joel_brown

It's just an optional EQ that effects the output of the PODHD, regardless of what preset is being used. You don't have to turn GEQ on if you don't want to.

Nope. No MIDI support in the PODHD Desktop.

If I had to make-up something with no facts whatsoever, I'd say Line6 lost more customers because of the Dual input issues than it gained from it. If it was me, I'd put in an "Off" setting for input 2 and make it the default in the next firmware release. The famous line from Dr. Phil: "What were you thinking ?". Just like the EQ interface. "What were you thinking ?" And some way to check levels at various points in the chain. How many times has that question been asked and answered. Don't get me wrong, I really like the PODHD and all it can do. It's just damn frustrating when you first get it. Thankfully we have this forum and a ton of great people answering the same questions over and over.

Even though I've always built a tone from scratch on everything I've bought, the PODHD was the first one that through me for a loop with the damn Input 1 and Input 2 doubling up and causing problems. I damn near got rid of it until someone on this forum told me to turn off Input 2. After that it was a lot easier to dial in.

Old school way of checking volume level: 1) Yell really loud about 3 feet away from your amp/cab. If you can barely hear it then that's the correct volume.

Computers run Nuclear power plants. They should be able to handle a click track and a few midi commands - sheeeesh. Some of you guys are so paranoid. Everything is a computer today.

As a part time sound guy, I know our snake doesn't have 1/4 inputs, only XLR. It could be something as simple as that. We always bring 1/4 to XLR adapters but they're not always as reliable as a DI.

I never liked analogue pedals much because they were so noisy, broke easily, expensive, and a bunch of other reasons. Yes the right combination with the right amp and guitar sounded really great. Now I use the PODHD as a Digital Pre-amp and it's Digital effects to build my chain and plug it into my Marshall amps. No noise, no mess, very reliable, and I can't tell the difference between this and analogue pedals. Nobody listening can either... Also the PODHD taught me a lot about different combinations of FX and different ways to connect them in the chain that would have taken me even more years and thousands more dollars to do the old school way. btw - I'm an old school, over 50, guitarist. But I like technology when it does what it should.

You can run EL34s or 6L6s, you just need to set the bias correctly. When I first starting doing this I thought the hotter the bias the better the tone, but for me it was the other way around. I guess what I'm saying is, don't go into this with any pre-conceived ideas. You may find that what you think should work doesn't. btw - I tried JJ tubes also. They were the only tubes I ever threw in the trash can - without hesitation. Lots of people rave about them so they must work in something other than what I have. Here's some useful links: http://www.srs-webstore.com/pages/biastool.html - Great bias tool http://www.dougstubes.com/ - Great place to get tubes and very helpful in selecting them http://www.thetubestore.com/ - Good tube place too and lots of good information

Here's another suggestion. Tubes and Bias. I use a pair of Marshall JCM900 amps and only use the power section for my PODHD. I've found that the type of tubes and the bias settings for those tubes has a significant impact on the tone. I've used Mesa tubes and didn't like them. I thought they were too harsh and the tone was somewhat flat and unresponsive. I also used Ruby tubes and they were ok but not what I really wanted either. I found that the LS Groove tubes sounded the best when biased slightly on the cold side. The M's are ok and never get the R's. This is what worked in a Marshall amp for what I was looking for so what you may need could be completely opposite. But tubes and bias make a difference. It's not hard to do and I'd help you with Bias charts and where to find the tools you need and how to do it. The main thing is - be careful and don't shock the crap out of yourself. Even though it's very easy to do there is a rick of injury and death when working with high voltages. Gott'a have a disclaimer...

If it was me, I wouldn't change a thing. Atleast wait and install the new firmware when it comes out and maybe tweak the tone with the new Global EQ. The only thing I'd suggest is try running a second cab since you have a stereo power amp and play with some stereo widening type effects.

Just tap your foot.

If modelling managed to replace analog completely, it would be like Syndrome said; "...'everyone' can have powers. 'Everyone' can be super! And when everyone is super...'no one' will be." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. We can't let everyone sound good then nobody will sound good. Besides no matter how good your tone is, you still have to be able to play. Last I checked the PODHD doesn't have a parameter for making me play better.

Wow that sidsimo person was acting like a complete lollipop. It's ok to be a little bit of an lollipop but never go complete lollipop.

