BANDSON Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 Is there have some drop effect for POD HD500X? Like "Digitech Drop Pedal" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punkyboy Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 hmmmmm you can use the pitch glide to drop down For my part it give a better result with dual amp But there is a limit for droping you can test this patch and drop your 6th string if you want http://line6.com/customtone/tone/1536564/ Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexKenivel Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Use the pitch glide at the beginning of the chain, set the mix all the way up and pitch where you want it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingSquirrel Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 +1 on this. I have a preset for "D Standard" and another preset for "C#" for doing Black Sabbath stuff. Just put headphones on, or make sure that either your studio monitors or your amplifier are loud enough that you don't hear your strings acoustically, otherwise it'll mess with your brain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joel_brown Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Some people have reported that the Pitch Glide causes a strange warbling sound. It works fine for me however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexKenivel Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Yeah the tracking isn't perfect, not truly polyphonic, but seems to handle things fairly well for me as long as I'm not doing any intricate chords Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shredjsx Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Never used a Digitech Whammy even though I'm a fan of Vai and Satch.... Been playing with the pitch glide and its soooo cool, like the guys above me said, try it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncann Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Never tried the pitch glide for drop tuning. In certain situations, like the guitar by itself, you might notice some warble with chords or multiple notes. In a mix that warble could be covered up. I know the pitch glide is better than the harmonizer in the HD, as far a warble goes. I like to sometimes use the pitch glide with the expression pedal to mix in +1 octave with the original note. Gives a note a unique blooming at the higher frequencies. Never used it the way Vai and Satch use these things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yassne Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 I use the pitch glide to de-tune my my guitar from E standard to D standard for some songs, but can we get some drop D or drop C tunnings with it or with something else in the the Pod ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisinon2 Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 1 hour ago, yassne said: I use the pitch glide to de-tune my my guitar from E standard to D standard for some songs, but can we get some drop D or drop C tunnings with it or with something else in the the Pod ? No... you can't isolate and detune one string, but not the rest. And none of the pitch FX in the POD are polyphonic... they're not intended for detuning multiple notes simultaneously. It may work passably in certain circumstances, but artifacts and tracking issues are inevitable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pianoguyy Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 Although, if you use the pod in combination with a Variax guitar.... Yes, you can insert custom tunings into patches. But the ability to "fake tune" is a feature within the Variax. You are just saving the setting in the pod patch. It is useless without the Variax. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pianoguyy Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 I hate going to see a local show. Everything is going good. Band and crowd are in sync. And then.... let's take the next 2 minutes to bust your groove while we detune our guitars. And to make it worse. It is usually just a song or two. And then they need to "retune". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisinon2 Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 9 hours ago, pianoguyy said: I hate going to see a local show. Everything is going good. Band and crowd are in sync. And then.... let's take the next 2 minutes to bust your groove while we detune our guitars. And to make it worse. It is usually just a song or two. And then they need to "retune". Lol... honestly, that's pathetic. In a million years it would never occur to me to do that, and I've never actually witnessed it either. Switching guitars for another tuning, sure... but "Hold on folks, while I tune to Eb"?!?!?! Who does that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pianoguyy Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 Not only have I seen it numerous times, but also - I have answered ads (for local work) and had guys say "we only change tuning for the last few songs of the night, so there is no need to waste time tuning back". You know, because detuning at 1:35am on a Saturday night is a good time to kill the vibe. The bulk of my guitars have Floyd Rose tremolos. There is no "on the fly" tuning. Hell, can't even change a broken string "on the fly". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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