Took your advice and played it through the amp... Sounded amazing!!! Ended up buying the podhd500x.. Must say tho, this is not for beginners. I mean the presets are ok, but if you want to master the processor, be ready to study tubes, amps and premps, cabs, how they fit together, master volumes, etc etc etc.. In actuality i just gave you a small intro, just refer to the basic manual that comes with the processor THEN look at the 140(i think) page advanced manual..

But with that said i am in no way complaining, i find it fascinating. I started by taking specific presets and breaking them down, this was helpful. To the advanced tone guys definitely buy it and thank me later. The looper os a ton of fun, precisipn of the wah and volume pedals is awesome, and the fact you can set tempo with delay and modulatipns, AND apply them along with other effects to the expression pedal is sick.. I am still in the stage of tryong to force making tones with my favorite amps(like the mesa boogie, which even with 0 percent drive sounds like more of a propagandhi distortion than a tommy emmanuel clean. Only thing i will caution against is dont buy it thinking you are gonna dive in AND play a ton at first.. It may have slowed down my pace going through lessons on GT to a crawl