Clean guitar tone from pod

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Time marches on and POD is not the only game in town. Some new players have emerged with the next generation of tone. On the high end Voodoo Labs has a single space 2 channel rack with valves and if you can trust their mp3 demo it's a pretty decent direct to tape sound. No effects or loop, just tone.

Just when we all hate Digitech they come out with the GNX2. Way more complex than POD. The setup lets you blend two amps together for your tone. The eq and cabinet selections are limitless and you notice a huge diff between cab types. The virtual stompboxes are fantastic sounding, especially the ts808, sparkle drive and DS-1. The effects including verb are way more studio quality than the POD. You can run 9 at once. The speaker sim on this one is excellent. Check it out. Needs a little tweaking and patience. I got this one.

Consider Valvetronix as well. You get the double bonus of direct out and tasty studio/gig live amp. The UK Blues in particular knocked me out.

The Vetta is a pretty decent amp in its own right. Same double duty as Vox But now we're spending a lot of $$. The preamp version (POD3? of this will be
a good studio friend.

Guitar tone in your studio is too important to settle for less than what you want. This is one area where I encourage people to spend a little more and do it right.

Let's all encourage the manufacturers to keep plowing forward with direct technology. We are the winners as these things improve.

Peace and Seasons Greetings.

CerealChamp
 
I've been thinking about a POD 2.0.

I've read all I can here and other places (these sites that have a search of past posts are great) and come to the conlusion that each, POD, Johnson, Behring, etc. all do a pretty fair job.
The difference is what the buyer is looking for sound wise.
Isn't that the bottom line?
Sorry if this seems like a lame question, but that's what it seems like to me.
Being new, six months, into homerecording, all this stuff and gear still boggles my mind. I've played music for a while, but this recording gear is a bit different.

I'm planning a day to go to Tacoma and try out all the PODs, Johnsons, Behringers and what ever else they have, then decide what sounds best to my half deaf ear. I will also use the same guits to try them on as I use here at home.

Most posts I read just say, "Get a Behringer, I have one.' or something to that effect. The way I see it, is this guy may not play the style, sound and way I do. If I were to play like him then it would be an easy decision.

Right? Wrong?

What would you buy? Oh, wait!!!!! Did I ask that????
Don't answer.
 
Badgas,

I have the POD 2.0. I am happy with it. It is pretty versitile and can obatin quite a wide variety of sounds. The clean tones are a bit to be desired and take a lot of work to get one that stands out in all areas. I have found some decent ones though. Also, I like the POD because it is very quiet when recording direct. I used to have a Zoom 9002 that I used for quite a while. The sounds were nice, but it was very noisy. Also, there is software that comes with the POD that allows you to tweak the paramenters on your computer and then store them there or transfer them to the POD. I also play my bass through the POD for direct recording and it works very well too. But you are right, take a look at all of the ones out there. I have little experience with the others, but find that many of them produce a slighlty over processed overdrive, and often don't emulate traditional amps well. Good luck,

Fangar
 
Thanks Fanger.
From all I've read, the guys who have used more than one, prefer the POD. Some like the Vamp etc.
But I will decide when I play with all of them.
Thanks again for the review. It was interesting.
 
I mean, seriously, with J-Stations going brand new for $125 - $149, just get one. The POD/J-Station thing isn't either/or. No one will put you in jail for having both.

In my opinion, the J-Stations have _great_ clean sounds, which is why I like mine so much. The new firmware also has "Direct" settings as well, which is just straight guitar input that you can run through various speaker models or just run through as an untreated signal converted to 24/44.1 digital through the invaluable S/PDIF digital out (which the POD unfortunately doesn't have).

It goes without saying that you should run the J-Station via J-Edit to get the good stuff out of it.
 
Thanks for the info. I might check one of those J-stations out. For that price, I would be happy with the clean tones alone if they are as good as you say.

Cheers,

Fangar
 
If you're considering another direct recording distortion box and want good raw tone, be sure to consider the SansAmp line when checking out the others. No fru-fru effects, just excellent raw tone.
 
here's 3 decent clean sounds, made with an ibanez s series, ont the neck humbucker. you need to have your computer/POD MIDI hookup and sounddiver working to open these sounds. tell me what ya think...
 

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hey David,

i listened to some of your stuff. i really like Talk Candy. i'm listening as i write.

-kp-
 
i hated my pod 2.0 thought it sounded like bunk, but then i front ended it with a art tube mp, it sounds pretty darn good,
once i ran it through my monitors and miced it, not bad
best- front end the pod with the art mp then run it through my radius 40 very good
o one thing,
i only use it recording with a single channel from the headphone out, not the regular outs, i don't know why but it sounds MUCH
better that way
i think there is a lesson here......
 
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