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Re: I think I'm gonna have to send it back...

support@line6.com — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:06:33 GMT

I've had my DT25 and extended cabinet for about a month now. I like it. I do plan on replacing the speakers and modifying the bottom cabinet to be like the top cabinet. Ported on the back and close off the front ports. I also plan on a second stack for stereo, more power and redundancy. New tubes as well.

I do get a little tired of messing with the HD500 and the amp together but without the POD connected to it, the amp only has two channels and that's not enough.

There is no perfect amp but this setup is pretty nice!

Re: Dual amps - any better than using one amp model in a patch?

support@line6.com — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:13:45 GMT

Jim: please expound further about switching from a clean to dirty tone using modeling instead of stomp...

Are you saying it is better to stay in the same patch and use FS1 thru FS5 to select an entirely different sound from clean to distorted? With a volume increase?

Re: DT 25 stereo head?

support@line6.com — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 01:40:50 GMT

I just got a DT25 and am evaluating it. My long term intent is to have two of them, in stereo. If one dies I am not dead in the water. While they work I will be happy. I also got the extended 1x12 cabinet but it needs work on it to sound as good as the DT25 combo sounds like. The front port doesn't sound good.

By putting all your eggs in one basket and a gig comes up and it doesn't work... Boy I just dont know...

Re: Need help getting my DT 25 to sound good

support@line6.com — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 03:06:26 GMT

I see what you are doing now BigBob. Thanks for the clarification. I just got a DT25 today so it is all new to me with what and how the amps should be set up. It is a little confusing.

Re: Need help getting my DT 25 to sound good

support@line6.com — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 18:41:31 GMT

This text is from the advanced manual:

We’ve included a complete set of “Preamp” versions of each Amp as well. Choose one

of these to obtain the tone of just the preamp stage of the amp - recommended when

feeding your POD HD500 output into an external amplifier, or when using the L6 LINK™

connection.*

*Note that, whether an Amp or Preamp is selected, the additional application of Cab and

Mic Models is dependent upon the SETUP:OUTPUT settings. Please see “Page 4, Setup:

Output Options” on page 2•8.

The overall volume levels among the different Preamp Models varies - this is normal. The

Preamp sections of each of the classic amplifiers we modeled are indeed quite different,

and we’ve set the Preamps’ default values to best match the type of power amp into which

they are intended to fed. Tweak the DRIVE and VOLUME knobs to optimize the level for

your specific needs!

Re: h5s file format...

support@line6.com — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 01:40:19 GMT

I got to thinking about my last post and I was flippin out there... I went back in to Line 6 Edit and studied it and not everyone uses it the way I was proposing.

I coded the "Windows" program and created an exe (attached). This program copies the contents of the selected file to the clipboard. After the copy to the clipboard you can paste the contents into a spreadsheet or a word processor document. Print it or modify it from there.

Instructions:

1) Download the file to your computer and put it any where you want to on your hard drive.

2) Extract the file SetList.asc from the file SetList.asc.zip.

3) Rename the extracted file from: SetList.asc to: SetList.exe

4) Create a shortcut to the program or double click on it in Explorer.

5) Point to the directory where you have saved your SetList or Bundle.

6) If you are wanting to work with a Bundle file make sure you click on the drop down next to the file name to select the "Bundle" file type.

7) The info is copied to the clipboard - done!

The only thing I could not get my head around was coping the Tempo into the clipboard. My programming language did not want to read the long using the ascii file driver I had to use to keep it simple. I will continue to give this some thought and if I can update it with Tempo I will.

I coded this for the POD HD500. I do not have the software for HD300 or HD400 and I do not know if it will work for those file formats... The program is only reading the file so it shouldn't hurt anything if you try it on a 300 or 400 file. Don't know! It will just toast your clipboard's contents.

Re: HD500 for home use: FRFR speakers?

support@line6.com — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 17:40:08 GMT

How about two Tech 21 Power Engine 60 amps? They get excellent reviews and are expandle if you go live. $678 total via all the vendors..

http://tech21nyc.com/products/powerengine/powerengine60.html

Re: h5s file format...

support@line6.com — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:48:25 GMT

Thanks BeerHump! No big thang. Usually it doesn't go this easy at work. Yes, it would be super easy for Line 6 to implement this code in the edit program. I am guessing about ten lines of code since everything is resident in memory.

I have another compiler that compiles iOS software so if all goes well with this program I will transfer the logic of this program over to a Mac program.

Re: h5s file format...

support@line6.com — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:52:55 GMT

Perfect johanneszab!

That's all I need for now. Over the next few weeks I will play with this little project. It's kind of funny since I don't have a HD500 yet but I am considering one. I downloaded the editor to see if I liked the interface to control the POD. Seems to work well enough.

While thinking through this setlist print program it gives me some ideas to use. Using the Line 6 Edit program for functionaility:

1) Allow the printing option of printing on legal paper... In the past when I have created setlists for bands I would print the setlists on legal size paper so that the player could tape the setlist to the floor. Using 14 x 8.5 allows the font to be much larger and you can read the songs from a distance or standing over it.

2) There is no vehicle within the Line 6 editor to create an ending mark in the set list for the breaks between sets (of a Line 6 setlist). One solution is if you create a patch called "Break" at around the 13th to 16th slot my program can format the break on its printout. I would also ignore printing "New Tone".

3) My program could hold song notes to print, by song name/patch... The Line 6 editor does not store notes by patch but my program could store notes or other fields of info like key signature, song starting notes, vocalist, etc.

Anyway, I want to think this through before I jump into it. Thanks for your help johanneszab.

Re: h5s file format...

support@line6.com — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 02:44:41 GMT

I just created a test setlist and the name is stored in the record 40 characters after the "H5EP" marker and the string of the name is 32 characters long. That should be easy to pull out.

Do you know where the tempo is stored at in the record?

Thanks johanneszab!