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Wow thanks, you can order a replacement foot switch board. I’ll try that as long as it’s not 20- dollars. Line 6 isn’t cheap

I think it is built pretty good. Mass produced in China mind you but what isn’t. I didn’t open mine but I saw another one open online. It resembled all the other pod foot switches. A bunch of PCBs all connected with that flat cable. I do dig the new foot switch buttons. I still have the originally FBV short board. It’s so old you stomp on a switch and it’s very difficult to press. Probably dirty. Can’t selll it on eBay because version 2 has midi. But beware all of the pod foot controllers are a little different. Anyway, I’m about to reset my helix after creating a backup. My on board express pedal has been stuck on exp 2 since I bought it new. I do have a mission controller expression pedal. I plug it in 2 or 3 nothing changes. I did the hardware test, I can slam on the toe switch.. nothing. But as I move the pedal it showed exp 2 mo ing. I tried manually assigning a persmiter toe p 1 but as soon as I move the pedal it jumps to 2. I have the last firmware 3.8 sadly the firmware upgrades have stopped. Typical when lone 6 gets a new toy it abandons the former. Variax? DT 50? Never heard of them !

The absolute best rig ever. And I’ve been playing 50 years. The best! I actually am sad they stopped selling the Variax standard which is the Yamaha Pacifica. I own 2 line 6 DT 50s plus 2 Variax standards I love the factory pickups, and I first had a pod hd 500x a pod hd pro x and nowa helix floor I paid full price for, they did a fantastic job of controlling the variax along with the DT 50 it’s done through the input section and output section. I think I have the finest rug in the world, agent I pick it up just to pratice I can’t put it down. Also for studio I can go srereo through the 2 DT amps and or stereo through my model 12 mixer and I also own the helix plug in going through the Mac logic 11. Man I’m 70 years old mt first rug was a 60s strat, a fender dual showman and a vox cry baby wha wah, my rig today blows all that away.

Btw the small picture icon is of a wonderful clone of a Gibson double cut standard with a Variax 500 inside, a John Mann Tremolo, I love those, I may make a few more in the future but like someone else said, they are fun to do for your self, or if I build one from scratch, but I don’t like installing a Variax into someone’s PRS custom 24. I’m skilled and very cautious never work tired, plus if I ever make a mistake I’m pretty good at fixing it, something about the thought of a chip out of a top of a 10k guitar, naa I can’t handle it, but you might find some guys out there. I did do a few custom conversions but by the time the customer keeps making changes for free, I never made any money at it, for the pressure.

Sure, purchase a used Line 6 Standard, ( I can’t believe they stopped making/selling the standard. I own many Variax guitars and basses, that’s because I’m a luthier and befor line T was installing magnetic pickups, I was building the Variax electronics into Les Paul clones and PRs clones, right off the bat because used Variax standards are no longer commercially sold, you’ll have to look on eBay or reverb and expect to pay close to a grand for one. By the way everyone has their opinions but of all the Variax guitars I’ve ever bought I like the actual standard the best. One reason is it’s based on the Yamaha Pacifica. I love the neck, the body is a tad smaller than a Strat although you’re limited to black, off white and tobacco sunburst. The other thing is if you want one custom built, consider 1 will you keep it? 2 do you plan to use a Variax friendly modeler like the Pod HD 500X or the Helix. Because those power the guitar as well as midi control. The only reason I brought that up is when I purchased my first standard, I had just finished a nice swamp ash strat body, I used to call StratovariX. Everything was going to line up and fit with no further routing EXCEPT. If you have a Variax standard you notice your missing something/ the belly cut in the back. Why? Because if you hog out that much wood you’ll have no room for the battery. For me, I installed a line 6 Variax 700 into a Gibson Les Paul Double cut. A 3k dollar guitar. Line 6 has one main thing over me that I can’t do. Electronics engineering. I have no idea how to make the magnetic pickups share the digital system pots switches. With the standard you can use the mag pickups in one stereo channel and the Variax in a second. You can do that with my Les Paul, but that’s because I literally have the comp,etc set of variax knobs along with the Les Paul knobs along with micro switches . I live the guitar but I hate all the knobs. I used as many double pots as possible but a couple years later when I bought my first variax standard, I was blown away with the minimum of knobs. Cirrently on my second variax standard I want to replace the magnetic pickups wit a set of 3 Seymour Duncan JR jr strat sized humbucker. I