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I have had problems getting good stage tone(s) when playing live with my JTV-69 thru a POD HD 500. I've tried a Laney solid state acoustic amp, a Koch tube amp (both run out of the POD and into the effects return), and a full-range Carvin powered PA speaker. I play covers, so I use a variety of tones, including acoustic ones. What do you all think is the best way to amplify this rig? The DT series amps seem more geared towards electric tones.

Hello i have a problem with my Pod HD500, and any help would be appreciated. I have had my HD500 a little over 6 months now and im having a problem with two of my foot switches that are not reliable. It takes a good 10-20 presses to activate/deactivate these two switches, and somtimes i cannot get them to work at all. I am wondering if there are upgraded switches i can have installed? or maybe a way to repair my current ones? this seems to be a fairly common problem on the HD500. I see now the HD500X has fixed this problem... maybe there is a trade in deal? or possibly some way to upgrade to those switches? any help or info would be appreciated.

Just curious to know if we can setup differnt 'output' for differnet patches in pod hd500? Pwr Amp IN : Patch A Combo In : Patch B Stack in : Patch C Studio : Patch D Thanks, Pratik

On stage the button 1/4" OUT set in LINE or AMP in Control Panel??? Attached Image The OUT LINE is louder.but the sound seens the same. Thanx David

Hey Everyone, So I have an HD 500 that I use live and a marshall half stack for home use. I want to get into some home studio recording and I need a Digital Audio interface to record the way I want to. What I want to know, before I go out and buy a microphone, is can I use the mic input on my HD 500 as a digital audio interface to record my Marshall Half stack? The HD 500 has a USB out that I have recorded into Garageband lots on its own but can you record the mic input into garageband??? Thanks!!!

I just ran across a little issue, and wanted to confirm my suspicions... I recently made a group of patches for our Chrismas services at church and a couple of them involved using the JTV magnetic pickups (for eBow use). I set the input for these patches to "Variax Mags", made my tweaks, and saved the patch. When I recalled the patches during a rehearsal, I noticed that the pickup selection was not what I had originally set. Am I correct that when using the POD HD 500 with the JTV, it will default to the neck and bridge magnetic pickups both being on when changing to the patch?

I just got and L2t for my pod HD 500 and JTV 69 variax . I'm using L6 link from the pod to the L2t and the patches are varying wildly in volume from patch to patch. i would like to set them up to be balanced at a reasonably quite home level but be able to turn up the whole balanced rig once i'm on stage. what the best way to balance the output of the patches from sparkly clean to full on balls and every where in-between on this rig?

After my tests i noticed. Studio direct in output settings POD HD is the best sounding mode. The rest is weak! Even for the live settings (no cab option). Line 6 better give us global equalizer in output mode, like a eq in POD XT (this little 4 band bastard make every wonders and brings POD to live). Heavy sims mesa, bogner, engl they don't have a balls. Stock eq's in preamp is muddy and harsh, not bassy and shiny! L6 please change it! By the way. On headphones i got superior tone in 5 sec. I apologise for my weak English :)

I recently bought a hd500 (last sept 30, 2013), and it was great. The pedal works the 1st time I used it, but after few days, it's not working anymore. At first, most of the preloaded effects doesn't work, but some effects works, I thought i changed something in the settings. Now i tried creating a new tone, it worked, then I added a pedal wah/volume, now it doesn't work. I tried calibrating the pedal (as for the user manual), it says that in heel, it must be 0, and toe must be on 255. But it doesn't change, I can only see 0, that I concluded that the pedal is broken. Can someone help me? I tried to submit a ticket, but i also thought of posting it here. Thanks in advanced

Hello folks... Here I am again facing trouble in my POD HD 500. I've just had problem in USB data transmission and a flashing Line 6 logo. I managed to solve it with some help from the forum, but now de expression pedal is not working. Even in the factory presets. It just turns ON or OFF the effect (Wah or Volume Pedal) but dont change the parameter. The Wah satys only in the OPEN position, and the Volume stays only opened too. Did someone face this trouble before? What have you done?

Please, can someone help me! I was trying to use my POD HD 500 with the Editor, but when i connected the USB canle, a message appeared saying that was not possible to transmit the patches. After this, my POD HD 500 do not inicialize anymore, the screen shows only a flashing Line 6 logo. The hardware is not recognized by the softwares, i've already tried with the monkey and with the editor. Please, if someone knows the answer, tell me!

