New Line6 Floor Unit! |
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New Line6 Floor Unit! |
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Jan 24 2015, 08:51 AM |
LINE 6 has a new floor unit that has the ease of use ipad control and the HD Amp models of the pod HD series.
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Jan 29 2015, 06:11 AM |
BINGO!! That was my experience as well GREAT lead tones, GREAT clean tones, Rythm tones never quite sounded right no matter what I tried and I tried everything.
The good news is that the speaker you've chosen are AWESOME. Full range, self powered, plenty LOUD, and portable!! I'd say those are some of the best you can get for the money currently. The one change you could make that may be able to keep your rig small is to either add one space rack or a pedal just for rythm sounds. But as you mentioned, using gain based fx in the loop is usually not a good idea so you'd have to use a midi capable device in order to make it switch with the line 6. If you want to keep everything in one floor unit, and not go broke, you might look at the VOX TONE LAB EX. The bigger one, not it's baby brother. I tried one of these and was SHOCKED how heavy the rythm sounded. It lets you stack an overdrive on top of a high gain amp model and it behaves a lot like a pedal with an amp. It's got an actual tube built in which helps Also, the wah is great as it's got two vox wah pedals built in. You can get one used for pretty cheap. http://www.voxamps.com/tonelabex You're right about the high gain stuff not being all that, though. I find the biggest problem with the medium/high gain stuff is getting a good rhythm sound. I currently use it live with a couple of the line6 stagesource speakers and it's good, clean sounds are great, lead sounds are great, but the rhythm dirty sounds are a bit horrible. I'm toying with pairing the pod with a tube amp to see what can be done. The problem is the rig grows in size (and weight!) quite fast, and means a lot more gear to take to gigs. So, I already have those stagesource speakers I use with the pod, and a few tube amp heads and a 2x12 cab with an attenuator. The attenuator has a line out, so I figure I could run the guitar to the pod HD, run some FX before the amp on there, then take the signal out of the FX send and into the amp head, then through the amp and attenuator, then take the the dry signal into the 2x12 cabinet and take another copy of the signal out from the attenuator via the line out back into the return on the pod, and then run a cabinet emulation with all the post-amp effects (reverb, delay, flange etc.) and then send that out to the stereo stagesource things. That way I can use the pod HD for the clean sounds still (which it's really good at) and then put the signal through the tube amp for the dirty/lead sounds. And it will also be very useable whilst playing, I can switch my whole rig around by pressing a single footswitch still. But yea, problem is the send/return in the pod is noisey and has low quality DAC/ADC as you say, but for live work it might not matter so much. And it means a lot more gear to cart to gigs. I'll try it and maybe post some videos... -Adam |
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Jan 29 2015, 09:02 AM |
@AdamB - maybe this one could complement your line6 unit while remaining somewhat portable?
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Jan 31 2015, 01:30 PM |
I'll give that a try, I have a gig tomorrow so I'll mess around with it in soundcheck.
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Jan 31 2015, 06:48 PM |
Let us know how it goes!
I'll give that a try, I have a gig tomorrow so I'll mess around with it in soundcheck.
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Feb 2 2015, 08:38 PM |
Cool, line6 makes nice stuff, but so far I rather stick to BOSS for non recording purposes. Not that I'm really up to date on the latest guitar gadgets though
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