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chamelious
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Okay these 2 things appear to be very very similer except the pod is over twice as expensive. Is there a good reason for this? Any reason i should spend the extra on the pod?
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Ed Dixon
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They do similar things. I have the POD Pro and it works well. I bought it on EBay before the V-Amp Pro was out.
If I were doing it again today, I'd start with the lower cost V-Amp Pro. If it did not suit me, I'd sell it on EBay and get the POD.
EBay is a good way to try gear. One can usually buy and sell with not much loss. Almost like renting gear for a month or two.
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If I were doing it again today, I'd start with the lower cost V-Amp Pro. If it did not suit me, I'd sell it on EBay and get the POD.
EBay is a good way to try gear. One can usually buy and sell with not much loss. Almost like renting gear for a month or two.
Ed
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Richard Monroe
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The main reason? Line6 develops technology, Behringer builds it. That said, I own POD Pro 2.0 (not the XT), Bass VAMP Pro, and the VAMP-2 floor unit.
The VAMP has got a lot of clean sounds, and is very intuitive. When you call up a preset, the indicator lights show you all the settings, and it is easy to use, and sounds very good. The POD has got a lot more distortion options. I tend to plug a shredder into the POD, and a blues or jazz guy into the VAMP. In either case, it goes to a power amp, then a cab, then a mic.-Richie
The VAMP has got a lot of clean sounds, and is very intuitive. When you call up a preset, the indicator lights show you all the settings, and it is easy to use, and sounds very good. The POD has got a lot more distortion options. I tend to plug a shredder into the POD, and a blues or jazz guy into the VAMP. In either case, it goes to a power amp, then a cab, then a mic.-Richie
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pennylink
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IMO the PODs aren't that great for the money. If you do like the sound quality of them, I would rather buy a Johnson J-Station (discontinued) off eBay and save myself a bundle.
I would give the Vox Tonelab a spin instead. It's an amp/cab/effects emulator like the others mentioned, but probably comes closer to the real deal (i.e. a tube amp) than anything else on the market at this point in time. The Tonelab is geared towards recording, where as the Tonelab SE is designed for live work.
Take your own guitar and give them all a try at a music store and see which one you like better.
I would give the Vox Tonelab a spin instead. It's an amp/cab/effects emulator like the others mentioned, but probably comes closer to the real deal (i.e. a tube amp) than anything else on the market at this point in time. The Tonelab is geared towards recording, where as the Tonelab SE is designed for live work.
Take your own guitar and give them all a try at a music store and see which one you like better.
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chamelious
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Hmm well i aint loaded and for the price of a pod pro or the others mentioned i could pick up a new v-amp pro and a bass v-amp pro, im sure with the combination of these 2 units i can get pretty much any bass or guitar sound i want.
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bixlmalta
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The V-amp works great noce you get used to it. It has three different studio settings and two live settings as well as some pretty usefull sounds and cabinet emulations.
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triple-zero
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POD XT! with the big footboardchamelious said:
Hard2Hear
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I think it's fair to say that the cost of the Pod is in the research, development, and engineering, as where the total cost of Behringer's R&D is buying a Pod and then reverse-engineering it. You can see where it would be very much less to make the V gear.
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Richard Monroe
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Well, not all of it is reverse engineered. When you bring up a preset on the POD, you have to go look up what amp and cab models were used, and you can only guess at the reverb, EQ, and effects settings. When you bring up a preset on the VAMP, the indicator lights show you the settings for every adjustible parameter at a glance. It took me weeks to understand the POD, hours to understand the VAMP. They are both very useful, but the learning curve with the POD is much steeper.-Richie
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Dimebag
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...as for the V-Amp being a reverse-engineered POD, I can say that I have studied both units midi-implementation very deeply (because I have been working on a patch-conversion tool) and they are miles from each-other. I am perfectly sure that the V-Amp is NOT reverse-engineered. The Sysex-implementations are so different, that I fail to see why Behringer would have changed it so much, as well as removing some (pretty useful) features from the POD's design, and implementing other different functions (also pretty useful)...
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Ed Dixon
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I think it might be more accurate to say that Behringer saw the Line 6 success and decided to make an equivalent unit, with a few of their own twists. In general, that seems to be the Behringer approach.
They started this with the V-Amp and then continued into the V-Amp Pro, where they are much cheaper than POD gear. ($200 vs $600).
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They started this with the V-Amp and then continued into the V-Amp Pro, where they are much cheaper than POD gear. ($200 vs $600).
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ahuimanu
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I sit on the fence on getting this sometimes (I just can't see buying the POD at its price - XT, pro or otherwise).
Oh yeah, it looks like a discussion on this happened here before:
https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=100640&highlight=v-amp
Oh yeah, it looks like a discussion on this happened here before:
https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=100640&highlight=v-amp
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Richard Monroe
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Well, Bob, I wish I could give you an honest answer, but I'm not the strongest guy on bass. I can tell you it is quiet, which is good. My first impression is that the various bass amp models aren't as different from each other as guitar amp models are. It does have some sounds specifically designed for keyboards and pickup based acoustics, which would be a real help to loonies who are comitted to recording acoustic DI. For crystal clear, I just use the Avalon, but the bass VAMP gives me more variety of available sound with EQ and a reverb unit. Generally I work with a couple of kickass bass players who will be happy to dial up their own sound, as long as I can provide the dials. Best I can tell you is- it's a good, versatile bass DI, but there isn't an Avalon in there.-Richie
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