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  1. Digital_Igloo
    There was some internal discussion over this years ago. In the end, we showed both methods to a bunch of people and they overwhelmingly preferred the up arrow to select the next bank of presets.
  2. Digital_Igloo
    Patience, young padawan.
  3. Digital_Igloo
    They may not be mentioned often in Tape Op or Sound on Sound interviews, but PODs and POD Farm are used in a ton of world-class studios by a ton of world-class engineers.
  4. Digital_Igloo
    Totally forgot about that one—yeah, pretty cool. It's minor compared to the other features in 1.1, tho'.
  5. Digital_Igloo
    Congrats, GazzaBloom—whatever keeps you playing guitar. The AxeFX II XL+ is a nice piece of kit. :) Line 6ers own gear from lots of different companies, including a couple Fractal boxes. Everyone play nice, please.
  6. Digital_Igloo
    Nope. Medicine. Of course, their guitar tone is... not for everyone. I should probably let Ben tell the story, but he played The Jesus and Mary Chain's "Never Understand" for another sound designer, which was met with "They mixed it like that on purpose?!" Luckily for you guys, I don't include too many guitar tones like that for POD.
  7. Digital_Igloo
    Laughable's a bit strong, considering PODs are used on major label records and arena tours every day. "High end" is even more of a meaningless term than "professional." One of my favorite bands still uses an overloaded Yamaha 4-track cassette for guitar distortion. Use what sounds good to your ear; punt the naysayers.
  8. Digital_Igloo
    I keep seeing "Yamaha Variax" on a bunch of forums. It's still a "Line 6 Variax Standard"; Yamaha is simply manufacturing the instrument portion for us, based on a Line 6 guitar design. :) Korean and American JTV's are still being made as well.
  9. Digital_Igloo
    Well, the MI industry is still very different from the music industry at large. Actually paying artists money to pimp your MI gear isn't very common, at least since the recession. Unless you consider Beats by Dre headphones or GoPro cameras to be MI, of course.
  10. Digital_Igloo
    One well-known band using a well-known product from a well-known company (that claims to never give away free products) actually received multiple free products as well as a non-insignificant influx of tour support money from said company. The number of major-label albums that have been recorded with POD or POD/Amp Farm products is astronomical. It's not uncommon for a guitarist to claim in interviews that he or she rented a room full of boutique amps and pedals for an album, and the engineer will admit later that it was all POD or POD/Amp Farm.
  11. Digital_Igloo
    Backordered parts and SKUs are very common in this industry, I'm afraid. It's not like we own our own factories and can just ramp up production on any product any day we feel like it. DT amps and JTV guitars are absolutely, positively not being discontinued anytime soon. We've seen a lot of interest in these guys lately; Variax Standard caused a surge in JTV interest—par for the course—and it's resulted in lower stock than expected.
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    To be fair, Yamaha's been very hands off, as they've historically been with Steinberg, Bösendorfer, and Nexo. Unlike certain sketchy MI conglomerates that will remain unnamed, we've effectively been told "We love what Line 6 does. Keep doing it." Aside from Variax Standard, the biggest impact thus far has been that Line 6 moved booths at Frankfurt Musikmesse, as Yamaha is our new European distributor. They've been really supportive, and are super cool people.
  13. Digital_Igloo
    Unfortunately, it's not. POD HD's hardware won't allow it.
  14. Digital_Igloo
    Thanks, awesomejohn7. :) Keep 'em coming.
  15. Digital_Igloo
    Nope. The original 5150 block logo. The real 5150 clip sounds like multiple mics panned hard left/right with a bit of stereo reverb applied.
  16. Digital_Igloo
    Definitely get open-backed headphones. There'll be some leakage, so you can't really crank them up without disturbing people in the same room, but they're way more predictable than closed-back models. My weapon of choice are Sennheiser HD600s. A bit pricey, but I've mixed records on them (begrudgingly, because studio monitors are always best).
  17. Digital_Igloo
    IdeaScale that sucker up for posterity, amigo! Lest it be lost to the wild beasts of forgotten threads.
  18. Digital_Igloo
    IIRC, it's the acoustic amp from POD Farm 2.5. Some people think it's meant to emulate an acoustic guitar; it's designed to be used with an acoustic guitar... or the acoustic guitar models from Variax.
  19. Digital_Igloo
    From the 2.62 release notes: Global EQ is used for compensating for the wide disparity in acoustic environments on tour or when traveling from studio to studio, and is applied to all setlists and presets.
  20. Digital_Igloo
    Add your request to IdeaScale for more visibility. :)
  21. Digital_Igloo
    Well, it wouldn't be the same model packs, because any of the XT models included in them are already in Firehawk. If the HD models are something you really want to see in Firehawk, vote that sucker up on IdeaScale.
  22. Digital_Igloo
    Everyone before the model packs: We want a 5150! Everyone after the model packs: We had no idea a 5150 actually sounds like that! :D
  23. Digital_Igloo
    2.61 fixed the Acoustic model not appearing correctly in the Vintage Pack, 2.62 fixed Global EQ disabling itself when exiting Tuner mode.
  24. Digital_Igloo
    Yes.
  25. Digital_Igloo
    The Variax patches were created on an HD500x. A handful (6 or 7 maybe?) of presets were too big to fit in HD500's slower DSP, so we stripped them down a bit. That's all.
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