Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: Jonesy on June 26, 2006, 08:19:10 PM
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Im thinking of getting hold of some recording equipment (mostly for home use so i can post some of my new BKP clips 8) ).
Anyway, this looks good but has anyone had any experience with it?
Recording quality?
Effect quality?
Cheers...
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I think Sambo has one but as he has gone, we will never know.....unless he reappers.
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Gone today, but back tomorrow, I'm sure.
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If you are after quick hassle free recording then this unit is for you, sounds are pretty cool, if you are purely after recording then try Guitar Rig 2 , it comes with a floor unit for wah stuff and switching and IMHO sounds a bit more convincing then the Pod. Both are cool though. Go for it.
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Or a M-Audio Black Box.
Simplicity itself.
Great models/effects
Good drum tracks
Easy/good recording via USB
CHEAP at £99!
Love mine (when I can get a power supply to use her, darn ac/ac adaptors!)
Nick
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Cheers guys
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I used to use the Tonelab SE, very very nice, speaker sims don't do it THAT well though.
But what is the best recording gear I bought was a Palmer The Junction DI, which is a frequency corrected box between amp and speaker, sounds amazing and is damn simple to setup.
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Hmmm...that wouldent work for a combo amp would it?
Until i get the money for my carvin head...im stuck with my laney VC30 and Digitech multi effects lol
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Hmmm...that wouldent work for a combo amp would it?
Until i get the money for my carvin head...im stuck with my laney VC30 and Digitech multi effects lol
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sure it works for a combo. this also has a speaker jack out, just plug the speaker cable into one end of the palmer and another speaker cable between combo and palmer...
Look here, it's also installed in a combo
http://www.palmergear.com/
The thing is just 100 pounds or so...
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I've got a PODxt, and it does sound good IMO, although it's a good idea to spend some time working on your settings through both speakers and headphones.
Haven't used to USB direct recording function as I have a 4 I/O card with a break out box that allows me to plug both outputs from the PODxt and record from there.
The M-Audio Black Box is supposed to be very good, as is the VOX Tonelab series of modellers.
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love mine personally,
ill be happy to answer any specific questions you got bout it mate...
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Cheers Sambo (and others)...well im not realy sure how to go about recording. I know there will obviously be instructiions and stuff but what...do you just plug ur guitar lead into ur comp and go?
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I just used one on my last Nailbomb track in the players forum. There's a lot of debate on the Line6 forum about the 'fizziness' of a lot of the high gain amps and many people say the POD2.0 (not XT) is smoother and warmer so if you want a simple good recording unit that might be a good bet, but the flexibility of the XT range is great especially if you plan to hook it up to a computer and use the Line6 edit software.
As regards the fizziness, yeah it bothered me and I found it hard to get a good sound and spent ages tweaking, but when I downloaded other peoples patches it sounded great!
But note, Line6 doesn't work with new Intel Macs (like mine!) so if you have one be prepared to use a PC or older mac to use the editing software and you'll need a recording interface instead of using the USB.
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well jonesy... the way i do it is this:
guitar-->XT Live-->USB cable--->computer--->audacity...
works great, although i dont do much recording with it because i never have the time.... i just use it for home practice... which its superb for...
it is great for recording though... and if you getting one JUST for recording.. maybe a Bean one would be better... then maybe the 2.0 going by what gingataff said.
another thing about what he said; totally agree about the fizziness... but to be honest id have taken it back if i could only use the presets... compared to peoples own custom sounds you can download... the presets are TERRIBLE... of course you get the odd good one... but theres such a difference in quality between stock and edited sounds so its hard to judge it on the presets...
like i said, if you have any specific questions, just ask away.