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I do! I do! I take it all back!!! Wow, do I feel like a dummy! It was right there staring at me the whole time too... yikes. I guess that's what happens when you dont RTFM (or in this case RTFL (labels))... I'm glad you pointed this out though, thanks so much... I'm super excited. :)

The looper is the most disappointing feature on my HD500. It's the first item in the signal chain meaning it will never behave the way a person will expect, it only records the dry signal from the guitar, making it impossible to record a rhythm or part with one patch/tone and then layer another tone over top of it... as soon as you switch anything in the chain it affects the recorded loop. Why anybody would want a looper to do this escapes me? I love the HD500 but the looper is pretty much a wasted/nearly-useless feature in my opinion If someone knows a way to put it last in the chain, that'd be super and I'd take back all the bad stuff I say about it. To the OP: you could fade out by using your guitar's volume pot, remember the looper is recording the dry signal so the only way to affect it is by affecting the signal going into the POD.

Any recommendations on emulating an electric bass with a regular 6 string using an HD500? Just trying to track a few song ideas and I dont have a bass guitar available right now. I tried using the bass octive pedal but it doesn't sound good to me and if more than one string rings at all it results in some nasty sounding filtering.