AlexKenivel

I figured this would work after playing with my father in laws Surface Pro. It's practically a laptop

False. I plug my pod into the return of my tube amp's effects loop and get great tones, even with full modeling in studio/direct mode. False. I've plugged into the front ends of amps and got a good sound. It's not always easy and is almost never consistent between front end of one amp to another. Maybe your don't quite understand the different output modes? (from Meambobbo's guide) "Stack is for full or 1/2 stacks (or closed-back 2x12's). Combo is for open back combos. Power amp is for running the Pod into a guitar power amp or a guitar amp's an effects loop return. Front is for an amp's guitar input. Studio/Direct is for direct to PA/mixing board, headphones, or DAW (when you're not using IR's to simulate a cab). Output modes were designed so that you could dial in a patch using one output mode and hooked up to the appropriate real gear, then switch output modes for other gear and get the same tone. In reality, your tone will never be the same between different gear, despite changing output modes. Don't expect them to work this way, but they do offer slight compensations that may help get closer to that ballpark sooner. You should use Studio/Direct if you want to use the cab/mic simulation provided in the Pod. This would be useful if you are recording directly to a DAW (and not using IR's in that DAW), running direct to the PA/mixing board, or are using headphones. Other output modes use "live-voiced cabs". The mic model selected has no impact on the tone. The selected cab simply EQ's your tone mildly to slightly mimic the response of the cab, when run through a real guitar cab (or IR). This is no substitute for a mic'ed cab or IR. Without one of those, the tone will be very harsh. The difference between stack and combo modes is that combo has a bass boost. Since combo amps generally have less bass, the idea was that the bass response would be consistent between gear. Again, it won't be magically the same between gear, but it can get you close. The front output modes additionally include a crude global EQ designed to help neutralize any pre-amp coloration that will occur when plugging into the front input of an amp. A pre-amp does more than change the frequency response, so don't expect this output mode to truly neutralize a pre-amp. It's almost always best to run the Pod output into the effects loop return of a real amp." Those last couple of paragraphs seem key to your situation. I've also put my pod through the front end of different bass amps. I've had more luck with this than with the front end of a guitar amp

I could sit here and quote Bob's guide too, as this was the first thing I tried. It's just not transparent enough for some sounds.

The only way to really do this is by making sure your footswitch mode is set to ABCD, and save your presets to the bottom footswitches.

I've never had that happen to me in edit, and sometimes I need to have edit on first and then power on the pod to get them to sync. Edit is pretty buggy with the switching the presets, saving them and recalling them. I wouldn't recommend using it live either

Yep, yep, and yep. Since I already had a parametric EQ, the High knob does the trick for that specific patch. I am finding the Mid Focus useful when I'm sculpting a new sound, just not to Low Pass a tone I like already. Which is WHY I'd love a High Cut, right next to the Low Cut would he nice ;)

Did just that and it colors the sound. I'm sitting here toggling back and forth and there's an obvious difference

What a drag

I need to mess around with the MFEQ more, only I am finding it colors my sound when I don't want it to

*shudders*

.. Fastest mouse in all Pod-land I've only had my 500x (actually on my third device) since about last April. I usually couldn't get a good sound coming through a full range speaker with a tweeter so I went the power amp and cabinet route up until I get my first wedge here in a couple days. I could always get a good recorded sound with some in-DAW post EQ or even external IRs but I've been using the global Eq as a kind of a crutch, getting rid of a lot of unnecessary highs. in doing this, I've put a choke hold on some of the shimmery reverbs and other synth effects that might be taking up those frequencies, thus kind of limiting the sound. it was only until a couple days ago when I downloaded some of Meambobbos patches that sounded like what I was getting with external IRs. this tells me that I still have a lot to learn and there's a lot of tricks with in the pod that I haven't even touched on. Right after I had to get my first HD500x replaced (usb port fail) is when the Helix and the AX8 were almost simultaneously announced. My heart literally sank to the floor and I thought I should've held out. I stuck with the Pod and it has grown on me. It's a great tool that keeps proving it's worth over and over again. Especially after all the problems I've been hearing about with the HX

the color scheme fx wise was used before the software was made. I still have the big purple L6 FM4 (which is why the filter effects were colored purple) that the filter effects came from. The green DL4 pedal for all the delays I think is the only one still in production.. I understand this has nothing really to do with your argument about a better user interface, I just thought I'd point that out because it seems like you have no idea why they were colored this way. either way, you do have some really good ideas and I hope that someday they'd wise up and give the HD edit software some much needed reworking

when you start moving the knobs, you can notice on the screen that the virtual knobs will move as well and there are little tick marks on where they were last set when they were saved, so if you bump one by accident you can find where it was and put it back

Hey Bob, I finally got around to downloading some of your high gain patches and I had a question about one of them. The Periphery R patch with the two Engl amps and the two MID FOCUS EQs in particular. It seems the hard gate is contributing a lot to tone. As I turn it off, the sound drastically changes. And it seems like the MFEQs are some sort of gain stage? What wizardry is this?

I really don't see what's wrong with the colors. The effects are color coded..

Yeah we can only hope that they'll give the HD series more love now that the HX is out in all its incomplete glory. It would be nice and it would show the L6 customer that they are listening.

Not sure if this is related, but when I've been moving things around in a set list while using the edit program, I've noticed that my presets sound different even after saving the changes. Shutting down the program, unplugging the USB and switching presets fixes it. Besides, you don't really need the program for recording

The clincher

The only support i want at the moment is in the form if a hi cut knob in the cab DEPs. I know the boys are a little preoccupied with getting the Helix up and running, but when they get a moment some HD love would be nice.

Maybe not so much to those who don't live in America, but sneaking across the border to get some cheese and come back to bring it to your family while trying to avoid being caught sounds a little familiar. don't get me wrong, I am NOT trying to insinuate that you are racist at all. simply just a realization and observation

Wow, I almost forgot how stereotypically racist those old Speedy Gonzalez 'toons were!

press the view button until it comes up and it will hopefully stay that way, and then when posting try to press enter before hurghanico does :P

You guys sure like to necrobump old threads!

when I got my first pod, I played through a Behringer Eurolive PMX2000. More than enough wattage. The Speakers were horribly cheap Squier 12" but it sounded GOOD. little did I know that the tweeters were blown out. I later tried a Carvin Pm12a and didn't like what was coming through the tweeter. So go buy a used speaker with a busted tweeter. No, I'm kidding, that's not the point. The point is if you can get it loud and clear enough, it sounds good, who cares what name is on it

It's haunted. Run for your life!