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#271439 - 03/02/10 10:30 AM Pocket Pod a toy or decent kit?
Not the DJ Not the DJ Forum Council Member Old Timer Registered: 25/02/04 Posts: 1605 Loc: Kenilworth	Anyone own one of the Line 6 pocket pods? I'm after something for practicing and for quick/easy recording of song ideas/sketches without messing around with too much kit (i.e. my pedal board). So I'd be either running it with headphones, or into my Mac running Garageband. I've briefly used a full size pod (not sure which model it was but it'd have been a fair few years ago). Sounded OK, but didn't really use it in anger. So what's you opinion? Col _________________________ Gibson The Paul '78 / Les Paul Smartwood / Godin Exit 22 / Simon & Patrick Folk CW / Hayden M.o.f.o
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#271443 - 03/02/10 11:05 AM Re: Pocket Pod a toy or decent kit? [Re: Not the DJ]
stickyfiddle stickyfiddle Spam Commander (Forum Council Member) Old Timer Registered: 22/04/04 Posts: 5874 Loc: London, UK	I currently have a POD2 and used to have a pocket POD as well- both really good. THe pocketpod has way more presets- mostly with names taken from the song they're ripping off. When plugged into a computer you can control the whole thing onscreen then save your patches- makes editting really easy. The Pod2 has less presets but is far more tweakable on its own- most functions have their own knobs, so you just set it on the device and go. Both have their merits, no doubt $\:\)$ _________________________ PSN: stickyfiddle
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#271490 - 04/02/10 07:15 AM Re: Pocket Pod a toy or decent kit? [Re: stickyfiddle]
martin2hall martin2hall One of the Regulars Registered: 09/01/10 Posts: 61	My band uses one of these: http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/product/34...m_campaign=base It doesn't have effects but gives brilliant quality audio for recording. If you use a line in into a mac with garageband you can apply any of the effects in there and play away with it. Not as 'fun' as the line 6 in terms of 'toys and gadgets' but a whole lot better in quality. _________________________ Tanglewood Th501- MAH MF350 Head JCM 900 Lead cab Bluesbreaker II Pedal Vox Wah
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#271494 - 04/02/10 07:50 AM Re: Pocket Pod a toy or decent kit? [Re: martin2hall]
Not the DJ Not the DJ Forum Council Member Old Timer Registered: 25/02/04 Posts: 1605 Loc: Kenilworth	A bit out of my price range that, but looks impressive. It's really the effects I'm after. I have a pedal board with numerous seperate stomp boxes and a Tascam USB interface for recording, but with a young baby in the house I don't get the chance to play through that much during the week. Especially as all my guitar stuff is in the room next to the little chap. So what I want it something I can mess with through headphones or the Mac so I can sketch stuff out in the evenings then work on properly when I get time at the weekend. I've never been into digital multi effect thingys, so I don't want to spend too much, and hopefully Ebay re-sale values are decent in case I don't get on with it! _________________________ Gibson The Paul '78 / Les Paul Smartwood / Godin Exit 22 / Simon & Patrick Folk CW / Hayden M.o.f.o
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#272086 - 15/02/10 01:44 PM Re: Pocket Pod a toy or decent kit? [Re: Not the DJ]
Not the DJ Not the DJ Forum Council Member Old Timer Registered: 25/02/04 Posts: 1605 Loc: Kenilworth	I won a pocket pod on Ebay at the weekend, so I'll give it a go and see if I like it. If not it'll be back on Ebay! _________________________ Gibson The Paul '78 / Les Paul Smartwood / Godin Exit 22 / Simon & Patrick Folk CW / Hayden M.o.f.o
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#272443 - 22/02/10 06:48 AM Re: Pocket Pod a toy or decent kit? [Re: Not the DJ]
Not the DJ Not the DJ Forum Council Member Old Timer Registered: 25/02/04 Posts: 1605 Loc: Kenilworth	I love it! I was out of the country last week so my package from Ebay was waiting for me when I got home on Friday. Had a quick play then, but gave it a good workout last night. Only used it through headphones so far and it's great. Really impressed with the range of sounds. I basically went through all the presets, a lot of which I really liked. I'll spend some time this week reading the manual and downloading the editing software. A great practice/writing tool. It's certainly not going straight back on Ebay. Col _________________________ Gibson The Paul '78 / Les Paul Smartwood / Godin Exit 22 / Simon & Patrick Folk CW / Hayden M.o.f.o
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#272477 - 23/02/10 04:06 AM Re: Pocket Pod a toy or decent kit? [Re: Not the DJ]
english_bob english_bob Unregistered	Glad you like it. I've been well impressed with my POD Studio, which I assume uses much the same software. I was showing it to a friend of mine at the weekend, and I think he'd have one by now if Richard hadn't divested him of £700 for a new Stonebridge acoustic I've always found Line6 stuff to be very user friendly and capable of some pretty extreme sounds- they seem to err more towards the Electro Harmonix "eccentricity is good, and we can live with a little noise" model than the BOSS "studio quiet and just a little bit dull" method.
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