line 6 toneport ux1

[fuzzyhair]

I think its called... I was wondering if this would be a good buy for someone wanting to record guitar, bass, and vocals. It looks like a nice little deal. I have usb 2.0, so i doubt i will get latency. I am using Audacity to record because I cant afford anything better. Other than that it is a good program. I figured by buying this it would be the cheapest way for me to record a demo or possibly a whole album. I will be using a keyboard to get the drums, so thats not really a problem. So do you guys think I should get the line 6 or is there something better in the low $100 price range?
Thanks

ps i am also checking out a program called hydrogen for drums. I have messed around with it for a couple of days and I like it, but I cant seem to make a good drum beat for rock. Im a guitarists, and i know how i want them to sound, but i cant get it. I guess more practice will help.

Oh and one last thing, will this work with audacity. If not is there a free alternative. Will Kristal work with it. Thanks in advance.

 

[PaulKarate]

I recently purchased the UX2 and I love it! It comes with the Line 6 Gearbox software which is what you use to get all the tones. There is nothing better out there for the price range, period.

I mean there is the Tascam USB-122 which is esentially the same thing, a USB interface for recording sound files to your computer. I believe it retails for about the same price give or take a few bucks.

Each of these two units has one thing the other doesn't:

Tascam has a 16 channel midi input Line 6 does not.
Line 6 has the gearbox amp modeling software included with it and comes with a limited version of Abelton multitrack software, the Tascam comes with absolutley nothing!


What I did is I bought a USB powered Midi interface to solve this issue, it only cost me $20. no big deal. Granted the midi input is a single channel rather than 16 channel like the Tascam. The diffrence here is time, it takes way longer to send midi data since your doing it one channel at a time rather than 16 like you would with the Tascam. For the budget I'm on this in a non issue to me.

You could buy the Tascam if you really wanted the 16 midi channels and then get a seperate guitarport for the guitars. My thing was why buy two pieces of hardware (USB port/Guitarport) when I could just get it all in one with the TONEPORT.

I hope this helps. I really spent time researching this before I actually bought either of the two.

Paul

 

[fuzzyhair]

I recently purchased the UX2 and I love it! It comes with the Line 6 Gearbox software which is what you use to get all the tones. There is nothing better out there for the price range, period.

I mean there is the Tascam USB-122 which is esentially the same thing, a USB interface for recording sound files to your computer. I believe it retails for about the same price give or take a few bucks.

Each of these two units has one thing the other doesn't:

Tascam has a 16 channel midi input Line 6 does not.
Line 6 has the gearbox amp modeling software included with it and comes with a limited version of Abelton multitrack software, the Tascam comes with absolutley nothing!


What I did is I bought a USB powered Midi interface to solve this issue, it only cost me $20. no big deal. Granted the midi input is a single channel rather than 16 channel like the Tascam. The diffrence here is time, it takes way longer to send midi data since your doing it one channel at a time rather than 16 like you would with the Tascam. For the budget I'm on this in a non issue to me.

You could buy the Tascam if you really wanted the 16 midi channels and then get a seperate guitarport for the guitars. My thing was why buy two pieces of hardware (USB port/Guitarport) when I could just get it all in one with the TONEPORT.

I hope this helps. I really spent time researching this before I actually bought either of the two.

Paul

thanks man. I just called up the local music store and they were all like," I read about them having problems." I was thinking that even if i had a problem, i could just send it back. But i think im gonna buy one soon.

 

[PaulKarate]

What type of problems did you/they read about? Do you have any links you could send my way?

 

[fuzzyhair]

What type of problems did you/they read about? Do you have any links you could send my way?

i dunno i didnt really ask about it, they were just concerned because its a new product. I think it will work fine though. Hey do you think you can upload a sound file of a good metal tone on yousendit? I really wanna hear this. Oh and can you change the high, mid, low, gain, stuff of that sort. thanks.

 

[PaulKarate]

All you need to do is go to line6.com

go to products then computer based recording then select tone port

It will give you all you need to know about the product and audio samples!!

I don't have enough guitar or bass samples (or enough variety) to share with you. You can get just about any tone your looking for not only the ones you hear samples of on the site.

One thing I forgot to mention the first time is the toneport has not only guitar amps simulators but also bass amp simulators and a bunch of vocal pre amps. All the different vocal samples are on the site.

In closing this unit has
Guitar bass and vocal amps! It has line ins for line instruments like drum machines and keys and monitor inmputs if you just want to play along to a drum machine loop and not record it. It also has analog outputs for a PA system, a hardware digital recorder, a tape deck or whatever else you would want to send the audio to.

YEAH!!!!!11 it's pretty awesome.

Let me know once your done checking out the site and if it answers all your questions. If not I'll be happy to help answer any other questions you may have.

This forum has helped me so much it's actually nice to be able to help someone else out.

 

[fuzzyhair]

All you need to do is go to line6.com

go to products then computer based recording then select tone port

It will give you all you need to know about the product and audio samples!!

I don't have enough guitar or bass samples (or enough variety) to share with you. You can get just about any tone your looking for not only the ones you hear samples of on the site.

One thing I forgot to mention the first time is the toneport has not only guitar amps simulators but also bass amp simulators and a bunch of vocal pre amps. All the different vocal samples are on the site.

In closing this unit has
Guitar bass and vocal amps! It has line ins for line instruments like drum machines and keys and monitor inmputs if you just want to play along to a drum machine loop and not record it. It also has analog outputs for a PA system, a hardware digital recorder, a tape deck or whatever else you would want to send the audio to.

YEAH!!!!!11 it's pretty awesome.

Let me know once your done checking out the site and if it answers all your questions. If not I'll be happy to help answer any other questions you may have.

This forum has helped me so much it's actually nice to be able to help someone else out.

So if I wanted to could I record raw sound through a mic without any changes to the sound? also my amp has a extention speaker line in the back of it (it doesnt have a line out) and I was wondering if i could run a cable from that to my the toneport UX1 and still maintain good sound. Thanks for all your help.