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

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 17:32 -0500, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> 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.  
> 

Did you know the Line6 Pod has a Linux driver?

http://www.tanzband-scream.at/line6

Lee