Re: AW: Pod XT pro delays etc.

["L.A. Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>]

hmm thats a real pity,these are precisely the features
i was interested in...
i wonder if the rack echo pro has the same issue
problems of the DL4 and would also need a mod i am
using it with acoustic guitar so it has to be
transparent when bypassed and id hate to have any gain
loss.
Cheers Rainer!
Luis






--- Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill
<rs@moinlabs.de> wrote:

> Hi Luis,
> 
> just dug out a review I wrote on Harmony Central
> when, back in 2004, I did
> test drive the PodXT Live (which I suspect is
> similar to the PodXT, although
> details may vary). Here are the passages which I
> deem to be of greatest
> importance:
> 
> About adjusting parameters with a real-time
> controller:
> "The expression pedal and one additional pedal (not
> supplied) can be
> assigned to Wah, Volume and "Tweak". Tweak can
> adjust several parameters,
> several others not. This is especially stupid
> because none of the amp's
> parameters can be "tweaked". No footpedal-controlled
> drive."
> 
> Tempo sync:
> "MIDI implementation: well, it can neither send nor
> receive MIDI clock.
> Which is a real pity, because both delay and mod
> effects can be synced to
> the tapped tempo, so a MIDI sync would've come in
> real handy."
> 
> About quality of the effects:
> "I could not warm to the EQ - it does not sound the
> way either a typical
> guitarist's gear EQ nor a professional studio EQ nor
> a
> Tchebychev/Butterworth/Gauss model should sound. By
> choosing the algorithms
> for the stomp effect, I didn't quite grasp their
> approach: there are lots of
> non-working guitar synth "emulations", yet it is
> lacking i.e. the best
> models from the FM4 modeler. The mod effects were
> weak in the MM4, they are
> weak here. Driving a delay model (i.e. multi head)
> into saturation causes
> the thing to produce horrible artifacts and display
> CLIP. Neither the
> original Space Echo nor its model in Line6's DL4 did
> do this. Adjusting the
> delay time with contents in the delay doesn't work
> as smooth as with the DL4
> (or with the originals), either.
> I could not warm to the reverbs other than the
> Fender Blackface model, which
> I personally like. I would've expected better
> delays.
> 
> The wah...is okay. But why not include different wah
> models (i.e. choose
> between a Bad Horsie and a Dunlop and...). Or at
> least give me the
> possibility to adjust it.
> 
> Mainly, this thing is cool for its amp and cabinet
> models. And they are
> cool."
> 
>       Rainer
> 
> 


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