I tried a 5-minute shot for my POD HD 500. I don't know if you like it, but no risk no fun.

This preset works for my strat in middle position, with headphones on. So it is a studio direct sound, not an optimized sound for connecting to a real amp.

Here my thoughts:

- EQ to add high frequencies / lower mids

- Vintage preamp: I use no amp sim. Preamp makes the sound vintage somehow, and I took away the bass frequencies.

- Modulation: Dimension as main modulation sound, Pitch Vibrato to simulate that whammy sound, Barepole Phase to add a slow motioned modulation

- Blue Comp to add a hard compression

- Stereo Delay to get the big stereo sound (room), but also to add a little noticeable delay

- '63 Spring to add a vintage spring reverb

It is not a mistake. I choose the compressor behind the modulation because it sounds more vintage. But you can also try to move it before the mod fx.

To try the sound for HD EDIT rename the attached file from .txt to .h5e

Slooky, please tell me how do you think about it?

Would love a Rockman amp model(s) (clean and dirty channels). Several of the tracks I layed down in the 80's and early 90's were using a Rockman XP100 and it was an incredible system...would be hard to model without including a model of the compressor since it was such an integral part of the amp and there isn't a compressor in the POD series that really captures the same 'feel' of the Rockman. I've owned every modeler out there and none of them have a really good Rockman sim....they try but it is never the right sound/feel.

I would always do my demos with the Rockman and then have producers that would try to get the same tone/feel out of my live rigs and tube amps and so often they would give up and have me track the final tracks (usually clean tracks and solos...the rhythm never cut as well so we used tube amps for those sounds) with the Rockman.

Getting rid of the XP100 was one of the gear liquidations I wish I had never done.

Yep - I think most tones would need a bit of tailoring for guitars, amp setup etc and slooky, if you think you are pretty close then perhaps you could upload the tone to Customtone as a resource for others to download