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Thoughts about buying a Line 6 Pod HD500X
I am considering buying a Line 6 Pod HD500X. I have iPad and Bias and JamUp Pro (with a few In App Purchases), but I think the Pod is way better. I am a amateur home recording person.
Does anyone who owns the HD500X (or the HD500) (or know things about it) has thoughts about this?
I have read and seen (youtube) a lot about the HD500X, and a con might be that it has a learning curve. For me the price is also a con, but probably value for money.
Pros are: great quality, very versatile, in time I perhaps can expand it with a Variax guitar (Pod and Variax integrate very good with each other). I now have a Squier affinity strat HSS.
For me other pros are: the quality and quantity of the effects (substantialy more then JamUp), the option to use two amps in a stereo line up, the tweaking of sound options (which might also be a con cause it might be overwhelming), the pedal, the looper, the no glitches and no worry about CPU power, in short: it looks like it has a much wider spectrum and power that JamUp has, though perhaps not in regard of Bias, perhaps amps are better in Bias.
Thoughts are welcome.
Secondhand buying the 500 is not something I consider, because no garranty, hidden flaws, etc.
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I've owned all the Pods since they came out, including a HD500 and now the Pod HD bean (I prefer the desktop versions I found out). I think they are incredible sounding, built like tanks, and honestly very easy to learn to use.
I use JamUp a lot right now and I think it's a great sounding guitar app too, but overall I think the dedicated Pod Hardware has the edge. Plus it has all the controls built in, and will let you add pedals to your set up later via the FX loops if you want.
Long story short, I'd have no issues using JamUp and being quite happy with it's sound. But the Pod HD stuff gives you a very good foundation for gigging and adding new gear to the set up too. And I think it's a touch better sounding too.
@Tarekith : thanks for reply!!
Good to hear what you say about the Pod, even though you have and use JamUp.
The Pod HD desktop I could also consider/investigate. It has a much better price, it is nice smaller, but has no Variax guitar input slot, no pedal, no footswitches (problem when using looper), I guess its DSP is comparable with the 500 not the 500X. I guess you meant this one:
Hey man,
I had the HD500 for awhile....if you're a tone tweaker then you're set. I am NOT. I sold it and use JamUp/BIAS pretty exclusively anymore and I'm much happier with it; the tones I use are pretty high gain and that is not really the HD500s forte, in my ears. The low and mid gain tones on the POD are awesome though. It is pretty easy to record as there's a USB out direct to your computer, but I prefer Audiobus into GarageBand for what I need.
Here is a 300+ pg thread on SSO dedicated to the POD HD series.....
http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/gear-equipment/133583-line-6-pod-hd-thread.html
You can snag some pretty good info from there; also find a guy on the web named 'Meambobbo'....he wrote a really neat outline for the PODs and got really in depth about how he made the patches he did(he's done literally hundreds and made them available for D/L).
Hey Steinmetzify, interesting stuff you wrote! Had a short look at the thread, and also searched for Meambobbo, and found his writings which seem interesting. I shall look into it. Thx a lot for reply!
It hasn't been talked about much, but the new Multitrackstudio app for ipad has a very intuitive and very good sounding amp sim IMO.
Maarten
@marcel, I have the hd500 and have used it for live and recording for more than a year. Love it. I also have Bias/JamUp and Amplitube. I am not a big knob twiddler, and far from a patch designer, but I have had much better luck dialing in good tones on hd500, even running out to an fx loop for my Keeley compressor and Spaceman Saturn V, than the sims. Plus, it's one less thing to drag down iPad performance. Oh, and there's a whole online community for sharing patches.
@MoonWolf: Thanks very much for your reply! Nice to hear that you love the HD500 even though you have Bias/JamUp and Amplitube. Good to hear that, though you are not a tweaker, still manage to dial in better tones in the HD500 (then in the iPad apps, if I understand it correctly).
Your reply makes me lean more towards buying the thing, although I haven't made a decision yet.
Bought it! Love it!!!
I've been exploring it for two evenings now, and I really love the HD500X. I won't mention all the aspects I love, the main thing is that the sound is really great! The warmth and depth of the sound is the best I have ever heard. The only little thing I don't like is a particular 3 button component which moves a little. But every other material aspect feels and looks rock solid. The edit software is also great. The presets online great too. Sound and recording via PC is also very good. Haven't really explored the connection with my iPad via Line6 Sonic Port interface yet, going to do that later today. Very much hope that works out good. Have doubts about it.