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If you try to use it during gigging / live play, then it certainly is disappointing. But that's not really what it is designed for. It's not meant to compete with standalone looper products. It does a couple of things well: create a simple backing loop for practicing solos (post position), and allow tone audition / tweaking while hands free (pre position). But a live looper? Not so much. P.S. The looper uses a bit of RAM, and almost no additional processing power. Removing the looper would do nothing in terms of increasing DSP capacity.

Yes you can do it from Edit in the Mixer tab.

When you connect your POD HD to your computer you can assign it as your computer's audio device using the sounds control panel. This means all sounds originating from your computer (like your Winamp program) will be played through your POD. You will hear it through your POD outputs along with your guitar. Use the volume controls in Winamp to balance the volumes. You can also use the Line 6 audio/MIDI control panel to adjust the relative volumes.

For best results with the Hd500 in power amp mode, the L3t should probably be in electric guitar mode rather than reference mode. However, that won't give best results for your mic. You'll have to experiment; there will likely be a trade off between the sound quality of the vocals or the guitars.

If your second guitar has its own signal processor (not the HD500) then you can connect the output of that processor to the XLR/1/4" input on the rear panel of the L3t. This will keep it separate from the mixer/EQ of the side panel inputs. Set your second guitar's processor to Line output and the equivalent of Studio mode. If you want to use the HD500 to process both guitars then set it up as I described earlier; dual path independent processing and guitars to Guitar and Aux inputs. You can use L6 Link or the RCA rear inputs on the L3t.

... If a tree falls in the forest.......does it make a sound? (Yes - my university major was philosophy )

Or.... 1) connect your HD500 to the L3t either using L6 LINK or using the stereo Line In inputs (RCA) on the rear of the L3t AND connect your mic to one of the Channel Inputs on the side panel mixer on the L3t. 2) Connect your HD500 and mic as above. If your 2nd guitar is acoustic, connect it to the Channel 1 input on the side panel mixer of the L3t, and your mic to Channel 2. If your 2nd guitar is electric, use a dual path setup on the HD500 to process both guitars separately. Connect one to the Guitar input (assign as Input 1) and the other to Aux (assign as Input 2).

Check your Inputs. Make sure they match the expectations of your dual path preset setup. In particular, check that you haven't somehow changed the Inputs setting to Global rather than Preset.

You may be right. I simply don't know. Others will clarify for you. Good Luck with it.

For what it's worth, try to remember that this is a community support forum. The people who are here are generally the ones experiencing problems. The people who own trouble-free equipment are not here. You really can't extrapolate from the fact that you see many similar problems reported here, to the conclusion that every piece of Line 6 equipment suffers the problem. Try to remain patient and hopeful. At worst, your brand new UX1 needs to be replaced, at no cost to you under warranty, with a working one (the vast majority). For official Line 6 technical support you should open a support ticket here: http://line6.com/support/tickets/

Are your speakers/monitors/headphones connected to your UX2? They should be - it becomes your computer's soundcard when connected and running Pod Farm.

I will bow out of this because I am not as familiar with Pod Farm installations as other users. I'm sure someone else will chime in here soon to help further.

Did you purchase your PF2.5 license? Is your UX1 new or used? If new it may include a bundled license for PF2.5. If used it may be an older model with a bundled license for PFv1, not v2.5. Also, you may need to run the Line 6 License Manager (you can download it) to activate your license and authorize your computer.

Could be an issue with signal flow and Inputs. If your preset has no FX before the path split, and if Input 2 is set to a physical input that has nothing connected, you will get what you describe.

I believe this is a duplicate post. It's double has received responses; please see http://line6.com/support/topic/5486-volume-control-strategy-pod-hd-pro-x-stagesource-l3t/ rather than responding here.

I'm not familiar with the of. site. Is this a Line 6 sponsored site? If not, then you'll probably need to go elsewhere for help. If it is a Line 6 site, can you post a link to it so I can test it on my computer?

