doltoner Posted October 10 Share Posted October 10 (edited) 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. Edited October 10 by doltoner Show that the year when this was redacted was in 2024 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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