Black4334

AFAIK the HD500X's outputs aren't isolated so you can't have one side running a cab sim and the other side without. I've run into a similar predicament with my bass rig (I use the Pod for any effects that aren't compression or overdrive, hooked up to my amps via 4-cable method) and I found that it was honestly easier to run from an A/B/Y into two separate Pods and control them both via MIDI. You could potentially run one output from your Pod's FX return into your power amp/cab, and then one from your unbalanced line out into FOH. Might not work that way but that's how it works on a proper head. Running from your FX return bypasses the power/cab stage. Again, I've never done this particularly, and there are plenty more knowledgeable than me here. So take that with a grain of salt. Hope this somewhat helps!

Cheers! That makes a whole lot of sense actually. Would I be able to switch different effects on and off in the same patch? Say if I were to click the "stomp" switch, would both the Pods switch to whatever effect's assigned to the "stomp" switch? Would there be any latency between switching on the two?

You're all good mate! I really appreciate it. It's a really weird scenario and I don't think it's ever been done before as a setup, as it's probably easier to get all those effects as pedals and just run them in front of the splitter box. I personally like the idea of hiding all the modulation in the fx loop as that generally lends to a much better sound once it leaves the cab. Only problem is, having that just come out of the clean amp kills a lot of the volume and diminishes a lot of the prominence of those effects. I just looked at those 4-port hub/switches. They look promising, but I'd rather not experiment with something that could potentially do damage to both Pods as well as the footswitch (Can it? It must carry a voltage to activate the shortboard). It would give me more piece of mind to get some other opinions on this. Thanks for the help though, I would never have known about those switches otherwise!

Hey guys, first time poster! Basically I'm running two amps in my bass rig - a clean channel, utilizing a Warwick Quad VI running a Pod HD Pro in tandem via the 4-cable method, and a dirty channel running a Gallien-Krueger 700RB. I've recently come across a second HD Pro for a ridiculous price and bought it without thinking. I use the HD Pro for mostly modulation FX when it's connected to my Warwick - chorus, delay, pitch glide, stuff like that, all controlled by my Shortboard MKI. So here's my question. If I set up my Gallien-Krueger and the second HD Pro using the 4-cable method, and load it with the same patch as the first, could I potentially control both with the same Shortboard? I'd love to be able to have them both connected to one controller. It would be much easier and less messy to hit my delay-assigned footswitch and get delay coming through both cabs instead of one. Is this doable? Could I potentially do it by just getting a Y-split Ethernet Cable and plugging each receiving end into each Pod, or can I physically connect both Pods to eachother so that the second Pod mimics the first? I know it's a super-weird question but I would really appreciate any advice on the subject. Thank you!