solidjiver

I was talking about changing from one model to another.

I'm not sure the sound changed after switching something on my pod, as a matter of fact it happened when I was switching models on the guitar. The models now also sound better when I use the JTV as a standalone instrument on a tube amp. I'm really confused about what happened (maybe there is some kind of a bug), just wanted to share this with you because you might have had the same issue. Did you try reflashing firmware BTW?

Very strange, but yesterday I tested the update for the first time and I had the same remarks as you (I tested with my dream rig but also on a Fender evil twin tube amp). Today I tried again and somehow when I was altering an existing patch on my pod hd500 and changing the JTV preset (on the guitar itself) the guitar suddenly sounded drastically different. I then tested all models and they sounded great compared to yesterday. I also tested on my Fender amp again: also much better. I really don't know what happened. How did you test the guitar? I still notice though that some models are more silent than the mag PU (the jazzbox for example). In the past, it was the other way around until you changed string levels. Another thing: I may be wrong, but I don't think it's a good idea to bring the string levels up above 0db as you probably did? This might add some distortion I guess.

Just did the update. I noticed global string levels in workbench HD are now in db (this used to be in %). In the past I had some clipping sounds, which I solved by lowering the overall string volume to 65%. I did not experiment with the update, but a first listen tells me that overall volume of the guitar is lower than it used to be (at 65%) and there's still a clipping sound but only when plucking the strings very hard. So here's my question: I will have to lower string volume a little bit, any recommendations for the amount of db to reduce? Also, I noticed that some strings are already lowered by a few db, while other strings aren't (0 db). Is this part of the update? In the past all strings had the same volume (100%).

I had the same issue, just lower your string volume in workbench, that 'll do it. I lowered the volume to 60%.