Hehe, he's got a point. If you tried to replicate a PODHD with analogue equipment you'd have to bring a truck load of different amps and effects to your gigs.

I think it says it all when we, as guitar players, struggle to hear the differences. We are closer than you think...

Hmmm, this puts Fractal AXE in the affordable range - barely. It's a lot better priced than their normal $3000+ price tag plus almost another grand for a pedal board. My price point is under $1000. I'll be on the fence.

I agree and disagree with the feel and response thing. I've played straight into amps, without the PODHD or anything, that felt terrible and other amps that felt great. The PODHD straight into a mixer feels a little flat for me but not bad, could just be the tone I created. Into the right amp and speakers it feels very responsive and dynamic to me.

Maybe I'm just not as picky, but I don't tweak anything from Basement to Gig to Recording or even when I switch guitars. I did spend a year getting my tone the way I wanted it and I never change amps and speakers.

A very brief summary of how code can be optimized. When I say brief, this is barely the tip of the iceburg. But this is how they may have got the ~4% more available DSP. Actually what they got was their code to be ~4% more efficient. In general, savings can be made by trading off memory for speed. If you can cache any often used data rather than recalculating or reloading it, it will help. Examples of this would be sine/cosine tables, or tables of pseudo-random numbers (calculate 1000 once at the start, and just reuse them if you don't need truly random numbers). Avoid using ++ and -- etc. within loop expressions. E.g.: while(n--){}, as this can sometimes be harder to optimize. Minimize the use of global variables. Declare anything within a file (external to functions) as static, unless it is intended to be global. Use word-size variables if you can, as the machine can work with these better (instead of char, short, double, bit fields etc.). Don't use recursion. Recursion can be very elegant and neat, but creates many more function calls which can become a large overhead. Avoid the sqrt() square root function in loops - calculating square roots is very CPU intensive. Single dimension arrays are faster than multi-dimension arrays. Compilers can often optimize a whole file - avoid splitting off closely related functions into separate files, the compiler will do better if it can see both of them together (it might be able to inline the code, for example). Single precision math may be faster than double precision - there is often a compiler switch for this. Floating point multiplication is often faster than division - use val * 0.5 instead of val / 2.0. Addition is quicker than multiplication - use val + val + val instead of val * 3. puts() is quicker than printf(), although less flexible. Use #defined macros instead of commonly used tiny functions - sometimes the bulk of CPU usage can be tracked down to a small external function being called thousands of times in a tight loop. Replacing it with a macro to perform the same job will remove the overhead of all those function calls, and allow the compiler to be more aggressive in its optimization.. Binary/unformatted file access is faster than formatted access, as the machine does not have to convert between human-readable ASCII and machine-readable binary. If you don't actually need to read the data in a file yourself, consider making it a binary file. If your library supports the mallopt() function (for controlling malloc), use it. The MAXFAST setting can make significant improvements to code that does a lot of malloc work. If a particular structure is created/destroyed many times a second, try setting the mallopt options to work best with that size.

This is an easy question. Yes digital modelers will replace analogue amps. When was the last time you bought music on a vinyl record versus CD or MP3 ? There's still people out there that say how much better music sounds on a record versus digital, just not near as many. This will eventually happen to guitar amps.

I use a tube power amp into a 4x12 cab. Here's my hi gain tone. See if it does anything for you. I have it set to Studio Direct on the PODHD. www.ChildrenOfTheGraveBand.com/BlackSabbath.hbe You may have to change the file extension to work with an HD500 or HD500x.

Hey pianoguy, I thought I was the only one that thought this about the older Jacksons. That's all I play too. I've played Les Pauls, Strats, Teles, SGs, PRS, about everything I can think of. I still like my old Jacksons the most. Just something about the string spacing, jumbo frets, and neck that feels more comfortable to me.

Sabbath made heavy metal with real amps and nothing digital but they also had lots of different tones on their recordings too. Kind'a makes me wonder if they did that on purpose or just couldn't dial in their tones the same from year to year. I play in a Sabbath tribute band and basically use the tone they had on their Paranoid album. But what we're trying to do with digital modelers is to make it sound like the real thing. I guess when you have the real thing to start with, you don't need a modeler. If I had rodies to lug my stuff around, I wouldn't need a modeler... hehe

When using the EPSI Logidy for External IRs, make very sure you don't overdrive it. It gives no visible indication but it's apparently easy to do.