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I'm so glad we're now in agreement, so can you remind me why you still haven't posted a clip? One would assume you can't even play the song.

Three distinct sounds you say? Well perhaps I'll be happy with all three. That is the point. I just want to know if the preset gets relatively close to the original sound, and hence I asked for a demonstration of it. I said nothing about my expectation being to sound exactly like Andy Summers. No one if forcing you to help out, but the tone propaganda you're spewing out does not appropriately factor in the impact of it on the whole scheme of things, and it leads to frustration because it sounds like you're trying to making excuses in advance on my behalf. Again, most of the tone is in your rig (amps and effects), and I'm not sure how anyone could dispute this.

Okay, I'll try another approach. Does the POD HD500X preset sound closer to the original recording than the one below? https://soundcloud.com/stef_herbuel/message-in-the-bottleaxe-fx-ii

I'm sorry, but that its a load of nonsense. Let me just reach out to Eddie Van Halen now to ask him what method of monitoring he used. I'm sure that once I have a definitive answer to that, I can just use a Gibson Les Paul with the neck pickup plugged into a standalone Fender Deluxe Amp (without effects) to get the Panama tone.

Can anyone please just tell me if this preset sounds anything like the original recording? I appreciate that fingers, guitars, speakers and pick attack all come into play on the overall tone, but the vast majority comes from the amps and effects. Period. If you sat someone down to play on Eddie Van Halen's rig in 1984 and they could actually play Panama note-for-note with the timing down perfectly, they would sound like the recording. I'm not sure how anyone would attempt to dispute this. Is it really your fingers that are going to apply the phaser effect for that signature sound? I don't think so. I just want to find a way to get close to this incredible sound.

I'm on the verge of purchasing a POD HD500X, and this preset will be the decider for me as I've spent a lot of time trying to replicate that tone. Would appreciate it.

Thanks a lot, hurghanico. Can anyone please post a demo of this preset?

Thanks, but unfortunately, I don't own a Line 6 product yet and therefore cannot download the preset itself. If you could take a screenshot, I would greatly appreciate it.

http://line6.com/customtone/tone/1763687/ If you currently own a Line 6 POD HD500X, would you mind running the preset in the link above and post a screenshot of what the setup (and settings) look like? I would greatly appreciate it.