afraz87

This is the first thing I checked. All output levels are sent to Instrument. For the MAIN L/Rs as well as SEND.

I found the issue. But not sure I understand it. I turned down the send level to -50DB and now its at a non ear shattering level. But im not sure if this is whats meant to happen. Setting it that low sounds a bit silly. Is send meant to be WAY louder than normal output? I wonder if send is meant to be the equivalent of the master knob turned up all the way.

Hey guys, I'm trying out different approaches to create a patch which allows me to connect to both FOH and an onstage amp (via FX return). One of the approaches I am trying is: MAIN L/R -> DIST -> AMP -> SPLIT -> DELAY & REVERB IN PARALLEL -> MERGE -> SEND L -> IR -> EQ -> MAIN L/R Main output L is going to FOH and Send L is going into FX Return of an EVH 5150 I've seen this work in a lot of videos and posts here but when I do this there is a very loud noise that comes from my speaker cabinet, at earsplitting loud levels. I don't know if its feedback or what. The FX Return of the amp is fine by itself, ive tried 4CM and that works perfectly fine. Any ideas what i'm doing wrong?

Thanks a lot for the quick responses guys! Alright cool, yes, I need to try my guitar with his pod and his guitar with my pod for further investigation. We don't live close-by so I'll hopefully go to his place over on the weekend. Another thing I've discovered is that we're both getting noise on some other presets. Most of these presets have 1-2 distortion pedals plus a high gain amp. I have a question, is the sound supposed to be free of background noise even with multiple high gain components in the chain? Or no? I mean is some noise expected regardless?

Hey guys, I've had my POD HD 500 for 1-2 years now. Initially I spent a few months dialing in a good metal rhythm and lead tone for solo project work. Everything was going well. Recently I've started working on a project with a friend and we decided to create some tones from scratch. What I've found is that without a noise gate I'm getting a background static noise. My friend has no background noise, he has the same pickups and also has a POD HD 500. We're also using the same preset. My setup I have a Jackson with EMG active pickups, the guitar is directly connected to the POD via the standard guitar cable through the "guitar in" jack. The POD is connected to my PC via USB. I'm using the POD for everything i.e there is no external amplifier involved. I've been going through these forums trying to find people with similar issues, and some of the solutions have helped such as : setting input 2 to variax setting the guitar in switch to PAD but the noise is still there. Other information regarding this noise in no particular order: noise gets worse if I move closer to the POD. if I use headphones instead of my studio monitor speakers, the background noise is still the same. if I shutdown the PC, the noise is still there. my guitar's tone knob affects the intensity of this background noise. If I switch the tone to 0%, the noise is barely audible, its reduced to a light hum. As you turn it up to 100% the static gets louder. its not guitar cable related. I bought a new cable today and the noise is still there. I've switched the active pickup battery, just for the hell of it, that doesn't make a difference either. I've disconnected the USB, the noise is still there. If I unplug the guitar, the noise is gone. noise is much louder with treadplate based presets. I've also tried switching off all lights in the room, the noise is still there I also tried a different power socket, that didn't make a difference either. I've also updated the firmware, drivers and flash to the latest version I am completely lost now. Don't know what else to do. I only have 1 guitar so I couldn't try a different guitar, and I don't have an amp or other multi-effects unit. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thankyou Best Regards, raz87