rublalup wrote:

 

does the hd400 has dual tone capability?

Nope.  Just the 500.

It sounds strange, but I was more excited about the POD HD before I saw the videos, both the one from Premiere Guitar and the ones from Line 6 themselves...

but I haven't played thru it myself yet, so take that for what it's worth.  *shrug*

oh yeah - what was the purpose of signing up our email on the HD page before the release, when we didn't get any email saying "it's here!"?  I mean, it's here, but I didn't get any message - did you?  *shrug again*

Hey guys..its been a while

Anyway I wouldnt be too concerned about the premiere video. I've been watching videos from them forever and many of them are terrible. What I did hear sounded just like the amplifiers--especially the Fireball, JCM800, and the Dual Recto(from the sound clips). The Fireball is about lowend--its suppose to sound a little muddy with the bass cranked.

The med gain amps sound phenomenal. You can hear the tubes grading and spitting. I think people are going to find that these are the most accurate amps on the market--and thats only based on what I heard so far . But from those clips--I guess its a feeling that they went into depth and really did justice to the amp makers instead of just winging it in the ballpark with a generic impression.

What I know I dont like is there is no indepth tweaking of the amp models so if you dont like the particular version of the amp they picked to model your stuck--but Im guessing there will be many more. Its seems obvious that what they wanted to do first was pick the amps that exploited, with attention to versatility, their DT50 poweramp paradigm --which clearly is going to be untouchable based on what I've heard.

Again, their prices are the pinnacle of fairness. I was afraid they would start going into snobby rip off mode with this new stuff.

The true test will be if they solved some of the problems with frequency miss matches. They have always understood what a tube truly sounds like more than any other company but some of the problems that came along with trying to code those tube configurations accurately seem to also cause many models to actually be unusable IMO. I actually think if they tried to be less accurate, and fudge many things, the Pod would have been more usable.(as weird as that sounds)

Hi , where is the cab and mic??? no info on what cab or mic is available , or i miss something

ok thank you , there is less cab but more mic options , can't wait to ear how it sound , if fizz still there somewhere

Regarding the modeling of two channel amps, I always just assumed that they probably thought that most people would use amp models known for awesome cleans for their clean-ish tones and amp models known for great high gain tones for their dirt sounds.  Two channel amps have always been sort of a compromise, anyway, haven't they?  Are there really that many two channel amps where both channels sound great?

phil_m wrote:

 

Are there really that many two channel amps where both channels sound great?

I have three multichannel tube amps (not counting the DT50 head) where all the channels sound great.  Mesa 5:50 Express combo where both channels and all four modes sound wonderful.  Marshall TSL100 where all three channels sound great.  And my Fryette Sig:X where all three sound freakin fantastic.  I could go on with ones I don't own but have tried.  True, there are a bunch of amps out there where only one or two channels sound good and the other doesn't, but I figure...why buy it if it doesn't?

Well, I understand that.  I mean, I play a two channel amp most the time, too.  I think both channels are good, although I'm on the clean most of the time.  My point was does the clean channel on those amps sound better or that different than the cleans you could get from one of the amp models known for their cleans?  It just seems to me that there would be a lot of redundancy in modeling both channels on those amps.