Line 6 POD Express

[Moe45673]

"Mom, I said I wanted Pocket POD Go for Christmas, not Pokemon Go!"

I think POD Express is a better name.

Frankly, I'm shocked L6 hasn't been sued into oblivion by Square Enix......

Ohhhhhhhh, now I get why it's called "Litigator"

 

[Moe45673]

Definitely impressed with this, now that I've gotten the cabs worked out. As we all know, cabs have a massive effect on the sound, and my favorite is usually going to be a Greenback or Recto type cab. This is Oblivion first, then Litigator, just a quick noodle around. No external fuckery.

Nice demo!

Spoiler

Can you export your settings so I can run them on my Boss unit?

 

[Digital Igloo]

Thanks for the detailed answer, @Digital Igloo . Too bad the singers market is not that profitable.

Oh, vocal processors can absolutely be profitable, but only for companies who have enough engineering resources to focus on them. If we made a vocal processor, that's another non-vocal processor we can't do, and our metrics consistently tell us that non-vocal processors are more profitable for us.

Variax is another example. Yes, we'd love to develop a next-gen Variax, but we'd like to pay our mortgages/rent and feed our families even more.

Roland/BOSS used to show over fifty new products at NAMM, many of which were very sophisticated. They have the ability to experiment with digital accordions, digital Chinese fiddles, digital Clarinets, etc. and even occasionally release test market products they likely know won't sell. Yamaha Japan has even bigger resources. For better or worse, YGG/Line 6/Ampeg/Cordoba needs to focus on very specific markets. (Or markets that aren't being served well—or served at all—by anyone else.)

On the other hand, when taking about TC-Helicon patents, if you mean regarding voice harmonies, then I wonder how Boss got around that again (like with the polyphonic tuner in some of their multieffects)

BOSS vocal processors don't generate harmonies based on realtime guitar playback, do they? I haven't looked in a while.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Oh, vocal processors can absolutely be profitable, but only for companies who have enough engineering resources to focus on them. If we made a vocal processor, that's another non-vocal processor we can't do, and our metrics consistently tell us that non-vocal processors are more profitable for us.

Variax is another example. Yes, we'd love to develop a next-gen Variax, but we'd like to pay our mortgages/rent and feed our families even more.

Roland/BOSS used to show over fifty new products at NAMM, many of which were very sophisticated. They have the ability to experiment with digital accordions, digital Chinese fiddles, digital Clarinets, etc. and even occasionally release test market products they likely know won't sell. Yamaha Japan has even bigger resources. For better or worse, YGG/Line 6/Ampeg/Cordoba needs to focus on very specific markets. (Or markets that aren't being served well—or served at all—by anyone else.)

BOSS vocal processors don't generate harmonies based on realtime guitar playback, do they? I haven't looked in a while.

Barney

 

[Digital Igloo]

Barney

Remember that box fondly, and sold a boatload of them when I was in retail. Sounded pretty damn great for the price.

 

[molul]

BOSS vocal processors don't generate harmonies based on realtime guitar playback, do they? I haven't looked in a while.

My Boss VE-500 doesn't, although I actually prefer that. But the recently announced VE-22 does.

 

[jellodog]

I’d buy this just for the Deluxe/Litigator/Oblivion options.

Deluxe? I’m guessing you meant the Princeton?

 

[molul]

Remember that box fondly, and sold a boatload of them when I was in retail. Sounded pretty damn great for the price.

I had one, for 5 days. Couldn't stand the huge amount of noise it had. Maybe it was just my unit

 

[Lysander]

Btw, it’s quiet as a mouse with the AA’s I found in the box. I’m curious to try it with the PP3+ later.

Was just going to ask about next What kind of play time are you getting out of AAs?

Eneloops are quite cheap these days, so i'd probably never bother with an external power supply for the PE.

 

[Moe45673]

BOSS vocal processors don't generate harmonies based on realtime guitar playback, do they? I haven't looked in a while.

The VE-500 uses guitar input to generate harmonies. They allow you to choose any 3 voices of +Octave, Higher, High, Unison, Low, Lower, -Octave, and each individual voice can be based on Chord or Scale/Key.

High would dynamically be a 3rd or 4th above your voice (sometimes something else), Higher is a 5th or 6th (sometimes something else), etc.

 

[Stone]

If Nuno and Kotzen are any indication, yes.

did you see Them with Satch?

 

[molul]

The VE-500 uses guitar input to generate harmonies. They allow you to choose any 3 voices of +Octave, Higher, High, Unison, Low, Lower, -Octave, and each individual voice can be based on Chord or Scale/Key.

High would dynamically be a 3rd or 4th above your voice (sometimes something else), Higher is a 5th or 6th (sometimes something else), etc.

Lol, I was sure it didn't have that feature. That's how little I care about it

 

[la szum]

Remember that box fondly, and sold a boatload of them when I was in retail. Sounded pretty damn great for the price.

See guys. I ain't full of shit all the time.

 

[eggpl@nt]

Mine arrives tomorrow! Original ETA was Sunday, so I’ll have an extra day with it this weekend.

 

[BenIfin]

.....

Hey D.I !

I *seem* to recall you posted on one of the forums that a HX Edit App for the POD Go Express was coming (?) or due very soon (?)

=> does my memory serve me correctly (?)

=> oh .... and I *assume* its a fixed 1M Ohm Input Impedance (?)

Ben

 

[quadgear]

there's not even room to move the Looper pre or post—it's part of the Delay block and fixed pre-Reverb.

That's very surprising unless it's going from mono to stereo or requires an extra buffer. While I can contrive some ways that changing order of operations costs space, it sounds odd. I'm sure there's a reason once you get into the details, but who knows. Two common mistakes engineers say is "it cant be done" and "that will take two weeks". Love for this to be a case of the former.

 

[Lysander]

That's very surprising unless it's going from mono to stereo or requires an extra buffer.

Well... it does?

 

[ragingplatypi]

That's very surprising unless it's going from mono to stereo or requires an extra buffer. While I can contrive some ways that changing order of operations costs space, it sounds odd. I'm sure there's a reason once you get into the details, but who knows. Two common mistakes engineers say is "it cant be done" and "that will take two weeks". Love for this to be a case of the former.

On the Pod Go, there’s a limitation where everything has to be routed in stereo, so there’s no saving DSP by running effects in mono. It seems like these might be related. I don’t know if it’s a limitation in processing or more of an interface issue where it suddenly complicates the process enough to then lose the Pod ethos of simplicity.

 

[Digital Igloo]

I *seem* to recall you posted on one of the forums that a HX Edit App for the POD Go Express was coming (?) or due very soon (?)

=> oh .... and I *assume* its a fixed 1M Ohm Input Impedance (?)

Not allowed to talk about any sort of editor. Yes, fixed 1M Ohm input impedance; variable impedance would be waaaay overserving POD Express' customer, IMO.

That's very surprising unless it's going from mono to stereo or requires an extra buffer. While I can contrive some ways that changing order of operations costs space, it sounds odd. I'm sure there's a reason once you get into the details, but who knows. Two common mistakes engineers say is "it cant be done" and "that will take two weeks". Love for this to be a case of the former.

I have no idea why, just what I was told.

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Wonder how many people would prefer to control the Gain, Bass, Middle, Treble by default and use Alt to change Effect/Amps. I'd probably tweak BMT and Reverb settings the most.

Arm chair quarterback designer

Haven't read the manual, so maybe its possible, but would be nice if you could double-click the alt button and have it stay in alt mode rather than having to always hold it.