Yes. I've definitely tried it with a 1/4" jack. It sounds fine going out to the mains on my PA but when I use headphones into the pod I get the mags + the models. The mic is not hot enough to pick up any residual sound from the strings and in my headset the mag strings are as loud as the modeled strings.

I would think if that was the problem it would be doing the same thing when I plug into my amp using a 1/4" jack.

Also the only time it is happening is through headphones out of the pod. Things sound fine when I'm going thru my xlr outs or my line out to an amp from the podx3.

I'm thinking it may be more of a podx3 issue.

Hello David,

I stumbled across the solution. When I went to the output on my podx3 and panned the two outputs to the center the problem went away.

The issue only came up when I was using Blends (Variax & Mic) thru the pod and wearing headphones.

Thanks.