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the reason I said a guitar amp is because it would be the easiest... a simple 1/4" jack. headphones, monitors, and usb all have 'this and that' but, yes, do what hurghanico said - connect it directly to your whatever. and then do what I said - play guitar: change patches, edit patches, change system settings

may I ask 'why' you need this? there could be different solutions/consequences.

OK, good. much easier now. Unplug everything from the Pod. Including the wireless. Plug your guitar into the pod. Plug Pod into a guitar amp. Play guitar. Change patches. Create patches. Change system settings. What happens.

I believe we are getting no where fast. So, can we start all over. This time, with more specifics. Because simply saying "I turn on my device and it isn't loud enough" doesn't really tell us anything.

just to toss this out there... With the exception of the Master Volume, the knobs on the unit mean absolutely nothing.

first, realize that what you are hearing is a combination of his playing and the backing track that he is playing along with (it is very evident on some of the bends that is two guitars). so, really, you aren't going to be able to make "that" tone. next, understand that you will need to increase the speed of the video to 1.5x in order to hear it at proper speed - this is important because rates of decay change. beyond that - make sure you are using a strat (or other single coil guitar) with the neck (or neck and middle) pickup selected. probably back off the tone knob too. and, yes, clapton's is known for his 'out of phase' tone.

remind me not to fall asleep while typing. i wake up and there's all kinds of posts that weren't there when I started. there isn't a "factory reset" in the common sense it is probably my least favorite thing about the unit but there is a "process" that us users refer to as 'factory reset' it basically boils down to 2 things we do all the time, but done at the same time a firmware flash and a global reset (which requires a pedal calibration on the 500 and 500x) it will restore the unit, including presets, to factory new *note: 'factory new' is technically wrong, because units don't ship (to my knowledge) with the latest firmware. and the patches have changed with the various firmware versions.

while I never read what you said and thought for one minute that the input settings were the problem... selecting In-Z 'auto' is going to cause issues going from patch to patch, especially when a 'bypass' is involved. auto will "auto select" the input level based on the first effect in the chain. which means it could change with each patch, or even drastically change an already made patch if you tried to edit it. your best bet is to select 3m. and for input 2, I would get rid of 'same' and change it to 'variax' (assuming you are not using a variax).

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there's that. but also, because this is your first post and you didn't say much else.... settings don't get saved automatically. you need to 'send' them, otherwise a patch will go back to the last saved version when recalled.

i was going to say 'it isn't the L6'. but then I read your link and it looks like you solved the problem. thank you. good day.

my primary use of the device is 6 string electric. but i have used it for other stuff - specifically, acoustic guitar, otherwise it isn't relevant to the conversation. lol and i have recorded (without the device) acoustic guitar many times over the decades. the truth is, exactly what i said in the 'nylon string' post you mentioned - anything more than some eq or reverb, and you really are getting away from enhancing the natural acoustic tone. doesn't mean you can't use stuff. just that most people play acoustic for a reason, and adding a reverse ping pong tron up just isn't it.

In a stunning twist of funny: This posting is 18 months old. You can search to see others that are even older - all talking about how the unit is old and will soon be discontinued. Yet, here we are, with the product still being made and sold. What would some of these people have done had they waited for a "discontinued" or "remaining inventory" price. *Of course, I don't know what the 'global plandemic' is going to change when it comes to device availability/continuity. But, six year old posts all declaring the device dead and not worth buying...

before i spent $300 on a microphone device that is to be used to improve a $500 guitar device... i would look into buying a new device

while the above answers are correct, the ultimate answer is ---- do what you need to do to make it sound the way you need it to sound. so, regardless of they are or what they do, you do what works for you. i have many patches that use a preamp even though i run direct. there are no rules to getting the right sound.

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I wonder if some of this is confusing this modeler (an amp modeler) with a modeling guitar, which can produce various guitar sounds and tunings. And then, because, as example, Line 6 makes the HD500, WorkBench software, and the Variax guitars, which can all interact with each other... such as assigning the guitar modeling within a patch of the amp modeler. *but the guitar modeling doesn't actually function when recalled in an amp modeling patch if a modeling guitar is not plugged in. anywho..... The reason you don't see many videos on the subject is because most acoustic players don't really use many effects. they keep it simple - EQ, reverb. To enhance the natural sounds. Not so much to create weird space monster sounds. and the guys who play nylon strings are even that much less likely to alter the sounds. {made up numbers to follow) it isn't that the things don't work, it is simply the law of averages. there's 1,000,000 guitar players. 10% of those are acoustic players. 10% of acoustic players are nylon players. 10% of nylon players amply their guitars. 10% of which use effects..... a grand total of 100. You are one of the 100. *and only 10% of those 100 make youtube videos. That's 10.

for the amp knobs, you can use a block of wood with holes drilled into it since they don't need to be seen like the screen does they don't need protected like the screen does, but it protects from unintentional moving.

if this is your first endeavor into modeling, you may not understand what these things are or why they are "important". Hell, I have been exclusively modeling for 6 years and don't even know what some of that is.

the answer is 'yes'. as long as you have a way to get the guitar into the signal path (such as a pickup or a mic), then the unit(s) are usable. But, something you said raises a question - what makes you think that a steel string acoustic is any different (from an "amplifying" perspective) than a nylon string acoustic?

and i thought they are designed to sound horrible the minute the new one comes out. for a screen protector, in a live setting, you may want to look into a thick piece of plastic/plexiglass you can cut it to specifications - so, if like me, you don't need access to knobs live, you can protect the knobs from accidental bumps. there's also a commercially available giant rubber covering that will 'waterproof' the unit.

one of the reasons you aren't liking the amps you hear is because they are being further amp'd by your amp. as to the hookup questions - the one true rule is... there are no rules. do whatever you want/need to make it sound the way you want/need it to sound. so, feel free to hook up those other ways if you want. but, the bean, being a 'smaller' unit, does not have an actual fx loop. so, while you can make it work using the amp's fx loop, you still lose some of the versatility that an fx loop on the bean would allow.

don't let the door hit you in your lollipop. remember, no matter what device you end up with, you are still going to be using the same little amps that some random website said not to use... which leaves you right back at where you started.

I didn't catch that part (other than for his low B string). I just saw that it sounded amazing direct to the speakers.

if it sounds ok into the speakers, but not so ok when you add a mixer before the speakers.... obviously the mixer is the problem