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Digital_Igloo said: IT BETTER BE dB and Hz. :angry: Otherwise, we'll both grab pitchforks and stab me in the face. :D So I would assume yes.

This is a question I'd like the answer to as well.

Awesome to see some stuff for bass!

That looks just like the one I have. The cheaper ones may be suspect when you're starting to work with more complex midi stuff. But for the simple commands the pod accepts, I would bet money that most if not all of the cheaper ones will work.

Hmm. Does the guitar in question sound correct in every other way except for pinch harmonics? If not (or maybe even if it does), then, possible dead/weak battery? Possible wiring problem? Pehaps there was some poor soldering joints to begin with, and over time a solder joint cracked/came loose (lots of vibrations going on in guitars)? I know also that for me, I am not gentle with my guitars. Other stuff: is the action too low causing some or all of the strings to be close enough to the frets to deaden any harmonics, and is a warped neck contributing to this? Are the pickups too close to the strings? If they are, it can kill sustain.

You're going to need a usb to midi interface - the pod hd pro x isn't one these. I found one recently at a used music store for $5. You can find cheap ones (I got one of these) online too. However, some of them can cost $50 and up. The one I got seems to work just fine with reaper. Take a look at appendix B in the advanced user guide for all the correct midi info you'll need. It's pretty simple to set up and get working. You can change patches, toggle effects, and even control the expression pedal all from within the DAW.

Duh! After the album it's on was mentioned, I found it immediately. For some reason it remained invisible when I was looking through my list JS songs. While Day At The Beach has a subtle ping-ponging and reverse delay going on, Baroque sounds like a little more straight-forward shimmer type reverb. Once you try to duplicate the actual guitar tone, you could try adding an octo reverb after the mixer. But it sounds like there's a bit of other reverb going on too. So try layering one or more different reverbs and possibly a subtle chorusing effect. One thing I've noticed about the octo on the HD: it has this weird gargling/stuttering type effect at many of its settings. It really kills the smoothness that I think is supposed to be its intended effect. If you turn the decay down too low it's more prominent. If the pre-delay is too high, it seems more prominent too. So while you'll probably get real close to what you hear in Baroque, I doubt you'll be able to replicate it exactly.

I don't think there is. But one thing about bank switching I really wish they would fix is I can never get used to the up/down switches being seemingly reversed. I always hit the down switch thinking it will increase the bank number. Does anyone else do this?

You could try using 2 octo reverbs and 2 reverse delays. One in path A and one in path B. Set the mixer balance at 100% left and 100% right. Set the decay on each octo pretty low, ~8%. The tone control around 25% or to your liking. The higher the tone is, the less the mix should be. The mix around 45% for each or less depending on tone. The pre-delay for one octo about 128ms, the other octo around 98ms. This will give it a nice wide stereo field. Then after each octo reverb put a reverse delay. Times of around 450ms and 420ms, feedback 35%, modspd zero for both, depth 100 for both, mix around 25% for both. Then add a hall reverb or something after the mixer. It's probably far from perfect, but it could be start. Attached is a patch with basically these settings I quickly put together. What is the the song Baroque? Never heard of it. day.at.the.beach.zip

I would say there's more than a couple of things missing, but i wouldn't expect much in new features. Possibly an amp or two within the next year. Or maybe something more for bass players. Maybe some minor bug fixes in the firmware and desktop software. Most of the features people seem to want Line 6 can't (technical reasons) or won't ($) implement. Such as user loadable IRs, EQs in decibels, and better output flexibility to name several. I have a feeling (I'm probably wrong) that LIne 6 might introduce the next effects only device at NAMM, and possibly the next gen HD series at summer NAMM for their main things catering to guitar players. But I doubt it they're going to move on from the current HD series. Digital Igloo has said multiple times that the the HD series is not at its end of life. One device that seems to be generating a lot of buzz lately is Studio Devil's Atomic Amplifire. A pretty compact modeler that's around the price of an HD Pro X.

I upgraded to a 500x from a 500 and the 500x is what the 500 should have been when it first came out. Line 6 has said the pod hd series isn't going anywhere anytime soon, so as far as it being supported, I wouldn't worry about it too much. But if you can hold off a few more days, see what happens at NAMM. Might be something interesting. And maybe even not just stuff from Line 6.

