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  1. Yes, I use it this way all the time. If you're concerned about LED being on for a specific effect, you may have to play around with the order. For example. I have used a couple of patches with two instances of a particular distortion pedal, one having a higher gain value. I like the light to come on when the higher gain pedal is in use. If I recall correctly, I had to put the higher gained one in front of the lower gain one. When you assign the pedals make sure that they are in the state that you want them. So if you have two delays, make sure one is off and the other is on (as opposed to both being on or off).
  2. Oh good, I'm not the only one having this issue. I was thinking about sending mind in for repair, since it has caused me to miss changing patches. In the middle of playing, I don't necessarily have time to double check that a patch has changed. Depending on the patch, it can be obvious, or not. If it's software, great. I'll hang on. If it's hardware, Line6 really needs to figure this out, since one of their main selling points is how much better these switches are compared to the 500.
  3. You could start the looper recording after the initial attack, and cut it off before the sound starts to die off. It might take a little practice, but that should allow the chord to sustain for as long as you want.
  4. And the limited Bea Arthur edition, the HD Maude?
  5. You're right. There is one there. I was thinking more in terms of something more powerful, which is what I've seen requested. Also remember that in combo/stack mode, it's not processing the cab sim, so it very well may be trading that DSP power.
  6. I expect perhaps some more amps, maybe the EQ settings tweaks that everyone has requested (get rid of the percentages), but not much else. I know that two of the most requested features are global EQ and user IRs. Here's why I don't think you'll see either of those in this generation of PODs: 1. Global EQ. The fact is that an EQ of any sort will require DSP. Ultimately it doesn't matter if you have it set to a single effects slot, or have it in a global setting; it will still require that DSP. There problem here is that it could totally mess up patches that have already been created. You wouldn't even be able to load any patches that were already close to the DSP limit. And with it now in a global setting, it's taking away that DSP power all the time. This is less than ideal...even if the feature would make things so much easier. What could be a good middle ground is a feature that allows us to copy settings from an effect (e.g. studio EQ) and then paste them onto that effect in another patch. 2. User IRs. These too would likely require extra DSP. It would be my guess that the IRs for the PODs are somewhat small. Assuming this (although I absolutely could be wrong), then user IRs would not only require significantly more space, but possibly also significantly more DSP. I suppose the DSP wouldn't be as big an issue in this case, since you would have the choice of adding the IRs like any other effect (as opposed to it being on all the time). The problem is that there's probably little incentive for Line6 to add this feature. Not only would they have to rewrite the software to handle this, but they'd have to design some kind of computer program for you to transfer your IRs. They could add it to the HD Edit software, but it would still require a fair bit of re-programming that likely wouldn't lead to any significant increase in sales. Those who dislike the POD are unlikely to be pursuaded by this one feature, and those who like the POD are likely to buy it with or without this feature. And the truth is that the majority of users probably don't even know what an IR is, or even where to get them. That's just my 2 cents. I'll be pleasantly surprised if I'm wrong. I would definitely love to see user IRs.
  7. Did you do the global reset on the POD after flashing the memory? I believe one of the symptoms of issues related to that is the POD reacting very slowly over USB.
  8. Much of modern worship music is very similar in sound. It's very U2 inspired. There are sadly few stand-out guitarists with their own tone in this genre, Lincoln Brewster being an example of the exception.
  9. They are the same presets. I don't know that I would call them a weakness. A company like Line 6 can't possible make presets that would work for every guitar/venue. Any device you get is going to have a couple decent presets and a bunch of stuff you'd never use. The power of the device comes in making your own.
  10. We ran some tests last month, and figured out that it's about 20% more DSP. Enough for one more heavy effect, or a few more less intensive effects. Remember that you're still limited to 8 spots, so that little extra can make quite a bit of difference depending on what you're trying to do.
  11. I agree. The key is the mix control. I think I have mine set around 40% on each. Throw on some nice reverb/delay combos and you have something workable. It would be nice to have POG emulation, but I'm not sure I believe we'll see that anytime soon. I would be quite surprised.
  12. I have the 500X now, and the extra DSP is welcome for pad effects. I have 6 main patches - one that's clean to grit, one that's grit to crunch, one that's crunch to distortion, one that's distortion to full overdrive, and two that are pad type patches. I generally use these as the basis for any song patch that I'm going to be making for a particular week. Since I have single coils all my patches start with a noise gate. And I generally try to end all of my patches with a studio EQ since I don't always know what the patches will sound like in whatever system I'll be plugged in to, and may need to adjust them. Every patch also has at least one delay set to FS2, a boost or distortion pedal set to FS1, some kind of modulation effect (usually chorus) set to FS3, and occasionally a wah set to FS4. I have a second pedal that I will occasionally use for volume, but it's fairly rare. I will always use a tiny bit of reverb on each patch, but when you're playing in a large space, I will cut it down to about half of what I think I need, and it's generally pretty close. I try to listen to each song while I'm editing to match my tone to the track since that makes everyone pretty happy. So far the Soldano and Plexi patches seem to cover most of modern worship sounds for me. Since I don't always know what I'll be playing, I try to set up my patches in a way that will cover both the lead territory as well as the rhythm. That sometimes requires some major creativity and multiple things set for each foot-switch. I'm pretty big on trying to keep one patch per song.
  13. The pitch effects on the HD500 are not polyphonic, meaning that they aren't really designed to handle chords. They're designed to pitch shift single notes.
  14. He probably means carry over of delays/reverb/etc. No, that wasn't changed from the 500.
  15. Hey all, I'm dealing with a bit of frustration. I tend to use FS1 as my distortion/lead boost switch. I often use this to switch between two distortion pedals with different drive settings, and it works great. Whichever pedal I add last control to last seems to control the LED on/off. That means I can easily tell which pedal setting is on just by looking at the LED. Now I've started creating some cleaner patches, and to keep the volume level closer I like to use a clean boost when the distortion is off, but I'm frustrated to find that the vetta juice seems to override the distortion pedal for the LED regardless of what order I put the controls in. I'm guessing that there's nothing I can do here. I want the vetta on when the LED is off and the distortion on when the LED is on so that it's consistent with all my other patches. Do boost pedals always override distortion pedals?
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