Question to you Boss GT / Pod guys!

[NickCormier]

Ok. I have more dilemnias with the effects junk.

I have a Pod X3, upgraded from my XT (which I was decently satisfied with). Unfortunately, I goto music college and I cant bring my rig because no car, my rig right now includes a Carvin T100 tube poweramp, and flat response speakers. This obviously makes the Pod X3 sound great.

But when I goto school and use either the crappy Roland Cube 10s, or Fender Deluxe's, obviously the Pod sounds like junk. I tried tweaking for days, still cant get it to sound as decent as normal stomp boxes, even turning amp simulation off its weird..

So, I was going to buy a Boss ME-50, which apparently is a multi effects unit that reacts more like stomp boxes, but apparently the GT's are better, and sound more "realistic" like Boss stomp boxes? And you can turn off amp simulation and such easier, and much easier to adjust patchs on the actual unit itself?

Theres vids of my idol, Marty Friedman, going thru a GT-6 straight into a Crate blue voodoo, and he gets such an amazing tone.. So that sounds like it could accomplish my goal, of going straight into a normal amp and making it sound great.

Anyone have insight on both of these units, and does the GT feel more like actual effects, rather than the pod, which isnt versitile enogh to be moved around to different amps without major altering?

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Question to you Boss GT / Pod guys!

I'd say get a good dirt pedal and go into the Deluxe. How many effects do you need?

Back when I had a GT-6, I played it into the effects loop return on my friend's solid state Peavey stack. In a band situation, the Dual Recto setting sounded VERY close to the real Dual Recto we had there.

 

[Benjy_26]

Re: Question to you Boss GT / Pod guys!

I use my GT-8 for modulation, compression, and filtering effects through my Rivera.

It sounds close enough to stompboxes to keep me from buying anything else.

 

[Philcguitars]

Re: Question to you Boss GT / Pod guys!

I have a GT-6, which you can pick up on e-bay fairly easily, since the 8 and now 10 came out. I'm very satisfied with the results I get through my Peavey S/S amp.

I will say that it took me a while to get into the programming of it, but now it's very easy.

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Question to you Boss GT / Pod guys!

I will say that it took me a while to get into the programming of it, but now it's very easy.

I hear a lot of people talk about how difficult the GTs are to work with, and yeah they do have a slight learning curve. However, it's nothing like the stuff from the early 90's, and extremely rewarding.

 

[NickCormier]

Re: Question to you Boss GT / Pod guys!

so how do they sound into the effects or straight into normal amps/tube amps??

Turning off amp simulation and such.

 

[JB_From_Hell]

Re: Question to you Boss GT / Pod guys!

The GT-6 sounds pretty much like a bunch of pedals in front of the amp.

 

[Philcguitars]

Re: Question to you Boss GT / Pod guys!

I hear a lot of people talk about how difficult the GTs are to work with, and yeah they do have a slight learning curve. However, it's nothing like the stuff from the early 90's, and extremely rewarding.

Yeah, I should qualify that. It took me a while to get around to spending the time to sit down and make sense of the Japanese translated to English, and then translated back to check the translation, manual.

Like most Broadcast manuals I come across. Once I made sense of it it all fell in place inside a day. When that moment came, I admit it was a, "D'oh" moment!:friday:

 

[pinto79]

Re: Question to you Boss GT / Pod guys!

I've used my POD XT Live in front of a combo with good results.

Remember to change the Output type to match what you're plugging into.

 

[jony]

Re: Question to you Boss GT / Pod guys!

Best advice there. For the PODs, change the output type.

 

[NickCormier]

Re: Question to you Boss GT / Pod guys!

I have changed the output types many times, still doesnt seem to do anything. even turning off amp simulations doesnt realy do much.

 

[Robert Delahunt]

Re: Question to you Boss GT / Pod guys!

So, I was going to buy a Boss ME-50, which apparently is a multi effects unit that reacts more like stomp boxes, but apparently the GT's are better, and sound more "realistic" like Boss stomp boxes? And you can turn off amp simulation and such easier, and much easier to adjust patchs on the actual unit itself?

The ME-50 sounds very analog and very similar to those individual stomps, usually. It's honestly a very good buy, especially if you create your own tones. The GT's aren't necessarily "better". They have another COSM engine (which probably means another processing unit, that's all), but it's probably used for the amp models. This is why the ME-50 can do fine with just one, probably. Anyways, the ME-50's expression pedal is much more organic than the GT-8's. The ME-50 doesn't have patch up/down but adding a Boss FS-6 dual footswitch (using the right cable: stereo 1/4" to dual mono 1/4") gives you patch up/down and also gives control of tone modify and compressor on/off in manual mode.

Honestly, the ME-50 is very easy to use (which is good because you don't want to dork around with buttons all day), rugged, straight-forward, and works very well. I love mine and would buy another if I lost it.

 

[LesStrat]

Re: Question to you Boss GT / Pod guys!

Change the output type as others have said, and try turning off the amp sims.

 

[wickedmartini]

Re: Question to you Boss GT / Pod guys!

I have a love \ hate relationship with my POD. As suggested above, change the output type for live gigs or practicing. For recording, I love the **** thing other than the fact that I have to have a pile of different guitar specific tone patches based on whatever guitar I am using at the time. I have Strat specific patches, Tele specific patches, and patches for some of my other custom or more off the beaten path guitars like my Ibanez Jet King. Playing live is still sometimes more of a struggle than I would like it to be. But that seems to be the deal with multi-effects like this. The more options you get, the more complicated things become. I miss the days when I had an amp and a couple of pedals. I made it work and I think that's what you have to do with the POD. Find a way to make it work for you.