Hi everyone, The other day I just got a HD pro unit for my studio. Works great as expected out of the box. I have the HD 500 as well. Now that the HD pro is rack mounted I want to be able to dial in tones with the pro and then, when I need to take the 500 to a gig, transfer the tones to the 500. Is there a converter that will change between the HD pro and HD 500 and vise versa?

I am putting together specs for my first complete home theater audio system, and am very curious about the possibility of running my Pod HD 500 through a 7.1 home theater amplifier with in-wall Polk audio speakers (or comparable) I'd like to hook up into an auxiliary input on the home theater amp in lieu of using a separate guitar amp or a PA System (which I don't have) Has anyone here ever done something like this? What issues should I take into consideration when choosing a home theater amplifier and speakers that would work alright with this setup?

Take a gander at these 4 tunes... http://www.bandmix.com/tboneous/ All guitar work is mic'd through the DT50 using a JTV 69 and a Pod HD 500 All songs written and performed by yours truly on my Mac. I am learning how to use Logic Pro 9 and believe you me, there is a lot to learn! Baby Mama= * The chicken scratch guitar is the f hole Tele body with lip stick pickups through the Blackface pre on the hd * The guitar that doubles the horn is one of the hollow body guitars (sorry cant remember which one) with a single neck P-90 through a Gibtone * The Chunky guitar in the middle is a Gibson Lp with a classic pickup in the bridge through a Gibtone with a tube driver Cadillac= This one was fun! Lot of stuff going on so I'll stick to the highlights. * Intro is the Baritone Guitar through the Gibtone and tube screamer * All of the spacey guitar sounds are a sitar reverbed to the max through the vocoder * Clean rhythms are the JTV 69 mag pickups through the Blackface Pre. Though I think I went direct on this one (No DT) * I'll have to get back to you on the lead 'cause I can't remember * There are a lot of samples and crap going on, Its hard to remember what is what. Rooter Tooter = * Clean rhythms are the stock semi that came with the JTV 69 * Lead is the Gibtone and tube driver using the JTV Neck pickup * The outro bass and guitar doubling is the JTV Bridge pickup through the Dr Z and The Park * The picking at the end is through the Rickenbacher model using the blackface dbl. My Wife = * The clean is Rickenbacher model with lipstick pickups through a blackface dbl. * The lead is the JTV 69 Neck and middle (not at the same time) * I used the exp pedal to control the delay volume toward the end of the solo. see if you can hear it! I'm sure I left out a lot so if you have questions, Fire Away! Grab yourself some good headphones, Crank it up! I Love my Dream Rig!

Hey I've been thinking about get a hd 500 and i was wondering if i could plug it into my vox vt 20+ so I wont have to use head phones all the time? Any response is appreciated

So just got and updated my new hd500 and once the update was done, no amp model has any sort of distortion. All the presets that came on the unit do not have any sort of distortion. angel fball with gain on 100 and no other blocks filled with anything gives me a clean tone. I am not new to line 6 products. I have tried rolling back to a few diffrent updates with no luck

So I tried registering my POD HD500 today for the first time because I bought a new DT25. When I did, I got this error msg ESN could not be verified. Please confirm the supplied USN. ( Error: 523)" So I called line 6 and they told me that the chip inside the pedal board was never logged with Line 6 so the serial is no good. They asked me if I could return the pedal board. Guitar Center only accepts returns up to 30 days. I have had this pedal for over 2 months now. Then the support guy said my best bet was to sell it on craigslist. You've got to be kidding me? This is your ERROR Line 6!!!! NOT MINE!!! So now I cant update my POD HD500. Which by the way, this is my second POD HD500. I also own a KB37. UX2 POD farm 1 & 2, FX JUNKIE, Metal Shop, POD XT live (2 of them), Variax 600 (2 of them) a Variax 500, Pod X-3 Live, a DT25 Head, and now a POD HD500 I cannot update. Of all the products I own by Line 6 this is how I am treated??? This is BS! Someone needs to fix this!!!! Feel free to contact me in any way Line 6. Fix your mistake! I love my line 6 products please don't lollipop on me!

I have been using my pod hd 500 almost every day for a year now without any problems at all. i have recorded with mic and xlr cables, used the out balanced to my flextone III amp and i am pretty satisfied so far. but yesterday it started to sound really weird at the same time i was playing. its like an noisy, clicking, crappy sound and i cant get it back the way i it was. i have reset it back to factory settings, global settings, re-installed all line 6 software', making new presents, downloaded others, switching the output modes between studio/direct and the power amp selections, tested the pod in another amp and computer. but nothing works so i need some help :)