Owner's Manual

Overview
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Overview
Welcome to the POD® HD500 Advanced Guide. This guide contains in-depth details
of the POD HD500 features and functionality. Please be sure to also read through your
POD HD500 Pilot’s Guide for basic info on POD HD500 and this Guide will take it
from there! In this chapter, we’ll present an overview of the main screens and features to
get you started.
This Guide covers POD HD500 with Flash Memory version 2.0 (or later) installed.
Please use Line 6 Monkey to check for and install the latest updates for your device - see
“Appendix A: Line 6 Monkey™” on page A•1.
Home Views
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The place to start is in one of the Home View screens. Press the VIEW button to
rotate through the 3 available Home Views. While in any of these Home View
screens, you can turn the PRESETS knob and call up a Preset in the current
Setlist, or push the PRESETS knob to select from among other Set Lists!
Signal Flow View
The Signal Flow View displays all Amp & FX “Blocks” and their ordering for the current
Preset. As you’ll see in several of the following chapters, this is the screen where you’ll
“select” the desired Block to perform other actions, such as choose a new Amp or FX
Model, edit its parameters, move its position, and more.
Use the and Nav.
Disc buttons to select the
desired Block
Currently loaded Preset
location and title
FX Blocks within
“Pre” position
FX Blocks within
“Post” position
Amp Blocks Looper
Parallel Paths A (upper)
and B (lower) with Mixer
Block
The items within the Signal Flow View
The signal ow architecture of each Preset is comprised of 3 main sections where Amp &
FX Blocks can be positioned: Pre, Post and parallel Paths A & B.