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I really don't understand how that's possible. I can build two patches from scratch, choosing amps at random, and I'll get the popping sound when I switch between them. If I could find a way to NOT get it, it would be a minor miracle, yet nobody "official" can reproduce it? Ugh...

OK...well that's officially ridiculous then. Are they trying to aggravate people?

Agreed...I've seen some demo videos with the Peavey stuff. Being able to pull up the amp's circuit diagrams on a screen and move things around is nice and all, but it does me no good. I'm not an electrical engineer, and I have absolutely no idea what I'm staring at...may as well be a finger-painting. I think that level of customization is lost on the overwhelming majority of users.

I'm surprised you can't get a good acoustic tone through the L2...most reviews are quite good in that regard. Running it through the DT and trying for a decent acoustic tone will always give you trouble, however...no electric guitar amp has a wide enough frequency response to do it justice. But the Stagesource stuff is supposed to take care of that issue...most others seem happy with it. As for the popping sound...nothing you can do. We're all stuck with it until a firmware fix appears, if it ever does. I'm curious about your experience with the 1.9 firmware though...it was there a couple of days ago, last time I looked. Anybody else know anything about that? I can't check it right now...

Perahps there is some exclusivity deal with Apple no one knows about...they (Apple) seem to absolutely adore having a captive audience and proprietary everything. If they could figure out how to patent air, we'd all get sued for breathing. I have no idea if this is actually the case, but maybe there's no Android app because both parties agreed that there would never be one...wouldn't surprise me.

Can't argue with that...I love work, I can watch it all day, lol :D I love the versatility of the digital gear though...and for me (He of Limited Funds and Herniated Discs), having 27 different tube amps just ain't an option. Maybe in the next life... ;)

I've seen the tool...same one comes with the 69, don't ask me why. I have no idea what the ball end would be for on the 69, but I digress... In any case, if the ball is only on the long arm of the wrench (as it is on the one they sent me), and that's the end that's needed to turn those screws, then I really don't understand how anything could possibly be hitting the pickup... isn't the rest of wrench sticking a couple of inches above the guitar at that point? The pics I've seen of the bridge look like regular hex screws to me...but I guess not. I'm officially out of ideas.

You just proved my point for me...I rest my case. ;) Seriously though...which is it? Shall we bow before the "glowing glass magic" and declare it to be untouchable perfection, or do you really want to encourage innovation? Can't have it both ways. Nothing's perfect, and everything is improvable...in some cases we just haven't gotten there yet. Doesn't mean it's impossible, or a waste of time to try. We'd have none of these toys to play with if everybody thought that way. Look how far modelers have come in a relatively short period of time. Don't get me wrong, I own one tube amp now, and I've had others over the years. And I like them...when they're in a good mood. But the maintenance, the cost thereof, and the fragility of tubes chaps my a$$. Every couple of years needing to re-tube a power amp or head at half the cost of a 500X...it ads up. And they weigh a friggin' ton. Just my $0.02

Lotsa problems with that knob...it's well documented. It either won't engage at all and needs a cardboard shim to function, or apparently in your case, it was in a constant state of switching models for reasons unknown. If I were you, as long as it's working, I'd count my blessings and let it be...don't poke the bear.

As others have said...everything is patch-specific. If the controls were global, it would be an unworkable nightmare. You'd never be able to dial in a useful tone without ruining eveything else.

Oh me neither...lol. Wish I could. I still have the same Marshall 4x12 that I my granddad bought me when I graduated high school...more years ago than I care to admit. Now I happen to really like it, which is a plus...but I hear ya. My JTV and the 500x are the first significant purchases I've made in quite a while.

The window between a products' introduction and its inevitable obsolescence will become shorter and shorter as the march of technology rolls on. Right now we're still measuring that interval with a calendar. Eventually, we'll be using a stopwatch. Getting too attached to any one product line, from any company, is guaranteed to end in disappointment...unless of course we're talking about some company thats been around for 100 years, cranking out the same tired old crap because any innovation would be viewed as an afront to 'tradition'.

Apples and oranges my friend. Two very different units. Amplifi is more of a bluetooth speaker that you can play guitar through, and will have you tied to an iOS device to edit things. The HD Pods are more geared towards the professional/semi-pro/seriously committed weekend warrior players. Generally a pretty steep learning curve with the HD stuff, but once you get the hang of it, it's an amazingly versatile platform...not so much with the Amplifi, IMHO...others might disagree.

