Before we get to business I just want to point some things out. I'm pretty much a novice at everything when it comes to guitars. So I might be doing alot of things wrong or not at all. With that said: My POD HD bean sounds like crap. I can't play on amps in my current housing situation. So I sought solutions in the digital sphere. I've tried many VST's but I can't make them sound good. And I wanted a physical unit so I acquired a POD. With the POD HD I get the best sound I've ever gotten out of digital amplifiers. But it's still not anyway near any mans standards. I might upload things in the future to actually show what I've got. But in the meantime I'm just gonna have to try and explain. Even the best digital tones I've heard you can almost instantly tell that they're digital. But it doesn't really detract from them. Unfortunately in my case, it's not that it sounds too digitally, which it does though, but that it just sounds freakin bad. It must be something about my guitar that makes it impossible to achieve passable tones with digital amplifiers. I've run other peoples DI's through the unit (and VST's for that matter) and I've gotten pretty dope tones. But when using my own gear its like distortion can't be applied on the signal as it should. It just sounds kinda rumbly and takes up way to much space. It's impossible to get that solid crunch or grit that really makes guitar distortion. When playing through actual amps I don't have this problem. My guitar doesn't sound amazing. But it's good enough. I don't know what to do. Got Seymour Duncan SH-4JB and SH-2N in my guitar if that's any help to maybe figuring this out.
