Sorry,...... POD?

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You ARE on crack. I'm not a pro. In fact I spend very little time (far less than I would like) doing anything related to music. I do consider myself a professional writer, but I am far from a professional musician. Also, last time I checked, this is HOMErecording.com, not PROrecording.com.

Anyway, the reason I'm sorry I posted the samples for you is not because you didn't like them, because since I don't know you from Adam, and have no idea of your frame of reference, I can't say that I care. For all I know your favorite guitar sound could be something I think is crap. The reason I'm sorry I posted it at YOUR request is because YOUR comment was totally unhelpful, unconstructive, and therefore added nothing to the discussion but your personal unexplained opinion. Would you say "I don't like PODs" without giving a reason? Nope, I think you're too much of a "pro" to do that, right?

How's this:

Hey, the POD is a great tool for AMATEUR HOME RECORDISTS.
 
My current tube amp is a $100 Electar, 10 watts. :)
I also like the simulators in my VS1680 effect board.

POD people are always very defensive about their PODS.
Bottom line is that sound is always a matter of opinion.
Many people like the subtley and complexity of tube tones.
Many people, apparently, either can't hear it or don't care.

In a thread where people are expressing OPINIONS, it is OK to say "I dislike te POD for this reason...."
or "I love the POD for this reason....."

It is not an attempt to destroy the POD-cult. :)
 
O.K., Thanks to everybody

In some of the posts I read yesterday when I did a search, the sans amp was mentioned as more of an amp modeler. That sounds more along the lines of what I would get a lot of use out of. Like we discussed earlier in the thread, the processed tones using a lot of effects and that unnatural sounding distortion is not at all what I need for my recordings.

The sansamp sounds like it is worth trying also, but it is a bit more expensive. Are there any other good sounding units that describe themselves more as amp modelers then tone modelers? If you know the general prices please post'em just to give me an idea.

Your suggestion of a Blues jr. or something along those lines with a couple of pedals is on the right track for a couple of the sounds I would use a lot. Something that I could run direct will make things easier of course but I'm not deadest against an amp if I can't find something I like.

Thanks
 
Smokepole said:
Thanks again so far
JR#97 which model are you using, what price range.

The Sans Amp PSA-1 seems to be about $500
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I have the Sansamp original pedal. It's been to war and back and looks like it... I would suggest either the tri-ac at $129 or maybe even the GT2. Both of those sound great and are a little easier to tweak although they aren't quite as tweakable as the original/classic. I can't afford a PS-1. If I had that money, I'd buy a real amp to go with the amps I already have.

Actually, I'm really scoping on the Tri-AC. Either that or the Behringer V-Amp.
 
Both the SansAmp original and the SansAmp GT-2 are very usable and pretty cheap. They are, essentially, distortion pedals. I have both and I use them quite a bit. The only thing they really lack is a wide variety of tones. If you can live with 3 basic sounds (Fender/Marshall/Old Boogie) you can live with the SansAmp pedals. The SansAmp PS-1 does a lot more, but costs a lot more too.

If you can stomach the awful sound of digital modeling, the J-Satation, GT-6, POD, DG-Stomp, Genesis, etc. are all good, and they all have their proponents and detractors. I would be wary of the Behringer V-AMP; if you search this site you'll find a lot of people find it to be very noisy. My experience with it was only in a music store, so I won't comment on my own experience.

Good luck.
 
charger said:
Both the SansAmp original and the SansAmp GT-2 are very usable and pretty cheap. They are, essentially, distortion pedals. I have both and I use them quite a bit. The only thing they really lack is a wide variety of tones. If you can live with 3 basic sounds (Fender/Marshall/Old Boogie) you can live with the SansAmp pedals. The SansAmp PS-1 does a lot more, but costs a lot more too.

If you can stomach the awful sound of digital modeling, the J-Satation, GT-6, POD, DG-Stomp, Genesis, etc. are all good, and they all have their proponents and detractors. I would be wary of the Behringer V-AMP; if you search this site you'll find a lot of people find it to be very noisy. My experience with it was only in a music store, so I won't comment on my own experience.

Good luck.
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Actually, I think the Sansamp original is good for more than the 3 you mentioned. I've heard some vox ac30 tones a friend of mine did in Queen style. I've managed to get some cheap crate, cheap peavey, and cheap carvin solid state tones. ;) seriously though, with serious tweaking you can get a lot more out of the original than 3 amp tones. But therein lies the dillema.. the original is sort of a pain to tweak.
 
Yeah, on the original, you have to move around a bunch of DIP switches to set sounds. Supposedly it's more classic, but it's hard for me to tell much difference. I use the GT2 for most sounds, cins it just has a bunch of simple switches. You're right, there are more than 3 sounds, since each sound has 3 variants, but the sounds are rooted in the amps I mentioned. You can fake a lot of sounds out of it, but the approximations with a SansAmp are rough. Still, it sounds pretty good for solid state. Won't probably ever fool anyone that it's a tube amp, but it can record direct and sound ok...
 
I was thinking of getting either a POD or Genesis 3, after doing alot of research, I went with the Genesis 3, and I'm glad I did.
 
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