Hi!
just curious...
is someone else playing the pod hd just with the pedal simulations? One day, fiddling with amp settings - digging deep with the meambobo guide - I disabled the amp by accident - and there it was - the killer warm sound full of life with just the tube drive and the mid focus eq (for the fizz) comming out of the attached active monitors. Ever since then I'm using the tube drive or the line 6 distortion as the main "amp" . E.g. two tube drives in a row gives a very distinctive warm but heavy distortion.
My days of tweaking these ridiculous lifeless default amp settings of the pod hd are over.