How To Get 80's Guitar Tones With The Line 6 POD HD500x

[@nightfallstrings849]

You are my HD500x tutor for life!!!! If it wasn’t for you I’d still be staring at the pod and hope it magically set itself for me lol. Thank you bruh. Long live the 80’s

[@julianwilsonsongwritermusi9413]

You are really helping me out here Jon. I bought the 500x years ago but never really got around to using it. You are really taking the confusing mystic mysteries of the 'work through the manual' approach and dumping them big time ! Well done and much appreciated! Jules

[@edruiz1202]

Aweome video man! Great sound!

[@gaud20299]

I like that format , very informative. thank you

[@CasperNuada]

You have some amazing videos for 500X. Would really request you to make more of them and educate us on different patches and different sounds.

[@theatremusician]

With the '80's clean chorus, try it without any amp sim. It's much closer to the true 80's chorus sound.

[@pramoniro]

thats awesome man❤️🙏

[@johanndaart7326]

Man, putting delay in front of an amp is a big no no in POD HD... The last tone you got in this vid was just... uhh. Wallpaper scraper. I know that you've already ditched HD for Helix, but you could improve your tones greatly by using Low Cut in Cab's DEP (to cut the bottom muddiness) and adding Mid-Focus EQ at the end of the chain (before Reverb), to cut the sizzle from the top with its Low Pass. Cab's DEP Low Cut has a mild slope, so try values between 80 - 150 Hz, usually something between 90 - 120 Hz. As for Mid-Focused EQ, to set it neutral at first, you go High Pass Freq 0%, Low Pass Freq 100%, Gain 2%. Then set Low Pass Q to 40% (mild) - 20% (steeper) slope and slowly bring down Low Pass Freq from 100% down to 85% - 70%. 70% is 6k Hz. Some mean producers literally cut the top of guitar tracks at 5k, this POD HD Low Pass with Q at 40 - 20 % is a slope, so going down to 6k (70%) is not as drastic as it seems, it's not a "cut". You will hear when your guitar is loosing "bite" and by fine tuning it, you will be able to dose it properly. Same with cab's Low Cut up to 120 Hz. Move the looper to the front of the chain, record the riff and tweak those cuts while it's playing.

[@sewmelo]

Man, where can I find this track on the finish of your videos? That is awesome!

[@Bridging_the_Political_Divide]

Great tones.

[@milicorrea8415]

Can you make a video on how to download patches to the 500x?

[@JonEleyetGuitar]

Lemme see what I can do👍

[@alvianecoracing2795]

+tube drive👍

[@arroncajigas4260]

How about build 90's tone Jon.

[@DrAnkitJangid]

I like 80s

[@hollowmenrule]

Good demos

[@duniaphotoshop4863]

Help me please how to fix treble cursor on my pod hd500. .when i play,the treble cursor are moving to 0 by it self..please help me.thank you so much

[@josemartinez2332]

Hey brother how you doing so I wanted to ask if you watch the minute 8:00 u didn’t show what’s the first effect you put there

[@samuelyanuarrusli4054]

Hi Jon, Do you mind sharing some of your effects, coz i think i like the kind of tone you are creating?

[@JonEleyetGuitar]

Hey, Samuel! I've added a link in the video description that will take you to my presets.

[@robertsimmons7814]

Can you get any of the line 6 firehawk presets to download onto the 500hdx. That would make it pretty simple from the get-go and you could dissect some of their tones. Kind o re-engineer them. Thanks for all your help.

[@JSmith-mu3fq]

Can’t figure out how to remove effects from the chain!?

[@JonEleyetGuitar]

No worries! Just use the arrow keys to hover over the effect you want to remove and spin the #1 knob to the left. Keep scrolling until you get an empty slot labeled, 'none'. Also, you may need to press the view button a couple times if you don't see the horizontal signal chain.

[@santunurajacob]

Can you edit banjo tone...

[@edruiz1202]

Hey brother just curious is delay usually better before amp? Most videos I’ve seen talk about it after and have distortion and such before? I’m still learning how to make my tones on 500x.

[@JonEleyetGuitar]

Great question. Delay after the amp will give the cleanest, most pure delay-repetitions of your tone. But, I actually prefer delay before the amp, because the delay-repeats add to the breakup of the amp making my tone sound a little more dirty and lo-fi. There's no 'right way' just preference. Hope that helps.

[@edruiz1202]

Jon Eleyet sure does. Thanks a lot. The POD 500x rocks. Your tutorial video convinced me to get it. Great work.

[@madbugger69]

Not even close buddy

[@JohnSmith-ef2sx]

hey bud , that sounds not good . sorry not trying to be a jerk but it sounds very very very bad

[@JonEleyetGuitar]

No worries. Thanks for watching. Is there something that I could have done differently or do you not like the sound quality of the device itself?

[@JohnSmith-ef2sx]

@@JonEleyetGuitar It's a little of both, but mostly the device. The best lead tone is an actual tube amp thats proper eq'd. The pod sounds thin, fizzy and generic. They can be made to sound decent, but never great.

[@JonEleyetGuitar]

Gotcha. I can't argue against a real tube amp. Nothing beats that.

[@fazlichew]

I think u should mind that jon using a modelling amp that preset in the pod, conparing it to real tube amp, just unbelievable man

[@JohnSmith-ef2sx]

@@fazlichew I told him those pods can be made to sound decent. This just doesn't though and I don't want to lie to the guy. I know it's probably not polite, but I'd want someone to tell me.