PodXTmetal Impulse Response Request

[Mulder]

Hi All,

After grabbing & analyzing some IR's from a Crate cabinet I'm wondering how Line6 got to their (in)famous cabinetsimulator in the HD147metalpack expansion of the PodXT.

Is anyone here willing to sweep his/hers PodXT? Without any distortion, FX or EQing, just the cabinetsimulator? Mail me at nickmulder(at)xs4all.nl and I'll send the testsweep and post the results later. If it turns out ok everyone can have the PodXT (metal)cabinet inside a program like SIR or QClone.

Disclaimer: you can't clone distortionbehaviour, just the cabinetresponse. For tubeoverdrive you need an amp(simulator).

 

[A Gruesome Discovery]

Wait; did the Metal Shop pack come with extra cabs? What's this Metal Cab you speak of? I've only got the ones that the Pod ships with. (???)

 

[TheStoryteller]

This is interesting stuff. Good cabinet impulse responses are hard to find... and by "good" I mean suitable for metal.

Does anyone have any recommendations for good impulses?

edit: I've tried everything at http://www.noisevault.com/

 

[ApolloSpeed]

i'm running out of patience with Line6 stuff.

I've had the Flextone 2 HD and now the HD147......

nice amps, but having to play live right before a band with multi thousand dollar tube heads is a bitch!

I'm slowing planning a bank robbery to afford an ENGL or Framus.

 

[Mulder]

Wait; did the Metal Shop pack come with extra cabs? What's this Metal Cab you speak of? I've only got the ones that the Pod ships with. (???)

What I call the 'metalcab' is the model that comes with the metal extension. If it's not tweaked for metal but just a standard PodXTmodel its ok too ofcourse. Point is that the IR's we made of a Crate cabinet show some strange stuff going on in a loudspeaker, very steep dips & peaks in the MFsection, with modelingsoftware you can tweak that. I really think the Line6guys did a nice job there. In the venue I work most (scandinavian) metalbands also play with Line6 live, with the vetta's hidden behind some screen that is .

I'm wondering what will happen if I record a guitartrack straight from the speakeroutput of a dual rect and mix it through the IRmodel of a PodXT.

 

[A Gruesome Discovery]

I do have a PodXT, but you'll need to find someone with the XT Pro, because the input on the regular XT "bean" is at instrument level. The Pro has a switchable instrument in/line in, which you'll need to effectively process the soundburst. (Or, alternately, someone with a Pod and a Reamp box.)

 

[Mulder]

I do have a PodXT, but you'll need to find someone with the XT Pro, because the input on the regular XT "bean" is at instrument level. The Pro has a switchable instrument in/line in, which you'll need to effectively process the soundburst. (Or, alternately, someone with a Pod and a Reamp box.)

Ever tried to feed the pod from a headphone out of your soundcard with the level turned down quite a bit? AFAIK the impedancething shouldn't be a big problem, going from headphone out to instrument in..