software

I'm considering buying something to use primarily for practice and possibly some recording. I've looked at POD stuff. I want to get your opinions of the POD and your recommendations as to other avenues I should consider. Maybe a small digital multitrack recorder, a different modeling unit, etc.

Have a heart and help a brother out. What should I be looking at/considering?

I like the POD and the V-Amp. Both are great for recording. What is your budget?

Thanks, Jeff. I don't want to spend more than a couple hundred bucks, less if I can get away with it. This will be used strictly around the house. I've got Mesas for live performance, so I'm just wanting something that doesn't sound like ass to play through without disturbing everyone else in the house.

Sansamps are AWESOME! Everything Tech 21 makes is just incredible. The Marshall and Boogie settings on those things BURN! Everytime I plug into my Trademark 60 I get goosebumps. Sometimes I goose it with a Boss overdrive I friend let me borrow/gave me

Definitely check out the Sansamp if you don't need a buncha silly effects!

Wow! Check out the fountain of information coming out of North Carolina! You boys act like something good just happened for your neck of the woods..lol

Thanks for the info.

V-Amps are great and cheap as hell.

I'd go with the V-Amp. You can get them for under $150 (haven't looked in a while, but $139 sticks in my mind). If you want something more in a combo, then the Tech 21 stuff rocks. Let us know what you decide on!

I've had a lot of success with the Boss stuff. I recently got rid of my Amp Factory since I have this little digi Vox amp, but it was great. I'd also recommend looking at the Vox Tonelab - I am sure Jeffrec would be happy to answer any ?'s you have.

I don't want a combo, I've already got three of those that need to be cranked to sound good. I'm looking for something that I can plug into and it sounds through the headphones like I'm playing in the Wintergarden in front of a wall of cranked amps . Or something like that, anyway...lol

I just want to be able to play through something that sounds half-way decent without disturbing the whole house. It would be nice if it could be used for direct recording if I ever wanted to do that with it.

Rob ... if you check out my MP3's in the Tips and clips section under quot;JB and Full Shred clipsquot; thread there are 2 recordings there done with my Line 6 and nearly 90% was done direct to my soundcard. The eq's certainly could have been better but both recordings were done in haste.

But they were done using my Flextone which basically becomes a POD when I detach the speaker/go to headphones.

I have no clue if you will like the tones, but it gives a half @ssed recording of some POD sounds recorded straight to disk

EDIT: here's the link to save you time

from : localhost/www.soundclick.com/bands/6/darkspheremusic.htm

I dig my V-Amp2, but I'd get a used POD 2.0 instead. A little more dough, sounds a bit better to me, and has more options.

As always, you da man, Frink. Thanks for the link. I'll check it out with my slow-ass dial up.

Get the Vox Tonelab. Or a Valvetronix Amp itself. Both have headphone jacks. THe Tonelab has the cabinet modeling like the POD, the Valvetroinx doesn't.

1 for used depreciated Vox Tonelab. Or, POD XT

Trademark 10, from tech21? It's the one I'd bought if I had the money... It has amazing features: 3 tone eq', reverb, 27 modeling settings, XLS output (acts like a DI), a 8' speaker that you can disconect to drive a cabinet, headphone plug...

Check it!!!

if your a mesa user you should like the POD XT on the mesa settings (after a bunch of tweeking) through headphones it's great and through and atomic amp it's even better! the key to the POD though is tweeking settings...everyone who says they hate it 9 times out of 10 didn't spend enough time turning knobs and changing cabs and mics and room sizes etc to get good sounds from it.

-Mike

V-amps suck.

Dont go near them