TheRealZap wrote:

 

tim1953 wrote:

 

...that literally thousands have mentioned on the other thread.

more like 3... have mentioned repeatedly....

Yeah, there have been nearly 50,000 views and 900 posts to that other thread plus tons of other discussions about this around the Internet, but there is no harsh fizz issue.   FW 1.22 definitely made things better, but there is still something off in the distortion, especially with humbuckers. Maybe the newly announced 1.3 firmware update will fix the issue?

I think it's about time some of you folks took stock of yourselves and ask yourselves why you're posting comments here.  Are you trying to be helpful?  Constructive?  (now there's a laugh)  Do you really think that when someone puts a post in telling about a problem they're having that your telling them they're full of crap has even the tiniest bit of merit?   What's the deal here?  Do you really think making like hired goons is helping Line 6?  You need to seriously step back and take a look at the big picture.

Presumably you mock and ridicule and otherwise attempt to intimidate posters into submission out of a desire to mitigate a negative impact to the reputation of Line 6, and in this case, the POD HD's.  But think about it:  If you were a potential customer thinking about buying one, and you read these posts and saw that posters with "L6" emblems were mocking customers and telling them they're full of crap, how motivated would you feel about buying a POD?  And while you're at it, why don't you stop to think about what it might be like to learn about the POD, check out Line 6's advertising, believe their lofty claims, plunk down your cash, spend hours and hours on it only to be getting fizz, and then have some goon with an L6 emblem swoop in and tell you you're crazy?  Is that helping Line 6?  I think not!

Maybe you don't like the fact that there were 900 posts on a thread that spoke of dissatisfaction with the PODS.  I get that.  Fact is, if you guys weren't so consumed by your own anxt to tromp down on the posters, there wouldn't have been so much controversy, and there wouldn't have been nearly so many posts. You ticked off a number of LINE 6'S CUSTOMERS, which caused them to write back in response, just like I'm doing now.  If you weren't so busy being cyber thugs, if you would have bothered to weigh the content of the messages that you thoughtlessly denounced, you would have picked up that nobody who had or has this problem wrote a post out of a desire to make the PODs look bad.  We all wrote them because we want them to work for us.  Rather than simply giving up and dumping the POD, we're here in these forums trying to find some way that we can keep them.  I'm 100% certain that everybody who posted a concern in the mega thread sincerely did so out of hope that doing so would help them to be able to be happy with their purchase.  We all want to keep our PODs, not dump them.  In my case, I still have 10 days in which to get a full refund, and I can tell you with certainty that you are pushing me in the wrong direction (from where Line 6's interests lie).  I can also tell you with certainty that I am not alone.

If you actually listened to what people have been saying instead of simply trying to stomp them down and shut them up, you might have noticed that people who have shelled out a lot of ching are having problems with more models than the twin.  And seriously, how credible do you think your case is when it's built on a terribly recorded YouTube clip?  The only thing that clip proves is that a bad recording exists on YouTube.  Because we all seem to be intelligent people, this is something that should be immediately obvious to anyone who has enough chops to savvy what a POD even is.  That clip is totally useless and irrelevant to the problem, which--if you'd been paying attention--manifests itself in multiple models, not just the twin.  As for the Twin, I own a silverface dual shownman reverb which is very much the same thing, and I can tell you with absolute certainty that the defects that I hear in the double model do not occur in my Fender.  Whether you hear what I hear is unknown, however, which is another concept you should consider.

One final thought:  If I were Line 6, I'd pull the plug on people that I entrusted to help customers who instead are deconstructive.