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Agreed! This sounds like a "Forrest and Tree" thing to me. We get laser focused on one tree and forget to look at the Forrest around us. I'm guilty of it at times. I spent hours with my original tube screamer playing one choppy chord in a triplet eight note pattern. I would then turn it off and repeat this pattern with the pod Screamer. Adnausium! My wife was going crazy with me! I was pulling my hair out because I couldn't get them to sound EXACTLY the same! Hours of my life that I can't get back because I was too busy staring at one tree. Only to realize that sounding different is not synonymous with sounding bad. It's just different. Now I have two screamers with different qualities and they both sound amazing! It is time for you to get away from that tree, look at the Forrest around you. Set up a blank patch, put a studio eq in the chain, boost the gain, turn up the mixer, do what you gotta do and then move on! By focusing so much on this one issue, You may be missing out on future "Pod'scoveries" that will get you what you want. Ask youself...is your goal a booty kicking tone from your rig, or is it to make the pod bypass so you can hear your amp. If the latter is your goal, there is one sure fire way to accomplish it, Put the pod back in the box and plug your guitar into the front of the amp. Bada-Bing! Discussion over! To me, that would be a waste of a perfectly good and amazing pod.

I'm having wah issues too. I can't get the exp 1 toe switch to turn on and off the wah. I am using an ernie ball exp pedal in slot two. What is odd is that I can assign the wah to exp 2 and the exp 1 toe switch will work to turn the wah on and off but the wah is controlled y exp 2. I can't get the wah assigned to exp 1 and have the on and off be the exp 1 toe switch.

As far as the lag between presets is concerned.... With your Dream rig you have access to Fender, Marshall, Divided By 13, Park, Hiwatt, Soldano, Boogie, Bogner, Super O, Echo Plexes, Univibe, Reverbs of every sort, the ability to change tunings at the click of a button, the ability to mix match topographies, Sitar, Banjo, Acoustic, Acoustic 12 , Danelectro, Baritone, Rickenbachers....and so on....and so on... But the few milliseconds of delay between patches is a deal breaker? Really? If you send it all back what will you have? One amp, a guitar, a few pedals that you will turn on and off as needed. But hey... at least there's no delay! You could do that with your dream rig for EVERY AMP! I'm just an outsider looking in but... My man, Take a breath and really get with what you have under your feet. Delay schmalay bro, make it happen! You've got an awesome rig there. It would be a shame for you to miss the forrest around you because you are fixated on one tree! The tuning thing on your JTV is something different. That could be a manufacturing issue cause my Axe stays rock solid with new strings! Just a thought...

Will that work with alt tuning?

That makes sense. But what about other fx in the loop aside from distortion that one may want to have want post mixer? I want my tube screamer on the front and my Super Ego in the back. Riddle me that my man!

Ok, that's huge! So there is really no way to run boxes in front of the Pod and use The VDI. If that is so its a bit unfortunate. I've got to be able to controll my JTV through the Pod. I've got songs with alternate tuning and distortions don't sound so great through the fx loop. Thanx

What is the advantage of using a VDI? You can't go wireless and you can't place analog stomps in front of the pod. What am I missing?

How does any of this work if you are using a JTV via the VDI?

Have you locked your variax controls?

Seems like you purchased a car when you only really need a tire. Why pay $$$$ when you will only use $'s worth of functionality? I agree with Zap, not much payout

Has anyone experienced their variax causing the amp to ring almost as if the tubes in the amp wer going bad? I had two guitars plugged into the hd (variax via VDI and an ultra III via 1/4") I started getting this increasing in volume feed back through my DT even as all guitar volumes were off. As soon as I unplugged the variax it stopped. Thoughts?

http://line6.com/customtone/tone/486722/ Good for singer/lead guitar work. An easy way to fade from a lead tone back to a clean tone by using your expression pedal. Exp 1 fades from clean to dirty. Exp 2 controls the drive on the J-45 to give you more bite. Let me know what ya think. For the Dream rig using : JTV Mags HD500 DT50

You don't suck! That sounds a lot better. Seems you are putting more pick on the strings and playing a bit more confidently. Once you got that down, then dialing in a great tone will be easier.

No. A couple of thoughts. First, play the guitar. Most of your tone comes from how you play. Your playing in those clips was sloppy and timid and did not seem like you were really playin your instrument and for me that makes it hard to hear what may or may not be an issue. If you play in a timid ham handed way, you are going to get a timid thin tone. So play the guitar like you mean it! Second, maybe you can share what you think it should sound like. Send us a link to a tone you heard and would like to emulate. you may not be as far off the mark as you may think.

