POD XT - Easy To Get Good Tones?

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it takes some coaxing and some knowledge of what goes well with what to get good tones out. But once you do, man it can be a best friend. If you're going to get a POD XT get the XT LIVE, the floor board model, you don't regret having it in a stomp form, easier to tweak, easier to use, and if you do decide you want to use it for recording or to play live it's much better than a normal POD XT with the floor board attachments.
 
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I have a PodXT Live and have used it in a number of live and studio settings. I've always found it to be easy to get great sounds with it. It won't take the place of a Marshall or anything, but they sound great.

You can hear some samples at
http://www.myspace.com/9yu

All of these were recorded using a PodXT Live direct into the console.....
 
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Even I can figure out how to tweak a POD. Editing presets is VERY easy, and can be done quickly.

ALL of my clips were recorded with the POD xt Live with Cakewalk Pro Audio 9.

Clip 1

Clip 2

Clip 3
 
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guitarded said:
I think one other thing I hated about the PODXt is that overdriven patches do not respond to your guitar controls like a tube amp. They don't clean up the same way.
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That's curious...I found that mine did.
 
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LS, I heard your clips, I'm not sure what all this talk of lack of skill comes from, you sounded really good, lol!

Noisenet, your clips had such a great rocking feel to them, it does sound like a real, excellent amplifier that you are going through. As for the exact model comparison, I won't go there, since I don't know, but it sounds great, and I think that is what really matters.

Skarekrough said:
The thing I found, and which was actually covered in the manual, was that you need to tweak patches for each use.

Line 6 was really good about this and talked about it really early on. Additionally some very easy logic had to be assumed; the cab simulation is going to add or detract some things and when you use an actual cab it's an entirely different world and you need to take that into consideration.

I was in a pinch and ran my PodXT through a Crate PowerBlock and a Marshall 2 x 12 cab. I had about two days to pull it together before the audition and it took a little tweaking. In the end I found that I was best served by copying the patch, removing the Cab Sim, setting the unit for the proper output and then all that was required was a little EQing and probably a slight drop in the Drive. As a defined process I could see this happening pretty easily with most patches I would need through that rig.

I put together three patches, the one I used the most was a Marshall Plexi patch and that tone just killed! It really gave the other guitar player a run for his money tonally; he found that it had some edge over his high-gain amp and just made it sound alot smaller.

I guess, yeah. You need to take account for the patches and tailor them for the use. But then again, you do that with an amp when you play a gig in a bar, club or whatever. If the room is boomy or bassy or dead you need to tweak and a digital setup is going to be no different. The only issue is that if you use a bunch of patches and intend to use them all then you will need to tweak them all.

The upside I have found is that with the USB option and software I can easily back everything up. I really wish they'd do a software version for a handheld; the appeal of being able to have the deep level of control that's found in a laptop would be nice in something more appropriate for a gig. But aside from that my patches get backed up and I can totally see taking those tweaked patches post-gig and saving them on the laptop as a group with the idea that when I gigged there again I could just restore them and pick up where I left off.
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This info is exactly the answer to what I was wonder, thank you for explaining that through. Someone I talked to said that the Amp Cab sims cannot be turned off, I thought that sounded silly....I'm glad you corrected that erroneous statement.
 
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davedvdy, you said it best:
"As for the exact model comparison, I won't go there, since I don't know, but it sounds great, and I think that is what really matters."

AMEN!!

brisk, thanks for the clarification on your setup. once again, your clips sounded great.
 
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Update: I purchased a POD XT today...and I really love the thing. MUCH easier to dial and edit in sounds...I am able to edit patches much faster. I might return it for the "live" version, but I am still contemplating that. I added the Bass Expansion pack, and I am extremely impressed w/that as well... I should've played around more w/all the models, but I kept getting stuck on the Tweed Bassman emulation.

Thank you Skarey, for all your info and to Brisk, LS and others for your info and those who posted your clips, that helped a lot...
 
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brisk said:
Very easy because you don't have to change anything.

JCM800 patch (13A): http://wonsuckchoi.com/mp3/jcm800.mp3

Blackface Deluxe patch (1C): http://wonsuckchoi.com/mp3/deluxe.mp3

Twin Reverb patch (6C): http://wonsuckchoi.com/mp3/twin reverb.mp3
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Great tones! I have a question though: your JCM800 clip sounds killer. I have a PodXT Live and my 800 patch doesn't sound like that at all. It's really high gain and quite unruly as opposed to an 800's lower gain crunch. I was told they used a modded 800 for the modelling process of that amp. I have a stock '84 JCM800 2204 that I run with my band, the Line 6 model sounds nothing like it.

This being said, I also have a Guitar Port and the STOCK 800 model on that sounds more like what you have in your clip. I put the emphasis on the word "stock" because once I did the software update thing, it completely changed the 800 model to exactly what's in the PodXT Live, the way too overdriven sound.
 
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Mephis said:
That's pretty damn impressive.


*edit* just read what you recorded it with.
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Mephis, I know what you have thought about Line 6 products, from what you have said, as I thought that too, since I owned a POD 2.0 and it went back to Guitar Center like 3 days later, but this thing is really good, IMO!
 
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I'd like to hear some clips of someone tweaking up the hiwatt model. That seemed to be the most amp like sounding one when I checked it out on the line 6 site.
 
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