[manatarms]

I bought an HD500 and gave it a shot for 3 weeks. I liked some of the sounds I was getting, and I think if I couldn't have returned it, I would have been happy with it, but I was having trouble with a few things. I really like playing classic rock and Marshall tones, as well as lightly broken up stuff. I was having a hard time getting great tones like that with the HD500. I also thought the HD500 tended on the bassey side. I also found that I wasn't using a lot of the effects it had. (Some of them are just kinda weird and not something I would use anyway.) Reading all the reviews of the Eleven Rack and seeing that those are the tones it is the best at made me want to return the HD500.

So now I've got an Eleven Rack on order. I'll be buying the expansion pack and look forward to the tones I can get!