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Post subject: Tube Amp and a Line 6 Pod xt live
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 6:33 pm
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I'm planning on buying a tube amp. For effects I use a line 6 pod xt live.

Will this work well together? I've heard bad things about a pod xt live with a tube amp.

I'm pretty set in keeping the pod. I also don't want a modeling amp.

Any advice?


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Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 6:37 pm
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Are you playing live in a band with a PA, live without a PA, or just in your bedroom, or a little of all 3?

Do you use the Pod for effects only, or also for your amp tones?

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Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 1:34 am
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Haven't decided on a set up yet. Going to use the line 6 for recording a handful of songs. I want to be able to use it live with a tube amp, amp unmic'd, vocals with PA. I don't want to have to change effects equipment to go live. I wonder whats in doing a stereo guitar, and having analog pedals for the tube amp, and then having a digital line 6 pod playing through a solid state. A lot of possibilites.

Also going to try plugging a mic into the pod, then do vocals with effects. Then use a line 6 variax guitar to play along in the separate jack on the pod.

I think the amp tones are provided by the pod when one records directly into a computer. My brother uses a small marshall solid amp to monitor the sound recording. I think the amp tones when playing the amp are the ones on the amp.


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Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 7:59 pm
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Regardless of the amp you eventually buy, you'll find that the preset settings you use for recording won't work for live use - killer distortion on the computer ends up sounding like mush live. So regardless, you'll have to have 2 sets of patches - live and recording.

Also, to keep your bandmates and any potential sound engineers happy, you'll need to go through your patches and make sure the output level is the same patch to patch - otherwise it's annoying as you go through patches and your volume level is all over the place.

If you're really getting your tones from the Line 6, you could get a tube amp, but I'd go for a no-frills one like a Deluxe Reverb. Another option would be a good DI and get a stage monitor, like a QSC K10 or K12 and use that as your "amp."

From someone who's tried in the past, keep your stage setup mono - it's fine to track in recording in stereo, but live it just adds more sonic mud. I'd go mono, dial way back on the effects.

For vocals, hopefully your mixer has effects built in or inserted into the aux send return jacks - this is a much better idea than running it through the POD.

Good luck!

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