David-Payton

I am a pro. I have worn out my HD500 with 3-6 gigs a week as a one-man band. (Before the HD500 I owned the XT Live, X3 Live, Flextone amp... I've played Line 6 exclusively for a decade.) I play a James Tyler Variax direct through the HD500 through a mixer out through my Line 6 L3T and/or L2T and L3S as needed for size of crowd & venue. I finally got my FIREHAWK FX today. So far I love it! The HD was too hard to edit without having it hooked up to my Mac, and it was near impossible to tweak at gigs. With the Firehawk I can have my iPad or iPhone next to me on my music stand and tweak ANY parameter, including Variax tunings, on the fly. PLUS, it will use my James Tyler Variax models OR magnetic pickups and save them in each patch! Great feature. It is EASY to tweak tones, Easy to FIND online tones to start from, Easy to create your own tones from scratch... They sound great, have the same processing engine as the HD500 & 500X, The color-coded footswitches are great too, and you can have control of FIVE effects at a time. I never used the looper, midi or spdif or L6 connector on the HD500 anyway. If you're into all that, go HD500. If you want the same great sounds, easy tweaking on the fly, an interface that makes easy sense... Go Firehawk FX