ebrady

I'm having the same problem with my HD 500X. If anyone comes up with a fix please post.

Pfsmith0 thanks for the input. I will give it a try each way to see which gives me the the best tone.

I use the T5 and HD500X direct into the mixing board. I've found getting clean sounds comes fairly easy. I'm still not completely there with the crunch sounds, but have started getting good results by changing my way of thinking. Coming from an electric guitar background I've found the T5 to be a totally different beast. When looking for a moderate distortion I went for the amps I would normally use with my solid body electric guitar (with unsucessful results). After working with different amps I've found the Tweed model set clean seems to work the best for me. I place a tube overdrive into a tube screamer into a tube compressor before the amp. Most of the drive coming from the tube overdrive. I have the tube screamer set fairly low to add a little brilience back in. Anyway I hope it helps. But as stated above it does take time to get there.

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.