POD XT Live

[Quicksilver689]

Re: POD XT Live

I've owned an XTL for a few years now. I used it with a Variax for a film project a couple years ago and the combination was awesome for recording. That said, when my band started recording a CD, the POD stayed at home and the tube amps came to the studio.

Overall, I find the POD to be a very useful, if not particularly inspiring, piece of kit. It's very much a sonic Swiss Army Knife. It's definitely cheaper than buying the whole "toolbox" but is limited at the same time. It can cop a whole slew of amps / cabs/ FX but doesn't do any of them particularly well.

Overall, it fills the same role among my amps/FX that my Variax fills with my guitars. It lets me come up with a facsimile of a lot of "classic" tones that I couldn't otherwise cover. My non-modeling gear is all about nailing the "Alec Lee" tone. For those occasions where that's not called for, the XTL is very useful.

My my....that's a mighty fine looking Driskill Diablo guitar you have there in that link to the studio! Knowing your disdain for Ed Roman, did you get that from Ed while he still carried them or no? I've always thought those were really nice instruments, and when I first started going to Ed's website many moons ago (may have even been when the site first started for all I know) it was one of the first episodes of G.A.S. for me...I'm sure that guitar is nothing short of amazing!

sidebar - I'm not wanting to :hijacked: this thread or start another Ed Roman rant one way or the other - please let's not go there again...I just wanted to focus on that awesome Driskill Diablo for a minute