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I definitely hear the problem with leaving the pod tone to route out of the speakers. While on most tones you don't notice it, especially the distorted ones. On quiet stereo echoy ones, the additional clean tone is very noticeable. Looks like I will need to dig in to it again later to work that out. But at least I'm on the right track now, thanks.

Thanks for the detailed answer. While I haven't figured out exactly how to do this, this has given me enough info to get a working solution. To hear the Pod Farm tones without hearing the X3 tones you need to: - connect your X3 to your computer over USB (This was already done and working) - connect your speakers or headphones to your X3 outputs (This was already done and working) - configure your X3 to NOT send its processed audio to the outputs you are listening to. You only want to hear the computer’s output (Pod Farm) from the X3 outputs. (this was the problem, not sure how to do this, but found a way below) - configure Pod Farm to take the ‘dry’ tone signal sent by the X3 over USB as its input. (this was already done and working) As it was just the dry signal part I was missing and couldn't find how to just send dry over the USB (even with the manual that came with my X3) I looked from a slightly different way. As I now had Gearbox again, I found that had a tone called "Basic Guitar Tone", which was close to dry. That wasn't quite perfect still, but I switched the 3 "things" off (Amp, Compressor and Reverb from memory) and that leaves not a lot (or maybe nothing) going on with the tone. So this is either dry or at least, dry enough for an occasional home guitarist like me. I'm sure there will be a better way to mix what sounds get sent where, but this will do me. The Pod Farm tones sound right enough and I don't have to make changes to my X3 which means when I come back in a year or two I won't wonder why the X3 is not working right! Thanks very much for your help and patience with me on this silverhead, much appreciated.

Thanks for the explanation. But if Pod Farm supports the X3 (which it does according to the page I downloaded it from) then why do we end up with this mess up of sounds, and how do we get it so we just have, for example, the Pod Farm only sounds, as they are supposed to be heard? I assume that must be possible, otherwise surely they can't say it supports it? Maybe I just need to find the right clean / neutral tone on the POD and everything on the farm will sound right. There is a strong chance I am doing something wrong here. I'll have another play about tomorrow to see if I can work anything out.

Thanks silverhead. Yeah, that's really what I am looking for, a library that I can use from the PC, as dialing blindly through menus on the X3 itself is super slow and clunky. If we are to no longer have access to Gearbox and that has been replaced by Pod Farm 2 then that's fair enough. But as I have Pod Farm 2 on my downloads page for my POD X3, I would assume Pod farm 2 supports my X3 - and therefore some way to get it to line up what I am selecting on screen with the tones I actually here, rather than this strange mashup I am presented. There is a reasonable chance I may be doing something wrong. I have not used Pod Farm .before, I have always used Gearbox previously... OK, I have a kind of solution. I was searching for screenshots of Gearbox to check something. I found a link: http://line6.com/software/readeula.html?rid=3121 This takes you to Gearbox 3.72 - which I have just installed on Windows 10 without issue and seems to work. If you were to go to look at Gearbox software, the latest version I found (and downloaded before this initial post) was v3.60 which doesn't work on Win10. So that certainly answers my initial need for a way to select the X3 tones. But if anyone knows how to get the Pod Farm 2 app to work correctly with the X3, that would be really cool. Even if it's as simple as selecting a very plain clean tone on the x3, or a bypass or something. I expect someone else far more experienced than me has already worked this out! Cheers

Hi, really daft question. I've owned my POD X3 since new and flit in and out of playing guitar every few years. Today (on a Win10 PC in reinstalled last year) I went to use my POD X3 through the PC. It works, USB is fine and it picks up OK. But I am missing a way to control what tones are active on the x3. Pretty sure it used to be gear box. But that has been replaced with Pod Farm now by the looks of it, but that has a strange problem for me. It lists a ton of presets on pod farm (different to those on my hardware) and when I select one, the tone changes. However, there ends up with some strange mashup of the tone selected on the hardware and what I selected on Pod Farm. For example, if the hardware says "American Punk" and I select "Nothing Else matters Clean" that sounds totally different to if the tone on the Pod is say "Blizzard". So the Pod Farm doesn't seem to have full control of what's happening on the POD. What am I missing? I just want to be able to select tones from my PC and have a uniform experience. I assume no way of getting GearBox back and running? Or some other tool that selects the tones actually on my Pod X3?

Thanks, any more details on the issue? Nearest Service Centre is 90 miles away.

Oh right, thanks. Do you have any more info on the issue please?

Hi, Using this device on its own is fine. I can use it all day. But with the PC, I have a strange issue. It works absolutely perfectly for a while, but when using a program (EX Drummer 2) through it, after a while, the sound just stops (the X3 has hung). When I go to reboot, I am unable to play the logoff sound even. Any ideas what I (a noob) needs to do to fix or troubleshoot this? Windows 7 x64 i7 4790K 8GB RAM 2 sound cards, Gaming = Creative X-FI, Music Prod = POD X3 connection. (This same PC used to work OK until rebuild, so I suspect the 2 Sound Cards is not the issue, more likely a buffer setting or something?!). Any ideas would be great. Drivers 4.2.7.2 USB FW 1.02 FlashMemory 2.0