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Re: How do you have your HD 500 hooked up?

support@line6.com — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:51:07 GMT

Sounds like you'd be better off using the POD for effects only, or using the M13 effects board. You're using the pre-amps of the Blackstar amp, and a power amp from Mesa, both of which will color the sound. You obviously will be using a speaker cabinet, so you won't need cabinet modeling. So, that just leaves effects. The POD HD does those well, and so does the M13.

Mine's hooked up in true POD fashion: XLR direct to the PA. Just a guitar, pod, and PA monitor.

Re: Odd and annoying sound

support@line6.com — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:44:11 GMT

I'll have to try it out on mine when I get home. Can you send an example of a completely clean patch, or is that last blackface patch supposed to be clean?

Re: next firmware hopes!?!

support@line6.com — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:30:31 GMT

It does. You make a stereo chain, set the first amp to use the Guitar In, and the 2nd to use the Aux in. I have a patch like this that I use for some cover gigs. Sometimes we have someone come up and play with us. They plug in to the Aux in, then we both play through the POD and have totally separate sounds. I have a comp and screamer set up on both amps, and a delay on one. I'd have a delay on both, but the POD doesn't offer enough DSP power, according to itself.

Re: Best Tones for a Les Paul...

support@line6.com — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:33:25 GMT

Throw this question over into the 'Share Your Settings' part of the community: http://line6.com/support/community/general_discussion/share_settings

Re: quiet patches, need to make louder.

support@line6.com — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:32:16 GMT

Are you going out of the POD using the XLR outs? Try using the 1/4" outs, and setting the 1/4" out level switch to Amp. ...Or is it live? I forget which one is louder. Anyways the 1/4" outs at one of thse levels are hotter than the XLR outs. That'll give you more volume out of the POD.

Re: Use for the '8th' switch

support@line6.com — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:29:12 GMT

Nope, not if you're using all 8 effect slots already. I guess you could set it to turn the amp model on and off.

Re: Odd and annoying sound

support@line6.com — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:27:00 GMT

can you record it and send an example?

Re: next firmware hopes!?!

support@line6.com — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:25:32 GMT

I think it's actually getting about time for a POD HD MKii. Something with more processing power, even the possibility of dual processors for spillover and smooth patch transitions. I'd even love to see the dedicated boost button, from the POD HD 400, come to the 500. The POD HD is now two years old, so maybe the next model is well into development.

Oh yeah, something on the "CPU limit exceeded" stuff on the POD HD500. I wish I could load whatever effects I wanted into each block. Then, while using the patch, if an effect was going to put it over, just not let me engage it.

..Oh, another thing! I wish that, like on the M13, you could do different settings for each effect in a block. Then, you could cycle through them somehow using the assigned footswitch. That way, I could have three different setups for my delay effect without having to take up three effects blocks, which I can't do anyways because it puts me over the CPU limit.

Re: HD500/Pro into a PA ... how do YOU do it?

support@line6.com — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:20:27 GMT

+1 on Phil's comment. I set up my patches at gig volume in a studio environment as well. It almost always translates well to a PA. After that, it's in the sound guy's hands to EQ it if he wants to (in the end, we're all at the mercy of the sound guy ).

I typically have 8 different patches I use with 'for-hire' gigs. 6 of them use the same amp model (Dby13), but have different gain levels and effects. Then I have a super-clean Fender patch, and a heavy Engl patch. So my tone stays pretty consistent.

With my band, I use a different setlist in the POD with a 4-patch bank for each song. The main differences between the patches aren't the amps, but rather the effects, delay times, etc...

Re: Pod HD 500 Through Roland KC 550

support@line6.com — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:08:24 GMT

It'd be of similar quality, although no two speaker systems technically sound the same. I'd say you made a good purchase. Set up your tones to work well with the Yorkville, and you'll be good to go. If you ended up getting the Roland later, you'd have to re-tweak your patches to sound best with that amp.

If you're wanting some suggestions, here's one: I personally use a 12" powered PA speaker for my POD HD500 when I play live. That way, when I play a gig somewhere where there's not enough monitor mixes, I just pipe a mix into my speaker and I'm good to go. I've found I play a lot of gigs where there's only one monitor mix, which is usually set up for the lead vocalist. This way, I just set up another aux send and feed it to my monitor. If I know the place I'm playing has a good monitor setup, then I just leave my speaker at home. I'm all about keeping my gear to a minimum these days. Having to load in just a guitar or two and one POD / accessory bag is great, especially when I get to watch others bring in heads, cabs, guitars, effects, etc... just to get a couple of perfect tones that few, if anyone, in the audience notices anyway.