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The ensuing furor that would arise probably isn't worth whatever money they'd save...the Mac-nati may be a small market share, but they are fanatically devoted, and they would not take well to the idea of having to go slumming with the Windows crowd. It would be like Kemper suddenly deciding to make nothing but spark plugs...can you imagine the outrage from their suddenly tone-deprived customers? :D

There are 1000 threads here where everybody goes into great, gory detail about what they do and don't like about the new models...you'll be reading for days.

Buying another modeling amp to power the modeler that you already have is kinda redundant. You need power and a speaker(s). My advice, go FRFR and don't look back. Just know that no matter what you run the POD through, it's gonna require some re-tweaking to get the same tones you're getting with your current set-up.

2.62 firmware is the most recent update...no idea if it will make any difference, but it's worth a shot.

Two things are going on... 1) Everything that you play through is gonna color the tone one way or the other. Doesn't matter if it's headphones, studio monitors, or an amp/cab set-up. You may have to tweak some patches through your studio monitors to get the sound you're looking for. ...but even if you do that 2) One the guitars are in the mix with other instruments, everything changes anyway. Sometimes you're gonna have to "fix it in the mix", as they say.

and no edibles... :P

Or, we could just keep him within 1 or 2 votes of "666" forever...then he could be known as the "Neighbor of The Beast" :P

Nope...try re-flashing the firmware.

Just because something still functions, doesn't mean that it isn't obsolete. I've still got an old tube TV in the basement...20+ years old and still works. It even survived my rather uncivilized college years. But the picture is horrendous by today's standards. By contrast, the last flat screen I replaced lasted 5 or 6 years tops. Just died one day. No point in trying to fix it, as it was already way behind the tech curve...even if parts are available, it's never gonna be cost effective to do. This is not an accident. It's a business plan. Next to the TV is an ancient Mac with the tiny black and white screen and a hard drive with all of 5 MB of space, lol. It still works too, but obviously is of no practical use anymore. Can't tell you how many laptops and desktop PCs I've plowed through in the intervening years. Some failed in spectacular fashion at inopportune moments, others ground to a slow halt, but none lasted more than 3 maybe 4 years...no matter how nice I was to them. Cars may have improved some, yes. But as far as I'm concerned, most consumer electronics are designed to $#!? the bed after a relatively short period of time, so they can sell you the next "big" thing. And any company that isn't pumping out new and better product on a regular basis will be quickly forgotten by a generation with a Playstation attention span. We're so conditioned to want the newest version of everything, that nothings needs to last very long. Most people will happily dispose of something that still works 6 months after they bought it because the "new" version was just released. Apple has made it an art form, and they're laughing all the way to the bank...people stand in line for days, make appointments...why? To buy a friggin' WATCH. It's comical.

LOL...every once in a while the squeaky wheel actually does get the grease. :P

Wish I could help you, but none of the strings on my Tele models sound like the acoustics...no other unpleasant "honks" or "thuds" either. I'm not a huge fan of the newer Strat model, as I find that it doesn't drive any of the amps in the POD as much as the 1.9 version did, so I've crafted some custom combinations to better approximate the older Strat model. That aside, no major complaints.

Our economy (and a company's reputation) used to be built on the quality and longevity of products...but that only worked while technology was little more than stagnant. Now planned obsolescence is the new normal...it sucks, but it is what it is, and it's not gonna change. I decided a long time ago that I could either go broke trying to keep up with the rest of the gadget fiends (most of whom seem to have the fanatical devotion of a meth addict...pitching a tent for 2 days on a sidewalk so you can buy a phone? How is that normal?), or live with being 1 or 2 generations behind the curve. My 500X isn't going anywhere anytime soon... Unless I win the lottery, in which case it's a pile of my dog's finest work on the boss's desk, a couple of months in Aruba, and all the gear I've ever wanted... :P

Gotta say, looks amazing. Price is steep compared to the 500X, but it certainly looks like a tremendous bang for the buck...I'd already be rading the piggy bank, but divorce would end up costing me a lost more than $1500, ;)...this time I'll be waiting until after the holidays. Learned my lesson last year with the L2T...

