eheheh good luck then!

Yeah, I was just wondering if you consider those units as good alternatives to POD, especially in the amp modeling park. I ask because I don't really like the idea of adding another piece of gear to my setup but - on the other hand - the COSM modeling technology doesn't sound as good as Line 6 to my ears (through YouTube vids only, though) so I guess it couldn't completely replace the HD500.

I could  enjoy having acoustic tones at my disposal on stage, but it's not that important considering I'd use them for a couple of tunes at most; all the other synth features would be realistically useless at this point for me, since I'm the rhythm player/singer in my band.

Right now my main goals are a)having a solid rhythm tone and b)swapping tunings without changing guitars. Adding a GK-3 and a GR-55 almost exclusively for the tuning purposes would be a bit too much I suppose. A perfect solution for my actual needs would be a pickup like this http://ubertar.com/hexaphonic/ and a detuner (just like the Morpheus Droptune) able to process its 6 individual signals to increase accuracy then sending out a mono standard guitar signal (with maybe a stereo option) to feed the POD.

For now I guess I'll just change the  tuning on my guitar to the lowest I need (drop C) then use a capo for the upper ones. It's not like having properly tuned guitars but I'm already used to play with capo, plus this way I could avoid digital transposition of a mono signal at least.