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Line 6 POD HD500
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«  Excellent! »

Published on 12/29/11 at 14:49
The Pod has over 100 high quality effects and 16 amp simulated
edited via PC with the Line 6 pod Edit
pedal is very simple and good manufacturing: metal chassis and switch and protection of the monitor
High-quality digital
ultra complete connectivity with 2 input jack (and guitar) and XLR stereo output jack, microphone input, cd in mp3, midi in and out, FX send and return, etc. ............... ..

UTILIZATION

The manual is amber, it is better to go for the manual on pdf line6.com
The POD HD500 is still, despite its small screen very easy to edit when you master well.
buttons gains tone and master volume simplifies modifications amps: well thought out!
A bit of time to master like any multi-effects of this kind, but even easier with the line 6 pod edit hd 500; aesthetic but not super software that facilitates the modification of sounds that can record on your PC and share their presets with other hd 500.
The control switches are quite numerous (12) to manage a looper for 48 s and to manage the signal chain.
The expression pedal is very pleasing to the feet and can change many things as gain a foot pedal, the mix .... through volume and wah whammy.
The registration of over 512 presets available space is feasible very quickly from the good name but is not necessarily so keyboard ....
Multi Effects convenient to live as a headphone.
The dual tone feature is a little complicated to manage but still a good idea even if it is limited to 8 in number of simultaneous effects

SOUND QUALITY

All is in the fineness of adjustment to find a good sound.
we can be sure to have a sound inaudible if married high gain amps and distortion pedal too far or if abuse of reverbs.
The good sound does not come alone we must look above the factory presets are rarely interesting ...
But when we know to do it, the pod can surprise her with a very high quality, nothing to do with the effects of multi vox zoom or even if such are associated with a lamp.
The effects are not perfect copies of their own bankers pedals (although some ..) but sounds great when their sound.
you can really be very close to some of his guitar.
I play primarily U2 and Muse collection delays and reverb is very complete and sublime.
I put an average of 10 minutes has me very close to a preset when I know the good stuff the guitarist.
The sound is clear and limpid meets very well the sound of the instrument and does not blow slightly in high gain when there is no noise gate.
The cleans very good especially the fender but the simulation distos it so pretty
I have a Fender Start deluxe player above and select an eruption yds les paul and each expresses all its potential.

OVERALL OPINION

The pluses and minuses:

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Free signal routing

+ +
Connectivity and robustness
Editing sounds
Sounds clean and crunch
The modulation effects of delay and reverb
The look and the convenience plug and play

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8 max effect is good but it is quickly limited below the dsp over
if you are not careful (like taking 2 amps and multiple effects of pitch and reverb and it is being blocked on a 5.6 effects (too many resources requested)
The distortion sounds
The looper
The price for this quality respectable

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After you have to be objective if you want better more expensive
Maybe it lacks a bass amp and an acoustic voice and acoustic guitar but hey ..

Note that I've had two days and it's my third multi effects.
I had a Vox VT40 + and zoom g2.iut. I meters a decree in a few months but I have no regrets now.