darkhorse7

Thank you all for your comments. I eventually figured out a way to hear my guitar on my laptop while playing through HD500X. I just have to run the Audacity and turn on "start monitoring" and there! I can hear my guitar! However, with that problem out of the way, what I am faced with now is the latency. The sound is played about 0.5 seconds after I hit the strings and that causes my playing to slow down when I am playing with the music in the background and it is driving me nuts! So, I was wondering if there is a way to get rid of this latency problem.

Hmm... I see.. I thought it would be something like Plug-N-Play but I guess it is a lot more complicated. Would I be able to hear the older POD models, such as X3 Live, through my laptop speakers then? I was actually debating between HD500X and X3 Live in the beginning... Or, if I want to hear what I am playing over the laptop speaker, what would be the best alternative to HD500X? I would probably have to give it a hard thought since the sound that I recorded from HD500X was so nice...

I just bought POD HD500X and it is my first time using any POD. So, I installed the Line 6 Monkey and Pod HD500X Edit and I thought I should be able to hear the sound once I plugged the HD500X into my laptop via usb. Well, it turns out that I cannot hear a single thing! On my sound device setting in the control panel, I have Line 6 POD HOD500X as my default recording device and I was using POD HD500X as my default playback device. HOwever, when I could not hear anything from my laptop speaker this way, I changed my default playback device to my default laptop speaker. Turns out, I can hear my guitar once I go to Audacity and start recording but the volume is so minimal that I have to put my laptop speaker's volume at 50% to hear anything from HD. However, it is annoying to constantly record and delete within Audacity just to hear my guitar through HD500X. So, my question is... What can I do so that I can hear my guitar through the laptop's default speaker when I plug my HD500X into my laptop via USB while using HD500X Edit? Please tell me that there is a way to do this! I was able to get some really really nice sounds when I recorded it through audacity and I do not want to be forced to return it for not being able to hear it! :wacko: