Wouldn't POD need a mic emulator too?

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It struck me why I mayeb don't like speaker emulators. They emulate the SPEAKERS of an amp, but not the mic picking up the sound. So how can I then expect a lined POD to sound like a Fender Twin miced by an SM57?

Am I right or what? Why have nobody thought of that?
 
Maybe you missed the point. Why would you want a mic emulator in conjuntion with an amp modeler? Then what, room emulator, guitar emulator, guitar player emulator. Opinion Emulator.

It's a DI device, if you want mic emulation I think there is a DX plugin for that.
 
Want the sound of a certain mic? Put POD into your amps power amp inputs and mic the amp with the mic you want.

meeko
 
Yeah, Emeric, its a DI device. And what the use of emulating so you can DI if you don't DI the whole chain? None.

No, I'm not gonna mic my power amp, even if that could work. I'll just not buy a POD, I'll by a real amp instead, and mic it. :)
 
You rich gear nazi's. POD's are for poor people. If it was as good as $4000 stacks it would cost $4000. The point is it sounds better and is more versatile than most mid-priced amps.


And what I meant was to put the POD into of the power amp input of your guitar amp. That way you have control over the room, mic, and other shit.

I hate to be a dick about this but sometimes you old guys don't realize that not everything is made for you, POD is for people on a budget. I 100% agree that the Boogie sound on a POD doesn't have the dynamics of a cranked Boogie stack, but its close enough for me.

Sorry in advance for being a prick,
Meeko
 
When I'm talking about buying a REAL amp, I'm talking about buying a real amp for top $300. Because I think that sound better than a DI'd POD. I may be rich, but not THAT rich.

$4000! I wish. Thats what my whole studio is worth in total.
 
NO, NO, NO, NO, NO! Damn!

:confused:Look, I'm not going to say the Pod sounds good or bad, only that everyone seems to miss the point. And no, you don't need a mic emulator- it's already there.

As I posted a few months ago on a Pod thread, it's not meant to be used with an amp, it's not meant to be used with a mic, when you get right down to it, it's really not even meant to be listened to until after it's recorded.

The sounds are not modeled amps, but modeled recorded amps; thus, the mic and room and amp is all taken into consideration in the model.

Of course you can't play through Event 20/20's and sound like a half-stack or a leslie or any amp for that matter. What you can do is maybe- now I'm not arguing this point for or against- is get pretty close to what a recorded half-stack or leslie would sound like through your monitors.

Sometimes I do use pod as front end for my tube amp and am quite happy with the sound, probably because I'm not trying to sound like whatever the knob setting is called. I could care less what it's supposed to sound like.

Pod is simply another tool. If I had tons of expensive amps and pedals, I'd still use it. Maybe not as much...
 
So it DOES have a mic modeled in? Well, then I'm back to the old explanation of: The modeling sucks.

I don't think it cuts the cheese. To me the POD sounds only marginally better than lining my floor stomper fuzzbox.
 
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