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Topic: Line 6 studio use |
Larry Bressington
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Posted 22 May 2010 10:09 am |
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Line 6 website shows hundreds of top notch players using the 'Pod' for 'studio sessions'.
Do these players Actually use Line 6 pods for their sessions, or is this a sponsorship?
Does 'Brent mason' use one??
Gimmick or good???
I saw a picture of 'Brad paisley' on there.
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Paul E. Brennan
From:
Dublin, Ireland
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Posted 22 May 2010 10:46 am
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| I very much doubt it unless it's just some quick demo work. |
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Jack Dougherty
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Spring Hill, Florida, USA
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Posted 23 May 2010 2:54 pm
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Did a session last week and used mine. No problems or complaints.
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 23 May 2010 3:24 pm
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| In my opinion, they're not even heavy enough to make a decent door stop! |
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Jack Dougherty
From:
Spring Hill, Florida, USA
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Posted 23 May 2010 3:39 pm
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About 3 pounds
So if Brent doesn't use one does that invalidate line 6  |
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Larry Bressington
From:
Nebraska
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Posted 23 May 2010 5:05 pm
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I took my amp out this weekend for a bit o fun, the soundman and band requested the Pod back after the first set, we missed all those oozing tones, but.. Ooh i like a real speaker once in a while, at least i got 14 songs squeezed out of the old Nahville, 'Dobro' and 'nylon string' really missed those eq'd Patches, so the old girl is going back downstairs again!
I did some local cuts with it a year ago, and it was very impressive, not sure about some of the names these big companies tout, i'm on my 6th year with 2 beans at my side, never had a complaint 
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Jay Seibert
From:
Woodland, WA, USA
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Posted 24 May 2010 6:24 am Pod XT
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I use my Pod quite often for recording sessions. The selection of available tones and the ability to tweek them to such a high degree make finding the right "tone" for the "take" a breeze. Not every studio recording room has the amp variety, room characteristics, or sound engineer who can massage the "tone" to get what a session (make that "song") might require.
When I am practicing or tracking at home, I'll almost always go straight to the Pod and monitor my board's output with headphones... no amp noise to bother the wife and no room or outside noise to interfere with the music. It's a fine tool, but like all tools, has its time and place.
One of my favorite reference books is called "Mixing with your mind" by Michael Paul Stavrou. The book will open your mind and ears to new ways to capture the "sound flame". One can learn how to mic any amp to capture its vast variety of tonal output just by using creative mic placement! So when I am in a studio and the sound engineer places a speaker right in front of the cone without listening to the tone first, I am suspect of his "ear" and/or abilities... and then I just might pull out the Pod and use that!
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Ben Jones
From:
Seattle, Washington, USA
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Posted 24 May 2010 6:24 am
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surprisingly some actually use em.
Pete Anderson (Yoakams tele player for years) does whole albums with nothing but the pod.
They are great studio tools, especially for the home studio. You can get realistic and very nice clean to gritty amp sounds without he hassle of setting up micsa and without waking up the wife at 3 am.
there are even a few good steel tones in the thing.
You hvae to tweek the sounds tho, the stock sounds will nly get you half way. |
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Mark Daniels
From:
United Kingdom
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Posted 24 May 2010 4:08 pm
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I used a Johnson J-Station for guitar sounds for the past 9 years and that gave up the ghost earlier this year. I looked at Line 6 for a replacement.
It was then I found that all POD's are not alike. I found the POD 2.0 to be horrible. Just awful sounds which no manner of tweaking was going to help. However, I did some research on the Line 6 site and then tried an XT which was simply brilliant.
The moral? Be careful when selecting your "big bean" 
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Tony Dingus
From:
Kingsport, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 24 May 2010 7:58 pm
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I've been using a Pod Pro and Lexicon MX200 for a year and it works good for me recording direct. I've got a BL 710 on the E9 and GL E66 on C6 and no problems with overdriving the Pod.
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Dave Mudgett
From:
Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 24 May 2010 8:10 pm
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Every time I see a thread like this, I just point to this thread, which links to Tommy Detamore's sample page - http://steelguitarforum.com/Forum11/HTML/009355.html. As Ben says, Pete Anderson is another poster child for the Pod. I like 'em - they're not a panacea, but can be a very useful tool in the right situation if dialed in properly.
There are two versions of the Pod 2 - the early one with the original DSP chip, and a later one (in production for several years now) with a new DSP chip. The early one has some very good models if you take the time to tweak them (Deluxe Reverb especially) and good effects. I couldn't use the later version for anything, and I gather the Pocket Pod is built off the same chip. Yes, it matters which bean, but there are a lot of wrinkles to that. |
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Larry Bressington
From:
Nebraska
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Posted 25 May 2010 10:28 am
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| Mark Daniels wrote: |
I used a Johnson J-Station for guitar sounds for the past 9 years and that gave up the ghost earlier this year. I looked at Line 6 for a replacement.
It was then I found that all POD's are not alike. I found the POD 2.0 to be horrible. Just awful sounds which no manner of tweaking was going to help. However, I did some research on the Line 6 site and then tried an XT which was simply brilliant.
The moral? Be careful when selecting your "big bean" |
I agree mark, i did not like the 2.0 i think it was the earlier model, then the XT just kicked it's A$$.
I have tried various models and found that the XT to be the best up to now,all the amp models are great, and has already been said and with any processor which is what an amp is, is you have to work it.
I tweaked mine for 2 hours a day for 14 days before i took it out.
3LBS is much nicer than 75LBS, tone is better as a shaper, and there are no volume wars, one must have a good monitor system though to be Ampless on stage.
My band currently has 6 seperate monitor mixes, which is gravy!
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