Giorgos02

Eh, "full rig sound" doesn't make sense to me, unless you are trying to play a gig with only 1 guitarist.

I strictly went for their album tone, which is a main rhythm tone and they only tweaked it a bit depending on the tuning. (6/7string songs).

As for my tones, I am lucky enough to own an Axe FX II as well (which is what they used on the album too). So I was able to get very close to their tone by using the same exact amp sims that they used. After that, I made some patches with my Helix Native to match my Axe FX tones and now they sound almost identical.

Sooo I don't know if it can get THAT much better :P  

Greetings everyone and Happy Holidays!

Today I released a bunch of Periphery Tones on my website and I'm also running a Holiday offer for these!

https://www.sbsoundlab.com/shop?filter_artist=periphery&filter_tone-type=bundle

Here are some samples for my tones:

https://audiomack.com/song/sb-soundlab/the-bad-thing-helix-recording-mp3

https://audiomack.com/song/sb-soundlab/pale-aura-helix-recording-mp3

https://audiomack.com/song/sb-soundlab/summer-jam-helix-mp3

https://audiomack.com/song/sb-soundlab/periphery-marigold-helix

And here are some reviews from my customers:

https://www.sbsoundlab.com/reviews/

I would be glad if you could check them out! I worked very hard for these!

Kind regards,

George

-SB Soundlab

Greetings everyone and Happy Holidays!

Today I released a bunch of Periphery Tones on my website and I'm also running a Holiday offer for these!

https://www.sbsoundlab.com/shop?filter_artist=periphery&filter_tone-type=bundle

Here are some samples for my tones:

https://audiomack.com/song/sb-soundlab/the-bad-thing-recording-pod-hd-mp3

https://audiomack.com/song/sb-soundlab/pale-aura-pod-hd-recording-mp3

https://audiomack.com/song/sb-soundlab/summer-jam-pod-hd-mp3

https://audiomack.com/song/sb-soundlab/periphery-marigold-pod-hd

And here are some reviews from my customers:

https://www.sbsoundlab.com/reviews/

I would be glad if you could check them out! I worked very hard for these!

Kind regards,

George

-SB Soundlab

Yeah, a small compensation in drive would be ideal, indeed. 

I haven't uploaded it on the custom tone site. Check out the youtube description of the video! :)

I used an EMG 81-7 on the bridge.

What about the output?

Hello guys,

Check out a cool tone I made and let me know what you think!

What is going on? There are some people in certain Pod HD groups in Facebook that say they got the Pod HD Amp packs for free simply by unregistering their product, creating a new account and registering again.

I am only posting this here so we can get some official explanation for this.

The Facebook link is here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/780751278704836/permalink/1051433971636564/

The Line 6 announcement in pdf form: http://l6c-acdn.line6.net/data/6/0a064389b21557c7ece5db80e/application/pdf

If this is legitimate, I am sure that most of the people that have already purchased the amp packs will want their money back. (Including me. I paid 130 euros for those amps)

You'll need a power supply that puts out 9V DC, 3 amps (3000ma). The HD500X pulls a great deal more that your standard flanger pedal (typically 500ma)... so finding one that is up to the challenge AND can handle pedals on top might be tough.

No that won't work. As cclement said, not enough amps. Also the specs for the DC plug that are on the Line 6 website are WRONG!!!! I spent $20 finding this out the hard way. Here's what I posted in another thread.

 

WARNING:WARNING. I know according to the specs the "hole" on the connector is 2.1mm but this is WRONG!!!. 2.1mm is too small. I wasted $20 finding this out. The correct measurment is 2.5mm not 2.1mm. I was trying to get an elbow adapter for the 500 and the 2.1 didn't work. The specific measurements were. 5.5 X 2.5. This is what I got.

 

 BiXPower LC53 Right Angle Connector Converter for 5.5 x 2.5mm DC Power Connector

 

This size worked. I don't know why their measurements are so off.

This thread may provide some insight as I had the same question a couple of months back.

 

http://line6.com/support/topic/19997-anybody-using-any-one-spot-products-with-their-hd500x/page-1?do=findComment&comment=150788

Thank you everyone for your responses! Can any of you suggest a unit that would work with the Pod HD500X and 2-3 more pedals?

The actual answer (which is the answer to most problems) is: 

 

If it doesn't sound good, change it. 

 

 

It is possible to get a beautiful sound from a phase canceled sound. It is possible to get a horrible sound from one amp. 

All of the science behind the whos and the whats, none of that really matters. All that matters is - twist the knobs until it sounds good. 

 

 

 

 

 

BUT

to answer the questions -

There are amps that do not cancel each other out - someone made a chart.

An easy solution would be to add some panning if you are using two outputs, or add some delay to one of them if you are using one output. You would be amazed at what a 1 micro-second difference makes when dealing with tones that vibrate at 110hertz a second

Very good answer! Exactly what I wanted to say!

I have never seen this chart of the amps that do not cancer each other out. Would you be willing to post it here? 