fell in love with the bridge pickup after installing one in a clients guitar. The standards mag pickups aren’t horrible, they have some tone but they are a bit thin even for a single coil. I already changed the mag pickups out of my first standard, I installed a 300 dollar set of Raw Vintage 60s strat pickuox. Huge improvement. I wanted a pickup set with mini humbucker, the JR jr set in both single coil size and humbucker size is famous. The humbuckers been around since the 7ps, the JB sysnds for Jeff Beck. Signature pickups. I was testing my clients guitar out after the upgrade in my LINE 6 DT 50 it just so happened to be set on the 4th position the Mesa Boogie Dusl Rectafier. I turned off standby and just did a couple hammer ones as I was strapping up. Omg, the sustain the ring the tone. Btw if you’ve never played a line 6 DT 25 or DT 50. Try it. I’ve been playing since the mid 60s, my first amp was a silver tome built into my guitar case, a tube amp, next a 63 black faced dual showman, a Ampeg V 4 double stack I 8 q2s man was that loud. They all had great tone, I had dozens of other amps too. U til one day after reading advertisement for the dream rig I bought a line 6 DT 50 head designed by Bogner. Since then I purchased another DT 50 212 there’s too many haters out their of line 6 partly their fault. This is the best sounding most versatile amp I’ve ever had, I will never sell them, my grand kids can if they want. YouTube search the line 6 DT 50 or DT 25, you won’t find a bad review. The case for the amp is 11 ply birch, an unmatched pair of Celestion speakers again designed / selected by Bogner, I never thought mixing speakers was smart, it just opened a huge pallet of tone, my 412 cabinet for my DT head is a Marshall cabinet with a quad of 1970s Celestion Green Backs, 25 watt ea, 16ohm a d I steD of 75 hrtz like e dry other speaker these are 55 nrtz, which give me rich clear lows and mids. I wouldent sell that cabinet for 2000. Dollars, oh it’s only a 100 wat cab, but check out the 70s Marshall Plexi cabinets same speaker with a 150 watt rms amp. They are the brown cream speakers. On eBay 70s greenbacks sell close to 300 ea or more. I have a lot of guitar cans the green backs are the absolute best. Anyway, came on hoping to find someone who installed the JB Jr on a Variax standards, I can add other mini switches remember the 5 way switch controls all the Variax. Ideks too.

Update on changing tubes on dt 50, I purchased a Bias meter it wasnt too expensive, after replacing both tubes I just turned the power on. Does everyone know there is only one pot for both power tubes? anyway I turned the pot counter clockwise and that got it close to the recomended number. ˆreplaced the preamp tubes as well and used eh tubes even though it said pre amp tubes arent brand specific, Anyway after biosing I plugged a guitae in and turned the amp on as well as standby, Man what a difference, I understand Line 6 concern about someone unfamilar with tube amps fishing around inside one, Ive had tube amps starting in 1968 with a 1964 black faced dual showman. The other guitarist in our band had a silver faced dual shoman and he did some electronics upgrades like making his amp stereo, changing a cap on the brite switch making it more a boost switch and a few other things, we did those same things to my black face, He taught me on how tubes and transformers work as well as a rectifier. It sounds more wild then actually what it does. anyway, yes if a person know enough to work in your amp know you are respomsible just like you would be if you tore your car or motorcycle apart. You wreck it or you, thats all on you. and its very easy to wreck you, I double checked my work very carefully . I had just purxhased this dt 50 212 combo as well as a dt 50 head, The conbo is super heavy and it looks like it was dropped out of a cargo door of a 747, the box was destroyed but the amp just had a scratch on the corner. Im sure that it took a bad bounce and 2 weeks later the amp was making weird whistling noises so ( turned it off. I knew it was tubes ive had that happen twice before once with a fairly new ampeg V4 I purchased new in mid 70s and a Peavey custom 212. Both made weird noises and both were fixed with tube replacement, But stick to E H tubes on the DT 50. youwill damage your amp. and Line 6 sadly denies they ever existed. Best sounding amp Line 6 or a lot of other amp makers/ I love how both mine sound. I use the L6 cable from the back of my Pod HD pro x then into one amp then out of same amp into the ther. slick as hell. I hope the helix lsts a long time, I really dont understand why they sunk the dt series, If there wAS smome rumer of it being a bad amp they simply coupl have done a public notice or something. even the original prices for what it was is reasonable. I absolutly the stock 4 tones and there is so muxh editi9ng thats avaikable, cleae as a bell the different distortion of 234 are perfect as well as the Fender Twin number 1, I think its the best amp Ive ever played.

