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Yes, I understood, sorry if I didnt get that through in my message. I ment that I had read the part of your post containing the "fixes" for altered sound when changing the volumeknob on the guitar, and that it seemed not to be an easy fix, and that the, to my ears, best fix for a guitar like my Charvel, is to lower the gain in the presets. Id rather do that than changing the volume on the guitar, was what i ment. Didnt have time to try with the expression switch today, but maybe tomorrow.

Yes, even though I have just started using the pod, I have already understood that I will create my own presets, but maybe with a preset as base for an own; they are useful for that perhaps. I guess I will end up with maybe 8 own presets, in two gain versions for the different guitars. But a theoretical question that comes to mind after having started to understand a lot more after all the great replies in this thread: is there actually any way to lower the output signal from a "hot" guitar as my Charvel, or raise the signal from a to "weak" guitar without changing the preset as it was "intended" to sound by in this example Line 6? I understand that how it was intended to sound or what every preset "should sound like" is subjective, but there is probably a "base-guitar" maybe with 5db output that have been used as a baseline when they made the presets. Not my Charvel at least, is what I believe..:) I understand grdGo33 that there is no quick-fix for lowering the volume without changing the tone, and after only had time to fiddle with the controls for a short time, seems to me that changing the gain in a preset sounds least altering of the sound, and pretty simple to, to save in an own correct-gain preset, though that also changes the sound..

Ok, I understand what you mean. I also saw in the manual that the volumepedal can change, stereo width, gain and pan. Will try it when I get home. But I think it will be easier if I use one guitar to change the presets, but if I want to use different guitars either the volumepedal or lower the volume of the Charvel when I use that, and max volume on the fender-copy when I use that.

No the volume pedal suggestion wouldnt work, its before that I have to change the signal so to say. I tried several presets yesterday and since they variate so much I dont think its possible to use a global -5db gain for exampel had it existed; som presets are ok with the Charvel, some are really bad. I ended up changing gain in the amp-part of the presets that are to high that I want to use. I dont think I will use my Texas much. Because of that the problem is sort of solved, but otherwise I would have to have two exactly the same presets with different gain levels, one for the Texas and one for the Charvel. Or dont change the presets at all and turn the volumeknob down when I play the Charvel. Though I think changing the gain in the amp-part didnt change the balance of the sound as lowering the volumeknob did, though that might be subjective, might be me imagining things :) Thanks for all replies!

Thanks for the tip. Might try that with the eq-block actually, once I have had time to learn and see what works best. But do I have to place the eq block in the beginning of the chain in that case? Can get the same result using the global eq, or wouldnt that work? Have tried but only real quick.

Thanks for the explanation! After having been to a guitarshop today, I had gotten to know it was normal. But I didnt know how it worked, as you described so well with the db example. A little annoying though to have to set lower gain on most amps in the presets I will use or lower the volumeknob to a non distorted level everytime I will use the pod, but now at least I know how I shall tackle the problem and that there is nothing wrong with any part of my gear! Even distorted presets sounds unnatural, "to distorted" so I will have to change the gain on them to. Just a thought, couldnt the product maker, for example Line 6, make a few different "input gain profiles" so for exampel the "Charvel preset" got a -5db cut and a "Fender preset" a +1 db for exampel? Wouldnt have to be modelspecific of course; a Gibson owner could use a "fender" preset or any other. In my case I would probably end up using a preset with for example -5db. Sure, it wouldnt be needed for all presets, but for the majority, and the remaining I would manually add gain. Well just a thought, and maybe it isnt even possible to do. But sounds good in theory to me.

Thanks voxman55. Yes my guitar has seymor duncan pickups and seems to be very high output. The video sort of explains the problem but doesnt really solve it, without me lowering the volumeknob on the guitar. The pad makes it more subdued but its still there unless I lower the volume on my guitar. Now, the overdrive and gainblocks changes he also illustrated might also help, but then I would have to change that for every preset I want to use, which sounds like to much work.. Two remaining things. Is it possible through some guitar repair shop to ask them to replace some part after the pickups to lower the output? And/or is it possible to add some global setting in the pod go to lower the gain on all presets without changing the tone much. I have tried changing the global eq but that didnt help.

Hi, I just bought the pod go and have tried it with both my Yamaha mixer, and directly through the headphone-jack without the mixer and have the same problem: if I use my Charvel Pro-Mod Joe Duplantier Signature I get a distorted clean signal if I choose one of the clean presets, no matter which one (though the distortion level varies..). If I use my Texas Fender-copy, I dont. I get a clean sound as it should be. If I lower the volume on the Charvel to about middle, it becomes much better. It doesnt matter if I lower the volume knob on the pod go. The distorted sound is still there, just lower, of course. The Charvel has much more bass in the tone then the Texas, but it doesnt help if I through default setting in the pod go change the values for low-signal, of change an EQ. BUT if I connect the Charvel straight to the mixer without the pod go, there is no distortion. Levels are ok both with the pod go and without it (straight to the mixer..). So the problem seems to be how the pod go handles the signal from the Charvel, as far as I can understand. Cant the pod go "handle" the more "punchy, bassy" signal from my Charvel? Have anyone an idea why I have this problem, or have anyone had similar issues? Answers greatly appreciated... Regards Fredrik, Sweden, please excuse my english..