Digital_Igloo recently made a comment on these forums:

hd500x C:\Users\"username"\AppData\Roaming\Line 6\POD HD500X Edit\POD HD500X Edit.ini hd500 C:\Users\"username"\AppData\Roaming\Line 6\POD HD500 Edit\POD HD500 Edit.ini This is for windows 7.

You're probably right, and it's more of an idea for the next gen HD, because to do this, if even possible, I suspect they would have to basically rewrite the entire core of the firmware. As far as the display, they should make note of their past mistakes with the edit software and not making the interface scalable. They could do the same - probably more easily - with the lcd screen on the device. Or they could plan for a maximum number of blocks, around 20. Plus, on the FX block view mode, I see a lot of empty space in there.

If there wasn't an ideascale suggestion before, there is now. I gotta say though that the engineers probably talked about this at length, and they probably found a technical reason to exclude it. Maybe something along the lines of why some of the EQs are in percent.

How about they handle it like they do DSP? Dynamically? There is no set number of blocks. And make some better indicators about how close you are to the limit of both DSP and number of blocks.

There is something to be said for the quality of an instrument, at least for basses. I used to have an SR305 that was replaced with an SR1205E. The difference was quite astounding, much more than I thought it would be. The 305 felt like a floppy piece of styrofoam compared to the 1205. The 305 constantly went out of tune because of the crappy bridge (although I tend to put a lot physical energy in my playing, probably more than needed); the little screws adjusting the saddle heights would vibrate into a disastrous mess, making the bridge look like a mountain range. The 1205 has none of these major annoyances, and sounds good too. The 305 sounded ok, but the two have totally different pickups. One other thing about the wood that could effect tone in a very good way is if the neck wood (not fret board) is resonant with the body wood. Try flicking both pieces of wood with your finger and if they have very similar sound characteristics that's good. Neck joint is important too. I have an older Ibanez American Master with an AANJ that is absolutely a pleasure to play on. Much better than my JEM. More contact with the body wood to transfer the vibrations better.

Harmonics may happen on the guitar, just like any note played on a guitar, but they still depend on the amp and whatever else the signal is going through. So if you take all high end above say 1KHz away, chances are, you're not going to get a very desirable result for harmonics.

Select a blank patch, hold down the control key, and drag it to the patch you want to be empty. This is with the edit software on a pc. On the device, select an empty patch, hit save, then use knob 2 below the screen to select the destination (the patch you want to make empty), hit save again.

There's tons of variables that can affect pinch harmonics. Just on the guitar side of things: old strings, pickups, bridge, tremolo system, tremolo block, pick shape, pick material, pinching technique. On the EQ side of things, if there's an imbalance between low and high frequencies (more low than high), that could make the harmonics sound dead. Generally speaking, depending on the amp, increasing presence might give you more, but at the expense of starting to sound harsh, ice-picky, and possibly even fizzy. Adding a bit of distortion and/or compression before the amp might help also. Try different cabs and mics. Some provide noticeably more dynamics than others. Certain noise gate settings can really kill harmonics as well. But if you only have problems with one guitar, it must be something with that, or some weird dynamic between it and the 500x. Most likely something with the pickups on that guitar.

Pickups probably account for around 60%+ of any guitar tone. The type of wood (and other properties of the wood), the string gauge, bridge, has some effect (maybe 15% combined), but you'd have to listen so close to actually hear any difference that it may as well be discounted as a contributing factor. Certainly a non-musician wouldn't be able to tell any difference. Let's see, that leaves 25% remaining that can be attributed to playing style and phrasing, which can also change depending on the type of music being played. Note the above numbers are guessed from my butt-hole with hardly any data to back it back up, only experience and a somewhat trained listening contraption contained within my rather large head. :lol:

For the tri chorus, try keeping the mix to ~60-80, and start with all the depths at zero, then proceed to adjust each depth slighly, one by one, until you might like what you hear. Who knows, some of them may end up staying at zero. If you put a chorus before the amp, you'll lose its stereo effect.

The Parametric EQ also boosts or cuts the low and high frequencies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLkVhOp5FCY

When working in offline mode, make sure the inputs mode is set to preset and not global. Beyond that causing some likely unwanted behavior, there still may exist some quirks in offline mode for transferring patches from a 500 to 500x. One example I can think of is the bpm setting. Probably would want to double check that. Another might be the volume control of the amp becoming the default (most notably for the Tweed B-Man Brt, but this may be more of a specific bug for this amp and not because of a conversion). I don't think I've ever encountered problems transferring patches, but it could very well be I did and just didn't notice.

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