Overview

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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

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Home Views

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PRESETS

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 flow architecture of each Preset is comprised of 3 main sections where Amp & 

FX Blocks can be positioned: Pre, Post and parallel Paths A & B.