guitarists tone. But I mostly stuck around a Daniel Carson type tone from Chris Tomlins band. Then, my church offered to buy me the hd500 because I talked about it so much. I basically felt the xt live was starting to hold me back because of the new features on the hd500. After hours and hours of playing around and tweaking on it.. I get most of my tones off of the doctor z amp. If I'm constantly using clean and and dirty tones back and forth on one song I always just use the volume knob to back the gain off to clean. I use a fender amp for some patches, mostly clean, but I do use it on one patch for a beefy classic rock tone on certain songs.. But I use that amp and some fx pedals for "revelation song" by Phillips, Craig and dean and have the lead tone nailed almost dead on with delay and everything. Everything just takes a ton of tweaking to get the many tones you want. People really don't understand the concept of how easy it is to carry a board in and plug it into the pa and your ready for a gig lol. No lugging around 4 $figure$ amps and using 10 pedals to get your tone when you can have a like 30 of the best and most popular amps or however many amps there are on the dang thing with 100 pedals to choose from lol. It's just common sense. At least everyone on this forum "gets it". Oh, and I use an alto ts115a powered speaker at home to come close to the live sound and sometimes plugged into my in ear system at church when I don't feel like using in ears. But anyways, I get compliments consistently about how good my guitar sounds from a lot of people. Good luck bro