Hey guys

I see that a lot of people had this problem with HD500

I have a POD HD, bought new yesterday. I got home and downloaded the latest drivers and upgraded to the latest firmware on the POD through media monkey.

I then hooked up guitar directly into the pod guitar input and connected my headphones in headphone out.

I have my POD HD connected to my macbook pro with the USB.

When playing through the POD HD in sounds great, however, after I record what I am playing it sounds awful. The recorded riff sounds fizzy, thin sounding and sounds nothing like I hear directly connected to the POD. I have tried to record inn RIFFWORKS, ABLETON live 8

So:

1. what is wrong, why the awful sound? Someone else got this problem?

2. Does it sound better if conencted to either output or spdif into an audio interface?

If nr 2 I see no reason to keep the POD HD