line 6 pod xt pro

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i am drummer, and also a passionate guitarist too. i have my recording setup whch can record my drums n it sounds ace. ive s[ent alot of money on getting the drum sound wicked. as i also love recording guitar, i want some kind of guitar preamp thing which can give me many different sounds depending on the type of track i am making.

after seeing the line 6 pod xt pro, i love the sound of what it can do, sounds very versatile!

the thing is, ive heard some clips of it on websites n it sounds good, but i would like some advice from people who have experienced it 1st hand. how does it sound, is it worth the price, i can afford it quite easily but i dont want to sepdn this amount of cash for it to be a waste! anyway, any feedback on this lovely looking tool would be great. cheers guys

Steve
 
drummersteve said:
the thing is, ive heard some clips of it on websites n it sounds good, but i would like some advice from people who have experienced it 1st hand. how does it sound, is it worth the price, i can afford it quite easily but i dont want to sepdn this amount of cash for it to be a waste! anyway, any feedback on this lovely looking tool would be great. cheers guys
Steve
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I'm not so sure they are worth the price when you can get a V-Amp Pro for much. much less. I've yet to hear anyone do something with the POD that for the most part can't be done with a V-Amp, especially using distorted model settings. The POD is probably built better but if you handle a V-amp with a little care it should be fine....and substantially cheaper. I've also been hearing a lot of good about the Vox modellers, but I haven't tried one out yet. I have owned a Digitech but never could get a decenct distortion out of it, at least not compred to POD or V-Amp.
 
I have a friend who has 3, 1 older model and 2 new (the church that he plays at bought him 1) He brings it over to record direct with and gets good tones, but not great tones as far as metal or heavy stuff. The clean tones are nice.
 
Well, you record drums so you understand the give a little, take a little approach. Just realize that you won't get everything you want from any box, whether it's a V-amp, or a POD, or Guitar Rig. If you also have a nice tube amp and a box you will be able to do pretty much anything you want to do.
 
the vox tonelab is amazing.

for cheaper, check out the Johnson J-station. I think they are better than the behringers.
 
Supercreep said:
Well, you record drums so you understand the give a little, take a little approach. Just realize that you won't get everything you want from any box, whether it's a V-amp, or a POD, or Guitar Rig. If you also have a nice tube amp and a box you will be able to do pretty much anything you want to do.
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I have the regular PodXT which is running around $299.99. I'm very happy with it. It works well for home recording demos.

But it is a box and even a non-tone freak will tell you too much gain on the distorted settings will give your tone's a digital feel. Most of us who have had success with the Pod usually forget the presets and just modify a channel untill we get a sound we like.

Check out Ebay, they usually have a high supply of the PodXt, Pod 2.0 and V-amps
 
Do a search and you will find a lot of threads about this, and it is often a heated debate.

I think all the Pod stuff is awful and screw up records really badly. Its not just the Pod but all the amp modeling stuff. In short the stuff does not sound even remotely close to what it claims to emulate but it also screws up the sound of the other things in the mix.

Do a search on the site and you will find several people that disagree with me.
 
I have a Vetta II head and to be honest, if i was only playing one style of music i'd definitely have bought an amp specifically suited to the sound i wanted for that style. In terms of versatility and convenience they're awesome (which is why i bought it) but on pure sound alone id have to say that a "real" amp mic'd well would absolutely kill it. That said it is very possible to get some very usable sounds out of the line 6 range (so far i've regularly used a pod pro, a bass pod pro, a flextone II head, and my vetta II head) but just dont expect to get a sound that will blow you away. Thats just my taste though, you may dig the sounds it gives you which is fair enough.
 
Hey man,

I'm a drummer who plays guitar as well...I've had a Pod XT for recording because I can't justify an expensive amp and I like the variety it gives.

The clean / slightly dirty sounds are really nice. With a little EQ, they can work wonders. The heavier and metal sounds are a bit fizzy and require quite a bit more attention. My belief is that the amp, cabinet, and microphone models overemphasize these frequencies more than they would be present in a real-world recording situation (an MD421 on a T75 Marshall cab doesn't have the nasty response it does in the XT).

If you're just gonna use it to lay down some scratch tracks or clean work with effects, I highly recommend it. If you want to do some heavier stuff, you may have to run the XT through a power amp and cabinet (or the Atomic amp for it) to smooth out that response. And as somebody mentioned before, if you only play one style of music and need a couple particular sounds, I'd recommend saving a bit more and getting yourself an amp that does that style.

Check out the Line 6 forum to read about their experience:
http://www.line6.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi

- Jarick
 
I've got the original POD Pro... I like it... can sound a bit thin on it's own... but it's a great tool... never regretted the purchase... but it's just that, just another tool... not the have-all, end-all, for tracking guitars...

Oh... If it blew up tomorrow... I'd save the money... and pick up a V-Amp
 
thanks for the response guys, i was expecting that the gain would be fizzy rather than a powerful sound.
Yareek, id be using it for all sorts of styles, i play drums in a kind of rocky punky band which requires a really crisp guitar sound to bring out all the riffs the guitarists do. one guitarist currently owns an engl amp, which i thik sounds great. his gain setting on his distorted channel is rarely above half way/two thirds, which keeps it really crisp yet powerful. perhaps because of this it wont sound too fizzy? i rarely do metal stuff, im not a great fan. i also jam loads of funk, swing, jazz, hiphop type stuff with another m8, who requires a much cleaner sound, which you describe as being nice. i think really il have to pop into my local shop n try it out 4myself. thanks again. cheers everyone for the other suggestions, il look in2 them too. thanks again.

steve
 
ive read some other threads n behringer has been highly reccomended many times. plus the price tag has swung my prefferation! but im guna keep on looking, i gotta go n have a go on these things n see what i think personally. anyway, thanks again guys, your advice greatly appreciated!
 
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