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Hello!~Its my first post here, but ive been a first owner and user of the Pod x3 live since '09 Its been the tool that kept me around music since my early teen years, and ive been playing since then. However this machine appears to be dying, and its support/fixes are coming ever rarer and harder to find. I live in Mexico and bought my unit at a Guitar Center in San Diego and thanks to this amazing multi fx i ve been playing in various styles (Cumbia, Metal, Jazz, Alternative rock, progressive...) and projects with different setups at a variety of venues. I have to mention that i had it stored for a couple of years while i was attending higher education. I rarely ever play through and amp (my last amp a fender frontman 212r died a while ago). I am still to the day impressed by the ammount of solutions this tool provides... HOWEVER... Ive always had issues with the pedals not functioning properly, where they dont click. Then the unit started controling itself or going crazy all over the place with my settings and rendering it useless pretty much. I had a dude clean the unit and that gave it some kind of a second life to the piece... But its been a year now and the clicks for the pedals are functioning only when they feel like doing so. and now the Master Volume knob shoots all the way up from 1 STRAIGHT TO 10, making it extremely painful to even try to practice with headphones. I can rarely find any solution or official answer to this or other problems, and often times it requires replacements. Not everyone out there has spare 800-2000 dollars for a piece of gear that may replace what this powerful machine has done. What are our options here for the owners and users about our right to repair our units and carry on the huge sound of this machine? I know its a digital era piece of equipment, but i love it in the guitar world how other legendary pieces of equipment continue to recieve support to this day, such as tube amps, and other pieces that were mass-produced not so long ago are just... not viable? Is there some online resource or site that provides cover on documentation or schematics of this unit? Having this unit in this state is pulling me away from bandmates and any attempt at participating on any musical endeavor for god knows how long.

Hi all, I'm currently trying to build a rig with both my trusty POD HD Pro X and my new EVH 5150-III. Currently I'm using the POD direct to FOH and patch changes are taken care off by Cubase through the MIDI connections. As the 50W 5150 is also MIDI compatible I figured to design a rig with the POD to FOH and the 5150 for stage sound. Now I was wondering whether it's OK or not to connect the "dry out" on the back of the POD to the regular guitar input of the 5150? I know a little bit about impedances and line volumes, but not enough to judge whether solution would damage the tube amp. Who can help me? :) Thanks in advance!

I had the unfortunate luck that my FBV3 Controller and PowerCab were damaged by a water leak in my home while I was away. Has anyone experienced water/liquid on their controller? You know like a beer at a gig? How waterproof are these controllers? Mine is currently drying out in the afternoon sun? Any advice for drying out the device? (like rice on a smartphone)? I have a gig next week. Any special test I should run? Thanks all!

Hey I recently switched to a rack system and have the helix rack, effects gizmo, alembic f2b, a power amp and a shelf powered by a pedal power 2+ These are all plugged into a furman M8dx. And plan to be adding a wireless system for guitar and in ears as well. I will be powering on the power amp seperately but would leaving the helix rack(and everything else except the power amp) in the on position and turning it on/off with the power conditioner damage the helix? I have been careful to power everything on individually but wanted to know if I could streamline the process Also I noticed when switching the helix rack off from the front power switch it makes a crackling sort of noise is this normal? It seems to be functioning properly but I don't want to damage it