Antelano Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 Before we get to business I just want to point some things out. I'm pretty much a novice at everything when it comes to guitars. So I might be doing alot of things wrong or not at all. With that said:My POD HD bean sounds like crap. I can't play on amps in my current housing situation. So I sought solutions in the digital sphere. I've tried many VST's but I can't make them sound good. And I wanted a physical unit so I acquired a POD. With the POD HD I get the best sound I've ever gotten out of digital amplifiers. But it's still not anyway near any mans standards.I might upload things in the future to actually show what I've got. But in the meantime I'm just gonna have to try and explain.Even the best digital tones I've heard you can almost instantly tell that they're digital. But it doesn't really detract from them. Unfortunately in my case, it's not that it sounds too digitally, which it does though, but that it just sounds freakin bad.It must be something about my guitar that makes it impossible to achieve passable tones with digital amplifiers. I've run other peoples DI's through the unit (and VST's for that matter) and I've gotten pretty dope tones. But when using my own gear its like distortion can't be applied on the signal as it should. It just sounds kinda rumbly and takes up way to much space. It's impossible to get that solid crunch or grit that really makes guitar distortion.When playing through actual amps I don't have this problem. My guitar doesn't sound amazing. But it's good enough. I don't know what to do. Got Seymour Duncan SH-4JB and SH-2N in my guitar if that's any help to maybe figuring this out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisinon2 Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 Before we get to business I just want to point some things out. I'm pretty much a novice at everything when it comes to guitars. So I might be doing alot of things wrong or not at all. With that said: My POD HD bean sounds like crap. I can't play on amps in my current housing situation. So I sought solutions in the digital sphere. I've tried many VST's but I can't make them sound good. And I wanted a physical unit so I acquired a POD. With the POD HD I get the best sound I've ever gotten out of digital amplifiers. But it's still not anyway near any mans standards. I might upload things in the future to actually show what I've got. But in the meantime I'm just gonna have to try and explain. Even the best digital tones I've heard you can almost instantly tell that they're digital. But it doesn't really detract from them. Unfortunately in my case, it's not that it sounds too digitally, which it does though, but that it just sounds freakin bad. It must be something about my guitar that makes it impossible to achieve passable tones with digital amplifiers. I've run other peoples DI's through the unit (and VST's for that matter) and I've gotten pretty dope tones. But when using my own gear its like distortion can't be applied on the signal as it should. It just sounds kinda rumbly and takes up way to much space. It's impossible to get that solid crunch or grit that really makes guitar distortion. When playing through actual amps I don't have this problem. My guitar doesn't sound amazing. But it's good enough. I don't know what to do. Got Seymour Duncan SH-4JB and SH-2N in my guitar if that's any help to maybe figuring this out. I've owned guitars that I couldn't get to sound good through anything...nothing "wrong" with them per se, just didn't like they way they sounded, so away they went. Anything is possible... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bartnettle1 Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 How are you monitoring the HD500? Headphones or thru Amp? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillBee Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 First thing is to check the inputs. Set 1 to guitar 2 to mic. It cuts down on a signal boost. I always run direct out btw. But a lot might be a personal thing and its tough to guage what "digital sounding" means per se in the context of what type of tones you are trying to get. The HD has a learning curve but it is well worth it to stick it out and it does "the metal" real good. A good thing to do would be to spend the day reading older posts and running a google search for Line 6 HD editing or metal something like that for some tuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocco_Crocco Posted October 15, 2015 Share Posted October 15, 2015 Any advice to improve your situation would just be guesses unless you upload tones or post sound clips. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joel_brown Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Interesting. Other people's guitars through your stuff sounds good and your guitar through a real amp is not great but good enough, according to you. Maybe it's your guitar ? Even if your have the same pickups as someone else, the capacitors could be wrong or the wiring could be screwed up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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