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I asked a guy on youtube who said he had some issues and that it was because of the POD. Hi! I plan to order the bias head at the end of the month, and I wonder if you've tried using your HD500 as a midi controller for the rack. However, I appreciate the HD500 for the effects combined with the BIAS. I tried everything, using the pod'EQs, esxternal EQ (31 bands), but never got a real great simulated tone in addition, the memory is quickly overleaded. I even bought the Metal pack, hoping that I would find something decent. I know it is not the same technology nor the same price, but I worked for two years to find a real good tone with the Line 6. Those tones have nothing to do with the pod HD500 amps. I got great tones with minor adjustments.
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I just bought the Bias rack and it sounds really awesome simply in full range studio monitors. This was before Bias desktop, but I think some of the points still apply since whatever you create in Bias desktop can be loaded into JamUp on an iOS device. I did a similar study a while back on Bias. Overall I'm very happy with the results from the HD500X. This setup seems pretty flexible and provides a lot of setup options to deal with different situations and needs. They're not as good as S-Gear, but they're certainly useful. Removing the cabinet resonance and using the vintage pre for voicings seemed to result in very nice tones from the HD500X.
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I found by using the vintage pre directly in front of the blackface or other amps, and using the low and high-pass filters plus the gain controls helped create similar voicings in the HD500X.
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This avoids mud in the bass and fizz/ice pick in the high end, and keeps the distortion musical and responsive. Typically S-Gear amps roll off more bass and treble the more distorted the amp becomes. What I found was there's a lot of tone voicing in the drive, channel, bass, mid and treble shift switches. So I studied what Mike has done in S-Gear to make those wonderful tones. The setup was somewhat complicated (but I actually like that).īut, the HD500X is certainly convenient by itself too. I'm planning on a blog post on this as soon as I can get to it. This is a fantastic sounding setup, and is quite easy to use. So my setup is to use the HD500X as an audio interface and MIDI controller for MainStage and S-Gear, using some of the front of the amp effects from the HD700X into S-Gear, and using S-Gear's modulation, delay and reverb after the amp effects. Mike Scuffham has made an outstanding product that seems to be way ahead of the typical amp modelers. S-Gear does not model amps, it is a small collection of boutique amps that just happen to be implemented in the digital domain. When I first got the HD500X, I spent some time trying to reproduce the wonderful tones I can get from S-Gear. I use MainStage with S-Gear to manage the tones, S-Gear is the digital amp, and other MainStage tracks contain the VIs for the TriplePlay. I got an HD500X for convenience, and because I have a Variax 700 Acoustic and a Variax 300 with a Fishman TriplePlay added.