Oct 23, 2003 02:28 pm battery or AC adapter?
pod dying?
Posted on Oct 23, 2003 02:07 pm
fortymile
Member Since: Jan 18, 2003
my pod is acting weird. anyone else ever had this problem? suddenly the volume drops off. it hangs out down in this depressed state for several minutes, then comes back to normal. it's like someone is working the volume knob. last night it got even worse. on the way back up the volume started fluctuating, like it was trying to come of out of a deep hole, and was very weak.
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Oct 23, 2003 03:02 pm my pod does some werid things but the most common and most annoying is when it sounds like the wah wah turneds on and you can't turn it off for about an hour. its not acculy the wah wah thats just the only way i can explain the sound it puts out
Oct 23, 2003 07:02 pm can't find anything there.
i'm almost positive that the thing will need repaired. i remember reading something a year ago about how pod tends to die after a year.
whats happened to this country.
Oct 23, 2003 08:56 pm hmm this link was on the page that i linked to above:
"Service Center Locator"
www.line6.com/serviceCenter.asp
Oct 23, 2003 09:50 pm thanks man
i will use that if it keeps acting up. you da mang.
Oct 23, 2003 11:59 pm Here's the best fix I can recommended; however it will cost you $89 : J-Station
Oct 24, 2003 03:04 am check out that article in the recording tips
Oct 24, 2003 07:01 am J-Station and Vamp are decent alternatives if you don't use the MIDI control features of the POD. Those features put the POD head and shoulders over the competition...it gives you very deep and precise control over every aspect of the sound at a very granular level that the Vamp and J-Station just can't match...or at least not last I checked, and now with POD XT it give more simulators and a USB out to boot!
Oct 24, 2003 09:27 am The J-Station does have a Midi-Controlled PC-based-GUI (called J-edit), which works great in my opinion. I gives you interactive control over the amp and cabinet models, gain, EQ, compression, gating, FX, etc. It's got some great drive & sizzle & there's an on-line user's group & patch library. I've never tried a pod so I can't make a fair comparison, but after a couple of weeks of experience with the 'J', I'm still very impressed.
Oct 24, 2003 09:32 am Oh, ya I know it does have control via MIDI, but not as deep, with POD you can get at things that you can't even on the devices surface...it's kinda crazy...but super cool.
As I stated, I am not bashing J-Station of Vamp, they are both well-priced, decent performing products. The POD I personally feel is just better, not that the other two are bad, cuz they're not...and the POD has a greater cost because of that...so it's all what suits the user.
Oct 24, 2003 11:42 am I have used both Pod Pro and a J-Station I like the Interface of the J-Station midi/usb control over the Pod...but I believe the Pod will win over J-Station in the end... only because Line6 is an established company with more R&D $$$....Just My Thoughts...2cents...no..sense
Oct 24, 2003 01:55 pm on a different axis: i dont like the shape of the j-station. but i like the color better, i think.
conundrum.
Oct 24, 2003 01:56 pm You sound like someone shopping for a Mac computer.
"hmmm, is the blue one better or the red one" :-D
Oct 24, 2003 03:57 pm Aiwa Sterio......them their lites sure look good.....yeppers hmmm hmmm
Oct 25, 2003 08:21 pm ya but doest the V amp only output in 16bit, while the pod is 32
Oct 25, 2003 11:24 pm Yeah but Forty,
Still on a different axis, since we're basing things on shape, checkout the johnsons vs pod home pages ... nuff said?
www.line6.com/
www.johnson-amp.com/
Oct 26, 2003 05:39 am OK, my bad, Johnson wins hands down...
Oct 26, 2003 08:24 pm Have you guys tried reseting you POD to the factory config....?
You have to hold some buttons down while powering up... you can fin out how at line 6's WEB site
(note that you will loose all you presets in doing this)
Shred
Oct 26, 2003 09:13 pm i havent tried that. i dont see how that could help, though. but if it comes down to that, i can save all my patches using sounddiver, then reload them after re-set. thanks for the idea, i hope i dont have to bother with it.
maybe a miracle will happen.
Oct 26, 2003 09:26 pm Also forty, are you linked to the POD via mid during playback? You need to check and make sure the POD isnt getting a a midi control command from your software that is telling it to do these wierd things. I know when I forget to turn off the reset all patches command in Sonar and I have 2 hours tweaking time on a patch for the POD. I get really *&%&*$ off when it clears my patch because I forgot.
So check and be sure you dont have commands going to it befoer you get to insane over it all.
On the subject of POD breaking after a year. I own one of the first issues, I belive it was one of the first 500 shipped. and I have never had one lick of trouble. So for the record, POD is the kats back side!
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Let me know if that does it forty!
Oct 27, 2003 03:07 am interesting theory. in fact, my pod is connected via midi cable, both in and out.
it happened again today. this time i pushed in the power cable, and it got louder. but the 'edit' light came on too. so i flipped back one, then returned to the patch, to get rid of the edit light, and the sound was quieter again. i have to keep experimenting until it begins to act consistently. it still doesn't make sense, whats going on.
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