I bought this HD500 about 8 weeks ago as an upgrade to my POD-XTs which have been extremely serviceable for touring purposes. The sampled sounds in the HD sound like they are certainly improved but I miss a couple of the built in effects such as the default compressor/noise gate and a couple of others that had not been implemeted in this model.
The problem that I notice most is the imbalance between the default volume levels of different amps models especially in PRE mode. For instance, the Blackface Deluxe is much louder. than the Blackface Twin (ie: double verb), the Marshall 100 is much louder than the 45, the Vox AC30 is louder than the Vox Fawn, etc. The XT was much less variable.
So ...
(1) Is this common amongst these models?
(2) Is there away of resetting the unit to defaults?
(3) Would a reflash of the firmware possibly fix this issue?
TIA.