pianoguyy

Your post wasn't even there when I started writing. I got a pop up that said "new replies, click to display". So I had no clue what you wrote until after I posted -- since I didn't click it. No biggie.

the first question is: is it the lcd or is it the cover, or is it both? I've never replaced anything on my pod. But I can tell you that replacing the screens on other devices is not cheap --- its mostly labor. Especially if you are using a manufacturer approved repair guy. But, just like anything else in life. Thanks to the internet, you can buy a $10 Chinese knockoff part and do the work yourself with a video you found on YouTube. Or you can pay to have a good, fully functional part replaced by a professional that has spent 30 years mastering his craft.

1. Decent does not equal great. 2. If its close enough, tweak it so that it does cut it. Its either perfect, or a starting point to be made perfect. 3. I said - I don't know what else you're looking for. That means the difference between my Soloist and his Sustainor. 4. I wasn't referring to your post, or else I would have quoted you. Your opinion of them not cutting was stated.

I just watched an interview with Eddie Van Halen by the Smithsonian. He talked about how prior to the internet, you needed to just experiment. You didn't have a 'how to' library at your fingertips. You broke a lot of gear in the process, but it helped you learn how gear worked and also helped to discover little tweaks that could be made. You can't do the same with computer gear. BUT... How many of us know how to eat without knowing how to cook? Or how to drive without knowing how to build a car? Not everyone needs to know how things work to enjoy them. I loved modding gear 'just to see what happens', but those days (for me) are over. I just need to play guitar. And I am never going to carry an amp again.

So you are talking about the power cord? I thought you meant taking the unit apart and changing the internal unit. Sorry...

I realize that you are an Uber Guru Line 6 Expert. But why would you jump straight from flashing to the power supply? Wouldn't a bad footswitch make more sense? It seems to me like his pedal is stuck. Doesn't it?

it appears when you place it against your belly :huh: Do you have a any weird piercings? Where is your cell phone? How about a pace maker or metal hip replacement? Touching the strings to make it go away is understandable. But not having it only appear when you pick it up.

I'm not even sure what exactly a Rockman Sustainor does since I never actually owned one. But I had a Rockman Soloist (80's model, not the current stuff) that I bought for the headphone usage. But it ended up being part my rig through the Rockmount - mainly for the clean w/chorus sound since I couldn't do any fx switching with it. If you are playing 'classic rock', then the Rockman distortion is great. I mean, it IS the Boston sound. There are a couple decent Boston tones on Customtone. I don't know what else you're looking for. And I wouldn't call it 'quaint' or dated. I would say that it does what it was made to do. My full time gear needs to do more than clean/od/dist. But how much fx options does one need when using headphones?

Touch it all you want. You should have all of your patches, setlists, and bundles backed up. You can always reinstall them later. Besides, the factory patches aren't that great. They are just great at showing you what the unit is capable of.

Just throw this out there... I've been running into the same thing. Patches that have no reason not to work, just don't work.

yes, I did the same thing. CTRL makes a difference. Using just the mouse to drag within a setlist will just shift everything. Using CTRL will actually copy a patch.

I mean... There are 64 slots in a setlist. If you take 16a and move it up to 4b, there isn't going to be two of the same as what was in 16a and no more of what was in 4b. 16a becomes 4b. The original 4b will slide down and become 4c. 4c becomes 4d. and so on and so forth until that now-empty space in 16a gets filled. But if you take a tone from a separate setlist, it will overwrite the what's in the slot you put it in.

by not working, did it give you an error message or was there simply no noise? Its possible, aside from the previously mentioned items, that it was made for a different input source, such as a variax. As to the deleting issue: Its been said that you don't delete, you overwrite. And that is true. But, my method of overwriting is to simply drag a 'new tone' from another setlist into that slot. That way, its a totally blank slate, even the name is renewed. If you drag a 'new tone' from the same setlist, it won't delete the patch, it will just shuffle the entire list down one slot.

not just gain --- but more specifically, amp gain.

5 of the 8 setlists come pre-programmed, but they are completely writable although, of the 5: one of them is a 'best of' one is for acoustic, bass, and vocals, one is for the variax one is a 'song stylist' The other is called Heavy. Really, the originals suck (no offense to the team). But they give some excellent ideas as to some of what can be accomplished with the device. And they only demonstrate a fraction of what can be accomplished with time and patience for experimentation and tweaking.

At 1:30 of that video, he says the perfect thing... make sure your amp is turned up loud enough that you don't hear the guitar. That has always --- ALWAYS --- been a problem with tone makers (and youtube videos).

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Puede configurar el pod para que se ejecute como un botón 4 interruptor de encendido/apagado 8 botón o un interruptor de encendido/apagado. Volver a la configuración y volver a cambiarla.

I know that you don't want this feature, but your 500 can be set the same way if you would ever want to change your mind.

As anyone who has ever played a trombone or trumpet will tell you... No digital sample will ever get it right. (of course, they hear the instrument from the player's perspective with the metal touching the skull vibrating the hands as it passes through, and not from the side that the sound actually comes out of) Yet, I have some killer recordings that no one would be able to listen to and be able to decipher which parts are real and which were sampled.

The problem, though, is when you get into different environments. I've been in places that (i've been in a lot of places) you couldn't hear your rig (for various reasons). Therefore you would never be able to feel it. You are only hearing the monitors (floor or ear). The fact that its coming out of a 2nd source after the mix, means that its not the original amp that one would base their feeling on. Yes. I made many recordings on the digital pianos. And I have afterwards tried to switch out the samples - for example jazz piano to grand piano. The sound one hears often dictates the way one plays. I am often unable to switch the samples because I adjusted my playing based on the way the original performed. Which always makes me scratch my head when people say 'I am going to record dry and add fx later'. Maybe its a style of music, for me, that prevents changing tones, but I just can't do that.

Sure, it powers a 412, that's because its a power amp. That is not the same as going straight to a cab from the pod.

You cannot run a cab. We say 'you can go straight to a PA' but technically that is wrong too. Because you can't power a PA either.

Some guys are paranoid (or just overly cautious due to previous experiences). I used to hate plugging my electronics in to a bar outlet. I always made someone do it for me. I've seen too many arcs fly across the room. He probably just doesn't want to lose his gear in the event of a short. And you should feel the same in the event that he is a "self fixer".

Unless your 500 is broken, or if you are some kind of effect junkie that is always overloading the DSP, then I see no reason to upgrade to the 500X.