Blackface and a chorus. Done Deal!

Bada-Bing! My man C.Dub! You have to come back here and give me the particulars of Oct. While yer here, I'll take the band out for a cold one @ Russian River Brewing Co. Some of the best beer on the planet! Looking forward to it! Come back every now and again and give me some +'s on the posts where I hold Line 6's feet to the fire to give us reliable gear, keep the Line 6 haters in check and keep the Line 6 Fanboys grounded! (this stuff ain't no Rolls Royce Fanboys, but it ain't no Gremlin either haters!) C.Dub, you are NOT a hater. There is a huge difference between a hater and someone who expresses a desire and preference for something different! My grandfather, an old Texas boy, used to say "If you got it like that, go get it!" he was talking about women, but I think it's appropriate here! Last thing, I played a gig last night at a local festival. They had an incredible sound system set up. Huge board, monitors, subs, lights, the works. The stage sound was incredible which is difficult to achieve outside. My guitarist brought out his fender delux reverb and fancy amp stand with a built in fan, attenuator, pedal boardzilla on a fancy tilted pedalboard stand. I had a The Dream Rig. JTV, DT50 and HD500 (No L2M cause I had to ship that back 2 days after receiving it because of a rattle that Line 6 KNEW it had!...but I digress) . 2 cables, L6 and VDI. Guess who's junk pooped out? I look down to my left and there he was scrambling around on his knees trying to figure out which was the bad cable between his fx. flipping on and off the amp with a pained panic look on his face as 2 songs came and went. All the while there I was with my cheap Chinese made crap, happily chugging along, excellent tone, without a care in the world. (actually that is not totally true. Whenever I use this junk, I keep a varing grade of angst) AND...once he'd got his Sugar Honey Iced T together, his tone SUCKED, I marked it on my calendar...July 18, 2014, Dream Rig performed as advertised! Score one for me. FINALLY!

Support ticket. They will give you the serial number range. I think you are good if you got it a year ago.

Yepper!

Yepper! I know a joint that has an all pro jam session for a bunch of retired hippie millionaires. You know... The Odwalla millionaire set? We could blow it up! I just read your signature!.....we definitely could hang! Cheers my man!

Here's the deal.... If you're good, you're going to be good no matter what you play. Cracks me up to hear theses dudes explain to me why they paid $3000 for this American made Strat and another $6000 for their amp. They got all the specs and the history and the neck radius and the tube biasing and the speaker cone size and shape and the splitting of this and the tapping of that and they STILL SUCK! But will turn their nose up at my DT50 knowing NOTHING about it other than it is made by Line 6. They can't get out of their own way! I've never been one for false modesty, so I will tell you right now that I can play circles around a lot of these "real deal" guitar players with my Korean made Variax, and my Chinese made DT50/HD500. (When it turns on and stays on and doesn't reboot in the middle of the set) I'll put my (working) rig up against anybodys and it is going to sound DYN-O-MITE mostly for the simple fact that I'm playing it! The gear doesn't make me sound good...I make the gear sound good! Dat's what I'm talkin' 'bout!.... can a brother get an Amen! DAMN that felt good! I need a cigarette...

Huh? Hehehehehe! :P Anytime you come through the Sonoma wine country, let me know!!!!

