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

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  • Опубліковано 13 тра 2019
  • What's up guys?! 80's guitar tones are super trendy right now. I guess we're just trying to resuscitate those familiar tones from our childhood. Anyways, I put together a UA-cam video showing you how to create classic 80's guitar tones on the Line 6 POD HD500x. Honestly, you don't need to be a tone-weaving-wizard to achieve great 80's tones. You just need a tight, compressed clean tone and some type of modulation effect. Chorus is definitely the most iconic modulation effect, but in the video I'll show you two other Mod effects that are super prevalent in 80's music that will expand your tonal pallet. For achieving 80's dirty-tones, just use an overdriven British amp along with the modulation effects. In the demo, I only use amp models on the 500x, but of course you could ditch the amp models and plug into a 'real' amp.
    My signal chain: Guitar - 500x - audio interface - computer. For the video, I'm not using 'real' amps, I'm just using the amp sims on the 500x.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 38

  • @nightfallstrings849
    @nightfallstrings849 Рік тому +4

    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
    @julianwilsonsongwritermusi9413 2 роки тому +1

    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

  • @gaud20299
    @gaud20299 5 років тому +1

    I like that format , very informative. thank you

  • @edruiz1202
    @edruiz1202 5 років тому +1

    Aweome video man! Great sound!

  • @pramoniro
    @pramoniro 5 років тому +1

    thats awesome man❤️🙏

  • @CasperNuada
    @CasperNuada 2 роки тому

    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.

  • @Bridging_the_Political_Divide
    @Bridging_the_Political_Divide 2 роки тому

    Great tones.

  • @hollowmenrule
    @hollowmenrule 4 роки тому

    Good demos

  • @weslleymelo
    @weslleymelo 3 роки тому +1

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

  • @robertsimmons7814
    @robertsimmons7814 4 роки тому

    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.

  • @theatremusician
    @theatremusician Рік тому

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

  • @samuelyanuarrusli4054
    @samuelyanuarrusli4054 4 роки тому +1

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

    • @JonEleyetGuitar
      @JonEleyetGuitar  4 роки тому

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

  • @johanndaart7326
    @johanndaart7326 3 роки тому +1

    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.

  • @josemartinez2332
    @josemartinez2332 3 роки тому

    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

  • @milicorrea8415
    @milicorrea8415 4 роки тому +4

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

  • @duniaphotoshop4863
    @duniaphotoshop4863 3 роки тому

    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

  • @alvianecoracing2795
    @alvianecoracing2795 2 роки тому

    +tube drive👍

  • @DrAnkitJangid
    @DrAnkitJangid 2 роки тому

    I like 80s

  • @JSmith-mu3fq
    @JSmith-mu3fq 4 роки тому +1

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

    • @JonEleyetGuitar
      @JonEleyetGuitar  4 роки тому +3

      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.

  • @edruiz1202
    @edruiz1202 5 років тому

    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
      @JonEleyetGuitar  5 років тому +3

      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
      @edruiz1202 5 років тому

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

  • @arroncajigas4260
    @arroncajigas4260 Рік тому

    How about build 90's tone Jon.

  • @santunurajacob
    @santunurajacob 3 роки тому

    Can you edit banjo tone...

  • @madbugger69
    @madbugger69 3 роки тому +1

    Not even close buddy

  • @JohnSmith-ef2sx
    @JohnSmith-ef2sx 4 роки тому +2

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

    • @JonEleyetGuitar
      @JonEleyetGuitar  4 роки тому

      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
      @JohnSmith-ef2sx 4 роки тому

      @@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
      @JonEleyetGuitar  4 роки тому

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

    • @fazlichew
      @fazlichew 3 роки тому

      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
      @JohnSmith-ef2sx 3 роки тому

      @@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.