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Mar 28 2008, 12:04 PM
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ive never heard of that problem, youre best bet is to contact line6 support by email.
sounds like a hardware problem more than a software problem but i could be wrong... what you could try is save all your patches on your computer then set the POD back to factory settings then reload all your patches on with line6 monkey. -------------------- Guitars: Epiphone Les Paul Standard w/ Dual EMG 81 Pickups. Size 11 Strings. Ibanez GRG170DX w/ Scallopd frets 17-24 - w/ Dimebucker and APH-1. Tanglewood TW28 STR DLX CE INDIANA Acoustic Guitar NEW: Dean Deceiver w/ EMG 81/EMG 85 Pickups Effects: Pod XT Live AND Pod X3 Live Recording: Cubase SX3 My Bands Myspace Act Of Silence Songs: Fly From The Inside (Cover) So Far Away Down Break The Cycle Never Again (Cover) Crash Wake Me More Acoustic Songs: Chris Kerswell Soundclick Page Check out Munta's Step By Step Songwriting Lesson |
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Mar 28 2008, 01:16 PM
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QUOTE (muntahunta @ Mar 28 2008, 12:04 PM)  ive never heard of that problem, youre best bet is to contact line6 support by email. sounds like a hardware problem more than a software problem but i could be wrong... what you could try is save all your patches on your computer then set the POD back to factory settings then reload all your patches on with line6 monkey. Yes, by the sound of the button it's a hardware problem. I'm returning it to the shop this weekend. Great tip on saving the patched. I'll do that. -------------------- My bands homepage
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Mar 30 2008, 04:37 PM
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my guess is to let air in so the processors dont overheat
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Mar 30 2008, 05:08 PM
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QUOTE (Maximus @ Mar 27 2008, 10:44 PM) Matt, I recently purchased the POD X3 Live and It is awesome. It has bass, acoustic and vocal support also. You will spend untold hours tweaking the endless assortment of mods, effects, amps and cabs. It does great with recording via many outputs. I use USB directly into my computer. I am getting ready to get an Atomic Reactor Amp for non headphone playing. I had the opportunity to try one out this week and It is great. It's a tube amp made especially for modelers. Check out the link below. If you call the company or send an email it is the owner of the company who actually talks to you. His name is Tom and he's a wealth of info. Let us know what you get. Good Luck. Atomic Amps Check out the sound samples on the Atomic MySpace page. There's a song sample called EuphoriaNoMore4Ya on there that is catchy as hell. I ve been woking on that ditty for a few days now. Very cool. Thanks for the info man - much appreciated  Im really excited about buying one of these!! Everytime Ive bought "real" amps ive felt let down, but these modellers really allow the creativty I crave  The Atomic looks GREAT!! What a fantastic idea !! -------------------- mysql> SELECT * FROM master_name WHERE ((firstname = 'Paul') AND (lastname = 'Gilbert'));
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Apr 10 2008, 06:29 PM
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Hi.
Windows stopped recognizing my POD X3 live. I already tried to reinstall the driver, but nothing happens.... (by the way I am using USB interface) Anyone had the problem or know a solution? Meanwhile I can't record for collabs or virtual band 
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Apr 10 2008, 07:47 PM
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QUOTE (Gus @ Apr 10 2008, 07:29 PM) Hi. Windows stopped recognizing my POD X3 live. I already tried to reinstall the driver, but nothing happens.... (by the way I am using USB interface) Anyone had the problem or know a solution? Meanwhile I can't record for collabs or virtual band Do you plug into the same USB port as when you installed it? I noticed my comp is particulary picky about that for some perpipherals. -------------------- My bands homepage
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Apr 11 2008, 12:49 PM
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QUOTE (MickeM @ Apr 10 2008, 07:47 PM) Do you plug into the same USB port as when you installed it? I noticed my comp is particulary picky about that for some perpipherals. thats usually the main reason some USB peripherals stop working. -------------------- Guitars: Epiphone Les Paul Standard w/ Dual EMG 81 Pickups. Size 11 Strings. Ibanez GRG170DX w/ Scallopd frets 17-24 - w/ Dimebucker and APH-1. Tanglewood TW28 STR DLX CE INDIANA Acoustic Guitar NEW: Dean Deceiver w/ EMG 81/EMG 85 Pickups Effects: Pod XT Live AND Pod X3 Live Recording: Cubase SX3 My Bands Myspace Act Of Silence Songs: Fly From The Inside (Cover) So Far Away Down Break The Cycle Never Again (Cover) Crash Wake Me More Acoustic Songs: Chris Kerswell Soundclick Page Check out Munta's Step By Step Songwriting Lesson |
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Apr 20 2008, 04:25 PM
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QUOTE (mattacuk @ Apr 20 2008, 05:05 PM) Hey pod experts! The past week my pod has been makeing an awful buzzing sound, like static eletricity kinda sound! It sounds really awful, any ideas whats up? I'm no expert, I'm a fool. But what if you touch the bars on top, does the sound stop? Grounding issue. Do you run on the latest drivers? - Does it buzz if you try it with another guitar - another cord - if you move away from any flourucent lights I just got my POD back yesterday from repairs, something with the save-button pot  If it got cat hair inside, DON'T send it to the Zoom repair dude, if they even got on in the UK. He'll spend all day removing the single piece of hair, tell you he will over charge you for breaking warranty and then spit on the interior before he returns it. Zoom deserves mocking. 
