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Re: anyone replace their own USB jack?

support@line6.com — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:58:05 GMT

I just had this done on my HD500. I'm an electronics technician by trade, handing over my pedal for 2 weeks to have it repaired when I could have done it myself was difficult. But I didn't want to void my warranty so...

How experienced are you soldering? The board is most likely to be double sided, so each pin of the USB socket will be in a "through hole" pad. These can be tricky to de-solder without damaging the board. You will need a decent quality soldering iron with de-solder braid and solder wire. It helps to re-melt the joint and add some fresh solder to each joint, and then remove solder with the braid. This process will probably need to be repeated until all soder is removed. Patience young apprentice!!! (Try to find an old circuit board to practice on)

You will need to dis-assemble the unit to remove the PCB. Then you desolder and solder from the bottom of the PCB.

Another option would be take the pedal to a repair shop (non Line6 authorised) and have them replace the socket. Should be no more than 2 hours labour. You could save by removing the PCB yourself and just taking that to the shop.

In my opinion Line6 should honour the warranty of a defective part regardless of where the product was bought or if the warranty period has expired. Their honouring of warranty on many other units is accepting responsibility that an inferior component was used. Especially considering such a fault could be filed under negligent use.

Re: HD 500 recording in Cubase volume problem

support@line6.com — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:28:11 GMT

This might help;

Press F3 in cubase to bring up the mixer. This should give you faders for your inputs, outputs and master section. Swing off the output faders to mix it how you want it. Use the input faders to set a good solid recording level.

Hope this solves your problem.

Re: HD500 Pitch Glide v1.4 RESOLUTION LIMITATION

support@line6.com — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:28:56 GMT

I've also only used octaves until i got experimental the other day!! I'm surprised it hasn't been noticed before.

Maybe... we could re-invent the way intervals between notes are spaced so there are 12.5 notes per octave then there would be 50 steps total. Making the resolution 0.5!!!

Re: HD500 Pitch Glide v1.4 RESOLUTION LIMITATION

support@line6.com — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:38:44 GMT

meambobbo, the pitch glide resolution issue is setting the max/min (heel and toe position) values of the expression pedal not the pedal travel.

Quoting PaulJam from above "This makes it impossible to dial in something like +3 half tones in the heel position and +4 Half tones in toe position."

Re: HD500 Pitch Glide v1.4 RESOLUTION LIMITATION

support@line6.com — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:00:45 GMT

PualJam,

I think you've hit it on the head. I was thinking exactly what you've said yesterday but just haven't had the time to see if the values given are factors of 0.48 (with rounding). Its a shame because 0.48 is so close to 0.5 which would make it useful!!

Further to the DSP theory, the POD is still going to process the same amount of info. The end points of -24 and +24 would require the most processing power as it needs to process infinately varibale notes across 4 octaves. If anything, limiting the travel by reducing max/min values should free up DSP as there is less travel of the glide!!

I hope line6 can fix this as it would make the pitch glide effect a lot more useable.

Re: HD500 Pitch Glide v1.4 RESOLUTION LIMITATION

support@line6.com — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:13:30 GMT

Thanks for the link Jimsreynolds. I have submitted a request suggesting the resolution be 0.1.

Thanks for the input Philtno.

I understand the point you make with regard to DSP. But I dont think there would be much of a difference, if any, between a toe down value of 4.7 and 5 for example. If this is the case perhaps the values could be made to be more useful and count in exact halves or whole numbers as opposed to the seemingly random nature it counts at at the moment.

My reason of concern is that I have always used a Digitech Whammy pedal, buying the HD500 was to replace the whammy. Now I found myself illogically limited by the HD500.

Any Line6 reps or Expert users care to have some input to this??? This is, after all, a manufacturer "support" forum.

HD500 Pitch Glide v1.4 RESOLUTION LIMITATION

support@line6.com — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:40:04 GMT

Hi All,

I was playing around with the pitch glide this morning and noticed that when assigning values to the min and max for the expression pedal the resolution was around 0.5 compared to 0.1 as when used as a straight pitch shift without expression pedal control.

Can someone please check this on their pedal and get back to me so I can figure out if it is something I am doing or a bug in the firmware?

Thanks in advance.

Ted

Re: HD500 Pitch Glide v1.4 BUG??

support@line6.com — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:39:40 GMT

So I have just rolled back and confirmed that this issue exists in 1.3 as well.

IMHO this is a limitation of the pitch glide as it doesn't allow you to select an exact start and end point of travel e.g. a fifth.

Can someone post the link for a product feature request??

Re: HD500 Pitch Glide v1.4 BUG??

support@line6.com — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:04:01 GMT

Thanks PaulJam.

Can any of the expert users or Line6 reps comment on this??

Re: HD500 Pitch Glide v1.4 BUG??

support@line6.com — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:14:50 GMT

Testing...2...2...1....2... is this thing on???

Can someone please try this out and get back to me?

Thanks