Unfortunately you really only have one option...put it curbside and get another one. It will almost certainly cost more to replace everything that was fried than to buy another one...it's a relatively inexpensive amp. Since you roasted it, warranty coverage is not an option either.

Tread cautiously...special agents from the Authorized Service Center Division are everywhere. :ph34r:

Since it comes up so often, I think we should put this on a t-shirt... ;)

The part highlighted in red describes every guitar I've ever owned, lol...(Lord, deliver me from lighted ceiling fans with a dimmer switch, and neon Bud Light signs... ;)) As for touching the mounting bracket...that sounds like a bad ground.

If you want to get better, three things are of paramount importance: 1) Develop a basic technical foundation. Yes it's repetitive and tedious...playing scales and apreggios to a metronome is not terribly musical. It's also a necessity, no matter what style of music you want to play. 2) Learn a style other than what you play most often. Imho, for learning the fretboard and seeing how melody lines are built over an underlying harmonic structure, nothing beats chord melody pieces (i.e. George Van Epps, Johnny Smith). Some sight reading is required for stuff like this...but it doesn't matter if you're piecing it together one measure at a time at first...the end result is a much greater understanding of the fretboard, which can then be applied to any style of music under the sun. 3) Play with, and/or in front of people who are better than you. My very first live performance, I was 15 yrs old at the now defunct Nation Guitar Summer Workshop...in front of a room full of 300 other guitar players. By default, every audience since has been considerably more forgiving...never had a problem with stagefright since, lol.

Oh yes you can :P ...repetitive strain injuries like carpal tunnel syndrome and elbow tendonitis top the list. Torn calluses are my personal favorite...couldn't tell you how many times over the years I've crazy-glued a finger back together to finish a gig. Then once you rip one, you basically have to stop playing for a couple of weeks if you want it to heal (this is basically impossible if you work a lot).

True...but that would not have afforded the oportunity to play the victim not once, but twice. First when the calculating and heartless Illuminati that runs L6 conspired to deprive him of $$ and tone, and then again when everyone was "disrespectful" by refusing to validate a ludicrous conspiracy theory.

It's turning out to be a strange week on the forums...

Here, try this on...you'll be able to tune them in yourself. 1....2...3....SENDING!

Anybody who tells you that they achieved instant tonal nirvana with the 500X is either an idiot savant, extraordinarily lucky, or lying through their teeth...and I'll bet heavily on the latter. As a recent FRFR convert myself, the biggest difference I found with creating patches compared to my "traditional" rig, was mic choice. Despite being the "wrong" way to do it, I had been running in studio/direct mode with full models with my amp/cab rig already. No matter what I did, I could not get a usable tone with pre-amp only models and the "correct" output mode when running into a tube power amp and 4x12 cab. But with studio/direct, and a lot of experimenting with mic choice, I got what I needed. When I migrated to FRFR, I didn't really have to tweak very much, except for the mic choices...what I had been using for most patches with the amp/cab set-up didn't work at all for the L2T, but once I found the right mics, all was well. Then I found Peter Hanmer's video tutorials on using the parametric EQ that were posted here recently...that was the last piece of the puzzle. Excellent videos, clearly explains how to use the parametric EQ'S to dial out that top-end fizz. Do a quick search and you'll find them...definitely worth watching. You'll get there...just a lot of trial and error.

In retrospect, I can see that being a problem for some stuff... I avoid anything specifically aimed at the "makin' beats" crowd, just on principle. lol. Not my scene... :P

Admittedly, my FRFR experience is limited, and obviously no two speakers are ever going to sound identical...But hat being said, I would expect there to be somewhat less of a difference from one FRFR speaker to another, as compared to what you would hear if you were to run the same amp through a Marshall 4x12, and then a Boogie. I don't think that you would end up wildly disappointed with any FRFR set-up.