Preach it Chuckie! Strong words my man! When I asked the question about defining the "Real Deal", as you put it, I think a more accurate communication would be to say that what may be the Real Deal one minute could end up being old hat the next. Tape echoes were the real deal until digital delays came around. Internal combustion engines were the real deal and now Tesla is challenging that notion. Reel to reel recording... Real Deal, now theres Pro Tools. A Les Paul is the real deal and the only reason that PRS guitars look the way they look now and not like the Les Paul that he copied is because Gibson sued him and won! Now I would bet that many people consider PRS guitars 'The Real Deal" Technology is alway changing. I applaud Line 6 for attempting to stay current, to keep pushing. That clearly is not without some serious bumps in the road that one could argue they should have been able to prevent or at the very least make right immediately. (seriously, shipping L series speakers with a known rattle?, having amps with bad transformers? again, unacceptable!) I'm just not so sure I would be so quick to write them off or the gear off as unoriginal copies of the great stuff. If the goal is to be completely and totally original with no link to anything that ever existed, then I'm sure I will never hear you play a pentatonic scale. That would be a poor copy of every guitarist ever! You also risk sounding like that old crotchety dude who is not interested in riding around in that new fangled horseless carriage. Remember, the old school that you and I relish was at one time the new junk that the old timers swore up and down would go no where! Think about the origins of Rock-N-Roll and you'll know what I'm talking about. All of the models and the literature about the models is always "..Based On...". No one ever said hit this button and your amp is now a Fender Twin and your guitar is now a Gretsch. I think my rig does a fantastic job of capturing the essence and spirit of the amp that is being modeled. Does it sound exactly like So and so's Plexi? No. But I have a Plexi and it doesn't sound like So and so's Plexi and they were made in the same year! And by the way, I tweaked WAAAAAY more with my Real Deal amp than I do with my Dream Rig. Or at least now that I know how to use my Dream rig. Once you are past the learning curve, it's pretty simple. Then again, I spend ZERO time trying to sound like someone else. I want to sound like me and I've pretty much got that down. "…..And if you like the acoustic models??? You need your hearing checked." Again C.W., Strong words. I'll keep everyone posted on the results of my hearing test. I've got really expensive boutique amps. Most of them all tubes. I could name drop for 3 more paragraphs and have amps left over. They are all fantastic! and they all do what they do really well. Though I wished my Two Rock cleaned up like my JC-120, I wish my 3 Power had more meat in the mid range and I wish my Super Sonic had more grit, I wish my Boogie had more bottom and so on. With one rig I can get almost anything I need to convey the emotion of a song or passage. From sparkling cleans to true grit soaring leads to Metheny space texture! Or I could just bring all my amps. I'm not concerned about what amp they are telling me is being modeled. They should get away from naming the models. It would get rid of the "It doesn't sound like a Marshall to me" crowd. What I care about is the sound, tone, color, the texture that is coming out of my amp and me likes so far what I hear. Though you did tell me that I might need to have my hearing checked so I might not be such a reliable witness. My Hughes & Kettner combo rocks! But it is no where near as versatile as my HD/DT50. I can't say that the real deal sounds better. I can say that my rig with me playing it sounds really f'ing good! My guitarist has a fancy pants real deal amp and Fx set up. It takes him forever to get his sound together, to get it all plugged in, to find the shorted cable, to replace battery to fiddle with the knobs cause you can't save your settings and so on. The one and only thing that he has is that once his stuff is dialed in…... HE NEVER HAS IS JUNK REBOOT IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS FRICKIN' SOLO!!!!!! I'm with ya C.W.! So far, The Dream Rig has proven to be a bit unreliable. Time will tell if I can report otherwise. As for the sound, the sonic capabilities, the color, the meat? Hey man, what do you want from me? Apparently, I can't even hear!!! :P

Studio/Direct. For the DT, use only pre models and turn off cab simulation.

Charlie Christiansen played through a Gibson EH 150. So did every other guitarist shortly after. They considered it "The Real Deal" Years later Wes Montgomery played through a Standel Super Custom. A solid state amp. Also Considered "The Real Deal" Check this out.... http://www.tdpri.com/forum/attachments/amp-central-station/146447d1349321224t-holy-cow-fender-george-bensen-signature-hot-rod-dlx-george-benson-guild-guitar-amp-jpg How do you define "Real Deal"? The first Van Halen album was recorded with a guitar that was called Frankenstein. It never stayed in tune, It was a horrible guitar according to Eddie. Dare I say that was the "Real Deal"! I think Line 6 is offering The Real Deal. They just need to make it reliable.

Baby steps my friend! Let's first start with a fully reliable DT50/L2M/HD500/JTV69. Only then will I consider a Stagesource. I have faith that it will happen! And I can't wait! For clarification, the disappointment that I express in this forum about this rigs reliability is a direct reflection of the pure ecstasy I get when the rig is bangin'! My JTV-69 is beautiful! It plays better than some of my most expensive guitars, I've got the guitar models set up just right. It trips my other guitarist out (who is a total line 6 hater) that I hit one switch on my HD and BOOM! Baritone guitar with undetectable latency if you play it right! I've put in the time to get the amp models and FX just right. Then I added the L2M and WOW! Blending in acoustic guitar with a rotary drum on the acoustic side.....? I mean WOW! Amazing! ....Then I turn it up at rehearsal and the L2M rattle kicks in (and I just got it! Brand New!) or the rig reboots in the middle of a song or the DT has no output. My ecstasy quickly turns into exasperation. I sit and stare at this beautiful new gear (and it all looks pretty badassed) that works intermittently...Then I run to the computer to whine to you all. My partners in gear! I'm not a hater! I truly am a lover of this rig. It will happen for me! It will work out!