Im sorry first about the typing. Im an old coot and just had catarac surgery so i cant see well yet and i apopogize if I came across cranky. to make a long story short first I installes the editor in the main drive I was using which is an external 2 TB SSD. I could never get it to run on the exterior drive even though its my boot drive, so I installed it on the 512 gb ssd that came with the mqc mini, I GOT IT TO work until that night my mac mini automatically upgraded to Sonoma 14.1 Ive turned the computer off and on restarted the Pod HD pro X and started the editir, It detects the Pod hd but I get an error nessage saying there is an error, Your universal driver 1.0,0 has been working from Big sur toll Monteray. should I expect a ner driver. I still have my older 2011 Imac which runs my hardware fine but Im using Logic and The version of Logic in my Mac mini will not work in the older intel mac plus why should I have to use a 12 year old computer when you just discontinued the pod HD Pro X last year. Ill probably get a Helix some day but for now Im living on a fixrd retirement income and to replace the Pod HD Pro X with the helix rack mount will probably cost me over 2k with the foot controller. anyway, i hope you can help me out here. Thanks Mark

This is getting so frusterating. I have an apple M1 Mac Mini 512 gb sssd and 16gb ran, while the Nac Mini had Monteray once I downloaded and installed the universal driver 1.0.0I had no problem, often I leave my mac on all night, the next day I turned on my Pod HD pro x and the edit software. all of a sudden I get all kinds of errors. Why Line 6 I love your products but it seems like you guys put out the next best thing and what ever was yesterdays flagship you act as if it wasnt yours in the first place. I know thix because Ive owned every version of the first variax guitars and now I have 2 Line 6 Variax Standards wgich are built on Yamaha guitars. Its perfect, so far you are still managing that, but Ive owned every pod from the bean to Bean 2.0 to the xt floor to the X3 Rack to both the Pod hd 500x and then the Pod hd pro. x You just stopped selling the

It’s now 2023, and i was reading down this post for retuning the dt 50. There is one specific tech who works for line 6 and specifically bench work for the dt series amps. He went around most of the feeds saying he’s had plenty of DTs on his bench after guys were putting everything in BUT EH. Well heres my story and im sticking to it. I purchased used one DT 50 head . Loved the sound and i wanted another. I love stereo effects so i found a DT 212 for a great price. Guitar center was selling it through reverb. WARNING THE 212 COMBO IS THE HEAVIEST COMBO IVE EVER CARRIED. I ONLY CARRIED IT TO MY LIVING ROOM before going out to my shop and grabbing the 4 super heavy duty 2.5” wheels and bolted them to the bottom of the combo. Granted im getting older, 68 this year, so a lot of thinkers are heavier than they used to be. Anyway when my 212 combo showed up via UPS the box was destroyed. The driver had dropped it off in my shop and threw the crushed box in the shop too. I took photos of everything how i found it. The truck had to be moving when it flew out but these amps are so heavy duty I could tell when i set it up on my level concrete shop floor,it was racked. Not all four feet touch the floor at the same time. With great difficulty racked it the other way until everything was square. I was a carpenter /woodworker for 50 years. Anyway, i plugged it in and turned it on. Like the head the face lights came on after a micro delay, then with the master volume off i turned the amp of standby. It was quiet. I started running th volume up still quiet. Anyway long story short I kept the amp sent guitar center pictures of the amp and pile of cardboard in my garage. They refunded me a hundred bucks. About 3 weeks later, the amp went haywire. So i turned it off and went to bed. Turned it back on the next morning, same thing squeals and all kinds of noises, sometimes i heard the guitar quiet and back to the Halloween screeches. Turned it off went through every thread i could find. Most of them had this line 6 employee employing people to ship the amp back to line 6. No way that amp is almost 100 pounds. So I kept reading, and that guy was everywhere. Weird he didnt find this one. HE SAID YOU COULD TRY OTHERS LIKR JJ TUBES. SOME EVEN WORK FOR A WHILE BUT LIKE