Pod pro or gt-8?

[carvedones]

looking at these units. What one would be the best?

 

[jeffadies]

Both are good.. IMO the pod pro sounds more realistic. seems to have a better preamp than the boss.

 

[GuitarHack]

Depends what you want it for.

GT-8 has great and infinitely adjustable effects, but the ampsims and cabsims suck major ass.

Can't speak firsthand about the POD, but from what I have heard the ampsims, cabsims are pretty good, surely better than the GT.

 

[Sloan]

I recently borrowed a friend's GT-8 for one night. I didn't have a chance to run it through an amp, but I used headphones and went through the manual and messed with just about all the settings. The only things I liked were the effects that didn't use some type of distortion. It does those things well, but as far as the preamp stuff and distortion, no way. I still really want to try it through an amp, but so far, I would not use the GT-8 for direct recording.

 

[Manicompression]

For performing the boss, for recording the pod.

 

[Metaltastic]

When I saw Katatonia, each of them were running one of those Damage Control distortion thingies into their GT-6's (or maybe 5's, I dunno), so I assume they agree on the crappy distortion front. The DC's sounded pretty killer, though!

 

[egan.]

I think amp distortion w/ a Gt for fx is the way to go live. I agree w/ pretty much everybody that I wouldn't use the the boss as an amp sim tho.

 

[ParsonsMatt]

The POD XT is far beyond the GT8. I speak from personal experience with both units.

What I really want to try is the Pod X3.

 

[carvedones]

Its a POD pro not the xt that i have a chance to get.
I plan to get a good head but will rely on what ever modeller i get for n