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The ideal is that both the device output and your AI input are set for the same type of signal (the stronger LINE or the weaker AMP/INST/MIC).. I suggest to set both of them to LINE for a better signal to noise ratio. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

Perhaps the assigned footswitch does not work well or needs to be cleaned internally.. if you have an other footswitch free left (hopefully working) try to assign the chorus instead to it.. Off topic but I can't help noticing the originality of the way you organized the chain of amp and effects, pratically the opposite of what most guitarists would do, but the important thing is to be happy with the results and everything is really possible. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

As pointed out by "pianoguyy" above, in your first post you spoke about something strange happening to the tone when changing patches and then returning to the previous ones, and not about what weird happens after some time passes. However, given your last news and described symptoms I would say that the problem is related to some hardware failure, and not to user error settings. So now you have to make some tests and discover which one between the POD and your monitor system is failing. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

It sounds like you are using your device connected to your computer with the Editor running. If so, keep reading the following text. Differently than when using the device disconnected alone, the Editor retains all the changes made to any preset until it is running, and by saying "changes" I mean everything from switching on/off something in the chain and/or twisting some controls like volume drive etc. Eg if with Editor running you select a preset, engage the Wah, then select a different preset, and finally go back to the previous preset, probably it will not sound as expected because the wah is still turned on (retained parameter or on/off change) from before you changed preset. If this is the case it is normal behavior of the Editor, and since it retains always all the changes made to any preset (until it is running), to get again the original preset data (which however are still safely stored into the device) and behavior with the Editor still running you have to receive again the preset data from the device with the dedicated command in the up left corner. As said at the beginning of this post, the POD used disconnected alone behaves differently than the Editor and it doesn't retain any changes made to a preset (unless you save the preset in its current state) as soon as you select an other one. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

Since you did already the factory reset with no results, return your device as soon as possible.

The only setting available for the LCD screen is the CONTRAST. Press and hold the VIEW button to access the System settings and go to page 2 to find it. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

You're welcome.. I'm glad that the problem has been solved.. this confirms that it was due to one of the things connected in series to the POD as I thought.. it happens that the real cause of a problem is due to something that is taken for granted.. We learn from our mistakes. Happy playing and recording with your POD _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

When you change patches, the delay tail is always cut. The only way not to cut the delay tail is by using special built patches which are basically 2 in 1. That is, using the 2 parallel paths, you create 2 different rigs in the same patch, and assign to the same foot switch all the effects (in their current on/off state) that must change from one sound to the other. Each time you press the above footswitch the two different rigs will alternate, without lag time and without cutting the delay tail. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

don't worry, it's sturdy enough to withstand even 225 lbs.. but when you press the pedal can you change from EXP 1 to 2 (green and red colored LEDs alternate) and vice versa? if so it means that at least the toe switch works well.. some people which had the same problem above (limited pedal range) solved by trying the calibration procedure from the very beginning (device off) several times until it succeeded.. also, make sure nothing is connected to the device when you do the calibration. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

The toe switch under the pedal is quite hard to press. It needs to be forced a bit. Use your weight when pressing the pedal. When it works a different colored LED (green or red) lights up near the pedal indicating which EXP mode 2 or 1 is now controlled by the pedal _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

Video tutorial ---> Assigning The Volume and Wah Pedal on POD HDX and POD HD For other video tutorials about the HD500X (and else) look here: Line 6 Video Tutorials: Complete List _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

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The only POD settings that regulate globally the 2 outputs LEFT and RIGHT are those found in the mixer block in the chain, i.e. the volume and pan controls of each of the 2 channels. But in any case, those settings always have the same effect on both the headphones output and the standard outputs, so there should be no difference between their behaviors (unless there is an hardware failure in one of the above outputs). However you said previously that you tested the headphones output with headphones and it worked fine, you tested the headphones output also with small computer speakers with their own wiring and it worked fine, so we can be 100% sure that the headphones output is perfectly working. Hope you agree with what just said.. In a previous post you said that you wanted to try the suggested connection between the headphone output and your monitors with a Y cable (1 stereo to 2 mono), but you did not (or at least you did not report it here) and you used instead a 1-stereo-to-2-mono adapter and supposedly 2 normal jack mono cables, and it didn't work as expected. Summing up the various experiments carried out so far and based on what you have reported (and giving for granted that the jack cables are ok), I would say that there are only two possible suspects left: the adapter (most likely), or the monitor. One of those two things must be defective, ie the real culprit. Good luck! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

Who knows ... maybe your security software is blocking even what it shouldn't. Saving some file types (still unknown to some) on your computer could be interpreted as potentially harmful by some softwares. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

You could remove the "if" from the above sentence.. I think that at this point we have proven more than enough that the POD gives the signal to both LEFT and RIGHT. Ie it works fine.. As already said the problem must be in one of the things connected to it. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

