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Highroller54; To answer your basic question about the tone/volume drop off. I made a clean patch with a vol pedal only. I adjusted the mixer to +2.5 - center/center that took care of the volume drop off. I went into the set up menu and adjusted the input for "Guitar" the guitar in Z to 136k once again for my rig this sounded closest to the guitar in the front. Adjusted the out put to 600hz and flat on both Lows and Highs. This got my sound to be the same both ways. You may need to tweak (and I am sure you will) on your set up to get it "even sounding" and it was about 20 mins of time and quite easy. Once again no disrespect to POD, but I really don't get what I wanted out of it. I use it for the tuner, vol pedal and MIDI switching since I got my new head. So if I boxed the POD up I would need $120 for a good floor tuner, $200 for the volume pedal and $3-500 for the MIDI switch board. Now you know why I don't want to box it up or trade it into guitar center for $200. Thanks for you advise and its nothing personal its just a money thing. The condescension is really annoying when people are just looking for a solution on the "community support" forum. Support being the operative word. Thanks again.

I am sorry, My issue is exactly the same as the first post. I am not sure how these forums go so astray. The heart of the question is "is there a true bypass on these multi effects pedals"? If you get a single effect pedal with "true bypass" say a distortion pedal, you do not want the pedal in the path doing anything to your tone. you don't want to try the 4cm method (did it for over a year with my old head to great effect), tweak the EQ, do this, or try that. Highroller54 and I just want to know how, if the HD500 has a "true bypass" mode or potential . Right now I have a new amp head and the tone was driving me nuts. I found out it was the POD not anything else. Same exact issues post #1 by highroller54 stated. All I want to do is use the volume pedal and the tuner as well as the MIDI functions with no colorations, no dampening of my signal. Can this beast work like a standard pedal with "True Bypass"?