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Hi guys Have one question regarding POD HD pro with FRFR Active speaker. This to provide me guidance setting my rig. My active speaker is an EV ZLX12P, given at 1000w Peak and 250 w rms and most important around 120 db spl. Yesterday I was in rehearsal and feel like i was near to maximum volume from speaker perspective Speaker volume : Max Input sensitivity : Max for Line Pod Master : Max Channel volume : 50 Master DEP : 75 Mixer 0 and centered So my question with an FRFR rig with similar spec do you achevied a loud enough sound, for example to cover an acoustic drum with a nervous drummer ;)

hi I'l will give a try with line 6 drive Globally i would say that yes both sounds are nice, the only point is that hardly descriptible savior that tube adds, sound is a bit more focused are has more personnality, in regards with tube drive it's really clean but a bit cold... Even if VT999 is an entry level tube drive, and most important a low voltage solid state + Tube stomp, it does a good job enhancing sound. Another try i'll maybe do, is inserting a stereo tube preamp between pod and active speaker to see if that helps. For my concern i'll check solution you provided

Don't worry mate ;) , we are not at work here I've repost the video cause youtube seems to dislike my previous 1fps video, now it's readable. Setting are quite simple Tube driver : 20 drive , Eq flat or near, volume 75 or 80 or VT999 in the fx loop same place than tubedriver Treadplate : 25 drive and rest 50 (flat) Cab V30 and mic U87 here Globally both sound aren't bad but i feel tube drive lack a bit of life and that's globally my point, have this special/digital mids and highs texture...

Here is a short noodling to compare with first tube drive and secondly VT999 i've set the sounds the closest i can to compare and VT999 adds the subtle grittle or life in the sound..

For common lead tone, it depends, it depends also where you put the higain thresold. Most youg guitarist, and i've done years ago, tend to think hi gain is all the way up , everything at 10, and the most important middle at 0 :D From my side i've lowered gain and balanced mid several year ago. With POD i've tried several thing : first approach : Input -> a comp/boost -> tube screamer -> Soldano or Treadplate and recently Bogner Second one : Input -> tubesreame or tube driver -> Treadplate or Bogner I set drive on each component quite low, for instance amp drive never goes past 35 cause it become synthetic after and same for stomp 0 on tubescreamer No problem with that already achieved a metal sound that sits in a mix , have dynamic that's not the issue. My concern is really the mid high and high scope, where digital unit are often bad

For samples, i'll try and make a video tonight to provide a feedback

Metal !!! Gain, more gain !!! :) I feel like pod disto start been fizzy way before entering Metal realm. It's a pity i've not much time in this moment to play with my gear (work, work, work) but i've quickly tried this morning and Behringer VT999 vs Tube overdrive in pod are very similar With a moderate gain not over 60 on tube drive for POD and 30% on vt999 sound is really close

DunedinDragon I don't know if you need hi gain, but when i try it's often ends up fizz :D

Hi Yes i'll take time to make a comparison

As soon as you hit A, B ,C or D preset selection switch (after having hit arrow switch) controler goes back in stomp mode

and that the main point i want to raise... :) , cause i do not have stock options in behringer, i've choosed this tube driver as it has really good review despite a very first entry price, this really make pod hd pro sound great for drive part. Even with flanger effect going through the external stomp, compressor or drive for solo. Even again with various amp sim i really feel global sounding is great . I've tried with bogner uberschall it's gives a massive organic drive sound. Treadplate wow just a killer sound really brutal.

For the moment ( i have 2 days ago...) I've set eq to 5 on all band and played with gain and volume : Gain to max and master to 5 would tend to make a muddy fuzzy tone lower a bit the gain and max the master tend to make a precise hard/metal tone i lowered a bit bass to clean up sound But in any case sound is really natural and tubish Edit : Yep Cruisinon2, i completly agree, that a half solution.... , as opposite the cool point is that you can use low gain setting and use Modeled stomp before, it really enhance the stuff

You're welcome ;) Stil in the hate phase, but a positive and constructive hate ... i've self challenged my pod modeled distortion stomp. Finding that either overdrive and amp drive sound tend to sound fizzy, i've bought an inexpensive Tube stomp IRL and plugged it as an fx loop right before amp sim (where i used to put a disto effect bloc with pod buit in stomp) I must confess this f**lollipop***g change everything. Firstly i get the tube feel and grittle, and definition Secondly this kill the fizzyness Here is the monster B) I consider go on using it as it really enhanced the overall pod sound Amp sim nicelly respond to the tube driven dirty signal, really love it. So maybe i'll keep modeled stomp for rehearsal as convinience is a massive argument pro POD, and for Live and recording i'll just add my tube stomp.

hi all yep that s it in speaker input gain i have a middle position marked as 0 so i ve set gain here. but i was wrong cause 0 is the max line level and the lowest mic level... so yes i saturate inputs. now i set it really low and it quite clean. For grainy sound i mean the overdrive texture. some distortion are really tight like metal ones, and i was looking for the opposite. Thank for answer on GEC.. that was my thoughts, maybe it would have been great putting it in the mixer section to avoid using a slot for an eq

Hi I made a try this morning and yes was way better, i've lower Speaker input sensitivy to half the line sensitivity zone. On GEC : HP at 90hz High : a 4db bell cut at 4khz on LP at 9khz it start sounding not too bad Doing so , using GEC, don't you feel it kills a bit reverbs effect ? And another question on low mid do you make so cut around 300k - 800k to open the sound ?

