Chadrobb1

Yes, Did the first thing first. Now I HAVE always had effects before the split point. so this MUST be the problem as you say! Thank you so much, the next thing I will do is move all those effects to after the split and see how it goes! I am sure that what you say is true and that is why i am getting amp modeling on the microphone. Yay this just made my world a better place. Your awesome, thanks!

I have not been panning, just running mix as a mono output from one of the unbalanced mono outputs provided. Figured that I would get a mixdown of the guitar with its pedals/amp from path A and Mic with whatever was on the path B, and all is fine except for the amp modeling seems to apply to both paths no matter where its placed

My goal is to use my Pod HD500x as an effects processor for my guitar, as well as microphone for live use. The biggest problem so far has been figuring out how to create a different signal path for the microphone, so that effects that i put on the guitar dont affect the microphone. In creating a signal split, I've found that most effects placed on the top path go right to the guitar sound without altering the microphone. HOWEVER, it seems that no matter where i place the amp modeler in the path (whether its before the signal split, anywhere within the split, or after the split) it still effects (and horribly diminishes i might add) the sound of the microphone. So this has been a pretty stressful issue during band practices, trying to get my microphone at a reasonable volume level, without the muffled sound that it creates when its run through an amp model. I am trying to contact customer support for some help on this issue, but in the meantime does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks so much.