Everything You Need to Know About the Line 6 POD HD500x 

So easy to use, too. And the display actually shows up in sunlight unlike the color displays on the newer units.

Still have mine and prefer it over all the newer gear.

Lots of expensive little IR loaders out there for under 100 bucks.

@@jonoftheford the issue with an external loader is the latency and analog/digital conversion that is introduced along with the POD’s inherent latency and AD/DA conversion.

if it helps, i found a way to use this multi fx pedal as a MIDI "controller". so basically, you can use your archetype nolly for example and turn some effects on and off using the pedal

Yeah they take some tweaking. I often turn the cab completely off. The parametric eq is powerful. I always use an x3 or a hd500x for vocals. The preamp is amazing. I have 3 of these units for backup. You could literally buy like 8 for the price of a helix.

Bummer! I have a ding in my lcd glass, but fortunately everything's still working well.

@@JonEleyetGuitar hey John. I really need help. I am blind and I try to listen to the video but since I can’t see. I don’t understand some stuff. But what I’m going to ask you is probably something simple that you can just tell me how to do. I was listening to a video about making the guitar sound more like 70 rocks.And in one part of the video he mentioned that you can change more parameters ’s by double tapping the enter button. But let’s supposed that I am on the chorus affect and I want to change more parameters to make a slower or faster or stuff like that. Every time I double tap on the enter button. The first time I hit it it just takes out the Chorus a Effect. And if I press it again it puts it back in. And if I hold enter button . I think the window is to assign the foot switch page. So I still don’t understand about double tapping the enter button.. I believe the enter button is on the top of the 4 Directional cursor next to the screen on the right side. And below the cursor button is the move button. And on the left side. You have bottom side view button and middle is patches button and top is safe. Button. I cannot find any other buttons here. Other than foot switches microphone volume behind the unit 4 knobs under the screen for parameters . And three switches next to the footpedal. And big knobs for equalizer. And overdrive and volume and master volume. I don’t know what else I’m missing. Can you tell me exactly how to pull up the other scream for Moore parameters for a effect like if I want to make the Chorus Effect slower or faster? Because I don’t know how to do it. And it seems that none of the 4 knobs under the screen can not change that. Thank you so much. Hopefully I can hear from you.

Right on!

I still use mine as well to this day. I just use cab IRs instead of the stock cab IRs in the unit

That's awesome 🙌 Worship tone preset pack is on the to-do list!

@@JonEleyetGuitar that would be awesome! I'll probably be the first one to download it!!!!

You can sort of do this with clever routing or use of the fx loop and understanding how the pods stereo signal runs

@@mattz0rr thanks a lot, mate. I'm gonna dig into this. Do you know some good documentation or tutorials about this ?

That's a good question, lol. I don't exactly remember what I meant by that, but there was a time where I was able to buy and borrow a number of different pedals. I think I was just really restless at the time!

@@JonEleyetGuitar Oh wow. So you never got a helix or a gt1000 or anything else? You've been rocking the 500x this whole time?

You can use external pedals through the fx loop and then set the fx loop to part of your signal chain in the 500x

I'm using Windows currently, sorry. Are there no supported drivers on the Line 6 website?

Thanks for the reply Jon! Apparently no drivers but I’m still searching…🤘🏽

@@juan_albatross any news? same problem here... i cant update on mac =/

I'm using my POD HD500x with latest version of Ventura, 100% compatible, you just need to follow the security work around stated in the install.

Agreed. They have the essentials that you really need.

Yes, but once you switch presets, the trails will stop.

Definitely, you can find them used from 1 to 200 USD. I personally run mine through a PA for live shows and with some tweaking I’ve gotten some solid tones. Jon does a great job at showing how to optimize the 500x.