Thanks in advance! :)

Hey everyone, I just recently got a 7-string guitar and I have been playing a ton of Northlane lately. Problem is I can't dial in the tone that they use so I was wondering if anyone would be willing to help by creating a Northlane tone. I'm not experienced enough with the Pod to dial in the tone that they use so if anyone is a fan of Northlane and would like to help me out I would greatly appreciate it!

Hey man, 

I am a Northlane fan too! Or should I say better that Northlane is my favorite band and I am obsessed with them???  :rolleyes:

Anyways, I have searched everything I could find concerning their gear and how they build their tones, because I wanted, as well, a tone that would really bring out that Low F and would be really aggressive and articulate just like their tone!

And the closest I could get with my Pod HD500X and my ESP LTD-1007 is this: http://www.audiomack.com/song/sb-soundlab/northlane-worldeater-pod-hd

I own the Pod HD for 1,5 years and this tone took me 2 months of everyday tweaking to build. I don't doubt that someone could build a tone like this in far less time, but I would suggest, since you just started, to take it easy, because their tone is very very hard to emulate it with the Pod HD, due to its' cab and mic sims, unless you want to start messing with IR's. Then things would get much easier.

Some general tips I could give you about building modern metal tones is to use the Treadplate or Angel F Ball amp sim, and before the amp use a screamer and a noise gate. (You can use a comp too, but that depends on the patch). 

After you have settled down with your basic setup start messing around with some EQing. (This takes time to master. The more you try to shape your tones with the EQ's the better you will become in emulating tones)

I suggest using the graphic & the studio eq for boosting/cutting wide areas of frequencies and the parametric eq for small areas (these small areas are very important.) 

And to close my long post, the key to these metalcore tones are the upper mids. The most important frequency for these tones is a small area around 3k Hz. Try boosting this particular frequency with a parametric EQ set up like this: 

Lows: 50%    Highs: 50%   Freq: 84%   Q: 85-100%   Gain: 60-80%

I hope these help. If you need anything else, don't hesitate to ask us! :)

Hey guys,

I want to try using my Pod HD500X with some pedals for a couple of weeks so I can test its' effects. 

So I am searching for a single unit that will be able to supply with power my Pod HD and 2-3 more pedals.

And at the same time it will have isolated outputs so that I won't get any ground loop noise any more. 

I need to find something that it is not too expensive, so I was looking at this: http://www.t-rex-effects.com/fueltank-classic/

But I am not sure if it will work for my Pod HD

What kind of power supply does the Pod HD500X needs to work????

(I am not familiar with the terms, so excuse my mistakes.)

Thanks in advance!

Nope it just cant metal :(

but in the pod hd every patch sound like a metal sound :(

I don't get what is your problem here honestly..

Do you want to play metal with the Pod but you can't set it up?? or you can't figure out how to set it up so that you can play something else than metal?

Do you want to tell us what type of tone do you want to achieve?

I follow this video and it works wonders! Hope it helps! :)

I'm only on my phone but that sounds like a digital delay and stacked reverbs. I'm sure a combination of Octo and Particle verbs can get you that sound

I tried every reverb and many combos of them. The particle helped a bit, but the octo didn't. It sounds like something is missing, I don't know how to describe it. If you try to play this part, you will be having a "wrong" atmosphere in certain notes (like when playing the 2nd note he plays at the beginning). His atmosphere in the whole song has the same "sweetness" no matter which note is he playing.

I don't know if you can quite get me.. That why I thought that a smart harmony effect might help me..

Thanks for your input guys!

How you can use it for ambient patches can be answered by someone else. 

Well I am trying to emulate this tone with the Pod HD: 

And I have tried pretty much every reverb (and combinations of them) and different patch approaches, but even if I get close to his actual "guitar tone", I can't achieve this atmospheric effect that every note leaves behind. It sounds like it's more than some simple reverb(s), so I thought that the smart harmony effect might get me closer.

For my ambient patches, I either want them to sound like a guitar or like something else, so I'll either use amp models or no amp.

The tone I am after is a lot different (see above) 

Hey guys,

These days I am experimenting with some ambient patches and I am just trying to work with the Smart Harmony Effect and create something usable our of it, but I just can't.

I don't even know what its parameters do and I can't find any instructions on the internet as well. 

Could anyone shed some light upon this Smart Harmony Effect? I was thinking about using it for ambient patches, like I said.

Thanks!

 

Make me this tone (or show me one like it), I'll give you 10 bucks.  GOD I love that...I'd bet my right nut it's an Axe-FX, too.

 

https://soundcloud.com/seanashe/hemisphere-single-sean-ashe-1

 

Sorry, I didn't see the replies in this post. I only saw the post now that you quoted a message of mine. Yeah he uses an Axe-FX. And damn these trebly leads are the toughest to make..

The problem is that I like to play with different effects and beacause of that like to have acces to them all as I wish. I might set it up another way some day but now I preffer not.

