Community: Message List - POD HD500 Looper? How to?

Re: POD HD500 Looper? How to?

support@line6.com — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:01:59 GMT

I Was depressed to find out that this is not a stereo looper. It makes so much sense for this to be! I wish I could find out a way to rewire it!

Re: POD HD500 Looper? How to?

support@line6.com — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:30:20 GMT

oh it's a little bad aspect....

Line6 please...make it stereo!!!

it will be extremely more creative!!

Thanks for your answer

Bye

Re: POD HD500 Looper? How to?

support@line6.com — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:18:31 GMT

No - the looper is a mono recording device.

Re: POD HD500 Looper? How to?

support@line6.com — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:08:57 GMT

hi guys,

i'm writing here so i don't open a new thread....

i'm just learning to play with looper, but i don't understand if we can register with pan options.

i put the pan pedal in front of the effects and then i try at then end too, to record the tracks with the stereo imaging but even if when i play

i hear the sound on the left or right , when i press stop recording and the loop start, it plays in modo track always in the center.

Is there any way to record with stereo imaging? It can be wonderful to construct real song in time.

many thanks

Re: POD HD500 Looper? How to?

support@line6.com — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 23:37:15 GMT

i have my looper set on post, the loop sound changes when i change patches after desingage the loops. I really aprecciate, some help to figure it out !!

Re: POD HD500 Looper? How to?

support@line6.com — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 23:33:46 GMT

It is on post, when i move it to pre, there is no effect on the chord progression, but it let me change to any presets that i want after desingage loops.

Re: POD HD500 Looper? How to?

support@line6.com — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 12:09:21 GMT

It sounds like you have the Looper in PRE position. Try moving it to POST.

Re: POD HD500 Looper? How to?

support@line6.com — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 04:18:11 GMT

Greetings !! i find all this very useful, my problem is quite simple, i follow all this process.

silverhead wrote:

The Looper operates on simple start/stop signals from the footswitches. It has no sense of tempo, bars, or any musical structure.

You engage Looper mode by pressing the Looper footswitch. Start playing a chord progression (it is not yet being recorded). When the chord progression you want to record 'comes around' to the start of the progression, hit the REC/OVRERDUB footswitch on the start beat of the progression. The looper, of course, knows nothing about the start of a beat - it simpy starts recording. When you hit the end of the chord progression, hit the REC/OVRERDUB switch, or the PLAY/STOP switch. In both cases the recorded piece will immediately start playing back. If you want to immediately overdub a new part onto the first part you would hit the REC/OVERDUB switch. If you just want the playback without recording what you are going to play next, hit the PLAY/STOP switch. Anytime you want to overdub, hit the REC/OVRERDUB switch while the loop is playing back. If/when you hit the REC/OVRERDUB switch while the loop is NOT playing back, then you start a new loop recording.

The recorded 'loop' will be saved in the HD500 memory until you replace it with a new recording, engage the tuner, or turn off the HD500.

That's the basic operation. You can adjust the recording time from 24 seconds (default) to 48 seconds by hitting the 1/2 SPEED footswitch.

With the Looper in PRE position, it records the dry (unprocessed) signal from the input. With the Looper in POST position, it records the processed signal. On playback, the recorded loop is either processed by the current preset (if it was recorded in PRE mode) or not (if it was recorded in POST mode. The former (PRE mode) is often used to test out and tweak different sounds/presets on a dry recording. In this case you are auditioning sounds without having to play the part again. The latter (POST mode) is often used to overdub or play new sounds on top of pre-recorded processed sounds. This is how you would be using it to play a lead solo over the chord progression.

So, to do what you want:
- select the preset for the backing chords
- engage the Looper. Put it in POST mode. Select Full/Half speed depending on the duration of your chord progression
- start playing your chord progression. When you are comfortable with the flow of it, hit the REC/OCERDUB switch at the start of the beat/progression
- hit the PLAY/STOP switch at the end of the progression

Now the recorded loop begins playback. If you want to change presets to play the lead solo, hit the Looper switch again to disengage it. Select your new preset. While you are doing this the recorded loop continues playback. Now:
- simply play/practice your lead solo over the loop. If you don't want to record the solo - you're done.

If/when you want to record your solo on top of the loop:
- hit the Looper switch to re-engage the Looper
- while the loop is playing, hit the REC/OVERDUB switch at the beginning of the loop and play your solo.
- hit the PLAY/STOP switch when finished.

The two-part loop will begin playback. Continue to play/overdub parts as you wish. Note that if the loop was not in playback mode when you hit the REC/OVERDUB switch, the previous recording will be replaced by a new one.

and after recording a chord progression with a clean tone, and hit the looper to desingage, look on my presets and find a nice lead solo preset to jam with, as i hit the selected lead/solo preset, the chord progression will change from clean nice to solo lead; i might havr to look more into it, but if any of you guys can direct me to a solution fo this matter it'll be very apreciated !!

Re: POD HD500 Looper? How to?

support@line6.com — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:14:37 GMT

Well, sadly, I have given up on using the looper function in the HD500. It is just too limited, and seems like an afterthought. Its OK to play around with, but I don't find it usable for a serious live-performance looper. Having to toggle back and forth between looping mode is a huge barrier to live looping.

I've gone back to using my Boomerang III for looping. It would have been nice to have everything (looping and effects and modeling, etc) in one Line 6 unit, but alas.....

Re: POD HD500 Looper? How to?

support@line6.com — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:12:22 GMT

I think you guys using the looper could find this diuscussion of mine helpful:

the Looper could attenuate the recorded signal by 6dB! ...

bye

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