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Michael Hartz
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From: Decorah, Iowa, USA

posted 18 December 2006 07:44 AM     profile     
Has anyone used one these for steel? If so, what are your thoughts? I heard a steel player a couple of weeks ago with one and it had a great leslie/B3 sound on it.
Jack Stoner
Sysop

From: Inverness, Florida

posted 18 December 2006 08:35 AM     profile     
I tried one of those, because of the small size. I liked it so "well" that I returned it within a couple of days.
Jim Ives
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From: Los Angeles, California, USA

posted 18 December 2006 02:54 PM     profile     
They have a good tremelo. Other than that they are quite returnable.
Jonathan Shacklock
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From: London, UK

posted 19 December 2006 12:40 PM     profile     
Out of curiosity I recorded a couple of clips to compare the Korg PX4D rotary effect with the Line 6 PODxt.

The PX4D unit has two rotary effects: on the first you can set the Leslie speed to anything you like, I prefer slightly slower than the top speed. If you change the speed mid song the effect realistically ramps up or down to the new speed. The second effect is velocity sensitive - play quietly and the speed is slow, pick more heavily and the Leslie ramps up. As you can imagine, a bit of practice on the volume pedal and you have a very expressive effect.

The PODxt also has two rotary effects and both are somewhat more convincingly B3 sounding than the Korg. You have the benefit of tone and mix parameters, however the Leslie is either 'slow' or 'fast' (ramping automatically between the two).

With some tweaking (especially with the cabinet/amp modelling) you could probably get the Korg to sound a bit more authentic. What it may lack in sound it more than makes up for in sheer noodling around fun. It's great to be able to get Leslie speed changes without having to ride a switch with your 'spare' hand. You can get a decent enough straight steel sound with delay/reverb etc, also there are some other things in it's favour apart from the price and size/weight such as built in drum machine and phrase trainer.

{clip notes: recorded on an S-10 MSA Classic through a Nashville 112 with each effect unit in the Post EQ Patch loop. The Korg clip used the Rotary 2 (velocity sensitive) setting. The PODxt clip used the Rotary+Horn effect with the speed on fast except where I switched to slow on the last phrase. Apologies for the rambling nature of the chord pattern - I improvised the first clip and then forgot what I'd played - "the right notes just not necessarily in the right order" .}

Mike Fried
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From: Nashville, TN, USA

posted 20 December 2006 09:01 AM     profile     
I have a PX4 (not sure if it's the same unit as the PDX4) that I keep in my packseat as a "crash box" emergency front-end. It saved my butt in Brazil recently when the only amp they had for me was a Marshall "Valvestate" half-stack with a nonfunctional reverb. I think it gets quite a decent sound with some experimenting. I haven't gotten into its effects other than the usual reverbs,delays, and overdrives, but I'm glad I bought it.

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