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did you find these yet? i have a copy.

Using the Longboard with an HD PRO X, (i know all the supposed pitfalls of thi,s but every thing else seems to work fine...) trying to find a way to control gain/distortion level from the expression pedal - but after assigning controllers in HD Edit it greys out the settings as soon as i touch the pedal. tried saving first then adjusting the pedal but no go, reopening it greys it out after saving too... any help would be appreciated.

so how did it work for you? i specifically bought the CABx2 for the HD PRO X i just picked up after reading that it was the holy grail solution to the supposedly bad ir’s and it would “bring the POD back to life…”, but i didn’t hear a difference i couldn’t get with some bi-amping in the fx blocks and a a bit of eq in Logic, certainly not enough to warrant another $200…

actually i’m interested in this too - have you uploaded the patches you found? just picked up a new HD PRO X and currently loading it for vocal/bass use as well.

actually, ironically, a really good acoustic sim is THEE thing i was shooting for and after seeing a demo of a user patch/ir setup i was initially convinced that the rest would fall in line as was the case with my hd400 - didn’t happen. i am by no means a gear snob and my main guitar is also a PRS SE baritone mushok sig that i found in nearly mint condition for $250. as far as build quality, it was a set-neck baritone that was perfect and the price allowed me the funds to upgrade other components on a very solid body and neck. for the acoustic tones i was using an ibanez artcore hollow with a graph-tech ghost system that, again, allowed upgrades without putting me in debt. the tones i managed to get out of both running thru the hd400 were MORE than adequate which made me think the GO would make them that much better. but...

yes, i did. but, respectfully, that response seems a bit too commonplace and isn’t really a solution. i understand that it’s not a simple “plug and play” type of deal - it just seems to me that after 20 years the level of complexity to get even one attractive tone to start with out of 30+ banks of presets is starting to outweigh the benefits of the newer models. in the past it seemed that having so many “artist presets” was the draw towards modeling amps/pedals - having a good, usable starting point and patches that actually showed how they could be used. most of what i hear with the GO seems redundant. i feel like it’s unnecessary to have so many when things like the snapshot mode and blocks mean you can turn things on and off to essentially get the next patch in the list. again, personally i feel like quantity over quality and the added hassle of having to buy things like IR’s is taking over the usability of the products, especially when simple/useful things like having enough effects blocks or dual amps are being thrown out. i understand there will always be a sacrifice between product versions and that business is business, but IMO it’s just not worth it with this one.

meh - i just returned mine today after a month of trying. i started with line6 back @ 2001 when i joined a band who’s singer owned an og Flextone amp and a red bean. my experience up to that point with fx was mostly dod/digitech single pedals and an old RP-1, after that it was a boss GT-6 thru HK amps. when i went back to amps it was spider iii combos and half stacks, then a spider valve (which i absolutely loved) necessity brought me back to the floor with a POD HD400. it took a while but eventually something clicked and i got the tone i wanted; even a close approx. of the coveted steve harris and justin chancellor bass tones. but this thing just didn’t cut it. out of every single preset, i found exactly TWO that didn’t hit my ears the wrong way. the rest sounded pretty identical to each other and any downloaded tones were hampered by “required IR not found...” just seems like too much of a hassle to get usable sounds out of it that are anywhere near what i see in reviews/demos. i play deftones/lizzard sort of stuff on a baritone tele (stock pups) and a PRS baritone (duncan pegasus/sentient pups) both tuned to A standard (bass in E) so distorted tones are already a bit of an epic mission with digital fx; but the GO just did not impress me at all. i plugged my HD400 back in before boxing up the POD go, just to be sure, and my ears were happy again.