{"id":112,"date":"2012-01-01T19:29:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T00:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackfrogguitars.com\/?p=112"},"modified":"2015-01-04T00:54:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T00:54:14","slug":"hd500-based-pedal-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blackfrogguitars.com\/?p=112","title":{"rendered":"HD500 based pedal board"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year. I have been wanting to talk about the way I have set up my HD500 for a while but been too busy with other projects. \u00a0This morning I had a major issue. \u00a0It appeared that I had lost all of my patches which forced me to scramble up a quick basic brand new patch about 10 minutes before showtime. \u00a0I messed around with the board tonight to happily discover that the entire problem was in my head. I was not hitting the right button to reload the other sound banks. All this was a result of a total lack of sleep. \u00a0Last night was New Years Eve after all. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 \u00a0Since I had things out on the floor, I took some pictures and put this post together real quick.<\/p>\n

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Pictured above is the rig I ended up putting together between January and July of last year. \u00a0I am sure most of you will agree, this type of project never ends. \u00a0I am sure I’ll be filling up that remaining space at some point but am happy with the flexibility and portability I have now. \u00a0I haven’t done anything with it since the end of summer other than tweak patches to include the fx loop.\"IMG_0717-1024x522\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Requirements<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wanted something that would work well in a variety of situations and give me a large palette of great tones to work with. I play at church and plug in straight to a PA so I wanted something fairly light and quick to set up for that purpose. When I am playing with a band, I like to have an amp too. This setup ideally should work well either with my 5150 half stack or into a Tech 21 Power Engine 60. Sadly I have not experimented enough with the 5150 to say whether I like it in that scenario but it sounds great into the PE60. \u00a0Note that I have heard very good reports of using the 4-cable method to maximize the sound of both your amp and the HD500. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The Tour<\/strong><\/p>\n

For the tour of the board I decided it would be easier to show it in a short video rather than try to describe it so I recorded something and put it up on YouTube. I have been experimenting with some music and comedy videos out there just for fun and wanted to do something a bit more serious that might have a chance of helping someone who is thinking about effects, boards, gear, and setting things up.<\/p>\n

Here is the link, I hope it is of some value!<\/p>\n