Do you take tone requests?

I did accept requests a few months ago, but I have work and personal issues that currently prevent me from fulfilling any requests. As soon as I have time to take requests, I will be glad to take them in exchange for a meager donation.

In the meantime, the patches I made and posted cover a wide variety of artists and genres. Perhaps you can use one or two of them as a starting point. See my Patch Demo

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B. Links

I. General

• wikipedia page on distortion

• wikipedia page on equal volume contours (Fletcher-Munson curve)

• Ibanez Rules Guitar Setup Page

• Acoustically Treating a Room, bass traps

• Me Am Bobbo's Pod HD Hub

• Me Am Bobbo's Pod HD Patches

• Strange Guitar Works - This is the website of my guitar tech, Benjamin Strange. He has a great blog where he catalogs the jobs he has done. My RGA 8 is up there - check out the new nut he put on there! He does great work, so if you're in the New Orleans area or want to ship your guitar for work, send him an email.

II. Forums

• Line 6 Pod HD Community Support Forum BROKEN LINK

• Sevenstring.org Gear and Equipmunk Forum

• TheGearPage.net Modeling Forum

III. Pod hd References

• Line 6 Pod HD manuals (Click "Effects" in left-hand menu)

• Line 6 Pod HD model comparison

• Jim Reynolds 4 Cable Method Document BROKEN LINK

• Fester2k's Thread on DSP used per effect/model

• Line 6 Pod HD FAQ page

• Line 6 Stereo/Mono Effects Document BROKEN LINK

• Pod HD Global Factory Reset Video, 300/400

• Pod HD Thread on how to enter safe/test mode, firmware upgrade mode, factory reset, and calibrate pedal

• Line 6 Product Feedback/Feature Request Form BROKEN LINK

iv. Guides

• MerlinFL's Pod HD Start-up Guide Thread BROKEN LINK

• Sevenstring.org Pod HD Thread

• Line 6 Pod HD Thread covering this guide

• TheGearPage.net Thread covering this guide, Update Thread

v. Patches

• Pod HD Best Patches Thread

• customtone.com - Pod HD patch database

• Legendary Artists Thread BROKEN LINK

• GuitarGeek.com - Famous Artist Guitar Rig Database

• Jzab's Pod HD Patch Convertor

• Thread on how to convert HD500 patches to work on Desktop/Bean BROKEN LINK

vi. Site Artwork

• lattieink Facebook Page

• lattieink.com

XI. Wish List

• A. Output Modes, Cabs, and IR's

• B. Amps

• C. Utilities

• D. Routing

• E. EQ's

• F. Footswitches/Controls/Midi

• G. Effects

• H. DSP Saving Features

• I. Devkit

If you agree with the suggestions I am making below, please send Line 6 product feedback BROKEN LINK letting them know you agree with my requests.

A. Output Modes, Cabs, and IR's

The whole Output Modes setting is confusing and unnecessary. The Line 6 forum sees countless posts solved by setting up the unit correctly - most don't know these settings exist, and when they select a cab/mic when setting up their patch, they expect cab/mic simulation OR they accidentally apply cab/mic modeling when running to a real amp, since by default when you select an amp it automatically applies a cab/mic combination. Get rid of output mode altogether and replace it with the following components:

• Global EQ - replaces the "front" modes which use EQ controls to adjust the EQ at the end of the digital signal chain. Adding a bass boost switch replaces the difference between Stack/Combo modes.

• Cab Voice EQ - replaces the "live-voiced cabs" in all modes other than Studio/Direct, which essentially applies an EQ curve to the signal.

• Convulution Reverb - replaces how the cab/mic selections operate in Studio/Direct mode, running impulse responses (IR's).

Allow the user to simply enable/disable these features and place them in the chain. For direct tones, you just turn on the convolution reverb. Otherwise disable it or remove it from the chain. This would also allow you to run a real pre-amp into the Pod just to use effects and guitar cab/mic IR's without having amp simulation enabled then run direct to PA or DAW.

Live-voiced cabs can be kind of confusing. If you're already running to a Mesa/Boogie Rectifier cabinet and select the Treadplate 4x12 on the Pod, it's not going to leave the tone unaltered. This feature should have a choice for the actual cab you are using and the desired cab tone you want to determine the EQ curve to apply to the signal.

Allow the convolution reverb block to load 3rd party IR's. If Digitech does it on a much cheaper unit, Line 6 should do it for their flagship line.

The mic choices are good. The mic options are not. There should be greater ability to virtually position and/or angle the mics.

It would also be nice to be able to set each output to apply or not apply cab/mic simulation. This would be simple if the cab/mic simulation is applied at the very end of the chain. Then you split the outputs directly at the end, so you have 4 signals - w/ cab/mic sims L/R and w/o cab/mic sims L/R. This would minimize any DSP hit that would otherwise occur if you split the signal before applying effects. Users can currently use a dual amp setup with full L/R pan in the mixer to get a single w/ cab/mic sim signal and a single w/o cab/mic sim signal, but this requires far more DSP and takes more time to match settings on both amp models...and you only get 2 mono signals. If the cab and amp blocks were separated, you could also use the FX Loop to send the dry signal and the main outputs for the wet signal.

I have noticed that when using dual amp patches, there can be some comb filtering due to the two signals becoming out of phase. If the cab DEP's included a short variable delay (0 - 10 or 20ms), this could be fixed. I am currently using EQ's to try to achieve phase correction which has very limited accuracy. See this thread.

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