Hi guys,
I've been using a HD500 ever since they first came out. Usually, I use it live with my DT25 and everything seems fine. However, I've been taking it home to do some recording and couldn't for the life of me get it to sound right. The distortion sounds absolutely horrible and I don't remember it being this bad.
After a lot of tweaking, I decided to get a HD bean. I've been thinking of getting one forever to save me from lugging the HD500 around all the time or being unable to record ideas and tweak sounds at home. (As a sidenote, I wish getting sounds from HD500 to HD bean and back were easier but that's for another thread...)
I just plugged in the HD bean and installed the latest firmware onto it. Then I tried some factory presets and holy lollipop it sounds amazing! I was unable to put the guitar down for an hour or so and it left me completely confused. When I tried the same factory preset on my HD500, using the same guitar, the same cables and making sure the presets were exactly the same (see screenshot), it sounded horrid... thin and unpleasant distortion... I have no idea what's wrong and what I should do? Can you guys point me in a direction?
Attached you find the screenshot of both Doctor Crunch presets, as well as an mp3... it shouldn't be hard to figure out which is which and that something's very wrong here! I've also attached both presets just to be sure... but they're factory presets so you guys should have them.
Oh... and this happens across the board with all sounds. Even when I build a new sound from scratch and put nothing but an amp in there, the HD500 sounds completely terrible. :(
hdvshd500.mp3
Doctor Crunch.zip