OTHERS HAVE SAID BOGNER DESIGNED THESE AMPS SPECIFIVALLY eh el34 power tubes. He said you can use any flavor 12ax7 tube you like. But thev other warning was i hope i remember this correctly, this amp is a fixed bias Cathoid bios and must be checked. Well i did a lot of reading on biasing an amp because a lot of voices came with that. On Amazon they hd several flavors biasing meters. Well i got the most expensive one they had. I think it was like 65 bucks, comes with 4 leads. My EH el34 fit the socket perfectly. These only 2 power tubes in either of my dt 50s . I did more reading. Many amps have an adjuster for each tube. On at least my dt 50s there is just one touch point and one screw adjustment. Somewhere i read the number was supposed to be 25? I dont remember. I do remember, i pulled out both old tubes, then you p,ug in the tube tester in the sockets and plug the new tubes in the female side of the sockets. I powered on but never took it out of standby. Well my meter moved up past 25 to around 27ish. So i quick checked my other amp but with its original tubes. Exact same umbers. The manual i got was in chinglish so it wasn’t much help. I kept the chassis out for now, unplugged the meter and out the new tubes back in. Well the squealing was gone. I have a feeling it was the road race between ups and my amp that maybe damaged my tubes. I learned from peavey who is also fussy about their tubes from the late 70s and early 80s classic 212 series Amps. Those are the black ones with the 2 aluminum strips running down the speaker grilles. They must have Mae a tone of those in the 70s and 80s. I re capped one of them put new tubes in they glowed super red i turned it right off and called pea vey who also suggested i send the chassis in. Idk shipping might be insane anyway for one of the amps there were 3 transistors burnt out. The guy said if you put new tubes in without changing the resistors first you’ll instantly blow the new tubes. Oh great. So i bought 2 more 6L6GC and first changed the 3 transistors, but i did something wrong maybe s\mixed a tube idk because the fuse blew. These are pretty high amp fuses, the second set of new tubes wee shot. So I’ve got 2 PeaVey vintage ones sitting on my basement floor. Ill find some tech somewhere. Im a luthier and guitar tech but not an amp master. Point is i had bad luck with my peaveys which I haven’t used in awhile but mt dt 50 with 2 new EH EL34s sounded great. Matter of fact the combo now sounded way better than the head which i thought was amazing when I first got it. Prices for all dt series ms fare shooting up because no stores have them any more. This is how line 6 does business. I have tons of line 6 equiptment because i loke it a lot of their products come out like the helix. Matter of fact my dt 212 originally i believe listed for 1500. I think the 112 was 1400. By the way the 212 has 2 different speakers in there both 8 ohm but different wattage. I dont kno how the 112 sounds although as i typed ill just unplug the ione the 112 doesn’t come with. But to my the 212 the sounds that came out topo 1 the fender twin is amazing. It’s a delisous clean loud fender twin. 2 is a Marshall plexi. 3 is an ac 30 and 4 is a Mesa bogging double rectifier. All sound amazing. You can download for windows only something called the dt editor and i thought you could go from 4 toppos to 16 but you can only access all of them live when hooked up to midi. You can edit 4 sounds and they wil stay like that until you change them. Forget all the freaks that’s say i know theres dsp in there its line 6 theres gotta be. How many of you folks have all solid tube stomp boxes? Ohhhhh. There’s a few that stick a little 12 ax7 you can see glowing in your stomp box i even have a 500 watt bass amp with the choir=ce old tube no tube. My point is the dt50 was designed as part of the dream rig. Using one of the original floor pods hd or the newer hd500x or hd prox both of these came out after the original helix. One pod can complete control 4 dt amps, pl,us a variax guitar. I love my variax standard which is a Yamaha Pacifica with the new hd variax in it. Love the sounds through the pod hd pro x and mt dt 12s. Hey sorry about smelling having double cataract surgery next week right now i kinda see double so im done hope something helps. Use only ehh el34s. You’ll be happy if its not biased the tubes will wear fast nd damage your amp.

