[linux-audio-user] [OT] Guitar amp

[Joshua Boyd]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 04:51:30PM +0000, Michael T D Nelson wrote:

> It's clearly a replacement for a Line 6 POD Pro. No doubt about that.
> 
> However, it comes in a rather stylish blue colour - better than that 
> Line 6 red :o)
> 
> Behringer have also improved on Line 6's device by cleverly surrounding 
> each continuous rotary digital control with a ring of LEDs, allowing the 
> user to see in which directon each knob is pointing as soon as a new 
> preset is selected.

I might be a sucker.  I thought the the V-Amp Pro looked better from the
user interface perspective that the Line6 pods, not to mention that a
V-Amp Pro was cheaper than a Pod Xt (let alone the Pod Xt Pro).
However, I couldn't get my hands on a V-Amp Pro to try out, so I
chickened out and bought the Pod Xt since I loved playing with it at the
local music store.

It is very nice, but the knobs are somewhat irritating.  They aren't
continuous rotary encoders, and so if a knob is high and the parameter
is low, if you want to boost the level a little, you actually turn the
knob down since the knob position has no relationship to parameter
position until you start editing the parameter.  I thought that AES/EBU
output would be nice, but in the end I run the Pod Xt into USB on my
Mac, so I don't miss that feature so much. I do still think that rack
mount would have been nicer though.  

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Joshua D. Boyd
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