POD HD Desktop?

[Carl Kolchak]

I'm starting to see these going for relatively short money, and was wondering if it might not be worth it to pick one up, assuming it's a noticeable upgrade from POD Farm standard.

Opinions?

 

[AlienProbe974]

I have one! and it's a big upgrade coming from POD farm.

got it going into a EHX 44 magnum and Peavey 6505 Cab

sounds freaking awesome!

can recommend for home useage!

 

[Great Satan]

Its basically the HD500 in bean form, big step up from pod farm.
Use with monitors or speakers, avoid headphones if at all poss.

 

[BlackFalcon17]

It's worth it. POD Farm can barely match up to the HD series. Just do it, you won't have any regrets.

 

[Carl Kolchak]

It's worth it. POD Farm can barely match up to the HD series. Just do it, you won't have any regrets.

I will then.

 

[Chi]

I have it. I make it sound good. It's great. Get it.

 

[Akhenat0n]

Itßs a pretty big step up

 

[Great Satan]

I been playing mine all day, its good for Fear Factory tones.
Use EQ modules after the cabs (primarily 4-band-shift and studio eq are the most versatile) to help further tweak the high gain, for this i only ever use the tread v30 with sm57 off-axis.

 

[Masoo2]

I guess I'm one of the few that doesn't really view it as a step up, more as a side step.

It doesn't nail any of the classic POD Farm/XT/X3 tones (Monuments/TesseracT, Joey Sturgis-type metalcore tone, excellent bass tones, etc) and most distorted examples of the POD HD series that I have heard are honestly very generic. I guess it just seems like people have trouble making unique sounding tones with the HD (Like 90% of every metal demo/cover is just the Treadplate + XXL cab or ANGL + XXL cab with the SM57).

Cleans/lo gain? Great. My vote would always go towards the XT generation for high gain though.

 

[mnemonic]

I think there was a model pack released for the HD a while back and they added in the good metal amps from the XT/X3, namely the 5150 model, and Big Bottom.

Really is no substitute for L6 Big Bottom if you're going for that super compressed and scooped, razor-sharp tesseract / vildhjarta tone. I'm getting nostalgia again, I might fire up the ol' podfarm later today.

 

[Carl Kolchak]

I guess I'm one of the few that doesn't really view it as a step up, more as a side step.

It doesn't nail any of the classic POD Farm/XT/X3 tones (Monuments/TesseracT, Joey Sturgis-type metalcore tone, excellent bass tones, etc) and most distorted examples of the POD HD series that I have heard are honestly very generic. I guess it just seems like people have trouble making unique sounding tones with the HD (Like 90% of every metal demo/cover is just the Treadplate + XXL cab or ANGL + XXL cab with the SM57).

Cleans/lo gain? Great. My vote would always go towards the XT generation for high gain though.

I use the Big Bottom + 1X15 bass cab, and have no real complaints.