BillBee

Nico, my man - we should have that post stickied. :)

Take this with a grain of salt as it has been a year since I recorded with the XT. :) But when I record with the XT/Gearbox (yep the old faithful GB) the patches on the unit are what is being recorded by the DAW. So when I change a patch on the XT the tone changes to what is being recorded. I am not taking in a dry signal though that could be done. I might be able to dig the XT out and fire up it up in the next day or so but it depends on what the band has up for some make up days.

The EQ in the XT. Lower the level on everything uniformly that way it is one way to lower the overall volume. Instead of boosting frequencies you are reducing them. Might work.

Did you try lowering the EQ level? that should lower the output vol and might help your clipping cease. I like the HD myself (but still use XTs/X3s) the HD lets you pad the input but still you "can" make it clip. :) Or you can pop a buffer pedal in the XT's chain.

Its been a while but: Have the split as the 1st thing - guitar to A (run your chain out), Mic to B (I seem to recall adding an amp to make path B work but its not really needed). Are you panning fully left and right the outputs? A - amp B - PA or mix to what you need.

Ahhhhhh "tweak" not just adjusted (tweaked) gotcha. You are doing the steps right. So the question is does your "B" button work? I hate to suggest ripping the chassis out and hitting the switch with DeOxit but its all I have.

Spare money - from your mouth to God's ear. :)

Just grasping my man! On a Pro its easy but I cannot recall a method other than the Channel Vol which the OP sez didn't work. Dropping the signal via the EQ could work but is not really the solution.

Does changing the "gain" setting to -18db (AISO page) help?

If the Flexy was not saving settings after restarting I would say its time to change the internal battery. Its one of those coin type ones - its soldered but a doable job. Saving should be "save" "channel a-b-c or d" then "save" . I don't recall the "manual" button which should cancel the save procedure. IF it keeps screwing up then I would try saving with the floorboard or using L6 Edit. If the presets are saved while the unit is on then it might be a button issue (hit it with some DeOxit for cleaning). If when shut off then changes are gone when restarting then its time to look at the battery IIRC its a BR2325 but a CR2325 is easier to find and should work. Hopefully, its just you hitting the "manual" button that is causing the prob. Hope that helps! Bill

Be sure you have flashed the HD to the latest firmware too.

There should be a Volume "Trim" somewhere in the DAW to control the levels being recorded. Hopefully someone who knows Sonar will pop up.

I know, if I already didn't have a spare I would have nabbed another. I must say its nice not hunching the ole 6'6" frame to the floor to tweak things on the 500. Hopefully L6 will still have the desktop units in the future.

In the Control Panel have you adjusted the signal in "Audio-Midi" devices (I think that's the name). There is control for signal strength going "into" the DAW - I don't have Sonar so I am SOL on that.

Trav: The usb ports on the front of a PC are usually on a hub. L6 gear hates hubs. Its why a bunch of connection problems occur.

Put the HD into Studio Direct and leave it there.

Hey Jerry, you can try pulling out the chassis and reseating all the ribbon connectors. Those can work loose after a number of years and making sure they are seated, it can work wonders. :) Other that that and a can of DeOxit to hit all the connections with and checking cables and batteries (if you use active pu's) it could be a time to shoot a support ticket into to L6.

Well let's take this back one notch to Per-Amps Vs Full Amp Models. Depending on your ears you might choose one way or the other to run to a power amp/cab (FRFR is another ball game which IMO is full models only). The HD's pre-amp models are taking the place of what ever your amp's control's (gain, Eq, etc) are coloring the sound with and yet allows for your power amp to crank it through the cab and speakers you have (for lack of a better term) to EQ/color the sound to a desirable tone. Running the Full Amp models also uses the HD's built in IR's to replicate the different mic/cab/speaker combos to widen the tonal variety beyond what your set/fixed speakers/cab can do. Additional coloring on top of what your cab/speakers are doing. So both are similar in what the power amp is doing - making things loud but how the tones are heard will be different depending on the output mode. I use a Tech21 Power Engine 60. Its a power amp only combo and for me it Studio Direct all day - love it. Some others prefer the Pre-amps only but there is a tonal difference. Fool around with the output modes and you will hear a difference. Its a win-win with the versatility that is in the HD. The above is also a good example of why tones will vary from rig to rig.

You need to use the DAWs input control to lower the signal coming in (there should also be a windows input mixer control in the Control Panel -> old version of Windows btw). That is where I would look.

I am running the Bean and they are the same pack I installed on the 500.

Awesome my man! Be sure to come back!

My advice - register it, run the L6 Monkey, L6 License Manager and Authorize the UX to see if you are already authorized to use PF2. If not run around with PF1 and see how you like it. Your plan of buying a GX so you could use PF2 with the UX8 wouldn't work as the GX would be the dongle that would be tied to PF. IE. you don't actually get a standalone transferable version of PF included with it, where the GX goes so does PF.

Ditto me on the hitting the "save" button on the unit. I just default to doing that now for the HD Bean & 500.

Its not the Pod's volume but the PC's input level you need to look for. Control Panel option for input? Also the mixer slider in the DAW.

Its been forever since I've used Audacity but from what I read in your post it sounds like you need to increase the input signal going into the DAW.