Since at least we are sure that the Left and Right channels arrive well at the headphones output, I would say that at this point there is no doubt that any existing problem is to be found in one of more of the things that are connected in series starting from the aforementioned output, namely one of these: adapter, cables, monitors. IMO the POD still works well. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

In the appendix about MIDI of the advanced guide is written: "Load a Preset within the current Set List: Send a Program Change message (Value 0-63 for Preset 01A - 16D) for the desired Preset within the current Set List." which means that from your Midi Controller you have to send a Program Change (obviously both your MIDI controller and the POD should communicate through the same MIDI channel number) to the POD, and it means also that the Program Changes (within any currently selected Set List) corresponding to the presets in the POD are organized following a fixed sequence of progressive numerical values (from 0 to 63), therefore if as an example with your Midi Controller you send the Program Change zero you'll get the preset A of bank 1 of the POD, if you send the Program Change 1 you'll get the preset B of bank 1, if you send the Program Change 4 you'll get the preset A of bank 2, if you send the Program Change 63 you'll get the (last) preset D of bank 16, and so on,... I guess you get it. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

Certainly you can use your Revv G4 as the preamp, probably the best place for it would be in the FX LOOP of the POD, so you can place some FX models also in front of it eg the wah and/or compressor. In this case you will need also to put a FX LOOP block (which basically will represent your Revv G4) in the virtual chain of your patches, and you can move it where you like between the other FXs (models). All the cab models included in the POD are based on IRs but they can bypassed (since you're using a real one), actually if you don't enable the amp models (since you are already using your Revv G4 for the amp tone) you don't even have to worry about the cabs as they are tied always to the amp models (in few words: "no amp" means automatically "no cab" in the POD). You didn't say if your cabinet is already powered or not, if not you will need to add a power-amp between the POD and your cab, otherwise your cab will not work, even something very small and practical like this one: https://www.ehx.com/products/44-magnum _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

In the following downloadable pdf you can read the details about all the models included in the POD: POD HD Series Model Gallery _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

Given that the L and R outputs surely work as expected (good sign on the POD side, and good starting point for further investigations) connect them to an audio interface if you have one, and then connect your headphones to the audio interface headphones output, and see if your headphones are really working fine in stereo.. If you don't have an audio interface use a Y cable (2 male mono to 1 female stereo) to make the connection between the POD jack outputs and your headphones. The signal coming from the standard jack outputs is weaker than the one coming from the headphones output but it should still suffice to make them work especially if they are low impedance (make sure the 1/4" OUT switch near the pedal is set to LINE) so set the master volume as needed. Any of the tests above serves to confirm if the problem is actually due to your headphones, as I strongly suspect, or to the POD headphones output. PS. another very simple and banal thing that you should have checked from the beginning came to mind only now: are you sure you have inserted the headphones plug all the way into the jack connector?? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

Weird! Of the ones below here, what does your headphones plug (or 3.5mm to 6.35mm Jack adaptor) look like? By logic if, as you said, you connect your headphones to the POD headphones output and it works perfectly, if you then connect the "mini Jack Stereo to 2 Jack Mono" cable to the same POD headphones output above, and do the connection to your 2 monitors, both of them should work perfectly as well. If not, it means that generally the Left channel of yout POD is not working properly, and your headphones are working ok only apparently, maybe because their plug (or adapter) is not stereo but mono, or it is not inserted all the way into the connector. If you come to the conclusion that it actually is the Left channel generally not working as expected, although I have always believed (perhaps wrongly, you never know) that when the POD is disconnected from the computer it no longer continues to be influenced by the settings made through the audio control panel of the operating system, perhaps it would still be worth checking the above settings with the device still connected to dispel any doubts. If you open the audio control panel of the OS (assuming that the POD is already set as its AI) you should see a sort of mixer where for each audio channel (assigned in this case to the POD) you have a volume control and a balance control. I wonder if for some unknown reason the balance control has recently moved involuntarily to the right (instead of being in the center), if so it would be easy to reposition it. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

If you can check the L and R jack outputs connected at the same time to 2 monitors.. or connect the POD L and R jacks to an audio interface, and see if both signals are active on the respective sides. Normally the POD automatically sums into 1 mono signal both L and R sides of the stereo signal only when just one 1/4" jack output is connected, but in any case the XLR and headphones outputs remain always stereo. Sometimes people forget to check the mixer block pan settings which should be set one opposite of the other to get stereo. Moreover patches corrupted or made with a different firmware version could make the POD behaving not as expected, eg you could see certain settings on screen but the results are not corresponding to them. Eg you could see the mixer faders both up but you hear only one side of the stereo signal, then if you try to move the fader of the involuntarily muted side it starts suddenly working again as it should. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

If as you said above this problem happens when you use the POD as AI (and supposedly not when you use the POD alone disconnected) the problem could be due to the audio settings of your computer OS, or to the audio settings in your recording software, or to the driver not working well for some reason.. If the POD is working fine alone disconnected, I would say that the problem is not caused by it. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ All about POD HD500/X help and useful tips

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