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phil_m

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  1. What competitors? If I had to venture to guess, I'd imagine they're still outselling all their competitors. Perhaps no one has noticed, but most of the mainstream companies seem to have moved on from investing a lot of R&D and money into amp modeling. Sure there are companies like Fractal and Kemper that do their thing, and there are people who are interested in that, but I think right now amp modeling in and of itself is almost sort of a dirty word to the mainstream guitar market. I think that's why Line 6 paired the HD stuff with the DT amps - a tube amp. Tube amps haven't really decreased in popularity in the last 10 year. If anything, that segment of the market has grown. There are so many low wattage tube amps on the market compared to 10 years ago, it's crazy. I just think the reason you don't see the same sort of hype around amp modeling in the overall market is that what guitarists want is different now.
  2. Actually, it's been out since 2010. It was announced in September 2010, and was available for purchase almost right away. I got mine in October 2010. So it's been almost three years, which if you consider the typical life-cycle of electronics, that's getting up there. I actually think that the HD stuff has probably been a pretty solid release for Line 6. It has been nearly bug-free from the start. There have been a few minor things, butt overall, it seems like a stable platform for them. I think the release of the HD500X actually probably points to that. I do hope that with the additional horsepower available now that they use that as a launching pad for some new software changes.
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    Hd500x?

    Are you talking about this picture? Looks like 8 effect blocks to me... Are you sure you weren't counting the looper. I actually wish they did have more effects blocks, too. Perhaps that's something that can be added now that there's more processing power.
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    Hd500x?

    Actually, it's probably more analogous to upgrading the chipset in a computer - going from an i3 to and i7 or something like that. The DSP portion of it is an upgrade of raw processing power.
  5. How does an effect actually become outdated? The Edge still uses the Korg SDD-3000 delays in his rack, and those were originally released in 1983. There are of the core effects in the M-series that I think are really good. It would be nice to see some additions, I suppose.
  6. Is it possible the battery in your guitar needs changed?
  7. So are you experiencing latency through your sound system? I find it kind of hard to believe that the latency through your receiver would be noticeable even though you are going through extra A/D and D/A conversions. I suppose it is possible that your receiver introduces noticeable latency. If that's the case, I'm not sure what the best route is. Does your receiver have some sort of digital effect component that you can turn off?
  8. Nope, no problem. Just do whatever you think sounds best.
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    Hd500x?

    The problem with turning the looper block on and off is that the way that it's set up is that it exists outside of the preset. So even if there was some way you could turn it off globally to free up DSP resources, it could cause problems with presets that were near the DSP limit when it was turned back on. I actually would be surprised if the looper used much in the way of DSP resources, though. It's not really doing anything that would be processor intensive.
  10. Some people have used the M13 along with the RJM Amp Gizmo to change channels on their amps. Some other amps with MIDI inputs have a "learn" feature that allow you to set what PC message change channels on the amp. I don't know enough about the 5150 to say for sure.
  11. +1 to what Octo777 said... I can't imagine Line 6 intended for the speakers to be left in the bag while in use.
  12. Well, if the charger LED wasn't flashing when you removed the battery, it would indicate that the battery isn't charging.
  13. f I were to guess, in this situation, I would suspect a faulty battery first over something being wrong with the guitar. Was the LED on the battery charger flashing when you removed the battery? I believe he's talking about the battery indicator LEDs on the back of the guitar. There are four small LEDs that indicate how much charge is left.
  14. The Bean and the Pro are the same processor, so there's really no difference in the sounds you can get from them. The Pro does give you the effects loop which may or may not matter to you, and it gives additional I/O options, including a Variax VDI input. So it really depends on what form factor you like, and what ins and outs you need.
  15. What did the service center say they did with your guitar? Did they re-wire the pickups?
  16. There isn't any sort of battery in the PODxt or any of the PODs, for that matter. All the memory in these units is EPROM based, so there's no need for a battery. So something else is causing your unit to not power up.
  17. The tuners on all Line 6 products are chromatic, so as long as you're using A440 as your reference pitch, you don't need to adjust anything on the tuner itself to lower the tuning of your guitar. Just use tuner to tune the strings to the note you want them at. For example, if you want to tune a step down, tune your E string to D, your A string to G, etc.
  18. 2.10 is the latest version... Where are you seeing 2.21?
  19. Ha, yeah, I imagine those would sell pretty quickly! I wouldn't be holding my breath on that happening, though. My bet is that the 89 simply isn't selling nearly as well now that the 89F is available. But $700 for the 89 is a crazy-good price, imo. If someone likes the body style, I would think it would be hard to pass it up.
  20. Well, heat is the enemy of electronics. Generally, though, there shouldn't be a problem with using this stuff outdoors. How hot did it get? Were you on pavement? I kind of wonder if you didn't experience some sort of power surge that fired your power supply. Just because you were outside when it happened doesn't mean that the issue you had was directly related to the fact that you were outside.
  21. I would say, it's probably worth taking it or sending it to a service center to at least have it looked at. It could be something relatively minor. Perhaps you popped a fuse at the X3L's power input.
  22. The power amp setting on the DT-25 (topology, class, pentode/triode) defaults to match whatever amp you have in path A when you first select that amp, but they can be set to whatever you want them to be. If you put an amp model in path B, the power amp setting on the DT-25 won't match the amp you bring up (well it might not - you could use an amp model with similar defaults), but it's still being sent through the DT-25's power amp. So you're essentially blending two preamps signals to send through one power amp. You have to decide how you want the power amp configured. If you want the DT-25 to completely ignore Path B, you'd have to set that in the L6 link settings page. Under the audio portion, you can select what you want sent to each DT-25 - it can be the left and right output (this is default), Amp A, Amp B, or Amp A/B. With just one DT-25, you're probably OK just leaving it left and right, but everything you put in the tone will show up at the DT-25.
  23. You'd probably want to stick with using the PRE models for the amp in path B as well as in A. What you're doing is essentially sending everything from the left and right outputs of the POD to the DT25. The DT-25's power section can only be set to one configuration at a time, though, so you have to choose which one sounds best with what you're doing.
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    Rms?

    Do you mean the RMS rating of the speakers in the cab? I believe the Vintage 30 is rated at 60W. If Celestion's naming convention holds, the rating of the G12H90 would be 90W.
  25. Are both your power supplies rated at 2000mA? There have been two versions of the PX-2. The earlier one was rated at 1200mA, and the newer one is rated at 2000mA.
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