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Apr 20 2008, 04:44 PM
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QUOTE (mattacuk @ Apr 20 2008, 05:31 PM) hey Micke! Ok the Pod has the latest drivers, ive tried another cable but no luck. Now ive just plugged into my Pandora to rule out any issues and the guitar sounds great through the pandora ! So i dont think its the guitar. What do you mean by the bars? thanks!! Go to a bar, get a few pints and you'll feel better no i mean the X3 Live has bars on top of it. But it struck me you might have the table top kind. My mistake. -------------------- My bands homepage
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Apr 20 2008, 05:00 PM
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Hey podders!! I have a question. I have pod X3 live and it sounds awesome to record and to play with headphones but when I conect it to my head amp (Vintage Electric) and Cabinet (Marshall 1960) the amp modelers don't sound good, the distortions sound without bass and mid.. it sound too high and I could say ugly...
Any tips or suggestion about this? -------------------- My lessons
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Apr 20 2008, 05:13 PM
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QUOTE (Gabriel Leopardi @ Apr 20 2008, 11:00 AM) Hey podders!! I have a question. I have pod X3 live and it sounds awesome to record and to play with headphones but when I conect it to my head amp (Vintage Electric) and Cabinet (Marshall 1960) the amp modelers don't sound good, the distortions sound without bass and mid.. it sound too high and I could say ugly... Any tips or suggestion about this? Gabe, The usual problem with these modelers is that when played through an amp, the amp puts its own "flavor" on the sound. So what you get is the POD sound coming through a path that is distorted by the amp. Make sure you have your output set to the type of amp you are using. I believe the default setting is for studio direct/ headphones. You can choose among a few combo amp configurations and stack configs. This will improve the sound if you haven't done that yet. For me , the best solution I have found for my X3 Live is the Atomic Reactor Amp. It is a tube amp made especially for modelers and they do a superb job of letting the POD tone shine through. Check out their site. The owner of the company personally responds to emails and actually answers the phone if you call. His name is Tom and he is great to do business with. I'm interested to hear what happens. Atomic Amps Edit: Typo This post has been edited by Maximus: Apr 20 2008, 05:14 PM --------------------  Guitars: Gibson Les Paul Standard, Ibanez rg 750, Ibanez Mikro, Washburn Acoustic Amps: Crate GX 1600 1/2 Stack, Line 6 Spider 2, Vintage Kustom Tube Head Effects: Line 6 POD X3 Live, Line 6 PocketPod Misc: Line 6 FBV Express Foot Switch/Volume/Wah-Wah Pedal |
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Apr 20 2008, 07:00 PM
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ok, mattacuk... i have no idea what the problem might be... have you tried alot of different patches?
the only thing i can think of is that theres a badly soldured wire inside the pod in that case it'll have to go to repairs @gabriel alot of people have this problem... if you have an "effects return" then plug the POD into that, it rules out the pre-amp in the amplifier and uses the POD as the pre-amp giving you a flat sound. the cabinet itself will also colour the sound so youll just have to fiddle with the EQ on the POD to get it sounding sweet. if you dont have an "effects return" then the best way to do it would be try and figure out what colours the amp adds to your sound and try to make it as flat as possible... theres no tips for this its just trial and error. also, as maximus said, make sure you have the right output setting. -------------------- Guitars: Epiphone Les Paul Standard w/ Dual EMG 81 Pickups. Size 11 Strings. Ibanez GRG170DX w/ Scallopd frets 17-24 - w/ Dimebucker and APH-1. Tanglewood TW28 STR DLX CE INDIANA Acoustic Guitar NEW: Dean Deceiver w/ EMG 81/EMG 85 Pickups Effects: Pod XT Live AND Pod X3 Live Recording: Cubase SX3 My Bands Myspace Act Of Silence Songs: Fly From The Inside (Cover) So Far Away Down Break The Cycle Never Again (Cover) Crash Wake Me More Acoustic Songs: Chris Kerswell Soundclick Page Check out Munta's Step By Step Songwriting Lesson |
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Apr 21 2008, 04:46 AM
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Thank you guys! It was what I imagined. I don't have fx return in my amp and I set the correct output (stack front). I'll try with different equalizations
. The atomic amps sound like a very good choice but I really like my amp distortion too. I would like to add the pod sound to my set to have more variety of sounds when I play live. However I won't use pod's distortions live if they don't sound good with my amp.Does anyone use this type of combination live? I mean an amp head and POD X3 commuting distortions of both. I hope that this question make sense..  )gabriel.- -------------------- My lessons
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Apr 21 2008, 09:42 AM
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QUOTE (Gabriel Leopardi @ Apr 21 2008, 05:46 AM) Thank you guys! It was what I imagined. I don't have fx return in my amp and I set the correct output (stack front). I'll try with different equalizations . The atomic amps sound like a very good choice but I really like my amp distortion too. I would like to add the pod sound to my set to have more variety of sounds when I play live. However I won't use pod's distortions live if they don't sound good with my amp.Does anyone use this type of combination live? I mean an amp head and POD X3 commuting distortions of both. I hope that this question make sense.. )gabriel.- Maybe you'd could try it into the PA instead? I'm not convinced the POD infront of an amp with distortions from both will sound very good. Never tried it but... I'd guess. -------------------- My bands homepage
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Apr 21 2008, 09:48 AM
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gabriel, you could just use the X3 without the amp/cab simulators on, that would bypass almost all of the sound changes the POD makes, then you could just use the effects such as chorus/flanger/etc.
@ paul coutts, i'd love to do that but i am really bad at mixing at the moment  , would be very usefull to see on the GMC since there are so many people with the X3.... infact.... i think GMC should be sponsored by line6 for the amount of people who buy the POD series from hearing good things on here
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