Hi guys Thank you for taking time to answer my bad mood :) My concern is plugging into an FRFR system I've recently bought an EV ZLX12P active monitor, at the beginning everything was fine, and maybe after my wishes raised, with better sounding, but i find all my sounds crappy when cranking Active monitor I've was trying with uberschall to build a stoner grainy sound and this ends up plastic lollipopy crappy something :) So sometimes as you said both, this experimentation period is really frustrating... Now i think i've hit Active speaker input too hard (both preamp are at zero (between line and mic)) that maybe the cause But even calmed down, i feel like Line 6 really missed something on "software finalization" , at least providing an even sound baseline and spectrum for amp style category :)

Hi guys I'm posting recently in this forum , and i've read lots of user are in a love and hate situation, i think i'm in the hate period. Trying to achevied some metal tone with a pod pro hd x , i think i had all possible trouble Not looking for a stoner vintage like sound , still the same As a result of that , what's the satisfaction provided by this gear ? There so much thing to complaint with this units : Default settings for amp are near stupidity , one case volume drop, another case frequency response is just a non sense (only bass, or only harsh) Mic and cab sim are also a nonsense, mic and cab seems to be simulated as they are, the capitalism way, enter the room ,plug the mic , put the knob to 7 and record, too much bass too much harsh, too much fizz Overdrive break up, is just awfull , just the moment attack bring saturation is a big digital moment. Stomps are the same you cannot rely on default setting Amp are the same ie : Marschal JCM 800 seems to be usable only at 0 drive, ok great.... so why putting knob Pod version x displays some dsp limits Pod is usable on everything, amp, PA... I tried direct in an amp ouch..., in a power amp with a cab ouch, PA is is less painfull, so you have to tweak, twik and twik These units been sold as swiss knife for guitar sound, so ok you canno't await a real tube boutique amp... despite Line6 marketing... but anyway, here's the blame is that when you want a sound it's a one week nightmare to achieve something that do not push creativity. One week to correct problems in this unit. When you buy an amp sim with cab sim and mic, do you really need sub bass ? or mud ? Sorry to complain, but i feel like either my unit is broken, or eitheir my hasse been

for resonance setting, coupled with thump and decay (cause that the way it behave) I found that lowering and playing from 5 to 25 with resonance provide a subtle body effect, after 25 it's an in your face result, so not needed and fizzy by the way. And as a result pushing and playing with thump between 50 and 75 and same for decay works fine. I can't wait testing tonight at gig level !!

Haha !!! Yes nice advice this works nicelly...

A MVS system would also be able to run Pod HD firmware in a NUMA architecture, then you 'll never see the dsp limit reached message :D :ph34r: :P

Hi everyone Got my FRFR system, last week, an EV ZLX12p My first impression is wow !! really cool, what an objective statement :) Sound produced is on one hand really loud, and clean, other hand you can achieve the grittle you have with amp (great that was one of my fear) Other great point : a bodied sound, not a thin lollipop sound , using CAB DEP parameter i even had cab rumble style sound, this low mid effect appearing when speaker are hit hard, so great I feel like it's a really good rig now. After i see also some issue, with the sound being a bit lifeless , but it's all about sim... Last issue is the amp sim fizz which tend to push everything disto/overdrive modeled stomp, and amp sim having exactly the same grain. At the moment i'm thinking either putting a tube disto pedal/preamp in effect loop or a stereo tube preamp after the pod and before active speaker to warm up the sound a get that tube brillance missing.

Hi guys I've seen in this post (or maybe another one in the forum) youtube video from a live band with a direct pod to pa sound, nice rock sound. Does anyone have a metal video of this configuration or withh an FRFR rig in situtation ? Just to have a feeback on result ?

Ok great , i used it and don't remeber if i was in studio mode or combo/stack Information comes from line6 even Meeambobo site state GEQ is unavailable in studio mode. But that a great news/confirmation for me !! I 'm about to receive my EV Zlx12p and this GEQ can help

Hi All Dunedin Dragon, i don't undestand in FRFR you use a combo or stack output mode ? Cause i've read GEQ on pod isn't effective in studio/direct mode.

Hi +1 % for equing is just ...... nonsense I would add another idea : putting global EQ at the end of signal chain... is a nonsense too , why not putting it in mixer ? in the amp or after amps ? cause sending lollipop in a reverb then eq after to correct is the bad way. I would add another idea :) : consistent default parameter for Amps, by default it almost sound bad and big volume differences exists....... And last one, maybe less variations of cabs, but better quality ones, cause same without tweaking , EQing, it amost sound bad