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You can turn the tap tempo LED off it you want. The option to do so is on page 2 of the setup menu. I was only saying that hearing a noise associated it with it isn't necessarily expected behavior.

Hearing a noise from the tap tempo isn't really normal. I suspect that it might have something to with a ground loop and the 4CM. Do you have the amp and the HD500 plugged in the same power strip? As far as the noise gate, the noise gate is simply an effect that can be put in any effect block. It will remain active as long as its turned on. It doesn't matter if you have the amp model on or not.

What are you basing this on? The comments here? I'd say like any electronic item, there will be issues with some of them. I don't think overall the JTVs are unreliable. Mine has certainly been rock solid since getting it. It's my main gigging guitar at the moment. To me, when you look up the reliability of a product on the internet is always going to be hard to judge what the reality is. Because what you're dealing with is simply a bunch of anecdotal information most of the time. If you've ever looked up any info on cars online, you'd come away with the impression that all cars being made suck in one way or another. Invariably, no matter what model it is, there's always someone saying, "don't buy this! I have one and look what happened to me..." Then there's other people who say, "I've owned mine for 5 years, and have never had any issues." It's the same here. All I can say is that if there are legitimate manufacturing issues in electronic items they tend to show relatively early in their life. And Line 6 will honor their warranty. In my experience they go out of their way to make things right.

The musicians I hang out with don't talk about EQ at all... Not trying to be facetious. They really don't. I've had things where I've said stuff to sound guys, but it never goes beyond, "bring some of the upper mids up in that acoustic guitar channel"... I'm not trying to minimize the issue, but I just think these issues are only issues if the certain thing matters to you. I never use EQ. I generally don't like what it does to my guitar tone. I understand the frustration if it's a bedrock effect to you, though. I just don't think it is for most guitarists, though.

It seems like people have been saying the next new great thing from Digitech is a few weeks out for the last few years now... It's like the singularity. We're always 20 years away from it. :P

Well, it would be worth checking out, imo. The age of the cable doesn't necessarily matter. Solder joints can go bad at any time. It does happen. Does the DT25 sound OK if you plug directly into using a 1/4" connection?

I believe the manual has some old information that pertained to a previous firmware version of the HD500. The setlists that came loaded on your HD500X are correct. You're not missing anything. If you want to use some of those setlists for your own patches, you can overwrite what's there and rename the setlists.

Perhaps the cable you're using for the L6 Link connection is faulty?

The thing that's a bit difficult about the Variax is that it is tech-based product, but it's also a guitar. So guitarists aren't really used to thinking about guitars about something they'll use for a period of time and then have to replace. Most electric guitars can be easily repaired because they're based on simple circuits, and they're using components you can find about anywhere. The Variax is always going to be different. It's a bit more like a car or a computer. Even if you maintain a car or computer properly, it isn't going to last forever. There will come a time when spare parts won't be readily available. I don't know what the acceptable period is for that with a Variax. I suspect Line 6 plans to support them for quite a while, though.

What are you using the FBV with? The presets themselves aren't saved on the shortboard. They're saved on the device you're controlling. The LBV Control program doesn't really have anything to do with the things you mention here. Its purpose is to set up the FBV as MIDI controller.

You can actually use Line 6 Monkey to update the M9. I'd try doing it that way first before doing it manually. Do download and install the latest version of Monkey here: http://line6.com/software/?submit=Show&name=Line+6+Monkey, hook up your M9 to your MIDI interface, start Monkey, and the M9 should be detected. Once you get into the program, doing the update is just a matter of following the prompts.

It feels like a real guitar 'cause it is a real guitar! Really, it is!

Yes... There's a couple of ways you can do it now with the 2.0 firmware and Workbench HD. If you want to save a blended model on the guitar itself, you can add the signal from the magnetic pickups into the model. With this method, though, you're still left with a blended signal coming out of the guitar. The other thing you can do is set up a dual tone in the HD500 and have the input for one be the Variax model and for the other one be the magnetics. With this, you could blend the two signal per your preference in real time.

