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I got mine 3 days ago and it blew me away!! I know some people are super picky and even almost impossible to please. But for $179??? Holy !@#$%! This is the first device EVER that I plugged straight into my daw and sounded as good if not better than my BIAS FS 2 Elite software, at least for high gain which I'm always having a hard time with tone-wise on a PC in a daw. I have had TONS of high quality high gain pedals and gizmos but every time I plug them into the computer they lose their magic and sound like poo. Not this thing. I also really liked how I could plug into an amp or headphones while connected via USB to my computer and play along with YT videos, guitar lessons, backing tracks, etc. And I know that's nothing new, but the thing takes batteries which is why I went for it. I have had so many times I wanted to tinker around on guitar and just didn't feel like hooking all that stuff up so blew it off. I have yet to find a practice amp that has the high gain I like so I always have to add a pedal, then need a fricking noise gate, more cables, adapters or more batteries. Doesn't sound like too much of a hassle but it's enough to make me just blow it off on those less energetic days and not practice. It is taking some time figuring out all the complex buttons and which ones simultaneously do this or that. But personally this is the best small investment I've made in a long time. Of course it depends a lot on if you need something like this. I think it's GREAT for simple quick plugging in and practicing on the fly with super high quality sounds to boot. That's my opinion anyway :) I don't know anything about the JCM-800 setting. I haven't dug in that deep yet to know which amp is which. I just plug in, and tweak til it sounds good (which is effortless at least for me with this thing) And I found a case that this thing fits in PERFECTLY!!! Got it on Amazon. MEIJIA Portable All Weather IP67. You just need to be careful when ripping out the padding parts to get the right size. I don't know if you can add any pieces back in if you tear out too many

I've tried a few different overdrive, boost, distortion, etc. pedals in the Pod Go every which way possible but get a loud terrible noise as if the noise gate is doing nothing. Only way to get rid of it is turning the noise gate up so much it pinches off the notes when you play. I've seen YT videos of people adding their favorite overdrive pedals without all the feedback, noise, etc. that I get when I try it. Don't know if it's defective or what. I've tried tweaking every setting I could think of. Really a bummer as I really like the unit but wanted to use it for a back up with a favorite overdrive pedal in case my main pedal board ever goes South during a gig. Anyone else have this issue?? Searched all over the Web for hours a few times and can't find a thing :(

Totally. It can get a little tricky trying to do both but whenever I'm tweaking my presets for playing with the band I have it plugged into both, the PC and my amp and cabs. I have to run something like Reaper in order to hear it through my amp and cabs though, but sooo much easier tweaking through the HD500 Edit software, well worth the hassle. It's really the only way you know for sure how your presets are actually going to sound through your rig live and not get to rehearsal or worse yet a gig with a bunch of BIG surprises lol

That's a shame. The HD500(X) is an amazing unit. I absolutely love the thing and I've owned a LOT of gear in my life. But that pitch glide, as well as it works for high gain rock barring chords, once you turn the gain down and start picking individual notes in a chord some horrid sounds pop out. Unacceptable even at a rehearsal. tried running one in the left channel and one in the right seeing it is mono, and then I started having some freaky panning glitches not to mention it didn't fix the problem. I really hope Line 6 reconsiders and fixes this. I had to drop a song the band was going to do or go out and buy another pedal. And I need another pedal on the floor like a hole in my head. Please consider a future fix for this issue.

ahh ... Thanks guys! I guess after decades of having a light go on when I hit FX for soloing, I never even thought of having it on in advance so when I hit the FX for the solo, the light goes OFF instead (along with the Noise Gate). I will have to re-train my brain for that one but hey, that's certainly workable. I think what really threw me off (which I just now discovered after reading these posts and trying the advice given) was the precedence that the first pedal in the chain takes in regards to whether you can have the pedal on and NOT have the foot-switch light be on. In other words, you can NOT turn the first pedal off and have the foot-switch light go off, no matter what effect it is, but anything after the first pedal in the chain (assuming it is assigned to the same foot-switch of course) you CAN turn on or off without the foot-switch light going on. Interesting ... I guess if the light being on really bothers me I could always move the Noise Gate down the chain so it's not the first effect. Thanks so much everyone for your time and help :)

Thanks for your reply. I must not have explained it well enough. My dilemma is that if I assign the noise gate (and other specific effects) to a foot switch, the foot switch light goes on and I cannot turn the noise gate on without the foot switch going on as well, like I can with say, the delay or modulation effects. For example, say I need to do some delicate solo work on a high gain song and need the noise gate off simultaneously while turning a delay and a compressor on, or even a distortion pedal effect on simultaneously while turning another distortion pedal and the noise gate off. Just wondering why this cannot be done or if there's any hope for a future firmware upgrade fix for this. I can assign the noise gate to the Toe Switch so that it turns "off" when I hit that, but not F1, F2, F3, etc. Hope I explained that well enough, It is kind of complicated to explain - thanks in advance

I'm trying to figure out how to turn OFF specific pedals (effects, etc.) when stepping on a foot switch (FS1, FS2,..) Specifically the Tube Comp and the Noise Gate. It looks like it can't be done. For example, a ways back I had a solo in a high gain song (noise gate cranked) where I'd like to turn the noise gate off in order to get a long overtone feedback while the note is hanging which if I hang too long the noise gate will cut the note off. Anyone know a way this can be done? thanks :)