This is not a Line 6 Customer Support forum. Everybody here volunteers their time in providing peer group user support. The original poster seemed satisfied with the advice. Presumably he got his refund; he hasn't been back in more than 6 weeks. Since the X3 is no longer supported by Line 6 so there's no longer any official Customer Support for your issue. As for advice - you can try rolling back your X3 driver to a version that works for you.

Yes - the HD500 FX Loop can be used as a single loop out from itself and back in. Doesn't require the 4-cable method, and doesn't require another device except for FX box(es) in the loop.

It sounds like you have the Pod HD500. If so, you may want to use its FX Loop. I would try the noise gate (and perhaps the wah) between the guitar and the HD Input, then run the EQ (and perhaps the wah) positioned wherever you like in the HD500 signal chain using the FX Loop.

Is there any community member here who speaks Edgar's language and can explain things to him in his own language? That would be helpful. Thanks in advance.

It's not a documented 'official' strategy, but I think most people (myself included) do this: Begin with your clean patches. When they are all 'leveled', move on to the dirty/crunchy ones, then finish with the hi-gain and/or solo patches. Only use the HD Pro device Master volume at the beginning, to set your first clean patch to the desired volume level of all your patches. Let's call this your 'target' level. After that, don't touch this setting; it does nothing for patch leveling because it affects all patches identically. Then, for each patch, the idea is to level the relative volume of this patch to match your 'target' level while changing the tone as little as possible. Your tools for doing this are the amp channel volume (not amp Master volume) and the Mixer. These adjust the volume only without changing tonality. Avoid using the Drive knob or the Amp Master volume; these settings really affect tonality. If the Channel Volume and Mixer settings are insufficient, try playing with some clean-ish FX such as Vintage Preamp or the Tube Compressor that, with some settings you will learn through experience, can greatly affect volume with minimal tonal changes. Of course, you can also add a Vol FX to change the level using your pedal rather than the Channel Volume or Mixer. You can save the patch with the desired VOL level, and set the min/max values to taste. Once you have the volume level you think matches other patches, test them together by switching patches one at a time to detect those that still need some leveling. Do this within and across the patch groupings (clean, dirty/crunchy, higain/solo). It's a time-consuming process but it does work.

I think the setup you describe is exactly right. That's what I use with L6 LINK connecting my Pod HD Pro to 2 L3t speakers. I find the best arrangement is to set the L3t volume at the 'notch' which I believe is the 50% mark and control the overall volume with the Master Volume on the HD Pro (not the Amp Master volume). Then it's just a matter of the usual patch volume leveling on the HD Pro. One thing to watch is the Mode setting on the L3t. I get the best results using Studio output on the HD Pro. With that setup you want to have the L3t in Reference mode. However, by default the HD Pro will reset the L3t mode to Electric Guitar with every patch change. What you need to do (a one time exercise) is re-save your HD Pro patches with the L3t in Reference mode. As you proceed doing this you may have to manually set the L3t to Reference mode after each patch change, then immediately save the patch on the HD Pro. Subsequently, every time you recall a patch the HD Pro will set the L3t to the saved setting of Reference mode.

Perhaps you have Tone 2 locked? That can cause the same patch to appear as Tone 2 in all presets. To check this, go to the main signal flow display. There's a little padlock icon in the bottom row of the display. Turn the little knob beneath it until the icon is in the unlocked position.

This behaviour is normal when the HD device is connected and HD Edit is running. The two devices (HD and computer) need to keep their respective RAM synchronized, and this causes the delay. The delay should disappear when you disconnect the HD device, but of course then you can't run HD Edit..

You need to re-save the HD500x patch after manually setting the L3t set to Reference mode. Thereafter, recalling the patch will reset the mode to Reference rather than Electric Guitar. It's a strange setup. The L3t mode setting is saved in the HD patch, but you can't set it in the patch either directly on the HD device or in HD Edit. It is only changed by saving the patch with the L3t in a different mode setting. By default, the L3t is set to Electric Guitar mode in every HD patch. In other words, every HD patch will set the L3t mode to Electric Guitar until you save that patch with the L3t in a different mode.