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Ouch...tri-state meaning NY-NJ-PA?

ANY power supply that physically fits into your POD's power plug and that actually meets THESE specs: Input Voltage Range 100-240V/50-60Hz Output Amps 3000mA Output Voltage 9V Sleeve/Tip Configuration Tip: Negative, Sleeve: Positive Will work. That is all.

You make a strong and valid point sir.. :)

Why not just use the EHX Iron Lung still and connect it through the external effects loop? Never used one so this may be bollocks lol...but it SEEMS possible to me.

Mine was S&D as well, but I know what was/is still wrong with mine -- fret leveling. It's "liveable" but I need to just order some fretworking tools from StewMac and fix it. I think "scratch and dent" means basically factory seconds....

The perfect crunch:

There, all fixed...

Sure! I assume "over here" implies the United Kingdom? Moving there is a real possibility one day as well.

I would only add that the firmware DOES (likely) concern the Model Packs as it (again likely) enables the capability to add them.

Asking $340k...comes with a 9x40 pole barn that includes 4 stalls, hay storage, tractor bay and tool room plus tack and feed rooms. Also there is a 70wx110lx16h' indoor riding arena, 2 run-in sheds, 5 paddock fields plus a 12x12 storage shed for lawn stuff and what not.

I was just out at Sweetwater, and I was looking at a Shoreline Gold 69S that was listed as "Scratch and Dent"...but it said "We have more on order".. Who orders more scratch and dent anything?

ALready a thread on this: http://line6.com/support/topic/12012-pod-hd-v26-firmware/

A lost art, no doubt!

Well thanks fellas...we are looking forward to it for sure. Got to sell what we have first, but hey that'll happen... Anyone want to buy a 5 acre horse farm in Pennsylvania with an indorr riding arena?

Sounds like this (maybe): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-njcAia6nY

Just a thought here, but couldn't you get something like an ABY switch, plug your guitar into one end and then alternatively select the HD Bean, The HD500x and/or both at once theorhetically giving you a 4 amp signal chain? The mind boggles....

No problem....and may the tone ever be in your favor.

Well, since my SO and I are think seriously of selling the farm (literally) in Central PA and moving to the suburbs of Denver -- I might just be leaning more heavily on this setup than I have to right now. Apartment life and all that so yeah, hanging on to it and making it viable were pretty high on the list of priorities. We have been here 16 years now since I retired from active duty and I tell you, the travelin' Jones just never has left...time to check out something new.

Wow, this thread's got legs!

For the last 10 days or thereabouts, I have been "communing" with my POD HD500/JTV59 Variax/PE60s rig. I was ready to just sell it off and stop screwing with it, no doubt. But I read the advice and suggestions in this thread and thought it over quite a bit. I figured before I just bailed out which to me is a measure of admitting failure (and I HATE to do that!) I decided to seriously dedicate some time to learning not only how to do things (which I knew mostly), but when and why to do them and what works best for certain genres I play. In other words, I temporarily stopped worrying about learning new guitar riffs and songs and instead worried exclusively about getting to the point where I could quickly call up desired "base tones" of favored guitar amp emulations for various styles. You know what? It has paid off. Now on my POD instead of all the crazy assed presets that come with it from the factory I have a relatively blank slate with several of these base tones on them on a setlist I am calling Basics. It is designed as a starting point from which I can copy some base tone therein into new presets on other "performance" set lists, and from there add in whatever other effects (usually minimal really, but not always) I'd need to perform a particular song or even group of songs. What that led to was kind of an explosion of creativity in terms of learning new songs. For example, I had just been listening to Badfinger and so I took the basic grindy Deluxe Reverb tone I created, added in a dual channel with a Twin Reverb for some added sparkle to the raw grit of the Deluxe and I was surprised to find some good Badfinger tone in there. yeah, I know they used Marshall but whatever -- this tone is happening IMHO. And so I was screwing around testing sounds and the opening riff for "No Matter What" literally just popped out and I spent the next two hours working the song and structure out, including the relatively low key lead parts and signature trills. It was great and has led to other great Badfinger songs but you get the idea. So I guess sometimes with the gear we have and all it's capabilities and complexities, you sometimes just need to step back, evaluate your processes and see what can be done to shake them up when you've hit a rut -- just like we have to as musicians in general. Doing that can lead you to unexpected places and in my case, snatched a victory out of what was headed towards a defeat. Let that be a lesson to me.

Hey, thanks for the linky...can't hit it from work here, but I can later :)

See, I have had to be honest with myself and really ask myself what my goals are -- I am very goal oriented in most areas of my life. As I have gotten older, and arthritis has begun to creep into play, I realized that I don't have forever to accomplish my original goal of being the best PLAYER I could possibly be. I've become a hell of a TWEAKER in the last 10-12 years, and I can get some ethereal sounds at times -- but I tend to play the same old riffs and "comfort zone" classic rock I grew up with and I am not stretching myself musically when I am doing that. Now, I know that many of the brethren in the modeling world achieve TONS of inspirational new things using Line 6 and other gear. I am just having to be true to myself and admit that I'm not one of them. I do best by sticking to practice routines and learning new songs in different genres where I wrap my head more around the music than which amp and guitar the guy who wrote it may have used. Thanks Brazzy, appreciate the thoughts. I wish I had the ability ti limit myself, but the computer nerd inside of me sort of takes over at times and BAM!, there went an hour and a half I should have been learning a song lol. My answer to a vice as always been the elimination of the source...re: building an amp, I think working on amps and guitars is a great side job. In fact, I am wanting to start a tube amp repair services when I get good and sick of IT work.

