Also, the setlist hasn't had its patches leveled yet, but I'm not going to have time to do that until later next week.  Sorry - be forewarned.

Hey Clark, I didn't use a match EQ program because I wanted to match the EQ using the Pod HD's EQ effects, so you can get a similar tone to the RedWirez without any need for external hardware.  Of course a match EQ program would probably do a better job than I did, and if people can use external hardware/software for the way they use their Pod, they should probably use that instead of this setlist.

So rather than this project being a demo of how close they can sound (like you did), this a functional setlist that people can use to find their favorite amp/cab/mic combos, then tweak those and save and move them to a real setlist.

Mr. Hippy, it seems like on every clip one of the Pod clips sounds in the ball park and the other one sounds too bright or too dark.  The very high end is difficult to dial in on the Pod.  The "Highs" parameter on the Parametric EQ kicks in at 1.5khz.  The highest frequency you can adjust the Parametric EQ is around 4.5 khz.  You really have to use the Studio EQ, whose high shelf can be set at 5 or 8 khz, but this thing doesn't exactly function like you'd expect.

Also, Voxengo Span might not be the best frequency analyzer, at least not for high end.  In my visual comparison, it seemed like the Pod was always missing some frequencies between 6-9khz, while the RedWirez usually had a fading response there.  But then you listen to these, it seems some of the Pod clips are indeed brighter than the RedWirez.  I plan to readjust just a bit, audially, just to try to get the top end sounding the same.

Also, while the RedWirez usually had a bass response that sloped straight up from 80 HZ to 220 HZ, the Pod usually flattened out from 100 - 180 HZ, and it was very difficult to get that slope.  In several cases I said close enough and quit.

As for the quality...I don't know.  We know for sure that the RedWirez IR's were created from recordings of actual cabs - this process MUST involve microphone noise.  I'm not sure exactly how Line 6 made their cabs, but perhaps they did it differently, so that no noise was introduced into their cab models.

The other theory is that my visual matching simply wasn't accurate, and the RedWirez sound noisier because they have more mids/less high end.  But then again, you'd figure highs can be quite noisy as well as mids.

I will post a further tweaked setlist soon, just trying to get these tones more in the same ballpark.

glad i could help.

the cabs are not dialed in per amp + speaker + mic combination, only speaker + mic.  Each cabinet really only has 2 variants, one for each mic - the SM 57 on axis or off axis.  I only made the setlist with all the different amps to give people an easy starting point (because when you switch the amp, the Pod automatically changes the cab and mic to a different default).  So if you want to use the Park amp, just take one of my patches that uses the Greenback cabinet, and change the amp model.  Then you'll have to change the cabinet and mic to match. Just make sure you set both the cabinet and mic to whatever they originally were for that patch.

The way I did this was I recorded some pink noise through the blackface amp model with "no cab" selected.  Then I'd record with the exact same settings but one with one of the cabs turned on.  For the "no cab" recording, I ran that through each RedWirez IR that is most similar to the cab I recorded.  Then I compared the EQ curves visually using a frequency spectrum analyzer.  Then I added EQ's in the Pod that I thought would help match the Pod's frequency repsonse to the RedWirez.  Then I'd re-record through the Pod with cabinet and EQ's on and re-compare to the baseline "no cab" + RedWirez IR, over and over, until they looked the same.  Then I'd finalize by doing an audio test using guitar, just to make sure the visualization actually was working properly and put me in the same ballpark.  So to reiterate, I didn't compensate for each amp + cabinet + mic. I only compensated for each cabinet + mic.

In my setlist, you'll notice that for each cabinet + mic combination, the EQ settings are identical, even if the patches use different amp models.  I only created the setlist with all the different amps so that people didn't have to reset the cabinet and mic when they changed the amp model.