AlexKenivel

Assignable volume control would be a great solution to a small speed-bump a problem I'm having wile using both XLR cables and 1/4in cables at the same time..

I've played drums for 11 years and all the coordination involved really opened up my guitar playing. I highly suggest getting into it

Now now, let's not turn this into a drummer-bashing thread It's a good thing L6 doesn't do drum modeling!

Here's what I'm physically doing with my cabling: Guitar > Pod guitar in Pod effects loop out > Amp guitar in Amp effects loop out > Pod effects loop return Pod unbalanced out > Amp effects loop return I fully intended to bypass my amps' preamp section. I have no FX LOOP block anywhere. I'm running a patch with dual amps and no effects whatsoever. What I'm trying to accomplish is a way to control the level of what's going into the amp without disturbing the XLR feed.

Can you please elaborate in how this could be done? He can definitely hear me. He just thinks that there's something missing. I turned the bass up on the mixer and he thought it was much better

So, now that I know that I could conceivably play with my amp using the 4 cable method and PA at the same time, is there any way to control my amps volume, in which the knobs now are completely useless for some reason? The Master knob on my pod controls both levels

Have you tried it yet?

Totally agree. Some folks just can't do without it. Maybe my drummer has tinnitus, he is a _very_ loud drummer

It is actually, it's just not very pleasant :d

One of the biggest reasons I went digital in the first place. I plan on running FRFR live, but it sure is good to have options.

To adjust for different situations (like when my drummer whines about lack of low end at practice). Besides, if I'm getting a PA speaker, chances are I won't be using it only for my pod

Baby likes her bass knob :D

Prelude After having my Hd500x for (jeez idk) maybe 2 months now, I've ran direct into a slew of different things with great results. It started with my friends' secondhand Behringer Eurolive PMX2000 powered mixer and two Squier SQ12s with flat EQ. Sounds great and plenty loud. Then onto my my father's Carvin pm12a (awesome again), to Guitar Center's wall of powered speakers (many awesome results), to last night's EDM recording session I was invited to, going direct through a Focusright 2i2 and out of the biggest KRK monitors I've ever seen (on tripod stands, even)(awesome). While I was driving home, I thought about how great a sound I was getting, but at the same time remembering how my drummer from a different project felt about not quite "feeling the push of guitar speakers" at our last jam/practice. This gave me the idea of finally trying my pod through my Carvin MTS3200 and my open back Carvin 2x12 with V30s. Today I wake up and set everything up; pod in 4CM through my Carvin's power amp section. starting with a fresh new tone, I switched around with the amps and post eq'ing and got some good quick tones and then decided to try a direct patch just for giggles. I can honestly tell you, with shield in my hand for the incoming flaming stones that will be thrown at me, that it sounded fantastic even with cabinet and microphone emulation pumping through the V30s. After my 1.6 seconds of being in shock and awe, I decided to plug in my XLR cable into the Behringer/Squier setup to A/B the rigs. They sounded very very very very close, but with the PA set up lacking a bit of low end. All it took was a small boost from the mixers bass knob (mind you I keep the EQ flat) to get them in the same chest-pumping territory. Maybe it had something to do with my dual amp patch, in which one is a pre and one is a full, or maybe Squier used to put guitar speakers in their passive PA speakers (lulz). I noticed a strong similarity in tone among my other patches as well. The only biggest difference that I could tell so far, is that when the PA system is cranked the highs seem to dominate the sound, whereas when my amp and cab are cranked the lows seem to dominate.

I tested one out at GC last week and the only thing holding me back from getting one is the fact that theres no EQ control, and my wife

You scroll down on a smartphone but your finger is moving up. Up in number, channel up, down the list, I don't think there's a -right- answer here. But options are nice!

If the mixer on your patches are both center, does that mono-ize the signal enough to use one XLR output for FOH and the other for a personal monitor?

That's pretty neat.This could be really useful as I used to love self-oscilating analog delay pedals by playing with the time and decay knobs during a song or Jam. Maybe there's a way to do so on the 500x with any of the analog delays?

Looks like I'm in luck then!

Hey folks, Last night, I just noticed that I've been using a full model and a pre model (dual amps) for my high gain sound. I don't know why, but after A/Bing the full/pre and the full/full, the full/pre sounded world's better still! My question is, do the pre models use less DSP than their full counterparts? Thanks Your pal Al

There are other threads on this forum that suggest using a Win 8 pad might work, although the edit program doesn't resize at all on the PCs I use so I could imagine how it might be a little wonky

So this happening is fine then?

I run mine through a behringer mixer and two Squier PA speakers, definitely not the best out there (and probably far from it, but it still sounds amazing!

LOL. I think your entire post was mostly details!