Pocket pod users?

[Kapo_Polenton]

Not liking the splatty recordings i am getting and constantly messing with mic's. From day to day my ear likes different placement. Tube amps are great, but they can also be really gritty. I am seriously considering checking into the pocket pod for jamming. I have listened to a few clips and it can sound a tad bassy at times. Beyond that though, some decent sounds. Any of you have it? Is it decent? how tweakable is it EQ wise? Can someone hook me up with a plexi sound? I am sick of hearing these high gain nu metal tones. I'm also looking to see if there is a forum where people share presets and sound bites are available.

Thanks

[SinCron]

Best to see what kind of processor is in it. The one in the POD X3 is 9 times more powerful than the one that's in the POD XT and it shows. I always found the XT to have a fizz to it that never really goes away. I think the Pocket POD is useless for home recording when you can have an X3. Pocket POD is what you bring with you so you can show people your neat little sounds on a whim or go outside with a battery powered amp and the PP giving it the "tone". I find recording rather easy but that's because I use a 4X12 that doesn't colour the tone at all coupled with an amp and cab modeler and when you decide to mic a cab that has a modeler running through it, it's loads better than recording direct from the same modeler.

[Greg Ellis]

If you have a decent computer, consider trying a Line6 Toneport product.

They're very cheap (~$65 for the entry model) because they're very simple (they use your computer's CPU to do the modelling).

These are great products for practising alone or jamming along with mp3's or whatever. If you want to lay down rough tracks (just to capture your ideas), they'd be great for that too.

Not at all convenient or appropriate for live applications, obviously. I imagine you'll want something a bit more real for that; I sure do.

When I was shopping, I considered the pocket pod, but went with the Toneport GX because it was half the price. I don't regret it.

Part of that decision was based on the fact that I already have a portable modeller (Korg Ampworks). The sounds that come out of the Ampworks are pretty cheesy, but it was dirt cheap ($35 on ebay) and I find the controls to be a lot more intuitive than most devices of that nature.

[Kapo_Polenton]

Would the toneport conflict with my presonus firepod though? I wonder about that... i have thought of the toneport a few times. I like the idea of a library where people share sounds etc.. for some reason, i can just never get the type of recordings that other folks get through their mic'ed cabs. I almost agree that running a modeler through an amp and 4 x 12 might be better. Its odd. I am very interested in hearing the plexi and soldano sounds out of toneport and if they can be tweaked to rolloff some of the bass that is inherent with modelers.

[iaresee]

Would the toneport conflict with my presonus firepod though?
Shouldn't. It might not work with the Cubase LE that came with the Firepod though. Not sure if that version of Cubase is "locked" to using only Presonus hardware or not.

[Kapo_Polenton]

iaresee, your Koch actually sounds good recorded. How long did it take you to experiment before you found an amp you could mic?

[iaresee]

iaresee, your Koch actually sounds good recorded. How long did it take you to experiment before you found an amp you could mic?
These days I don't mic. I Palmer. :) I can't record with a mic in my apartment.

So I've done a few more new and interesting things in the last couple of months. I was recording the Palmer using it's filtered output (that's what you heard last time) and that's pretty good. And then using RoomVerb to put the room back into the sound. Not bad really. I've done this for a while and I like it.

Then a couple of guys over at TGP put me on to using a cab sim on the unfiltered output on the Palmer. Wow. Huge difference. So now I take the full frequency Palmer output into my DAW and then run that signal into GuitarRig 2 where I just use a cabinet/mic simulator on that signal. Nothing else. Sounds pretty darn good. The mic'ed cab sim in GR2 is very nice and you get a more realistic room feeling to the sound.