Pod Hd Desktop Looper Volume Is Too Low

[RedShirtDude]

Whenever I use the looper on my POD HD, the looped sound volume is always a little lower than my live guitar.

I'd say it's roughly 10% lower.

• Playback level is 100
• Overdub Level is 100
• Lo-cut is 0
• Hi-cut is 0
• Looper is completely at the end of my chain (after effects + amp)

I've searched for clues on this but cannod find a solution or explanation. :blink:

Any ideas?

 

 

[WaubinHood]

Could it be, that instead of being a glitch, it is a feature? We're supposed to play on the loop, so it looks logical to pre-mix them like that.

[RedShirtDude]

@WaubinHood: Interesting point, but honestly, I can't imagine that the engineers at Line 6 would take that decision away from the user.

For instance, what if a guitarist uses 2 very different sounds for the loop and the live guitar (says a clean and a distorted one)?

Wouldn't it be a bit risky for the engineers to assume that the loop sound must be attenuated, when the guitarist would much prefer to have them both the same volume, or even have the loop louder than the live guitar?

I dunno, it just seems a bit far-fetched to me.

Cheers!

[silverhead]

The only times have noticed the looped volume to be lower is when I have intentionally set it lower using the Loop Playback setting. I doubt that it is engineered this way.

 

My only suggestion is to reinstall the firmware to see if that helps. Before doing so, of course, backup your presets/setlists.

[RedShirtDude]

I ran some un-scientific tests and found intriguing results: it seems the problem occurs with certain presets but not others.

Keep in mind, in all those, the Playback and Overdub levels were at 100%.

 

I have recorded myself playing then letting the looper play it back to me.

Then in Photoshop, I overlapped the resulting sound waves from an Audacity screenshot.

 

Blue area is the live guitar sound, yellow area is the played-back sound.

 

First riff with the Line6 Dreadnaught preset: pretty much no difference

 

And here's a different riff with a preset of mine: you can see a notable difference!

 

I can't pinpoint exactly what factor is the deciding one: my preset has lots of effects (Reverb, echo, Flange) and no amp...

I surmise that, from a certain level and up, some kind of compression is applied.

 

Anyway, hope this helps someone along the line: if I find a solution, I'll post it here!

Cheers,

 

[wagnmich]

Ok, this thread is quite old. But I think I know the problem: Your input routing might be the reason. In the global settings, you have guitar as input 1, and probably on the input 2 you have "same", what doubles your guitar input signal and practically makes it louder. The looped signal is only recorded on input 1, i presume. So this would explain the loudness difference.

[Punkyboy]

Whenever I use the looper on my POD HD, the looped sound volume is always a little lower than my live guitar.

I'd say it's roughly 10% lower.

• Playback level is 100
• Overdub Level is 100
• Lo-cut is 0
• Hi-cut is 0
• Looper is completely at the end of my chain (after effects + amp)

I've searched for clues on this but cannod find a solution or explanation. :blink:

Any ideas?

yes I have an idea, do like me buy a good looper, because The looper of the HD desktop & also HD 500X is awesome bad too play with it.

After 2 or 3 overdub you get a very bad sound whatever you do !

 

I had the HD DESKTOP (sell it) and now the 500X, looper very bad on both !

It's seem that the output is mono .

 

 

But is really good too create a new preset just set it in begin,play something and create a sound!