Matt's Setlist 0.7 Released

An updated setlist since 0.6

I figured since Bank 16 is the bank I use in live settings, as it features the top of the line tones, I am somewhat referring to it as my LIVE bank, where it contains the 4 patches ill need, and can be edited for each set we play.

This update changes banks 11-16. It adds several tones, and refines the artist tones.

The tones that are new from the last update are
-Experiment (15B, and 16C)
-Mesa Boogie (15A, and 16D)
-Metallica 1984 (15D)
-There are also a few new tones scattered around, that are not very good, but just haven't been replaced

The bank structure is:
--Banks 1-4 are clean patches
--Banks 5-10 are dirty/heavy patches
--Banks 11-12 are artist series banks
--Banks 13-14 are empty slots, where tones are currently tested before receiving a spot (a few tones can be found there, that may or may not be any good)
--Banks 15-16 are the LIVE banks, they feature the top of the line sounds, bank 15 has backup sounds that are moved into bank 16 depending on the set. Bank 16 is the live worship set, that contains 2 clean patches, and 2 heavy patches

Current Bank 16 or LIVE setup
A: Clean 2PH 3CH                  (The go-too clean patch)

B: Clean U2  2PH 3CH           (Same as the Clean 2PH 3CH tone, except it features a delay that                                                            mimics a U2 type sound)

C: Experiment                          (The go-too dirty patch. Think late 90's early 2000's Metallica)

D: Mesa Boogie                       (Very thick, can melt walls, neatly disassemble cars and intricate                                                             tools)

Notes

*Bank 4 is still empty, as it has no good enough clean patches yet
*The artist series patches have always been there, they have just been neatly rearanged

Upcoming Ideas

In the future I'd love to add more clean tones, and remove some of the ones that arn't spectacular. The 5-10 dirty/heavy banks are a mess, they are full of hit or miss tones, and has no identity. I'd love to get some solid tones in there, but if I don't find them, I have to make them, and that takes time. I am still perfecting the Metallica 1984 sound in bank 15-D. It closely resembles it as of now. In the future I may break it off as a James Hetfield artist series tone, but haven't decided whether to have one James Hetfield tone, or have two, each replicating his tone as its transformed over the years.

I would also love to sound match the tones through pan's, db boosts or cuts, amp settings, and master volumes so it's more seamless transitioning from one tone to another. That way a dirty tone wont make you too loud, or the dirty tone is at a good volume, but the cleans just are not there. This would make soundcheck smoother, and allow you to still have volume no matter what LIVE tone you choose.

Additionally:

Since we have free banks, there's no reason why I can take your favorite tones that you use, and put them in somewhat of a LIVE bank for you too. It could be any bank from 13-15 no problem. This would allow you to have your favorite tones you use to be in a bank you are familiar with in each update. If you ever switch a tone out for something you like better, I can just re arrange them into that bank in the next update, so it will be there by default when you update.

-Matt

Downloading and Using Setlists

This step by step tutorial will show you how to download and install setlists onto the HD500X.

I'll use my 'Matt's Setlist 0.6' as an example for this.

Note: You should have POD HD500X Edit installed, and your HD500X unit hooked up to your computer through Line 6 Monkey prior to this tutorial.

1. Navigate to the Blog's Homepage, and click the Setlist of your choice on the side bar, on the right side of the screen.

2. This will navigate you to a download screen, simply download it.

3. Once downloaded, either open up HD500X Edit, or if you are using chrome, click the downloaded file on the bottom of your screen, which should open up HD500X edit.

4. Once in HD500X edit, click file on the top left of the screen.

5. Once the dropdown menu is open, click 'Open Setlist'

6. Navigate to your download location, select the file, and click open,

7. HD500X should load the setlist in at this point.

8. You can either go to File > Save Setlist to save it to your computer, or select 'Set List' in the Send section, which will send the Setlist to your HD500X unit.

Setting up Volume Pedal Control (On the HD500X)

This tone "fire balls***" didn't come default with the volume pedal programmed into it.

To add the volume pedal in. This will show step by step how to add it in, this will work with any tone.

1. Select the tone of choice, and on the screen you should see an overview like this, showing all of the effects on the tone. Note the little black arrow over the far left effect.

2.  Using the 4 way control pad on the right, click over to an empty space that doesn't have an effect on it. (If the tone has all of the spaces taken, or it tells you that you don't have enough data to add more effects, just find an effect that you don't want/need on the tone, and replace it with the volume effect.)

3. The [1] shown in the empty space says none, to change this, use the #1 knob below the screen to change it to a volume/pan effect.

4. Scroll the knob to the right or left until you see 'Vol/Pan' this is the volume adjustment effect. Once you have it on this effect, it should connect to the main pedal on the unit and allow you to control it.

5. The volume pedal should be already set up, but to tweak the volume pedal more, you can use the knobs to adjust the levels of volume and what ranges the levels will be reached.
the numbers in the dark shaded area on the bottom of the screen correlate directly with the knobs below the screen. The words describe the function, and the knobs change or tweak the function.

6. If you rock the main pedal all the way back, it should update the value on the shaded area of the bottom of the screen. If you rock it all the way back the volume should be reduced to 0% be default. If you have a specific volume you want at the bottom of the pedal, you can adjust this by percentage, so when you rock the pedal all the way back it will reduce the volume to a set point opposed to reducing it to no noise at all.

 7. Once the pedal is rocked all the way back, use knob #4 to scroll up the percentage. Since you started at 0%, scrolling it up is setting its low position, or what the volume will be when the pedal is rocked all of the way back.

8. Now that the low position is set, you can rock the volume pedal all the way up to see that the volume is updated to 100%

9. The same as before, you can adjust the level of volume your pedal will cap at when it is rocked all the way forward. You can use knob #4 to set the volumes top cap position by rolling it backwards.

10. After you're done with all of your adjusting, just save the tone using the save button at the top left corner of the control area.