I still don't get what is the problem here. You can have any effect you want in any of these 2 patches and you can control up to 4 effects in each patch.

The problem is that I i don't use it like a distortion patch for bass. I use it like a pedalbord with the clean amp on all the time and using the preamp more like a distortion pedal (along with other fx) when I need it. EQ:ing your whay would thereby unfortunately not work for me.

But what would be the problem if you had a clean patch and a distorted patch? You could save both in your Pod HD and with a press of a button, you could be changing them really fast.

Thanks for the input!

I'm currently using the GK amp sim for clean and I'm happy with the sound I'm getting. Perhaps some high cut would be in order. Suggestions without altering the sound?

For the distortion I'm using the Engel F-ball pre and I think I'm getting some where now (had some wierd phase issues). Where would you set the low cut?

You basically need the bass response from the clean path and thehighs from the distorted path. So I would try cutting around anything above 500-700 Hz on the clean path and anything below 600-800 Hz on the distorted path. But these numbers are really subjective, therefore you should try for yourself what you like best.

I also believe that if you set up your patch like this, you won't be getting any phase issues.

This might be covered in some ways allready but here we go.

 

I'm not really trying to exactly replicate somebody's bass tone or anything but if someone knows a simple way of doing that with your POD HD500X and plug in for DAW (Reaper 5) please go ahead!

 

What i'm trying to do is this: I have I clean bass tone that i'm quite happy with. For distortion I run i parallell signal with distorted preamp for gain. It sounds good, but something is missing (or to much of) when turning the distortion amp on, compared to the clean amp model. My thinking was that it would be nice to play those to into some type of spectrum analyser to match the freq better. Can this be done and how?

 

/Danne

I don't know how you make your dual amp bass patches, but the best way I have found to do this is to high-cut the clean path and low-cut the distorted path.

Use a guitar amp & cab for the distorted path and maybe a screamer.

Maybe if you would tell us the tone you are after, we could help you better.

The spectrum analyzer would be no use for you, if you don't have an isolated mono track of the tone you are after. So your best choice is to start using your ears and your hands to tweak your patch.

If you start doing this, I can guarantee that after a certain point, your ears will be trained enough that you will be able to build any tone you wish with the Pod HD.

Hope these help! :)

If it was a guaranteed-match type of thing, maybe ten bucks for the 4 in this case.  I know it takes time and all, but that's pretty steep...especially considering there's no real way to know what they'll sound like with someone's specific gear.

I have 2 guitars. A 6string Schecter with passive pickups (Dimarzio Titans) and a 7string esp ltd with EMG pickups and I build my patches on those 2 guitars. Honestly, the main difference I notice is the output of the pickups and the sustain ofc. (6string has a floyd) 

Generally, most people that is interested in these tones have pretty much guitars with the same or similar specs as mine and they say that my tones work great. (You can see this for yourself actually by reading their reviews)

But ofc there are rare cases where people have much different guitars than mine, with alder body for example or totally non-"modern" pickups. In cases like these, I suggest tweaks based on their comments by comparing their tone with mine and we manage to make the patch sounding as it should.

I used to believe that the guitar makes much difference in the tone, as well, but after doing this for a while, I realized that the patch itself has a much greater impact in your tone.

Nice, man.  The Polyphia ones on your site sound pretty good, too.  I'd like to try them out but...dude...ten bucks a pop?  lol

Guys pay me to build their favorite tones. How much would you charge for a tone that someone requested you to build for him and you spent 4 hours minimum?

Yes, I record with the HD500 all the time. Guitar -> HD500 -> SPDIF -> RME Fireface UFX. It works very well once you get the sample rates matched.

Why would you choose to have such an expensive audio interface and such a cheap modeler? Just curious...

Also, is there a specific reason that you prefer to use the spdif output instead of the XLR for example?

Another fan of "The Axe-FX Tone"!  Nice!  :-P

 

I know the hardware has it in it.  I know it.  It may not be an Axe-FX, but it's got a ton of great sounds in it and it sounds good the way I have it...I'm just looking for the few tones I fall in love with.  I knew it had it in it.  Good to see I wasn't wrong!  lol

 

Yea, I've ended up mostly just using the CustomTone stuff as tools, kinda.  Some do sound good but it's always a gamble, for sure.

 

What amps and stuff did you end up settling on?  Have any recordings?

I mostly use the Fireball and the Treadplate amp sims for mid/high gain modern stuff. (The Big Bottom is also a very good amp for specific tones.)

For cabs I mostly use the XXL and the Uber, but you should note that the XXL cab needs much of its bass out in order to be usable.

And then the typical FX's you find in a modern chain: noise gate, compressor, screamer and after the amp a lot of EQ pedals in order to shape my tone even more, because the cab/mic sims in the Pod HD are really meh.

You can find all of my recordings in the links bellow:

• https://soundcloud.com/giwrgos-andrhs
• https://audioboom.com/SBSoundLab