I primarily just use a (spring) reverb and digital delay program. But, I've also got one with the rotary horn, another with chorus, another with phase and another with just reverb.

I've got a couple that I could use the Pod Xt for both a preamp and processor.

I've had mine for a year.

I'll list the bad first.

The compressors aren't worth much if they are after the volume pedal. Neither are the distortions. The overdrive must be from the drive knob. For all the talk I haven't seen a volume pedal offering that works.

The reverbs aren't stereo, and only one delay, and one chorus are stereo.( Also a stereo pan with adjustable speed. I use it a lot.)

The USB recording function must be recorded and THEN the volume increased in the recording proggy. If you use your amps as a playback source you can splatter your 15 inch BWs. It's that much louder than your recording level. If you choose the Pod as the playback device, mind that you turn the output WAY down.

Now.

I have completely fallen for the Pod. The Fender amp models through a couple hundred clean Peavey watts, are convincing. It's easy to save different settings for different songs and venues, from tiny tweed tubers, to the biggest amp models and a 15 inch speker model. Old plate reverbs, adjustable delays, etc.

OK.

If I had it to do over, I'd have spent the 700 for the Pod xt pro rack mount. It's got controllable I/O volume, and lowz outs. Also a couple other functions.

I have used it every weekend for a year, and a lot of five niters. Hasn't missed yet.

The 299 price puts it on a better footing, but I have gotten my 399 out of mine, and have no plans to scrap it.

I'd go for it WAY before one of those cheapo behringer forgeries.

EJL

[This message was edited by Eric West on 13 December 2004 at 06:51 PM.]

This "intermodulation" distortion is the same thing that happens on a lot of older "stomp boxes" with a steel. I had a DOD 565 stereo chorus unit and it would get the "intermodulation" distortion if more than one string was picked (but I used it for a leslie emulator, which worked well, and the distortion was not really apparent).

Other than the volume problem, I liked all the vintage effects (over a dozen kinds of reverb), and the headphone jack. A good thing is that you can preset the gain and volume for the distortion you want, and they will automatically be at the same place the next time you use the preset. My current Digitech 100 is a poorly designed piece of junk that makes you reset the gain and volume every time you come back to a preset - useless during a performance. It's not a stomp box, it's a stomp-and-fiddle-with-the-gain-and-volume-knobs-through-the-first-verse box.

The POD tuner sucked. It was only stable enough to use on my uni's high strings.

Now that I have real tube amps to play through, I don't need those amp models. When I get the bread, I might buy another POD just to get all those effects. You get about 30 effects for the price of about 3 separate stomps.

[This message was edited by David Doggett on 14 December 2004 at 01:47 PM.]

If you're into one sound, all night long, there's probably more efficient ways to get there.

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In the XT, not only are the amp models better, but you also have the added feature of the FX models. It's really like having two units, 1) an amp modeler and 2) an FX box (like a ProFex or TubeFex). Plus the speaker cab emulation AND the mic emulation.

These are just some programs I came up with quick to use. Someday I'll tweak them and have better ones.

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steelin for my Lord

I hooked it to my NV400 that way. The sound is incredible. The twin module sounds just like a twin, etc.

I added the optional amp models from the line 6 web sight, including the one called "Dual Verb" Dual showman model. That one amp model was worth the additional cost imho. Sounds great with steel, and with my tele, strat, and Epi Dot(335 clone)6 stringers.

Curious if anyone else has tried connecting theirs like this? I assume if you leave it in direct mode and connect two amps, you would be able to use the stereo effects. Maybe I'm the only one that didn't know to do it this way?

I have a Peavey Stereo Chorus 400 (superb steel amp imho), soon as I can get the parts to make the cabling to connect to those dual i/o jacks, I want to try hooking it to that in stereo.

Tom, I went through the same thing where I couldn't get a good tone through an amp (this was back in the 2.0 days). Then I figured out that if you use the "power-amp" input OR you set all your amps EQs to ZERO (12 o'clock on Peaveys, a little different on Fenders), and let the POD be the pre-amp, that's how it is supposed to work, and does quite well.

Kobe

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Are there any powered speaker enclosures out there that would sound good with an XT and steel guitar?

Lee, I get good tone out of both my Twin and my NV400 (before it blew up). I believe your POD patch settings would probably be different for different amps. Maybe even different guitars.

When I was going hot and heavy on six string using the POD 2.0 I had different patches for different guitars, tele, strat, etc.

The thing I like about using the Peavey Nashville amps (and most steel amps) is that they are FULL RANGE. They do a good job on low lows and high highs. If an amp flat out can't produce good lows, you ain't going to add it with ANY FX processor. Some guitar amps can't hang with the lows, especially if your doing the 6th tuning stuff. If you were strictly E9 you might be ok.

Incedently, I do get really good Tele tone using the PODxt and the NV400 (with EQs at zero or in the power amp in).

Ideally, the way I'd set up (if I had the cash) would be PODxt Pro and NV112. Clean, light, easy setup, done! For now I'm down to my Twin and the regular PODxt.

Here I go hogging this thread again.

[This message was edited by Ben Slaughter on 28 December 2004 at 06:07 PM.]

30-day, money back, no questions asked. (except mics) So, just about anything is worth a try, as long as you don't break it.

Well said Jon.

[This message was edited by Ben Slaughter on 28 December 2004 at 06:15 PM.]

The overdriving the input thing is not an issue. The Pod has a master volume pot that you can use the same way you would use the level control on a stomp box.
Going into the front end of a combo amp is the least desirable of all options because "flat" is a relative and pretty inexact property on an instrument preamp. You will tend to be adding some front end color to the Pod's color. However I have done this and it can be done. Some amps want all tone settings at 5. Others may be at 0. Some will want bass & treble at 0, mids at 10---or is that the other way around? Depends on the amp and the tone stack style. Maybe somebody can chime in on how to "zero out" an Evans.

[This message was edited by Jon Light on 30 December 2004 at 03:18 PM.]

I visited a local music store today. I left there more confused than when I first got there (not unusual for me!).

Jack, I have the 2 button foot pedal and it allows me to scroll through the different or channels in a single bank. Like if I'm on channel A1 and pust the right button it goes to channel A2 and so on. I would immagine that the 4 button foot switch does something similar except that maybe the four buttons are for the four channels in each bank. So your buttons, from left to right, would select channels A1, A2, A3, A4. To change banks you'd have to do it on the unit itself. I don't believe you can use the "stomp box" feature with that foot controller. You'd have to go to the more expensive and larger foot controllers to do that.