Recently he has prepared a very interesting and in-depth guide covering the wide-ranging and all-encompassing topic of guitar tone. But if you’re pushed for time the contents page at the beginning will help you narrow down to the section you are after to get some good general advice on what parts of you and your rig make up your guitar tone or what part of your POD HD setup needs some more work to improve your tone.
Line 6 are soon going to give us a free update to our James Tyler Variax’s and , but what goodies should we expect from the update, and what will it mean for us players when using JTV flash v1.8 with a POD HD500 or POD HD Pro running flash v2.0? Read more…
Do you have a POD HD500, HD Bean or HD Pro? Well you’re in for a treat. Line 6 have released a free update for you with some great additions.
If you want more DSP, then you can configure a POD HD500 and a POD HD Pro (or multiple POD HD Pro’s) daisy chained using an S/PDIF and a MIDI cable, and configure your 1st device to control effects on the 2nd device. This means that you can potentially run half your single signal chain on each unit, while still having total control, and keeping your audio in the digital domain. OR you could run dual tones (1 on each) and have more DSP intensive FX in your chain… Like if you want to have, say 8 complex reverbs… (kidding). That dual tone approach is possible because the Pro has a dry output which you could feed back to the HD500′s or another Pro’s input… As we don’t like dirty signal degrading Y cables!
Choices. It’s great to have them, but occasionally it’s not to easy to decide which choice is the right one.
Take the POD HD series of revolutionary amp modelers and multi-FX devices from Line 6. There are 5 to choose from, and they’re all brimming with great features.
So to help you decide which one you want to buy, and which one will fit any requirements you have, I’ve gathered information from several different sources on Line 6′s website, and collated it into one single document.
The mothership has landed, and what an impressive mothership it is!
The latest Line 6 multi-FX and amp modeler to be branded with the POD HD moniker is the all new POD HD Pro. It’s similar to the rest of the POD HD family and still boasts 22 amazingly detailed amp models, 16 cab models, 8 mic models, and over 100 high quality M-Series FX. The easy to use interface will be familiar to you if you’ve used a POD HD500 or HD bean, but simple to work out if you’re new to the POD HD line or amp modelers in general. Obviously the Pro model has some extra features which will certainly appeal more to studio users as well as those of us who like to keep our gear in a rack at the back of the stage and control it with an FBV Shortboard front of stage.
So… You’ve got a POD HD, and you’ve got firmware 1.3… But you’re not totally sure what the Deep Edit Parameters (aka DEPs) can do to improve your tone your tone, and you’re interested in the L6 Elektrik amp model and you’d like to know more about it.
Well Line 6 has seen the question mark above your head, and replaced it with a light bulb that’s about to turn on, in a moment of realisation of the power your POD HD contains within it…… “Bing” (That was the light bulb turning on by the way)…
So get yourself over to check out the Line 6 Blog and be prepared to be in awe of Line 6 and of Kris Daniel, a Senior DSP Software Engineer and Uber Guru @ Line 6.
Welcome to the last in a four part series of videos looking at creating your own custom presets on the new and interesting Line 6 POD HD Bean. Read more…
Welcome to the second in a four part series of videos looking at creating your own custom presets on the new and interesting Line 6 POD HD Bean. Read more…
Welcome to the first in a four part series of videos looking at creating your own custom presets on the new and interesting Line 6 POD HD Bean. Read more…
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