Adorerofblood
Hi All
I purchased a Line 6 Pod Studio UX2 just over a year ago, but never actually used it much as I was having some problems with it. I thought the problems were related to me not using the thing correctly, but yesterday after a frustrating session of trying to get it to work, I've concluded that it is actually faulty.
It's unfortunatley past the warranty date (silly of me), so what I want to know is, do our local music stores (or any company for that matter) repair such equipment, or does it have to actually be sent to Line 6? Also, would it even be worth the costs of repairing it, as I assume its going to be rather expensive.
Thanks
AlanRatcliffe
Marshall Music are the distributors, so should keep spares and have a repair person lined up. Also search/ask for the problem on the Line 6 Forum, see if it is a known issue.
What exactly is the problem?
Adorerofblood
Yes, I purchased it from them.
I have already posted it on the Line 6 Forum, and after following their instructions it seemed to sort the problem out, but it's back. Sorry for my technical terms:
I'm using Reaper; when I add a new track, regardless of whether my guitar is plugged into the ux2 or not, there appears to be a HUGE input coming from the POD. When I select monitoring ON, the dials on the ux2 fly up to maximum and hover there. I went into my windows sound settings and selected an option to allow me to hear (through my headphones) what was coming from the ux2 - as I selected the option, I basically had to rip the phones off my head from the noise that it was making... I've tried almost every combination of bit depth and buffer size, and nothing even makes the slightest difference.
When I originally tried it out, I was running the Windows XP with the drivers that came with the POD. I'm now running Windows 7 with the latest ux2 drivers..... sigh
AlanRatcliffe
Sounds like a feedback loop, which can be software (driver or DAW), hardware or any combination therof. Often it's the way you have a hardware mixer set up.
Adorerofblood
Thanks Alan - perhaps there is hope then ?
AlanRatcliffe
Just check your signal path carefully to make sure you are not feeding the output of your card into the input. That's what does it. I once blew an interface that way, so I'm really careful now.
When using a mixer as part of the setup I try make sure the inputs of the interface are from either a second output bus or an aux send (preferably post fade) and that the output from the interface is always on an aux return (which has no aux sends, so difficult to mistakenly set up a feedback loop). Never, ever have your interface inputs running off the main mixer outputs...
