robertmcollins3

After using a Boss ME-25 for the most part of the last two years or so, I finally upgraded to the HD500x (obviously wow what a difference, not even comparable). I've only used it once at church so far, but I believe I have it setup fairly well for 95% of worship music situations: Patch basically looks like this: Vol Pedal Tube Comp Screamer RAT(Classic) Distortion (I also play in a Spanish church with my wife, and a few songs have fairly heavy distortion, so this may be fairly optional) AC30 Amp with what I believe is a Celestion 25 modeled speaker Delay One - Set to Dotted 8th Delay Two - Set to 1/4 notes Reverb (Hall I believe) Noise Gate (I play a Strat, so this may be optional as well) I have the settings to use pedalboard mode and just saved this as "Worship" in the user presets. I can't think of much else that I'd need for worship, unless it just a funky song that maybe required a wah or something, but that'd be fairly rare. Hope it helps! Keep it simple though - slight overdrive and unobtrusive delay will get you through in most situations.

Ah, I see, thanks.

Okay thanks, so we have one spot on the floor box that has two available inputs. So in that case, I should use two XLR outs so I can take advantage of the stereo capabilities? Also, if the 1/4 inch is much hotter than using the XLR, would that explain why the volume seems low in the house when using one XLR out of only the left XLR out of the HD500? I agree, I'd rather only use the one XLR instead of the 1/4" into DI method, but not at the sacrifice of tone/volume if that makes sense...

I'm new to plugging a multi-fx directly into the mixer for live performances. Assuming I only have the option of using one or the other, is it best to plug the XLR cable directly into the left (or right) XLR out of the POD, or is it better to plug a 1/4" into the POD 1/4" output and then into a DI box? Or does it matter? It's just a basic setup where the sound person controls the house mix and send me some guitar into my monitor. And is there a third better option (that doesn't involve lugging more equipment)?

Figured, thanks. But then I'm guessing the computer will have no sound (besides from the POD)? I just have a cheap set of computer speakers for now...

Sorry as I'm sure this is a silly question. But I plugged in my HD500x to my computer using the USB cable and installed the editing software. But I have no sound in the computer (headphones and everything else works fine). I'm assuming I need to hook something else up in order to hear the sounds from my computer? Thanks!