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Jeffouille
Published on 05/15/07 at 23:08
It does not return the above it was said 15 times. With version 3 is 42 amps, 24 speakers and over 80 effects, in short, more than enough. We can combine 3 effects at the same time + a volume, a gate, compressor and reverb, all assignable before or after entry into the virtual amp + 4 different models of microphones to capture virtually what comes out. What happiness!
UTILIZATION
In studio and on stage, of course, all with my Variax 300 I had acquired before the POD XT. The configuration is slightly more complicated than a Tonelab but not insurmountable. It becomes downright playful connected to a PC using the Gear Box software. The manual is comprehensive, fun, too (there is humor and photos of equipment modeled)
SOUND QUALITY
Sound: I also have a Tonelab SE (I sell for that matter) that I plugged my Variax. It was good but the sound was a bit "soft" at times and lacked potatoes mainly in the upper spectrum. The XT live with a standard guitar is great (I plug in my little Gibson All American II), the models are of very high rank and tiennentt compares favorably with the Tonelab, each of the two devices showing in turn better than the other depending on the type of amp. In short, all that is already very good. My Variax plugged into analog sounds as well as well or even better than the Tonelab is gaining momentum. My digital Variax plugged in via the specific port: THIS IS THE ATOMIC BOMB! The momentum is there, the heat too, we gain accuracy and authenticity paradoxically ... it sounds almost not (in any case altogether less) digital! It is extremely fast bleuffé provided by the realism. Coupled to the Variax Workbench: we no longer need anything, everything is there and everything is possible, a kind of dream come true. We play different amps all very usable, we have fun with different microphones, triturated, we change the body ... there are brief sounds allucinants, quickly light years of the "standard bal musette" Some criticize the Variax ... we save all that and again a miracle saved the program and remember not only the setting and chaining amps and effects but also the model used on the Variax and the position of the tone knob!
OVERALL OPINION
It's insane. I come back yet. I had a lot of modeling: a V-Amp, a Black Box, a Tonelab. The couple POD XT Live + Variax digital input via dedicated crushes (I think) everything can be known in terms of modeling and modeling I mean, I will not venture to compare it all to the real stuff hardware real lamp with a Les Paul. But the result is surprising and wonderfully entertaining. Few people (see one) can also accumulate as much stuff. Imagine: 42 amps, 80 guitar pedals and 28 = more than 94 000 different combinations (not to mention the guitars can be created via the workbench). So for less than € 900 it all, even if it is not the same as true, it is a dream and it can be concoqueter a lot of sounds "on your own" original, authentic and powerful, quelquesoit style.
UTILIZATION
In studio and on stage, of course, all with my Variax 300 I had acquired before the POD XT. The configuration is slightly more complicated than a Tonelab but not insurmountable. It becomes downright playful connected to a PC using the Gear Box software. The manual is comprehensive, fun, too (there is humor and photos of equipment modeled)
SOUND QUALITY
Sound: I also have a Tonelab SE (I sell for that matter) that I plugged my Variax. It was good but the sound was a bit "soft" at times and lacked potatoes mainly in the upper spectrum. The XT live with a standard guitar is great (I plug in my little Gibson All American II), the models are of very high rank and tiennentt compares favorably with the Tonelab, each of the two devices showing in turn better than the other depending on the type of amp. In short, all that is already very good. My Variax plugged into analog sounds as well as well or even better than the Tonelab is gaining momentum. My digital Variax plugged in via the specific port: THIS IS THE ATOMIC BOMB! The momentum is there, the heat too, we gain accuracy and authenticity paradoxically ... it sounds almost not (in any case altogether less) digital! It is extremely fast bleuffé provided by the realism. Coupled to the Variax Workbench: we no longer need anything, everything is there and everything is possible, a kind of dream come true. We play different amps all very usable, we have fun with different microphones, triturated, we change the body ... there are brief sounds allucinants, quickly light years of the "standard bal musette" Some criticize the Variax ... we save all that and again a miracle saved the program and remember not only the setting and chaining amps and effects but also the model used on the Variax and the position of the tone knob!
OVERALL OPINION
It's insane. I come back yet. I had a lot of modeling: a V-Amp, a Black Box, a Tonelab. The couple POD XT Live + Variax digital input via dedicated crushes (I think) everything can be known in terms of modeling and modeling I mean, I will not venture to compare it all to the real stuff hardware real lamp with a Les Paul. But the result is surprising and wonderfully entertaining. Few people (see one) can also accumulate as much stuff. Imagine: 42 amps, 80 guitar pedals and 28 = more than 94 000 different combinations (not to mention the guitars can be created via the workbench). So for less than € 900 it all, even if it is not the same as true, it is a dream and it can be concoqueter a lot of sounds "on your own" original, authentic and powerful, quelquesoit style.