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There aren't but it seems to me that there is a lot more headroom in this than my HD500. A commercial IR block for instance comes in at 18dB or so higher than than one of the Line 6 cabs. Even with that, there was no clipping. The nice thing is that every block has an independent level control so it's easy to keep unity gain through the whole chain.

Well, a lot of people probably will. Beyond that, though, it makes it super fast to assign effects to footswitches or to navigate to an effect in a preset. If you touch the switch, you'll go to the edit screen for that effect. If you keep your finger or toe on the switch for a few seconds, it asks if you want to assign the effect that's currently being edited to that switch. This makes it real fast to set up patches. This is probably the most intuitive and fastest UI I've seen on a multi-fx device. Also, if you don't like the capacitive touch feature, it can be turned off.

There are still Pre models, and I imagine there will be recommendations as to what sounds best. But the coolest thing about the DT interaction with the HD series, imo, is the ability to mix and match. I love using the Class A setting with the Fender amps, for example.

Well, if you're talking about some sort of normalization for the volumes across patches, no. But every effect, amp, and can block has a level parameter. So there are literally probably more than a dozen ways to tweak the volume of a preset when you're in it. It's very intuitive to use and set up that tweaking volumes is a breeze.

Except this blows the AX8 out of the water from a feature standpoint.

It's amazing - that's what it is. Go here: http://line6.com/helix/

OK, I still don't understand what you're asking. What information are you looking for?

I have no idea what you're actually asking about. Can you link to the part of the guide you're referring to?

None of the amps are real... They all exist only in your mind.

We had an outdoor gig today for which we had to provide the PA. I have two powered wedges, but I thought it would be nice for the drummer to have his own monitor, so naturally I used my Amplifi 150. I originally thought of just using the Aux in, but I decided to create a tone using just the Tube Preamp model with everything else turned off. It worked great. He could control the EQ as well as the overall volume.

You'd have to use a separate USB to MIDI device to do what you want to do.

This is correct. There's no MIDI over USB functionality, in or out.

There is a lot of misunderstanding and confusion surrounding what buffers actually do. All a buffer is a circuit that makes it so that whatever is happening at the input is exactly the same at the output. Theoretically, a well-designed buffer should be more transparent than a true bypass pedal. The HD500X is using some sort of buffer circuit, so it really shouldn't make a huge difference where you put the pedal in the chain as far as tone loss. Using the HD500X's effects loop can introduce a small volume drop if you aren't careful in how you set it up. The HD's input Z setting is simply changing the impedance of its guitar input. It doesn't affect the impedance of the guitar - that's whatever your pickups are. It does affect how your pickups interact with the HD's input, though. So putting a pedal in between your guitar and the input would mean that you would lose that interaction. The impedance difference would be between the pedal's output and the 500X's input.

If you do hit the 10 authorization limit, just contact Line 6 support, and they can help you out. They are not dogmatic about it.

I just tried it on my iPhone 5S, and I can't change the BPM manually either.

Well, it appears that this is the first you've posted here since they switched the forums over. Everyone had to go through the same approval process when they made the switch even if they posted on the old forums. I don't remember exactly when they changed it. It's been over a year, I think.

The vetting procedure is simply to filter out possible spam accounts. Before Line 6 moved the forums to this platform, the old forums were being overrun with spam. The number of post that get deleted here that aren't spam is very, very small. You basically have to be outright vulgar or insulting in order for a post to be deleted. No one deletes post simply for being critical of the company or products.

They're full models, so for all intents and purposes, they do include power amp modeling. They were created using a different modeling platform, and I imagine a different modeling protocol, so my guess is they just don't have the data needed to make the DEP controls meaningful. Again, most of these amps are "virtual" to begin, so it's not like they could even go and re-shoot them.

Oh, I see now, yeah, I misread that. You're right. For the XT/X3 models that were ported over, there are no DEP controls as edstar1960 noted. Many of these models are Line 6 originals, so there was no real amp to actually model, thus, not really anything to based the DEP stuff off of.

Nope, they are the preamps only. They were designed for use with the DT amps, so the real tube power amp section would provide the power section.

I can't find if officially documented anywhere for the POD 2.0, but the typical impedance for guitar inputs on Line 6 devices is 1 MOhm.

Holy cow! That site is a hoot. It's like 1996 all over again with that page design. It's hilarious that, one, he thinks he's going to convince people by insulting them, and, two, he thinks that he's right and everyone is wrong. It reminds of the people you occasionally hear about who say that Einstein was inherently mistaken. Usually it's people who have never even taken a college-level Physics class.

I'd say the more you can put what you know into practice, the more you can do. The way jazz has evolved is pretty interesting. It started as music of the lower classes in some ways, but it's slowly been moved into the realm of high culture. That's not to say that some of the early pioneers of jazz weren't highly educated - many of them were. But I think there was always an ethos of it being a genre that was open and inviting to all. I think telling someone that they have to play for years and years before having the hope of playing with "real" musicians is counter-productive. I like Victor Wooten's analogy comparing music to a language. When little kids are learning a language, no one expects them to speak perfectly. Mistakes are expected, even encouraged. Also, the more they can interact with adult speakers, the better. That's how they learn. So I think encouraging students to sit in with groups beyond their skill level can be a great thing. I know it was a big part of how I learned to play. I was forced to learn just so I could interact with those around me.

So you just need the installation files? Those are available for download at this link: http://line6.com/software/ Just leave "-All Products-" in the first field and select POD Farm 2 in the second field. It will give you the link to download the setup files.

Did you use the License Manager application? It sounds like you need to authorize your second computer.