This is a really old topic but i hope someone will answer this. I purchased a line 6 pod hd500x. Loved the sounds currently have 2 dt 50 amps which the pod hd500x controlled perfectly. But im 68 years old now and currently haven’t been on a stage for going on 5 years. So i decided as long as the pod hd pro x rack was electronically identical to the hd 500x that id prefer the rack model. So thats great no bending over to edit. But now no foot controller. Knowing me instead of buying the mk II like I’ve seen is the controller designed for the pod hd pro i bought the FBV 3. Oh well the colored lights only work with one of line 6 weird amps so the buttons are red. So the looper works fine, but i dont know how to change functions . I cant bank up or down and i cant select a preset. Anybody have an answer here. I dont understand why line 6 didnt just make the mk2 work with everything then to make more money make the FBV 3 comparable. Way back i had a couple vettas and flex tones. I had a short board and a longboard with 2 expression pedals built in and either pedal worked with either amp. Sombody asked about the mk express? I think there are just too many thing you can’t control but would want to with the pod rack hd. I know helix has its own 600 dollar foot controller but the helix is way more complex. Don’t buy a FBV express for your pod hd rack. This is so frustrating I’ll finally in a couple years get it ti work like i want and ill get the helix bug, because it’s about time for line 6 to pull it’s usual gag taking the most advanced guitar controller and throw it under the bus. Line 6 barely has any heratage equipment. They will never reissue anything. It’s hard to hold loyalty sometimes. The helix is older full but extreme expensive but just like the best amp line 6 ever sold the dt. You can pick up a dt 50 head for 150 bucks , i actually paid 225. For my head. Once a thousand dollars. All those people who paid full price i feel awful. The hd50 212 was near 1500 dollars, I po aid 299 for my 212 boat anchor. This is a great sounding amp. I was pleasantly surprised the speakers sound so good i was taught way back n the 1950s that i should match dual speakers. Not just ohms but rms power and id say manufacturer. But that amp weighs over 80 pounds. I had to put heavy casters on that. I think the head and a very good speaker cab is the best. Some say the dt25 is preferabl to the 50? Why? Sonically they are identicle. If you play it at all you’ll want the 50 watts. But to each his own. Sorry for wandering. I really kneed wisdom on the foot controller. Thanks

Even if you found a replacement ic board didn’t you have to calibrate it. I figured by this amount of time you would have found a link like this. I did a Google search and the whole page came up with line 6 support pages on the line 6 expression pedal. I hope if anyone else has that problem they will find this. I’ve been buying line 6 equiptment for almost 2 decades. I’m a luthier as well and built quite a few custom line 6 Variax all from the 300/500/600/700. After a while I was making my own tremolos and all of my guitars had magnetic pickups on them before line 6 had theirs although their engineering was way better than mine. My custom Variax guitars had way too many volume tone etc knobs. I’ve recently taken apart a standard, that’s my favorite Variax if you haven’t tried one you must. It’s incredible I have 2 of them. But the volume control is just a custom stacked twin pot except their not twin. One is 250 ohm for the magnetic sand the other one is 10 ohm for the Variax, just like the old ones. My point on this long note is line 6 stuff is built like a tank in my humble opinion. And for things like making my own tremolos it tolerated me unsoldering the piezo pickups removing the saddles and the 500/700 had a flat tape like cable easily damaged but are repairable the 300/600 were identical except for the tremolo, that had a 7 wire cable if I remember or 8 I think it had a ground on either side plus the 6 strings. My point is I’m more of a wood worker than electronics engineer yet every Variax I put into a custom body ended up working great with my messing around with them. I’ve messed with other electronics like these 2 vintage PeaVey vtx and vt 212 classics. I simply teplaced the caps, super easy job they even sell kits for each amp. But I did something wrong, because the 2 6L6GC tubes are red plating. I talked to PeaVey and those couple of year vintage hybrids with a solid state preamp and full tube power amp are tricky to work on. When working I think they are great sounding amps. I must love the classic underdog, I also own a line 6 DT 50 head and a DT 50 212, which in these line 6 support pages says I must SEND MY AMP BACK TO LINE 6 TO CHANGE THE TUBES. what. Jeez the 212 especially weighs about 80 pounds. So I purchased the recommended matched tube set which are electro harmonic matched el34 s and I purchased a quad channel biasing guage for about 50 bucks. Only needed 2 channels. Found only one