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Is my POD HD 500X clipping or is there something wrong with my bass?
BBD_123 replied to Onomatopoeia's topic in POD HD
>>I tried that first of and hade some clipping but Will try to change input settings again when i get home. The wierd thing is that i dont seem to get clipping when using tuner or completely empty patch. If its the bass, it should clipping that aswell? No clipping with tuner and empty patch suggests that the problem(s) lie in the way you have set up the patch. That's why it might be best to strip this right back to the axles and build it back up from scratch. -
Is my POD HD 500X clipping or is there something wrong with my bass?
BBD_123 replied to Onomatopoeia's topic in POD HD
Simplicity is the key with fault trapping - maybe best to start with just one amp, set up as suggested. -
Is my POD HD 500X clipping or is there something wrong with my bass?
BBD_123 replied to Onomatopoeia's topic in POD HD
Hi DannedB Sorry to arrive so late to the discussion. It's probably a good idea to set up a completely fresh, new test patch from scratch, with nothing but your preferred amp in it. No FX, nothing else. Make sure the following things are done in the freshly-created brand new patch: - Input should be [guitar] and [aux]. This is very important where clipping issues arise. - Amp Drive at 30% - Amp Master at 50% - Amp Channel Volume (CH VOL) at 50% - Mixer Path A Center Pan - Mixer Path B Level MUTED How does this affect the clipping issue? -
hurganico Back full circle, eh? :)
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Where have you got the Channel volume [CH VOL]? With the high gain amp models, it needs to be about 45% to avoid excessive noise *and* clipping from effects placed after the amp. If your unit is not faulty and if you have set up your patch sensibly, it *will* sound excellent on headphones.
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There's a good overview here~: http://foobazaar.com/podhd/toneGuide/ampTone#noiseGates
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Something's not right. I use the Line 6 PV (full model, not pre only) with various pickups including EVH Frankenstein, EVH Wolfgang, Seymour Duncan JB, Dimarzio Super Distortion and Duncan Distortion. Of these, the vintage hot EVH Frankenstein is probably closest to a Burstbucker (unless it is the Pro) and there's plenty of distortion with Drive at ~70 (too much, actually) and Master about 50%. And that's with nothing in front of the amp - no tube screamer or other gain boost. I like a fairly bright, tight cab with it (eg. 4x12 Hiway) and the 57 on axis mic but YMMV. Do you know what type of Burstbuckers you are playing (what year, model Gibson are you playing?).
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As suggested above - keep an eye out for the POD HD Desktop (aka 'Bean') which I think has now been discontinued. I've used one for travel for a couple of years now in conjunction with a notebook (Windows) and headphones. It's a very good and reasonably portable solution - the POD will fit into the big pocket on most guitar gig bags. The DSP in the POD Desktop is the same as the HD500 (so a bit less headroom for very fancy patches than you get with POD HD500X). Everything else is in there too - all the effects, all the default amp and cab models - the lot.
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That's better than mine :-) Thanks.
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I thought the 'remastered' bit was just a play on words - the 2204 was a master volume model JCM800. AFAIK these model packs are all HD except for the ports from X3.
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Just start again, mate, from scratch :-) Seriously though - absolute bare minimum: POD -> power stage -> cab. No extras! Use the EQ in the POD and the model amp tone stack. I know it's a PITA, but less is *always* more when it comes to nailing tones. I was born in Macclesfield, so you can trust me... Not quite a Yorkshireman, but I can live with that ;-)
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HD packs - max number of authorizations and worsest case
BBD_123 replied to Smashcraaft's topic in POD HD
Never happened, and hopefully won't, but that's reassuring. -
Here are some other users reporting the same problem, starting with Ed_Saxman (see also above): http://line6.com/supportarchivenew/thread/90494/ http://line6.com/support/topic/12509-fk-what-just-happened/ http://uk.line6.com/supportarchivenew/thread/84091/ To be clear, I think the problem is actually caused by using the expression pedal with Edit open - not just the wah effects.
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Ed thank you for confirming the fact that this is a real and general problem. Much appreciated.
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It happens with any wah effect. I think the problem is caused by the heavy two-way USB traffic caused by operating the pedal while Edit is running, but I cannot prove it. All I can do is *replicate* the crash - but as you likely know, reliable replication is the indicator that a true bug does exist.
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Far as I know. I've read other posts on this forum complaining about it, so it's not just me. Try for yourself - open a patch with a wah pedal in Edit and start playing. Sometime under 5 minutes, you should get the crash (unless this is purely a Windows / Edit issue and you are running on a Mac).
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Fix the bug that crashes Edit if you play using wah for more than a couple of minutes. And I do mean crash. I usually have to restart *Windows* to sort the mess out.
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Done - hasn't showed up yet, but this is the link: http://line6.com/customtone/tone/1968714/ Please A/B the two and let me know what you think.
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A nice tone but somewhat troubled by digital clipping. I produced a cleaned-up version which I will upload if you like.
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I was curious about echo during live performance and carried on looking. You are correct, at least from the late '50s onwards, when (just about) road-rugged portable TEs appeared - first, Charlie Watkins' Copicat and then from 1959 through the '60s, Ray Butts' Maestro Echoplex. Prior to that, echo does seem to have been a studio effect (along with reverb). So if eudoxia is trying to recreate a *studio* tone, the exact placement of the TE remains moot. There's a plausible case that it should be placed after the amp rather than in front of it, but we can leave that to his ears :-)
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I must admit this had me wondering. First off, what brue58ski says is of course correct. But... does anyone know if, during the early days of Rock & Roll, echo was actually used live at all? Or for that matter, if a tape echo was placed in the signal chain before the amp in the studio? I was under the impression that live it was just lots of reverb and in the studio the echo was added later in production rather than being in the signal chain in front of the amp. This brings me to what might be a clipping issue. You say that when you place the TE behind the Bassman, bad things happen when you increase gain (by strumming chords): > Tape Echo makes a fizz or splat sort of sound when strumming chords no matter what tweaks I make. That sounds to me as though the Channel Volume on the B-man is too high and causing the TE to clip. Have you tried turning it down to about 45% to see if the fizz and splat goes away? It might be worth a go. The final point is that *if* echo was only added to these classic early R&R and country tones later in studio production, then you will need to position the echo after the amp to get as close as possible to the original tone.
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Someone should be paying pfsmith0. :)
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>>Are you happy with your Pod HD? Yes. Doubly so as I bought a Pod HD bean just to take on holiday so I could practice using headphones. I had literally no idea what it was capable of - I thought it was little more than a toy simulator for practice. Being proved absolutely wrong is rarely such a pleasure :).
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I think you are correct. It's difficult to formulate an alternative explanation. And please keep sharing (not deleting) your thoughts :) If I had to work all this out on my own, I'd never get any playing done.
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After some testing, I agree with DunedinDragon (and Hurghenico and Pianoguy and others - thanks). The gain change is real. [Guitar + same] is louder and there is a slight loss of definition which MeAmBobbo ascribes to comb filtering. I can see that if I had all my [guitar + same] patches set up for single coil pickups and then plugged in an LP there might be clipping. I can also see this becoming more of an issue with hot humbuckers. It's well worth knowing about and from now on, it goes into the toolbox for patch building. Thanks to all.