This is a very simple problem to solve. For $10-$20 at any Home Depot, or it's local equivalent, you can get a screw driver with a set of interchangeable heads...flat-head, Philips head, and Allen keys. I've been using such a set for a decade or more. I forget the manufacturer, but it was cheap, has about 100 pieces to it, both metric and English measurements (for the Allen key sizes anyway), and it has worked just fine for a multitude of projects from motorcycles to guitars...just come straight down at the saddle adjustment screws, and then you'll never need to concern yourself with swinging an allen key out over a lowered pickup. I don't have an 89f, but I do have an old Ibanez with a Floyd that has the saddle adjustment screws in the same place as the bridge on the 89f...never occured to me to try swinging an allen key out past the pickups. It's not necessary. I've been adjusting it this way for years on end, never a problem.

Then what is one supposed to do with a mono rig with only one speaker cab?

That works with a big enough hammer... :P

Well that's just it...imho, Amplifi is being marketed to a completely different customer base. Companies are in business to make money, and if they don't embrace the wants and needs (however odd they may seem) of the people who have the money, they won't be in business for long. In this case, I believe they're going after lifetime members of the Latest and Greatest Gadget Club, most of whom aren't going to keep any one piece of technology for even 2 years, never mind 10 or 15. I don't think longevity was ever part of the equation. This thing was built for the gamer generation that wants something new every five minutes, and who will quickly get bored with it, and move on to the Next Big Thing...whatever that may be...which should be hitting the shelves today, just after lunch.

jamtrackcentral.com is also very cool. (No, I have no affiliation with them, but I have purchased a few things). Not free, and they're not backing tracks for popular songs...rather, it's all original instrumental compositions by some very talented guitarists. Each track comes with the full version of the song, a separate rhythm-only track, a video with close-ups of the entire piece, as well as the whole thing written out in both in standard notation and tabs. Most of the stuff is sold as packages of handful of tunes...newer material can be a little pricey, but the older stuff that's been there a while is not all that expensive. It's a great tool for improving one's improv skills, and "borrowing" some cool licks. Many artists to choose from...imho, some are just doing fretboard gymnastics, but there are more than a few very tasteful players too, most I'd never heard of before. Check out their youtube channel too, you can get previews of a lot of the material, and some entire songs are posted there too.

The short answer is that there is no fix for this. If you were to run that same patch through a different amp and cab it won't sound the same that way either. Ditto for tweaking a patch with headphones then switching to a different pair of cans. Its gonna sound different in every case, even if you touch nothing in the patch itself...just the nature of the beast. You'll find that you'll be creating different patches for different purposes...even the same amp/cab at bedroom vs. gig volumes is gonna result in a very different final product. Tweak, tweak, and tweak some more...no way around it, unfortunately.

Get a JTV...problem solved.

Don't know that I've ever seen a classified ad for guitar set-ups. Just check out whatever local music stores are nearby. At least one of them will have somebody who knows what he's doing. Failing that, Google 'guitar repair' in your area and see what pops up. A lot of times you'll find some luthiers who not only build axes from the ground up, but who take on repair work as well. I'd stay away from the Big Chain music stores if I were you.

I've been seriously considering going FRFR with an L2T, but this problem seems a bit too common for my comfort level...yeah I know, only the ones with the issue come to the forums to complain, and there's no real way to tell what % of units are affected. But 800 bones is too much for me to gamble on a problem that really shouldn't have existed in the first place, especially when there are other FRFR options out there for considerably less money.

1] Certainly sounds like that's the case. 2] Don't know, but "more than it should" is a safe bet...I'm guessing you're out of warranty?

OK...maybe that is what he meant, but then the gripe makes even less sense. Why would one assume that any model would automatically kick out a hotter signal than a mag pickup, especially if the model in question is supposed to be simulating the real mags that are sitting inches away in the same instrument? For one expecting flawless, 100% accuracy in the models...which is what he seems to want...then for this scenario you'd expect the models' output to be roughly the same as the mags in that case, no? Yet he seems to think the models should automatically be hotter... still don't know why anyone would expect that to be the case.

Not sure why you are assuming this to be the case... each model is supposed to sound like the guitar its emulating. You can expect the relative outputs to vary accordingly. I find that most of my 'regular' guitars seem to spit out a hotter signal than most of the JTV models. I usually end up turning down the gain when switching to a traditional guitar...I even have separate patches for them. Just seems to be the way it is.