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If you have not used IR's at all, load up your favorite patches from your POD turn the cabs off, run them through LeCab with some of the free God's Cab impulses. I guaran-f'in-tee it sounds a hundred times better. The longer cab IR's nearly eliminate any left over "fizz" from the preamp that the stock cabs don't cut, the lows and highs are even more "guitar" like, and some of them even included a little tube power amp response....There is no comparison between whats on the POD and what longer, higher resolution IRs can do..... I see it was something that people who know about, are adamant about, and everyone else is unfamiliar. If they started using something akin to Fractal's Hi-Res IRs in the next POD generation people who didn't even know they wanted it would be applauding the differences.

Almost any tone that sounds good in headphones or at volumes that are "home friendly" are not going to sound good at gig volume. Rule number two for any modeler after "This is not a plug and play solution." should be "Tweak at your expected performance volume with the equipment you will be using in the situation."

Don't worry so much if the tone is "exactly" right...no matter what once you get drums, bass, keys, you gonna have to adjust your EQ in your DAW. Get it so it sounds good and feels good to play...I try and put myself in the mindset of that I have an amp, an OD, and a gate and try to get the tone as close with just those factors, then maybe throw a little EQ in there, but I think its better to leave the exacting EQ to the DAW. I would also consider pulling compressor out of your chain and switching to the SM57 Off Axis microphone. Remember when you're comparing your tone to recordings of lollipop like Monuments, Vildhjarta, Tesseract, etc....probably 40% of the guitar tone is where it meets the bass.

Thats not a sale...thats online price-match grabbing....one "marketplace" drops the price for whatever reason, then all the others have to, too...happens all the time. I got my TASCAM US-1800 for $140 because someone misprinted the page on B&H and I got MF to price match....changed back to $249 on B&H the next day, but I still got it for $140.....

Hmm, interesting.....Does anyone know if you can keep it in "Pedalboard" mode while switching patches/banks? That would be pretty nifty, even if it really only saves two-three stomps.

So they fixed an issue that they "fixed" once before? That's why I gather from the thread regarding the issue.. FIX THE F*#KING EQS!

Are you interfacing it with several other devices....seems redundant unless you just really need to have the 500X at the back of the stage.

Linux runs super lightweight usually and if you have the know-how it can be configured to be really, really powerful in an audio production environment...except nobody makes compatible hardware!

truth....

Turn your speakers/headphones up. You really never want that meter anywhere near the "red" even with a full band recording. Pushing the volume and loudness is for mastering after the mix is solid.

are you looking for "keep amp noise down" gating or chug-chug-chug start/stop riff gating? The former would be best to use the regular noise gate and follow Brazzy's advice. For metal rhythm gating think of your gates like OD...using the hard gate and stacking several with low settings throughout the chain gets the gating without loosing too much sustain. In my rhythm patches my chain usually goes Hard Gate-OD-Hard Gate-AMP-Noise Gate and then whatever ambient effects after the amp...works pretty well, but the settings are going to be adjusted for you guitar etc...I usually set my gates with the OD on and the amp off and I end up with pretty tight settings when I turn it back on.

you would probably have to put the looper in the effects loop after any amps or just after the outputs of the HD500. In the effects loop you can add ambient effects after the loop if you want, and you can move the loop around the chain in different patches if you want. After the unit's output would allow ALL of the sound coming out to be looped, but I don't know enough about the JM4 to know if you would loose your stereo option (which may not matter hooked up to a DT amp)

I don't think you'll see it either, as radatats has said, there is no uniformity. I mean some Android phone manufacturers are still using propriety connectors for charging and media sync. But to not have a Windows desktop app is dumb.....

I'm pretty sure its an audio mirage.....engineers do this to people in the studio all the time. adjust something that has no effect and all of the sudden it sounds a lot better!

Have you cleaned your switches recently? Might be worth a shot.

true.... We joined the cult, now we can hang ourselves waiting for the leader....

its not a big deal but its more than anyone does around here..... Although I can see why the VP of Products & Marketing wouldn't want to show up around here....

so, users with registered products come to the official forum with questions, concerns, etc....nothing from L6 officially, but.... some dude does a microreview of the AmplifI 150, complains about the app, and the VP of Products & Marketing is the second responder... WTF?

Like it wasn't there style to carry PA equipment (that costs as much or more than similar offerings from established brands in the market)? I really hope they've been developing some new HD-market stuff, or at least working on a freakin' sweet firmware update (fix the stupid EQs, this is gonna be in almost every post I make!). I would think given the technology in use most of the AMPLIFi developement probably had to go the cabinet design and app programming, since the modeling is old as balls, leaving plenty of time to work on a new "flagship" series or update the existing one...so whats left from the HD series? ProX, 500X, and the handful of non-X models still floating around?

SPECULATION ALERT! I think we're gonna end up seeing a greater divide between product lines....the next gen of modelers will attempt to be "AFX-Killers" like everybody wants, but they'll be over a grand, probably rack-mounted with a separate controller (separate purchase) and the lower versions will be AmplifI-FX100-type iOS-tethered home practice devices with minimal I/O and all sorts of fancy, but wholly ungigworthy stuff like bluetooth only functionality and that stupid iOS tether. Hopefully I'm really wrong and they drop some great updates for the HD series in the near future.

Its cool, its gonna be for audiophiles, and thats it....nobody wants ANOTHER new format right now, especially considering you can't just convert your old media and nobody wants to pay $15-$25 for a digital album that only works on one device. and there is this LOSSLESS DIGITAL MEDIA PLAYER

stuff that effects gain (compressors, overdrives), filters (wah, tron) and often phase effects USUALLY go in front of the amp with modulation (chorus,flange,rotary) and Ambient FX (reverb/delay) after the amp model and then stuff like gates and equalizer's can go wherever they are needed. But the thin is USUALLY! there are no rules and what sounds good is good, but I think its a fair place to start.

Pro Sound Guys, not Pro guitar players (the only 'pros' I've ever heard of playing JTV's are cover/wedding band guys, and thats almost its own market segment)

I think its more a matter of adjusting the POD to the gear....I've had mine into all sorts of systems: guitar cabs, FRFR, 3-way PA w/separate sub...all of them had the ability to sound good, but obviously using the same sounds from one to the other would never work. Honestly if people can't get these things to sound decent they either A) just don't like the sound/feel of digital, B) are not spending any time dialing it in or are just grabbing patches off CT and not editing them, or C) there is something wrong hardware-wise.

Exactly, thats why the X-series models are only "good enough to get by" when compared to HD models....