phil_m

The effects on the HD are generally better quality than the X3, yes. Especially the delays and reverbs.

You can't have multiple output modes for the different outputs on the HD500 or 500X. The one thing you can do, though, is use the effects send as an output for your acoustic. If you put the effects loop at the end of your preset, the tone correction associated with the combo front mode won't effect the effects send. The one downside it that you'll need to use a direct box if you do this opposed to just having the XLR out on the X3L. The other thing that may or may not be an issue it that it ties up your effects loop so you'll won't be able to use it in other presets.

The volume effect on the M9 behaves the same way as the Digitech pedal. It won't give you a volume boost. It only cuts. But like I said, there are other ways to get a clean boost on the M9. Whether or not the boost actually boosts the volume of your amp while in the loop, I would think it should work.

Actually, there's 24 scenes in 4 folders. You can access any of the six scenes within a folder by hitting the footswitch that scene is assigned to when you are in scene select view. To get to the other folders, you turn the model select knob while in scene select view. The scenes really are more like presets. Within in each scene you can have six effects, three of which you can use simultaneously. You could set up an effect to be a clean boost. One of the EQs or compressors could work for that.

Nothing really replaced the UX8. Line 6 hasn't made another interface with as many inputs as that. Technically the HD Pro replaced the X3 Pro, but there's no backward compatibility between the HD series and any of Line 6's previous stuff. It's a whole new platform.

Nope... They're totally different platforms. There is some overlap in the sense that as far as effects and amps are concerned, there are some of the things modeled. But the way they are different generations of modeling. So you can't take a preset from POD Farm and load it on the HD Pro, for example.

If the volume drop issue is actually more sporadic, than knob jitter could very well be the problem. I'd try parking the knobs and see if that helps. You shouldn't have to resort to taping them, though. If you park them at the max position, it takes a little more movement for them to actually start changing parameters than it does if they're just somewhere in the middle. And, yes, by reinstalling the firmware I was meaning re-doing the update through Monkey. But I would only do that if parking the knobs didn't work.

The asterisk appearing is per design. Whenever you switch and effect on or off within a preset, the preset has been altered from its saved stated, so the asterisk will appear. As far as the volume thing, that's pretty weird. The suggestion above regarding the volume knobs moving could be a possibility, but it seems unlikely to me given that what you're experiencing seems to be so consistent. I really don't know what could be causing what you're experiencing. I can see a change in volume because of effects being turned on or off, but things should go back when you hit the switch again. I guess the first thing I would try is reinstalling the firmware and doing the global settings reset.

Sounds like a plan... :D The other variable in all of this, though, is volume. It's good that you can use the same monitors that your band uses when you're setting up your patches, but you probably aren't doing it at the same volume. This is where the Fletcher Munson effect comes. Essentially, our ears don't hear bass and treble as well at low volumes as they do at high volumes. This could be at least part of the reason why patches you create at home sound harsher in a live situation.

My only suggestion is that I've found that you can't really depend totally on the floor monitor for knowing what you're FOH tones will sound like. If possible, you need to try to go out and hear the FOH tone. I think floor monitors can sound overly harsh sometimes because of the tweeters and the performer's proximity to them. That was my experience when I used to play direct with a large sound system. I often thought my tone on stage wasn't the best, but then I'd run out in front of the stage, and it sounded awesome. When we switched to in-ears, I rarely had the experience of thinking my tone was overly harsh then.

On the delay that you have set to the dotted 1/8th, you'd want a relatively high mix and low feedback (I'm assuming you're after something like the classic Edge-like dotted eight sound). By relatively high for the mix, I mean around 55-60%. You essentially want the repeats almost the same volume as the dry signal. You don't want the repeats to hang along for long, though, so you probably don't want the feedback more than 30%. I like the digital delay with modulation for this delay. For the quarter note delay, you'd want it almost the opposite - low mix and higher feedback. I'd say try the mix at 30% to start with. Than the feedback you can adjust to taste.

You got two Workbench interfaces with each of your guitars? That's weird... That isn't how they normally ship. There should only be one. You could actually do the update through your X3L as well.

It just attenuates the input. It's probably about a 6db drop or so to the input level.

The JCM800 is a single channel amp. It has two inputs labeled high and low. The only difference between the two inputs is that the low input will attenuate the signal from the guitar going into the amp. This is the same thing that pad switch does on the HD500.

When you did the firmware update, did you do the global settings reset? If not, that is most likely the root of your problem. You can still try to do it as described here: http://line6.com/support/docs/DOC-2222 If the global reset doesn't work can try a safe mode reset. Hold down the left down key on the directional keypad and power up the pod. Connect the USB cable and use Line 6 Monkey to flash-update the firmware on the POD.

It wouldn't be modeling in the amp model itself, but the pad switch on the HD500's input does essentially the same thing.

No, it doesn't. The only way to charge the battery is with the charger.

Kind of... In terms of effects and complexity of signal chain, you can actually have more simultaneous effects and more complicated signal chains with the Hd500 than you can with the M13. However, the M13's form factor is very convenient to use. There's really no other multi-fx unit I've found that is as easy to use. That's probably why it's been on my board for nearly 5 years now. I do have the HD500 as well, but I love my M13 for playing live.

Well, what do you know? At least they're showing some foresight. I still don't like it... :P

I suppose that's true to a large extent. I've always been surprised at how many people I see who buy multi-fx units or modelers and never use anything on them besides the factory presets. I've actually known people that have them who would never even go online to download tones. Personally, I don't enjoy tweaking for hours, but I also don't have much of interest in trying to sound exactly like other players. I like to know how to get in the ballpark, but other than that, I'm fine if I don't match the tone exactly of the original recording. Good point, I suppose. The one reason I mentioned earlier about having effects on the guitar being sort of silly is that it just seems like it would be totally awkward to try and change effects on the fly while playing live. The reason floor-based pedals became the standard for guitar effects is that it is relatively easy to hit a switch to turn an effect on or off while playing compared to having to do something with your hands.

The X3L doesn't have looping capabilities itself. So if you're wanting to get a looping pedal, you could choose to put it a few places in the chain - in front, in the effects loop, or at the end. It really depends on how you want to use it.

You won't hear audio through your PC's speakers when you connect the HD500. The HD500 becomes your system's soundcard when you connect with USB. So if you want to hear the audio you either need to connect headphones to the HD500 or connect your speakers to the HD500's output(s) in some way.

Actually, if there was a fund to donate to that would go towards that cause, I might donate... I mean I didn't watch the whole thing, but at no part that I did watch was the guy actually in tune. Shameful, really... The guitar itself can't be to blame for having someone who doesn't know what he's doing playing it.

Yeah, what Zap said... By "models" I was referring to the digital models within the Variax itself. They are all going to be upgraded to HD models with the 2.0 update. So if you have a JTV at the present, the update will give you access to the new models through a free firmware upgrade.

Ok, I get it now... Well, I think the issue is that when you turn on the delay on the one side of the tone, since it's mix is at 100%, that means there's no dry signal present there, so the dry signal which before consisted of the signal going through path 1 and 2 now only consists of the signal going through path 2. So you're probably hearing about a 3db drop. The one thing I can think of that you could do to compensate is to put something like a compressor or EQ to give you a boost to make up the difference in the dry path and assign it to the same footswitch as the delay.