video how to bias it and that was actually for the dt25. Totally different. There’s just one pot inside so I pulled the tubes plugged in the 2 testers in the el34 jacks is says line 6 is looking for 36mv well no matter what I even rotated the tubes but the v1 slot was always 3 mv below the v2 slot so I plug the difference. Btw if you ever try this ofcoarse be careful of electrocution and 2 there’s a switch for pentatonic (means5) and diatonic you need to test the bias in the lower 25 watt mode. The pentatonic will show double the mv. I didn’t know that at first but switched the switch it calmed down I figured that had to be right. What went wrong was the topo switc on III I could barely hear the amp but when it switched to IV wham it was full volume. I had a feeling it was a tube. Because I bought that amp through guitar center. They did a horrid job boxing up the amp. When I got it, the box was blown to pieces and. The amp was in a pile of bubble wrap and cardboard on my garage floor. When I looked at the case the top left corner was flattened out where clearly it hit the road going about 40 mph. Again a testament to the tank like over build of a very complex amplifier. I took the amp inside and immediately bought a set of 4 heavy duty removable castors. I’m 67 and could hardly lift the damn thing. Anyway got it inside plugged it in. Worked perfectly for about a month. Guitar center gave me 15% off refund for my troubles. I got a really good price, about 300 bucks for the amp original price around 1600 bucks. Anyway, my peaveys are still not working and when I got the tubes and biased them put the amp back together figuring that probably didn’t fix it, well at least I still had the head. Holy cats it sounded better than the head which I thought sounded awesome. For some sad reason my humble opinion is line 6 best effort for any guitar amp failed. It didn’t last very long and now you can get them used fairly cheap. Check out that amp in these here forums, the people that still own them love them. Just the 4 basic sounds that come on the cheat sheet are wonderful. That’s why I ended up buying a used hd500x and recently an hd prox because I don’t gig much but like to record in my. Home studio. Line 6 dubbed it the dream rig and to be honest I totally agree. I’ll never sell mine I’ll will them to my grandsons. I got 2 because that’s the only way to do stereo fx which sound incredible. I also purchased the line 6 super e pensive Xlr digital cables so I could daisy chain my amps from the hd prox. So fir chords I have my Variax VDI cable the 2 XLR cables, a speaker wire from the head to my Marshall green back cabinet. this was a long winded testimony to my faith in line 6 products lasting. I don’t know how many I have between pods and guitars and basses, but not a one has broken down. The pits on the guitars are lollipop. I’ve got a couple of 10 ohm pots to replace on a couple basses. Oh man that’s another product, the 700 and 705 bass. I’ve got around 5 and are they awesome. I think I like em better than the guitar modelers. Anyway you can get some incredible sounds out of them. Before the hd500x I had the x3 pro. I still think it’s line 6 official Swiss Army knife. I love the vocal pre amps, the lo fi one is cool too. The bass pre amps, the acoustic guitar preamps and the electric guitar patches. I bought that when it first came out. I’m bout to sell it, it’s still perfect and if I didn’t have the helix native which I do have running in logic prox in my brand new incredible apple m1 Mac mini. Unlimited tracks never a hiccup buy the 16 gig of ram and the 512 SSD. I used to love intel. The apple silicone will sink intel and amp. I shouldn’t have run on so. Sorry, I guess line 6 repare can tell you about more line 6 problems, because I’ve lost count of every line 6 I’ve ever had, and except for that dt50 the fell out of a moving ups truck I never had a line 6 piece of kit fail. And after changing the tubes the dt50 212 was as good as new. I just don’t understand why the DT amps failed and the basses oh yeah the acoustic 700 too was great. I’m watching the helix so far it’s hanging on. I think they have a winner there will probably get one of them. The only thing holding me back is someone at line 6 didn’t think of making the helix to work like the pod hd series with the L6Link that’s what made them the dream rig, you could control the amp from the guitar, the guitar from the amp etc. perfectly integrated. I hear the helix does work now with the DT amps but not completely, with the hd series if you turn a knob on the DT amps the knob turns on the pod. But not the helix, I’d say that was done but someone thought oh were through with the bigger tube amp so don’t bother making it work with the dead dog. Dumb. The only other thing the L6Link works with is the ultra expensive 1500 watt stage speaker. If you want stereo that will cost you 3k. Wow. Now I think I’ll just keep the dts. Nice jawing with you what were we talking about. Oh yeah the fox for the expression pedal !

