Kit and guitar geeky stuff.
Jul. 7th, 2010 10:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnny9fingersSo I've been 'getting stuck into' the Pod X3 Live.
The features, configurability, and versatility of the unit are phenomenal, and it is just about possible to get a reasonable sound with much programming and using the X3's 'Dual Tone' feature which puts your original guitar signal through two separate amplifier models and indeed two completely separate signal paths, before linking them both to a single output.
In comparison to my old Digitech GNX3 the amp models sound more accurate, but in some strange way (at least to this subjective analyser) less usable: because although slightly more accurate, they still aren't the real thing and they don't flatter my playing in the way the GNX3 modelling does.
The 'Dual Tone' feature is pretty cool, though the architecture of the output routing means that the blend of tones when outputted into a single amp makes it sound not entirely coherent, inasmuch as one can certainly detect both components of the tone produced. The Gear Box editing on the computer is very cool too.
Sometimes it seems that I can also detect anomalous digital audio artefacts buried in the sounds.
The X3 Live does show up the limitations of my old GNX3, but as of now, neither satisfies. I may just have to go the whole hog and buy the Axe Fx Ultra and dump both the others on ebay. We shall see.
The features, configurability, and versatility of the unit are phenomenal, and it is just about possible to get a reasonable sound with much programming and using the X3's 'Dual Tone' feature which puts your original guitar signal through two separate amplifier models and indeed two completely separate signal paths, before linking them both to a single output.
In comparison to my old Digitech GNX3 the amp models sound more accurate, but in some strange way (at least to this subjective analyser) less usable: because although slightly more accurate, they still aren't the real thing and they don't flatter my playing in the way the GNX3 modelling does.
The 'Dual Tone' feature is pretty cool, though the architecture of the output routing means that the blend of tones when outputted into a single amp makes it sound not entirely coherent, inasmuch as one can certainly detect both components of the tone produced. The Gear Box editing on the computer is very cool too.
Sometimes it seems that I can also detect anomalous digital audio artefacts buried in the sounds.
The X3 Live does show up the limitations of my old GNX3, but as of now, neither satisfies. I may just have to go the whole hog and buy the Axe Fx Ultra and dump both the others on ebay. We shall see.
