As for not "hearing" the level issue, did any of you actually try driving a pedal from the effect send or use a meter to see the level?? I didn't think so, the amp compenstates for variance in signal drive you cannot tell as I stated you could not. My frustrations with Line 6 have sort of reached critical mass as they seem not to listen or care about as much as some on this "forum". I wonder if they are checking things with their ears.
You have to love when you report an issue only to have someone not hear it doing something different than manifests the problem.
Guitar>>>>POD>>>Effect loop send>>>guitar pedal set like to your amp by itself = not the same level or drive. The same as rolling off your guitar volume.
Now if someone wants to out a level meter on that effect send and measure it accordingly then I can rest solidly my unit is not functioning correctly, but the level drop IS there.
I just loaded in the latest update only to find that new amp models were added and NO fixes to any other issue that has been relayed to Line 6 many times.Many have expressed some minor fixes and updates in the effects portion and it seems they do not give a care to that direction. Many recording mavens submitted as I did many simple fixes to various EQs and whatnot that certainly would not have been reinventing the wheel. Apparently one gets no feed back on their problems or suggestions as it is a dead mail drop.
I have come to the resolve that the POD has some great amp models but issues with the effect side and LIne 6 seems to want to maintain a bedroom level neophtye player accumen. That is fine I guess as they like to market in that direction. I will use it for amp model experiments but anything effect wise not so much.
I suppose there is also no issue or "can't hear it" with the pitch glide controller edit not being able to adjust to an in-tune 5th, 4th or anything but an octave. You cannot get the expression pedal to set to an interval, which does not seem impossible to do seeing how it is there on the harmonizer model controller edit. Please look at that one and come back and tell me it gets a in tune interval.
Here let me do the math for you less you cannot "hear" a difference.
100% of expression pedal range = 2 octaves of 24 segments = 4.167 per interval segment, a 5th = 5 segments 4.167 x 5 = 20.835% a 4th is 4.167 x 4 = 16.668%
rounded that is 20.8 for a 5th, or 16.7 for a 4th and that is using percentage of range which is a terrible means to order the expression pedal editor. Since you can only get 20 or 21, 16 or 17%, it is out of tune and I am sure someone will say "it's close enough or I can't hear the difference".
The Harmonizer editor simply uses intervals 1,2,3,4,5, etc, which is simple and exact. Seeing how the Pitch Glide is meant to mimic a Whammy, the ability to set the pedal to intervals is a crucial issue of the whammy, the harmonizer mode on the whammy dies not require a fixed key or scale which makes the straight out harmonizer model a pain in the ***. The new Whammy now has polyphonic tracking further making it superior. Others have expressed frustrations in using percentages on the EQs and what not, a terrible meaure of adjustment.
The limitations of the POD I fear have rendered it not useable for me along many lines.
Maybe its because I am not just plugging into it using headphones and its internal effects. Nor do I have a crappy little amp to pretend sounds marvelous.
While I love the amp models the HD POD manifests, for the money it is certainly nice. They are only want you run them into. The POD screams for a stereo power amp to allow its models to actually manifest a real amp tone in stereo no less. I think my problems with the unit arose when I tried to integrate it with my guitar half stack and revert back to mono. Time for me to either mess w the POD or the amp rig but not combined.
But the effect portion has some serious issues and after waiting a year on an update in the hopes some things would be addressed from EQ changes to levels to controller edit problems, I find perhaps that LINE 6 suffers from the "I can't hear it syndrome" which of course negates all sense of reality and measurement.
Line 6 cannot be that dense not to know of the issue, as one might ask how it is you can alter the level of the return feed but not the send??? Others have noticed it and tried to compensate by adding an internal boost or EQ right before the effect loop block, but that also takes up another block and DSP. I prefer to boost the level after the effect send out as I have the pedals to do it and I tend to use my blocks for various wahs, delays and reverbs.
At any rate best of luck with the unit, it has its moments but trying to use external pedals is frustrating. If I use models I prefer my fullrange stereo 2 channel power amp rig rather than pipe models into my guitar amp. Maybe if you have a crappy amp you can imagine a shoebox sounds like an SLO or a Bogner as I doubt if some can "hear" the difference.
I will just resolve to mess with the POD by itself through a power amp stereo rig or my guitar half stack pedal board by itself but I am pretty much done with trying to integrate it. At any rate it is what it is and I bought one so I have it, too much of a loss trading it off so I will just redo my pedals and keep the two as separate entities. And Line 6 can rest in peace never hearing any further inputs or reviews of the unit from this player.
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