Boy I really feel bad if you had to replace the ic board for your expression pedal. All you had to do was look into most of the pod hd xxx advanced pilot books or the downloads. story time number 2 this last year I purchased what looked like an almost brand new pod hd500x and I got it on reverb. Part of the discription said “ yep it’s all ready for you I reset it back to factory removing all my edits so it’s all set for you” I literally ignored that statement but when I just happened to be reading this post this time your words of ref lashing the firmware hit me between the eyes. When I got my hd500x home and quick set it up, I started messing with editing a patch, at first I had the floor board on my desk and I noticed when I moved the expression pedal there was no midi movement. I tried cranking down on the pretend toe switch, nothing. I got upset and went online, read quickly over a few other peoples complaint about the expression pedal till finally I got to a page right in this line 6 support pages. it says WHENEVER THE FIRMWARE IS FLASHED THE EXPRESSION PEDAL MUST BE CALIBRATED. so wow I did a quick search on calibrating the expression pedal on a line 6 hd500x and found this link .

Hello, I don’t play live much anymore but I still have my dream rig. 2 Variax Standards, 1pod HD500x controlling 2 line 6 DT 50 amps with L6S link. I’ve been watching the helix for years now, and Sweetwater over Xmas of 2021 had the helix native on sale for the non hardware owner for 199.00 so I couldent resist. The HD500x does not work well as an audio interface when using the VDI so I purchased a Berlinger uphoria 204. That works nice but now I haven’t figured out the midi yet to use the HD500x as a midi controller for native AND still control my 2 DT 50s. First I tried just plugging the Berlinger outs into the 2 DT 50s returns. Nothing at all with the l6 link connected, unplugged one amp just to try it mono, it worked, sounded great but there’s a lot of hum. I would totally have to control amp controls in the helix native, using the DT 50 gives you a tube power amp with zero control. Except for the mix control next to the dt50 fx loop. Turning that down to the middle detent almost makes the hum tolerable . It’s loud enough for my studio but not if I ever wanted to use native live/ in case I do. I’ve decided I’m never going to bring a computer into a live situation. I don’t think a computer is reliable enough for something critical like live playing. There’s no do overs should something freeze. anyway, I’ll probably get a helix floor or better but much more expensive the helix rack with the almost 500 dollar controller. So in the meantime it looks like the HX stomp has all the sounds of the full helix. I’m wondering if I can create patches in the HD500x so I still have an expression pedal although it could only be used for the hd fx, the volume pedal would work the whole thing, I’m one of those that still thinks the HD500x sounds great and to be honest the price difference now between a full helix and my hd500 isn’t worth 3x the cost. I love the I/os and for example the what is it 6 fx loop ins/outs can be used both ways you can select one as another input or outputs, it’s amazing if I’m reading it right it like they just put some empty jacks in back and when you assign them to something it’s like they are magically hardwired correctly. That’s amazing, I know the helix 3.0 has some control over the DT series amps but not as com-Pete as the hd. what I’m asking is if one of you still wanted to use your 2 hd series amps as stereo amps with the L6Link, and the control plus some dsp of the HD500x and the Variax control, but you wanted to add some of the large number of amps with full amp or pre amp, tons of fx, basically adding helix sound to my existing dream stereo rig, how would you do it. Would you leave the HD500x in control and add the HX stomp long version to your HD500x fx loop and not the other way around. In other words just like if you were adding just one stomp to your HD500x through the fx loop you add the full HX board the same way, but then in my mind comes the massive amount of programming for lack of words, you gotta build your HX preset first, then through the midi controller add the HX preset like other things to a HD500x foot switch. Question, if I have multiple different presets will the HX change everytime I step on a new button on the hd 500x? I hope I’m not too discouraging, I’m just afraid I’ll buy it and leave it in the box because I’ll have 3 days of manual reading to learn how to hook it up. Thanks hope it’s not too annoying.

