The POD HD has substantially fewer models than POD FARM. They may have a similar shape, but they’re very different things. Comparing this to POD FARM is kind of like comparing apples and onions. This review is specific to the 500 as it’s the only unit I have (and have played through). 
Why? Because when the power goes out at my place for 4 days and I have to type this from a coffee shop, being able to discretely pull out an electric and play in a corner with a set of headphones (and not take up multiple tables) is a GOOD THING!Ĭonclusion #1: If you’re the type of person who like’s to get a great tone and park it – this may be a good option for you.Ĭonclusion #2: If you’re the type of person who wants to reference guitar tones (clean, dirty etc.) but then go beyond that into the stratosphere tonally – this is the unit for you.Ĭonclusion #3: If you want more amp, effect or cab options than you ever imagined – you know the drill.Ĭonclusion #4: If you expect different tones from your guitar when you roll off the volume, or the thought of using a laptop guitar on stage makes you nervous, this may not be the unit for you. It means that I can run (for example) pre-amps or compressors in my AU LAB shell anywhere in the signal chain.
Breaking out POD Farm into individual elements is really smart – and very cool. I can run two rigs with more pedals than I could ever run live and, furthermore, when I run it through the Atomic tube amp – even the 44k sounds come alive and works well live. I can get sounds out of this rig that I could never get out of a conventional amp. #Pod farm 2.5 download plus
On the plus side the laptop functionality of POD FARM is awesome. This is to be expected, but there are certain models that are unusable at 44k. The second thing is that there’s a BIG sonic difference in the distorted sounds between 44 and 96k. There are ways to circumnavigate this (and you can definitely adjust your playing around it), but when playing through it, you’re definitely playing a good sounding model rather than an amp. But if you roll back on the volume, it’s not going to clean up the way a real Marshall would. By that I mean, if you have a Marshall sound with a killing setting that you dig, then that’s great. The first thing about POD FARM to recognize is that the amps are more like specific snapshots of amps than fully realized models. 
For tonal flexibility – it’s really cool. When I made my initial post about this, I didn’t have the 2 units to compare, but I do now and here are my thoughts. There’s been a lot of interest in the posts on this site regarding modeling, POD Farm and POD HD. Computers, and models and amp sims – OH MY!
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