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good tips, again, spaceatl. I've already purchased the same AVR you have, and it should be arriving in a few days. I'm going to use it just for the PODhd and possibly my laptop if I'm using it. I'll try recalling the patch next time this happens. Unfortunately (or not), most of my shows are solo with me playing to Ableton backing tracks, so no drums to shake the stage. Or bass. (Actually, I'm the bass player when this happens; at all other times I'm playing guitar). If changing the patch doesn't do it, then a quick reboot is the next thing to try. I need to get to the bottom of this so I can put a fix in place. It's not much fun performing with a piece of equipment that is know to let me down, obviously.

I unplug the POD guitar cable and go straight into the amp - always different amps at different locations - and am back up and running every time. So it's not the amps. And I have a rotating cast of cables, so it's not the cables, either. Plugging in headphones in the middle of a song isn't going to happen. I will quickly turn the volume knob next time this happens, as this has been suggested to be a possible problem. Perhaps re-power the unit itself.

thanks for the tip, spaceatl. I'll look into grabbing an AVR. Another 9 lbs of gear to lug. Oh well.

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1/4 out to amp I agree that it isn't using much power itself, but I could see that a significant voltage drop might mess with the electronics inside the HD500X. But if others aren't experiencing the same problem, then I'm not so sure. Certainly, there will be plenty of people using theirs in the same way and on suspect electric circuits.

My HD500X is totally reliable if I'm using it in my studio, or playing solo shows. But when I get a full band behind me in a live setting, it has cut out on a number of occasions. (Edit: after reading some posts here, I can't be sure it's not the volume going down to zero, The unit stays powered on, but I'm not getting any output from it. My goal is always to get my guitar back in the mix as quickly as possible, so I haven't done anything onstage other than plugging in to an amp directly. Next time, I'll look at the settings before going direct.) Because it's so reliable elsewhere, I'm thinking it's a power supply issue. The kind of clubs I've been playing with it are the ones that might have one circuit powering the entire stage, so I can see that when we all get thrashing away up there, the load on the circuit might be causing a voltage drop causing the HD500X to shut down. Has anyone else experienced this? Am I barking up the wrong tree and perhaps the unit is defective? (I don't think it is, though, because I leave it on in my studio for days at a time without problems.) What should I try as a solution? Variac? UPS? Any help appreciated.