First, it shouldn't take hours for the update to go through. It should take less than 10 minutes - probably closer to 5. It's been a while since I've done it, but it's relatively fast. You'll see right away on the one LCD screen whether or no the update is going through or not. The first thing to try if you haven't yet is to remove the cable going from the interface's IN to the M13's OUT. You really only need the cable going from the interface's OUT to the M13's IN to do the update.

The looper time can be extended to 48 seconds if you hit the half speed switch prior to recording your loop.

Do you have the manual? http://line6.com/data/6/0a060b316ac34f059350decca/application/pdf/Flextone%20II%20User%20Manual%20-%20English%20.pdf

I deleted your last post because I had realized me mistake in reading your post, and had already deleted my previous comment. Actually deleted it like 15 or 20 minutes ago. I'm not sure how you were able to quote it... Perhaps from the email notification.

Yeah, but you can't put effects before and after the amp when you do this. If you have effects after the amp model in the tone, all the effects will just be in front of whatever amp model you have in the B channel on the DT25. There's not two-way audio communication over L6 Link.

Well, you have the equivalent of the 4 cable method while using L6 Link and using just the DT25's amp modeling. If you use the HD500 pre models, you can certainly have what amounts to the same thing, though. Have you actually tried making your tones with the pre models on the HD500? Are you sure the DSP limit is an issue? The pre models are actually quite a bit less DSP intensive than the full models.

I don't know what the average lifespan is, but I've had two for over 10 years now that still work fine. I suspect that if you're pedals aren't working the M13, you don't have the M13 set up correctly. You need to go into the scene setup screens and assign the pedals to the effects blocks you want controlled. You have to do this for every scene. It's not quite as plug and play as the 4-button stomps. I don't know what the plans are officially, but I don't expect further updates for the M13. I think at this point, it's simply an established product. If anything, I would think Line 6 would come out with some new hardware. But I don't know... It's been quite a long time since there's been any development with the M13's firmware. It would be very unusual for Line 6 to start it back it back up again.

Yeah, that's true. You can only use one output mode at a time. You could try setting up a dual tone where the amp model in the one tone has the cab turned off while the other one uses the full amp model. That is a bit more complicated, though. And depending on the amp models and effects you're using, you may run into the DSP limit too quickly for it to be useful for you.

Well, if you want to record via USB and use the looper pedal, the only option (at least easy option) is really putting the looper in front of the X3. However, if you're a little more adventurous, you could use the looper in a post position if you take advantage of the dual tones in the X3. You'd have to set up a dual tone where one tone is panned left and the other right. Take the output from the one tone into the looper, and then go from the looper into the Aux in on the POD. You could just turn everything off in the second tone if you want. Then you could still record via USB and have the looper after the first tone.

Yes, I'm certain... In LVM, the power amp and cab modeling is turned on in the DT25 itself... I guess I should clarify is that nothing in the POD is changed when you switch the DT25 to LVM. It's just that the amp model is "filled out" in a way in the DT25 itself when you switch to LVM.

I always find that in discussions about tuners the terms accuracy and precision are often misused. The tuner on the PODs is accurate, it's just not as precise as some more expensive tuners. What I mean is that if you played a tone - a high E, for example, the HD500 would accurately identify that note. And if you were off a little, it would tell you that, too. What it won't be able to as well is tell you when you're off by just a cent or two. That's a matter of precision, not accuracy. Accuracy has to with how good a device is a giving you a correct measurement. Precision has to do with how small the units of measurements if can do that in is. http://www.mathsisfun.com/accuracy-precision.html

Not to butt in the conversation, but the DT25 in LVM is still very different than something like a small PA. The speaker in the DT25 is still a guitar speaker - it isn't full range by any means. There's no tweeter, so it's really quite different. I have found that even in LVM, the DT25 sounds best when you can turn it up a little bit. I guess what I mean by that is that it sounds best to me when it's above normal conversation level. If you want to play at a volume lower than that, you might be better off simply using headphones are some other small speaker system.