Honestly, I can always get the latest and greatest later on anyway. The one thing about the digital approach is that it won't be long until "the next big thing" comes along -- reference my list of "exes" lol... I left one modeling device out of my list that I will keep -- my Fender Mustang Mini which is battery operated even, but has sounds I like (Fender style tone) and a headphone jack for silent practice. I also have aBoss Micro BR that is suitable for that and can record if necessary. Those two things will be my future, along with a pretty decent DAW setup with POD Farm Platinum should I wish to go that way. Sorry about posting in the wrong spot :) This really is the heart of it for me anyway -- "just one more tweeak" or "what if I had two delays?" type thinking. I have done what you have done, namely making a few basic patches with minimal (or no) effects, but it just never worked out because I'd always still end up adding this or that and going down the rabbit hole again. Distraction and lack of focus kills my practice initiative and replaces it with tweaking. So I usually just plug straight into my little silverface Vibro Champ to practice to avoid all of that. As I said up front, the devices aren't the problem -- I am.

First of all, I am only bothering to write all of this because I like most of you folks and I have been a member of Line 6's forums since probably 2002 or so. That's because I have owned many Line 6 products over the years and in turn that is because I always felt Line 6 was the best of the lot when it comes to the modeling game. I still do, even though the market is starting to saturate and high end offerings (read: expensive!) such as AxeFX and Kemper are out there. Dollar for dollar, Line 6 HD modeling is just a better value IMHO. All that said, I am selling off all my modeling gear. I have been in the modeling game for a long time, and I have owned a LOT of dedicated modeling devices: - Digitech RP-300 - Korg Pandora 3 - Vox Tonelab Table Top w/ VC-4 Foot pedal - Boss DR-880 Rhthm Doctor w/ G6 guitar processor - Tech 21 Tri-AC (analog modeler) - Fender Cyber Champ amp - Line 6 Pod 2 - Line 6 GuitarPort - Line 6 Pod Xt Bean - Line 6 Pod XT Live - Line 6 Pod HD 500 - Line 6 JTV59 Variax So yeah, that's a lot of trys at using this sort of technology. I should point out that I am and have been a computer programmer, both hobbyist and now professionally since the mid 1980s, plus I have a strong electronics background including vacuum tube theory, integrated circuit design, boolean logic and so on, so digital technology is easy enough for me to use. In other words, not one of these devices as thrown me for a loop usage-wise. My current rig is the JTV59 into the POD HD500 and out to a pair of Tech21 Power Engines so anyone interested in any of that, PM me and we'll discuss offline. So why then am I getting out of the game? I am 56 years old now, and I was raised in the analog age. I remember taking television tubes down to the pharmacy and running them on a tube tester. I loved that! I know how to operate an oscilliscope, VTVM and how to solder (a lost art) and I have worked on tube amplifiers my whole adult life, both in the Air Force on KC-135A automatic pilot systems and on my own guitar amplifiers. This ancient tech is still my center and after long consideration I am having to admit I don't really need to change that fact to keep pace with theadvances in guitar tech. I don't gig anymore, so hauling gear often isn't an issue. If I do go out and play an open mic or a group jam with friends somewhere, I always take my Princeton Reverb and the small analog pedalboard I have, plus a Strat or Tele anyway. I tried taking the HD500 and Variax a couple of times, and it was a very mixed result. Some stuff sounded fine while other carefully crafted patches withered and died in the mix. But my analog rig has never done that to me. If I need more volume, I can hit a simple boost pedal and ride the volume knob, but the overall tone stays constant. If I need more grind, same story with an overdrive or distortion pedal (I have one of each). So there is that aspect but also, I pretty much have settled into a certain kind of sound, namely my analog rig. I just love the way it sounds and feels every single time I play it. Last evening, I sat down to record a few ideas I had for some acoustic oriented cover songs using the Variax and POD HD500. These songs are in alternate tunings and acoustic which is the number one reason I even got the Variax to begin with -- sheer laziness on my part to just retune an acoustic manually lol. In any event, the so-called "ghost notes" have always driven me nuts on this Variax, and although I know that raising the output volume "solves" this, sometimes you don't want things to be loud (like when you sing vocals to keep the song structure right) and last night was one of those times. In the end, I ended up grabbing my 35 year old Yamaha FG-365, putting an old Lace Sensor sound hole pickup into it, tuning to Open E and recording that instead, without the distraction and it came out great really. This sort of thing happens to me a LOT really -- I always revert back to a POG (plain old guitar) and retune after getting frustrated. In any event, since I am currently broadening my horizons by studying some jazz theory via TrueFire, it occurred to me that maybe I ought to just stick with what I really like, stop being so lazy about tuning and just play the damn guitar, instead of wasting all the time I have trying to get some sound in my head out of a modeling device. The problem isn't with the devices, it is with me and my perfectionist ways and for me right these things are more of a distraction than a joy so I guess it's time to just let it go.

I'm gonna need some scotch to rinse that image out of my brain.