Line 6 POD X3 vs UX2 - help please?

[chopsalot]

Hi Guys,

I am looking to record each individual note on a fretboard for an iphone application I am creating. As such I think it will be best to record it clean and then apply effects to it later (this way I only have to do it once rather than recording multiple times with different effects - also so I can tweak it till its perfect).

I've just been in a shop and the guy showed me Line 6 UX2 (which is just a direct recording interface) + POD Farm - which looks exactly what I need. I would just use the VST plugin and record the sounds clean and use that to alter them later. However.. I dont usually have too much use for recording equipment outside this project. I thought if I got the POD X3 I could use it for exactly the same but then I could have a multi effects hardware processor that I could just practice with or plug straight into an amp etc afterwards.

For anyone that has a X3 though, I have a few noobish questions:

1. What I described is possible right? You can choose to pass the guitar sound straight to POD Farm/DAW without any effects applied, just as you would with a UX2 ? Then use POD Farm to post-hoc apply the effect.

2. The UX2 has a 1/4" output, so you can basically plug you're guitar into the UX2, alter it in POD Farm, this signal is then passed back through the USB and output to an AMP connect to the 1/4" output on the UX2. Is a similar setup available in the X3? Or can you only pass sound to the 1/4" that originates from the hardware DSP in the X3 ?

3. Lastly, can anyone think of any reasons why I would choose one over the other for the purpose of my recording project?

Thanks for any input you can give me guys!

 

[TetraFish]

The X3 will not just pass a dry signal. You can turn everything off but it wont be the same as plugging a guitar into the UX2. I've got an X3 and have recorded some stuff with it and it works fine. If you don't think you'll have much use for a recording interface I'd go with the pedal. You should probably be looking at the newer HD line if you're gonna go with an FX pedal.

 

[chopsalot]

The X3 will not just pass a dry signal. You can turn everything off but it wont be the same as plugging a guitar into the UX2. I've got an X3 and have recorded some stuff with it and it works fine. If you don't think you'll have much use for a recording interface I'd go with the pedal. You should probably be looking at the newer HD line if you're gonna go with an FX pedal.

Tbh I was probably thinking I'd just be using it with headphones mostly - hence the bean...

I have heard with the X3 you can pass just the dry signal to the computer but have the wet signal coming out of the headphones as you play... have you not found this?

 

[TetraFish]

I could be wrong but I don't think so. I remember looking this up before and if IRC you can't do it. You could go in as clean as possible and use POD Farm and then listen to the monitor in the software but there might be too much latency.