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Gate-Tubescreamer-Gate-Treadplate-XXL Cab-SM57 Off-Center-Gate Adjust the amp EQ till your close. Depending on your live rig, its going to be hard to replicate that tone without getting completely lost in a live setting.

Is it possible your pickups have gone microphonic?

Yeah, I tried this forever looping live guitar over a tempo-synced backtrack and after a few bars no matter how tight I thought I was with my button presses, it would start to trail off after a bit.

Doesn't matter where I put it in the chain. If I go for anything outside a "normal" interval chord or anything incorporating the low E string (or low B, or the other low E), I get all sorts of wackiness..warbles, glitches, weird shifts. Some of the artifacts actually sound really cool, but I can't accuratley reproduce them every time.

Try playing a major 7 chord or 9 chord with the pitch shifter. Those are two that are definite problems for me. It CAN do 5ths/3rds alright, but when I get into the lower end of the range, it gets exponentially worse, even on simple interval chords.

That's strange. Over the last year I've gone from crappy stock Schecter pickups, to adding a preamp to them, to some really nice SD Nazgul/Sentient pickups and there was a noticeable difference throughout each change, but I can say that the more "open" qualities of the Nazgul/Sentient set have made the POD, for me, feel and sound more lively. Is there a possibility that you have some microphonics going on somewhere?

Even the pedals (Morphius DropTune) that I've tried specifically for this still have some odd-sounding artifacts on certain intervals. Why not just tune down a half-step manually?

This is about as true for these types of devices, and 9/10 times its not the OS, its user error. I've been running cheap PCs and various other OS-based electronics without so much as a crash or BSOD for a loooooong time. The last time a computer crashed on me, it was my fault, not the OS, and that was 2007 or so. I know some people that can't pick up a device without if screwing them over somehow, and I can grab the same piece of equipment and have no issues. Something I've learned from playing with technology dependent bands...don't watch porn on your music computer.

I don't think there's been the realization yet that the HD500 is competing directly with software solutions for portable devices and computers. At least half of the people I know who have owned PODs in various forms have abandoned them for both recording and performing in favor of an iPhone running Bias, or a laptop loaded with free VST amps and a small usb footswitch. Move forward or get left behind.

There's no reason NOT to expect regular updates to digital devices. I think its a pretty far stretch for L6 to think that 2015 is a reasonable time frame for stuff on a product that came out, what, 4-5 years ago? Especially after watching who knows how much time and effort going into a living room rehearsal toy with outdated modeling.

Thats about it...if you need it to pull down a little noise, after the amp works well, if you want tight, staccato metal rhythm gating, use the hard gate in front of any gain effects.

I would probably just set the lowest setting to where you want it on the low end and highest where you want it.....I would think you could probably get by like that. Im used to playing with others, and it drives me nuts when people can settle on a level, or have wildly different levels between patches, but thats just me.

Truth, I have several patches that turn off my gates and turn on a compressor, delay, and chorus, all on one switch.

Live patches get set-up at live volume. The only way it works.

I'm often amused at these posts. I have gotten on the case regarding certain aspects of the device, but overall one of the main reasons I bought it was I walked into to Guitar Center, plugged in a guitar, twiddled a few knobs, cycled a couple of menus, and had a tone that I would have been fine using in most live scenarios without ever cracking a manual or even adjusting and of the DEPs (because they didn't exist yet, I bought it the second weekd it was out, planning to buy a GT-10, btw). Whereas I literally fought weekly for YEARS with my Boss GT-5/6/8 to get a live tone I was truly happy with.

Well, I've been using my HD500 on the floor at 2x weekly rehearsal and 4-6.month sweaty as bar shows where we usually play on the floor, and I have't had some much as a footswitch hiccup. Though the looper was off, but it was me thinking a 16 bar loop would actually stay in time with a click track without quantization.... Whenever I hear the "All my >>>> breaks on me all the time." it seems the only common factor is....you

As far as I know, there has NEVER been MIDI over USB for the HD500.... It's never shown one any of my computers as a MIDI device.

Just to be certain, you did add another amp model in the other path, right? If you just move the Treadplate to one side or the other, without another model in there, you're going to get a clean signal from the un-amped channel along with your Treadplate channel. Another thing to look at is your mixer panning. Having them full L/R will make that sound go to one side, or if you're connected in mono, sound half as loud/ballsy. If you're going for two amps layered type tone, pan your mixer to the center, then add the two amps you want, and use the channel volume controls to mix to your liking.

Its your computer losing the driver, I had the same problem on Win7.... If you have to restart the computer, its your computer, not the POD. To assign something to the expression pedal you have to go into the controllers menu, choose your effect/amp parameter, choose which controller to use, and make sure you have the pedal set to the right one (1/2). I have some patches where I control the amp gain with the pedal, some that control multiple modulation mix parameters, some that sweep an EQ frequency....pretty much anything that you can adjust on an effect/amp can be controlled with a foot pedal.

Fixed that for ya ;). Anyone else think a $400 device that requires a $300-$600 device kinda silly?

I can't wait to see people fumbling around foolishly when their bluetooth connection fails or gets hijacked in a live situation.....

Of course they use the iOS for more creative stuff....its the only place the creative stuff exists right now. Most of the arguments against android will become moot once they've solidified a unified format between devices for a lot of stuff... But back to the real reason the thread started.... If you like jamming in your living room to backing tracks and have no concern for live use, go ahead and get an Amplifi. If you intend on playing in front of people and you want to sound good, get something from the HD series. The whole reason for the old modeling (as stated) was to have access to the gajillions of pre-existing patches from your app.

There was some hinting on TGP by Digital Igloo (an actual L6 employee) that the HD/HDX stuff is not quite near its EOL, so who knows....the EQ's aren't getting fixed, and I really hope they don't do the same stupid crap in the next one.

Thats a really good point I didn't consider! The HDEdit program should be able to show those nonsense settings the right way!

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