Line 6 POD Express

[timbuck3]

Is that what you are doing?

Yes in a way. It all adds up

 

[Mongillo19]

Hard pass… seems line 6 is churning out nickle and dime stuff to fill their coffers lately. Not impressed. Save your dough fellas if you have a fractal or helix or qc why bother? Cause it’s so easy to part with $200?

I can go buy a basic TS808 for *hopefully* $100. On the other hand, I can go buy this for $170 and have a digital version of a TS plus 6? Different amps, effects, etc.

There is a market for this type of stuff and Line 6 is smartly filling that gap imo.

 

[Mongillo19]

Yes in a way. It all adds up

Well dang, you should have quite a bit saved up if that's how it works

 

[saarangnarayan]

There is a market for this type of stuff and Line 6 is smartly filling that gap imo.

Absolutely. I guess Mooer and NUX started this but Line6 have taken it to a whole new level. That being said, I'm probably going to resist every urge to grab this and see if an FM0 is announced in the next year or two. Until then, this device seems to be top of the heap in this segment of "pocket" modellers.

 

[Sascha Franck]

This thing can’t possibly have USB audio at this price point… or does it?

Well, it has USB audio - just doesn't allow for USB bus power support.

 

[Sascha Franck]

Save your dough fellas if you have a fractal or helix or qc why bother? Cause it’s so easy to part with $200?

No, because these (and also some other units made by the competition) are incredibly handy as backups, hotel room jam partners, mobile recording solutions and what not.

 

[Aleksi]

Yes in a way. It all adds tub

 

[gearJunkie]

NOTE: This FAQ item originally had a far less polite answer.

 

[timbuck3]

 

[laxu]

Do you really have to hold the Alt knob every time you want to adjust your amp settings? Why not make it a toggle button instead so you could basically set up your fx etc, then leave it on amp tweaking mode?

I just really dislike "hold this and turn this" functions.

Otherwise, I like everything I'm seeing here. Would definitely go for this over the Boss IR-2 if I wanted something like this.

 

[the-trooper]

Do you really have to hold the Alt knob every time you want to adjust your amp settings? Why not make it a toggle button instead so you could basically set up your fx etc, then leave it on amp tweaking mode?

Probably because there is no indicator of what you're editing, although I do agree that would be better.

 

[Stone]

I wonder how its received @ ToP ?

 

[BahamaDada]

Didn't take long. No Marshall!!!!

Yo, don't Friedman me, Bro.

Don't Friedman me or my children ever again!

I love the idea. Simple jamming solution. Might ditch the Nux Mighty Plug Pro I bought for this device.

 

[SKU]

Intreesteing! Does it use the Helix amps ? Also what's the in-out latency on this?
@Digital Igloo could you spoil these secrets, please?

 

[Lysander]

I wonder how its received @ ToP ?

Surprisingly well, as far as i've seen - minus the usual trolls, of course.

I mean, we're talking about a $180 Helix amp-in-a-box with effects, USB recording and headphones out. It must be really hard to ignore the appeal here.

 

[SillyOctpuss]

If by software you mean editor? Yes, but we can't talk about it right now.

Hmm new software editor they can't talk about. New flagship confirmed

 

[Stone]

Surprisingly well, as far as i've seen - minus the usual trolls, of course.

I mean, we're talking about a $180 Helix amp-in-a-box with effects, USB recording and headphones out. It must be really hard to ignore the appeal here.

Its super impressive, curious to know how many are being produced for initial launch? I expect these things will fly off the shelves everywhere

 

[Lysander]

I expect these things will fly off the shelves everywhere

It's already listed for presale in Europe as well, at ~200€.

NGL, i'm this close to ordering one solely as a practice tool. I currently use a Spark Go for that, but 90% of the time i'm running it with headphones, and i muuuuuch prefer Helix tones.

 

[laxu]

Probably because there is no indicator of what you're editing, although I do agree that would be better.

That sounds like a solvable problem since the main knob has those LEDs on them. Change the color to something not used by fx for example.

Double click to "lock to Alt mode" would be a neat feature. I don't know about y'all, but the thing I tend to tweak the most is usually the amp - for example if I use a different guitar I want to tweak the amp EQ a bit, but fx might stay as they are.

The reason I don't dig those "hold this button" things is that it's unreliable. If you hold it just a bit wrong it's easy to not activate it and then you mess up your fx settings. I run into this issue regularly enough on my Strymon Nightsky for example, which requires holding a tiny button between knobs down and turning the reverb knob to adjust e.g pre-delay.

 

[Sascha Franck]

I just really dislike "hold this and turn this" functions.

This!