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Oh, yeah, I see you're right... I've really not experimented with the different topologies before. I should have thought twice before typing. So, really, than again, if you're always using the DT25 with the HD500, the update doesn't really give you much benefit.

In the update, you're given the ability to control the negative feedback topology independent of the preamp model. So, actually, this is something that you can't really do with the HD500 connected to the DT-25. The four choices you have for the negative feedback topology are tight, loose, zero negative feedback, and resonant. So with that, you can create preamps that are kind of hybrids.

I believe there are a few third party editors out there. I just did a quick Google search and found this: http://clients.teksavvy.com/~ccoutlee/podman.htm It looks like there are others if you look for them. I have to give the disclaimer that I've not used any of these, and as always, make sure your anti-virus software is working before downloading stuff from unknown websites.

Plug your headphones into the HD500, and you'll be able to hear everything you want to hear.

If you never use the DT25 or 50 apart from the HD500, the update doesn't really give you anything you can't already do. It's more of a benefit for people who use the amp apart from the POD. You can access the additional preamps and additional reverbs through MIDI.

Was it new when you bought it through Amazon? If so, getting a copy of your receipt is easy - Amazon keeps records of all your purchases. Once you have that, it's a matter of contacting the service center nearest you. http://line6.com/service_centers/

Did you buy the DL4 new from an authorized dealer? If so the warranty is one year, and you should be able to have your repaired under warranty.

What does "professional quality" even mean when you start talking about something completely subjective like guitar tone? Good enough to be used by professionals? If that's the case, I'd wager that more pro guitarists use Line 6 stuff either in the the studio or on the stage than most of its competitors. Boss may have them beat in the stompbox market, but Boss also had like a 20 year head start on them. It really just comes down to finding what works for you. Right now, there are more ways to get great guitar tone than there have ever been before. When people start talking like there's a right way or even a best way, I start rolling my eyes. It's so easy to miss the forest for the trees once we go down the road of tone chasing.

Without the cord plugged it, it isn't normal for the battery to discharge overnight. Do you know what the charge level was on the battery when you started playing? You many want to try taking the battery out and putting it back in. There's been a few times when I've done that and the Variax reads the battery as being charged again. I'm not sure what happens, really. But it seems that sometimes the battery just needs to be re-seated in the Variax battery compartment.

You set both Input 1 and Input 2 to Aux. Or you could set Input 1 to Aux and Input 2 to Same. If you're using the Variax input for different presets, you'll have to make sure you have the input setting set to Preset instead of Global so your other presets work the way you want them to.

You can reinstall the firmware in Monkey even if it says you have the latest. I don't have Monkey installed on this computer to check, but I believe the option is on the right of the screen.

Unfortunately, you can't do anything with the looper in HD Edit. It doesn't show up at all anywhere. You have to change the pre/post position and all the parameters on the HD500 itself.

If you hold down the tap button prior to pressing the model select button, you should get it to work. You have to hold down tap for less than the two seconds it takes to go to looper. It will ask you if you're sure, then you'll have to do the same thing again. The other thing you can do is to reinstall the firmware via Monkey. That will reset everything.

You know, I checked it out this morning, and gortur is correct... I haven't messed with the overdub parameter in a long time, and the Advanced Guide is actually incorrect. The overdub parameter on the HD500 acts the same way as it does on the M13. I could have sworn that I remember people complaining about the behavior being different on the HD500 when it first came out, but I don't remember for sure. Anyway, it actually does act in a way that similar to the DL4 and the M13 in the way the overdub parameter controls how the loop fades away.

You may already know this, but if you press the 1/2 speed switch prior to recording your loop, you can double the maximum loop length to 48 seconds. That might not be long enough to do a whole verse of Stormy Monday, though... That's kind of long and drawn out, and like you said, slow, blues.

Looking at the manual, it has a Line 6 mode, so that should work for the HD500. All Line 6 products use the same expression pedal, so I'd imagine it would work fine... Dang, now I'm tempted to pick one up for myself. Looks pretty cool.

The problem is that the stereo delay is a true stereo effect, so in order to output a stereo signal it needs a stereo input. Because you have the delay as the first effect in the chain, you're only sending signal to one side - the left side. You need to set it up so that you're using both inputs for your tone. So you need to set the aux in as the input for both Inputs 1 and 2.

This is the one difference between the HD500's looper and the DL4. It's kind of odd because the looper on the M9 and M13 behave like the DL4. The overdub parameter on those pedals controls how quickly the recorded loop fades out. On the HD500, the overdub parameter control the level that new overdubs are recorded at. I don't know why they didn't make them all behave in the same way. It's especially confusing when a parameter is labeled the same thing on different products, but it does different things on them.

It's not really up to the local service center to decide... At least in my experience. The local service center has to get authorization from Line 6 in order to do a warranty repair. In essence, Line 6 provides service centers with the parts if needed and pays them for their time.

Where do you have the stereo delay in your signal chain? There are so many ways the signal in the HD500 can be summed or split, it's hard to comment without seeing the whole signal chain. Any chance you can put the H5E file for the patch up here?

The Pro's 1/4" outputs are unbalanced. I think the reasoning is that it (and the HD models) have XLR outputs that are balanced, so if someone wants to use a balanced connection, they would use those. On the bean, the 1/4" outs are the only analog outputs you have.

The 1/4" outs on all the beans from every generation of POD are balanced TRS. This is actually one thing Line 6 has been consistent on. Why they have the info wrong in some places, I don't know - probably someone copying and pasting something too quickly. Even if the 1/4" outs were regular TS connections, it wouldn't hurt anything using unbalanced cables. You just run the risk of more noise over long runs.

Actually, re-reading your post, I think I was confused as to what you were doing. I was thinking you'd want to record an acoustic loop while having that play through the acoustic channel on the mixer and then play electric over it without the electric being on the acoustic track. So that's what my first answer was based on. If you put the looper in the pre position, you can avoid the the output going to both tracks by hard panning in the mixer block and muting the output you're not using. As long as you want the effects of the recorded loop to be the same as what you're playing over the loop, having the looper in the pre position will work fine. It becomes more complicated other wise.

Are you using manual save mode or autosave mode for your scenes? Or does this happen with you staying in the same scene? The expression pedal is reset whenever you unplug the the cable from the expression pedal jack on the back, so from that perspective, it's reset whenever the circuit it broken. It could be possible that sometimes when you press the switch, the circuit is broken, and it is telling the jack to reset.

Well, once you record a loop, the output from the looper block is summed. That's why you're getting the same signal to both sides. The one way to keep your signal split is to put the effects loop block in the signal path of the tone you don't want looped and use the effects send as the output for that guitar. I don't know if you're using the XLR outs to the board currently, but if you are, you can still continue using the one for the signal you'd like looped. For the effects send signal, you'd probably want to use a DI box to go to the board.