One comment on Variax. I have 2 700 basses and a 705. Still great hybrid basses. I’ve owned several of every Variax made except the heavy metal version. I think the line 6 marriage to Yamaha was brilliant. Because your early Variax guitars had nice electronics but the guitars were under built . My favorite of all 4 electrics was the 600 mainly because of the neck. The JT variances sounds were awesome but I hated the necks, the headstocks were like boats paddles and the only body I liked was the Les Paul style. Then the standard came out and I bought a black one and fell in love, the pickups wernt the 450 dollar sets like Fralin etc but they were as good as any stock fender pickups. I’ve changed out the pickups on my black one. The first one I bought but I’m not going to change out the pups on my white standard. Both necks are as good as any 90s or 2000 fender American necks . Matter of fact a little better I think. I’ve been a luthier for years made my own necks and purchased a few too, Warmoth necks are my favorite after market. Their premium standard neck profile is what I started calling the D or school bus shape. You know how the roof of a school bus starts to come in right away like the famous C for crap shape but then there’s a very soft almost flat on top. Your Variax standard is very much like that. I like the headstocks. I can always add my own locking tuners on but a couple of things that make their guitars so fabulous besides the tops and the perfect detailing is the setup those guitars better than fender or Gibson leave the factory finished including the frets leveled. That’s expensive and at your price don’t expect that. But I am sure a set of looking tuners, throw an extra 2.0 bucks on the guitar. You use decent springs on your tremolos but there’s somethings you could do with your tremolo to make it great. Balance it to a set of 9s 0r 10. They are not balanced and will be impossible to keep in tune till they are. Otherwise for the price point of the Variax standard I can’t complain. I’d like to see the Pacifica belly contour put back, I realize that’s for the battery. I almost always play through my pod HD500x and before that my X3 pro. Again I know it’s cost but not that much offer a pod version with no battery. I’ve never used that battery maybe once when I tried out my DT amp. I realize you didn’t put a VDI in the DT amps because less people would believe you about having modeling dst I the preamp section even though so many of your guys making video kept calling it a pure tube amp it’s not. Just hook up the DT edit software through midi and you can see all the hd amps in there. Still I just love that amp I don’t care of there’s dsp or not in the amps what ever you did sorks. It’s too bad they are gone forever except for used. I heard from one YouTube music reporter saying nobody wants them. Why? I must be weird I’ve been playing electric since 1964 me second amp was a beautiful black face dual showman with twin JBL d130s. I loved that amp. I’ve had vettas and other line 6 amps no spiders though. My first hybrid was raw PeaVey vtx series. Great amp analog but transistorized preamp and full twin 6L6GC tube power amp, stil got it and a earlier vt series 212 as well. Still my favorite is the dt50s never tried the 25s but I’m sure the combination of line 6 dsp and bigness tube amps they are one of the finest amps made. Maybe because of some of the negative line 6 early line 6 solid state amps btw I thought unjustified. It was the tube Nazis that put the hex on lin6 6 stuff early. I have a tube Nazi friend who I believe I’ve convinced him helix is the top of the modeling world and blindfolded he’d think some of the helix sounds a bd wit their real tube amp models that he’d pick the helix as the real thing. Even I think your hds come close if not the same. I think I’ve said enough. I was looking for help so I can get helix tone into my DT amps but controlled as well as the hd amp controlled the dts that truely is a dream rig will always be the Variax standard , the HD500x ( wish I bought the rack for the direct dry guitar out, and then twin DT amps. I’ve watched tons of guys with the same rig that will never sell their twin dts . If I had the money I’d probably get 2 dt 25s too. For some reason used the dt25 seem to sell a bit more than the 50s could be the weight. When I got my dt50 w12 I had to put removable stainless steel castors on I wasn’t going to Tri to carry that to mr house. Man it’s a ton. Sounds sweet though

No offense line 6 but you have a reputation of getting the hot product out there after the sales are milked dry you sell off al your inventory like to that anderson’s music in the us for Pennie’s. Ok that’s your choice although I still think your DT project with Bonner was one of your best , but then the next pod or helix that comes out you forget about all your faithful DT purchasers. Just because the helix comes out doesn’t mean I want to dump my dts. I wish you had some support of replacing your helix into your dream rig some of us believed you