Thank you Line 6 !

Here's my feedback about looper mode and Pod HD Desktop with FBV Express :

Good point : It's now basically functionning.

Bad point : BUT it's impossible to swith beetween Dub In and Dub Out ... while it's possible with Pod buttons. Too bad.

Hope to spend more time with SLO 100 before posting any feedback

is right!
first the children and then the adults

It's a real pleasure to play with the 3 new Soldano models!

Line 6 Doom and Epic are also 2 very nice additions to the amps arsenal,

especially the Doom for my jazz-bluesy-rock taste

Thanks Line 6

silverhead wrote:

 

As for other surprises like new amp models - it's already been suggested that the HD500 users might have gotten what they asked for - simultaneous amp/feature releases for all products. Hence, any new amp models that might otherwise have been included in this release are being held back until the next HD300/400 release is available so that everyone gets them at the same time.

I will certainly be maintaining some hope (and I would agree that this approach would make more sense).

That said, there has also been some chatter that not all are expecting any further releases. Speculative I guess. But given the amount of issues / feature requests, and the current age of the HD platform, I would not be surprised if all efforts were not directed toward a new platform. This is mainly why I am a little disappointed. Not that I believe I should have more, but because I would not be suprised if that was the last we get.

ok, so the SLOverdrive is the best model on here.  The warm response it has is incredible.  SO WARM.  Maybe not the tightest 5150-esque metal tone (at least from my early attempts at one), but it dominates for leads and all hard rock tones.  VERY responsive to dynamics - a model that truly cleans up when turning down the volume knob.  I easily see this working for Petrucci and Vai tones - just dial in the Vai with a Distortion effect in front for a fatter, rounder breakup tone, and make the Petrucci tone tighter and djentier.

I've also found that while I can't fit delay and reverb when using "dual cab" patches due to the higher DSP constraints, I can get a great sound by using a delay as well as using some E.R. to simulate reverb.  Not as much control as a real reverb, and I usually don't like it, but it works here.  will post clips/patches later.  will make my own thread.

i've always been more of a pure tone than effects guy, and I can still get what I want done with dual cabs.  I've been using E.R. to simulate reverb and can still fit Delay, so that's all I really need.  I've already dialed in enough crazy patches, and I'm not going back and redoing them for the SLO.

I don't think the excellent tone of the SLO can overcome the issues I have with the single cabs.  There's only a handful of combinations that cut if for me:

1) PhD 2x12 - boost Res. Level, 57 on axis

2) Hiway 4x12, 57 on/off axis

3) XXL 4x12, 409 Dyn

Do they usually post what the bug fixes are? I've been struggling with an issue with the external expressions pedal that Mission Engineering claims is an HD500 issue and would like to know if that was addressed before I update. 

alfmetal70 wrote:

 

I was playing for 3 hours, and I can say that for my ears:

 

-Doom: is just good, I don´t like much, make me remember the sound from the POD XT, sound very simulation and not "real".

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you know. man, i bet somewhere down the road, you'll find a good tone for you in doom

tried the same.updated again to 2.1,open HD edit and then it says do you want new presets to be saved,it shows receving new presets but doesnt update to new models?wonder am i the only one with this problem?

I agree...

Although I haven't scrolled through every preset since I updated to 2.1, the ones that I have looked through are the same.

But I was hoping there would be some new ones made with the new Amp Models.

P.S. and FYI there is indeed a new Monkey at version 1.61. My previous version was 1.59.

I did the complete reset while upgrading (POD HD Desktop) - holding the Left button while powering on etc - and after upgrade I checked the 1st bank (titled Best of HD or something like that) and I noticed several new presets I never saw before. But I almost never use anything from these factory preset banks except for some acoustic tones to build upon, might as well be my imagination? Can someone else confirm it?

I can post the names of the presets in question when I get home.