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Or both...I'm running the L2T as a monitor and the POD straight to the PA as well. No mics, no cabs, no mess. Sets up and tears down in 10 minutes, if that. Almost takes longer to get the guitars out of their cases, lol

Hallelujah! Ears work. Why not use them?

Can I get an "Amen"?!?!?! Ears are becoming an underused tool....

Might not help, but it happens to be the right answer. Balancing volumes is brought up constantly, but for the life of me, I don't understand why...we all have two level meters, one on each side of our heads. It's not the Manhattan Project. Too loud? Turn down. Can't hear yourself? Turn up...hit "save". Provided that this is done at the volume you intend to use the patches in question, it only has to be done once...maybe with the occasional tweak here and there.

Bueller? ;) Don't know....when I'm connected, if I change a model on the guitar, the corresponding model pops up onscreen. The time honored approach is to re-flash the JTV firmware when they start acting goofy...seems they all do, sooner or later.

Volume will forever affect the sound of your patches. Nothing can be done about the way we perceive sound. You have to tweak at the volume you intend a given patch to be used, A/B them and balance where necessary, and repeat... Meters lie...your ears are the best tool you've got.

You can't treat a disease until you identify the root cause. The only thing everybody here agrees on, are the symptoms. As long as that's the case, the disease will roll merrily on... Available evidence suggests one of 2 things: 1) Nobody knows what the cause is. or 2) The cause(s) are known, but it's either: A) a chance combination of factors which would explain why it only affects some guitars, as well as why the various homespun remedies are not universally effective...or B ) It's simply too difficult/expensive to fix the bum units, and therefore the cause(s) have been declared a state secret, and afflicted instruments are sent to the toothpick factory. It's even money as far as I'm concerned. Some things don't have an answer. We can pump Gramps full of 9 different medications that will keep his heart beating till he's 103, but we can't cure the sniffles. If I knew what to do about it, I would have suggested it already. Tech guru, I'm not. I just have a really fine-tuned BS detector.

They're not EQing to fix a malfunctioning instrument though, are they? A polished turd is still a turd. And I'm sure you're smart enough to figure out that the insulting part is the thinly veiled assertion that there's nothing wrong with these plink-afflicted guitars that a little EQ won't fix. We've all heard the sound clips...a little EQ isn't going to fix this issue any more than a few extra sand bags would have saved New Orleans from Katrina.

Ha! You beat me to it. That's the best part about this story. 30 years hence, eggs are no longer the enemy. Seems that high-cholesterol foods have a negligible impact on one's serum cholesterol level. It's the carbs and refined sugars that are turning us all into fat diabetics. Oops. Today's "expert" is tomorrow's village idiot...

At least I'm not the only old man in here, lol ;)

Yup. I'd sooner spend $10K on a fancy toilet. At least that would get used. Seriously, of what practical use is that thing? The guy in the video clearly can't get his hands around it, nor could most of the population. If you spend all your ready cash on that monstrosity, you won't be able to afford the orthopaedic surgeon to double the length of your fingers...

No worries...soon enough we'll all have RFID chips in our heads, and you'll just be able to think "roll off the mids a little", and POOF! L6 can call it "InstEQ". ;)

They're all on backorder. Hurry up and wait, lol. ;) "Pricey" has many definitions, and the number of FRFR options continues to grow, too. How much do you want to spend?

Yes. And repeatedly offering it as a solution strongly suggests that nobody has any idea why it affects some guitars and not others...but for the love of God, just say it. People would find that a whole lot easier to swallow than being told "your guitar is fine, there's nothing to see here".

So what now, ya think? ;)

Remember when things were simple? "Is it on?" "Yep." "Ok, then". ;)

You're probably gonna have to get on the phone...this is a user forum. "Official" L6 personnel chime in occasionally, but you can't count on any of them answering you in here.

I'm no electrician, but I can't see why it would matter...there's either juice flowing to the unit, or there isn't. Hell, the POD HD series doesn't even have a damn switch, so your stuck pulling the wall-wart out when you're done, or clicking off the power strip, which is what I do.

Amen....What kind of "solution" is that anyway? Even if one could manage to EQ the plink away, it would only be a workable fix if it were possible to apply it only to the 6th string. As nifty as Workbench is, that level of control doesn't presently exist, unless I missed it somewhere. If you suck the offending frequencies out of the entire guitar, it will probably sound like you're playing flat-wound strings. What good is that?

Had the same thing shoved in my 69's tremolo springs...since removed them. Noticed no difference. Old creaky and corroded springs can certainly be noisy when you're actually using the bar, but I don't think that stuffing crap in there accomplishes much. At some point you just need new springs...

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should...

1) Don't think so, but I wouldn't want that anyway...you'd just have to unlock everything each time you need to adjust something. Editing on the fly is enough of a pain in the arse as it is. A slightly longer cable and a roll of duct tape will solve this problem nicely. 2) Not entirely sure what you're asking on this one.

Combination of what?

Up or down...there's not much to adjusting pickup height, so it's hardly possible to screw up this particular "test". I'm not the least bit surprised that you failed to induce the "plink" this way. It's a guitar pickup, not a 3T MRI magnet...I didn't buy this as the cause before, and I still don't.

To all of you suffering from the dreaded "plink": You may all breathe a collective sigh of relief. As it turns out, you're just looking at things all wrong. Your guitars do not have defects...it's actually a "feature". A "creativity instigator", if you will. ;) Wow...