BKP Pickups and Line 6 Toneport

[Infliktor]

Will I be able to hear/tell any difference after installing some new BK pickups when going thru a Toneport?

[AndyR]

I've not tried a Toneport, but I was using a POD XTLive exclusively when I started installing BKPs - these are the same models/algorithms I believe?

I definitely heard and felt a difference. At first I worried that I was justifying the expenditure to myself, but after a few weeks even my wife noticed the improvements in my tone and, more importantly, my playing :D

Others might tell you that you really need to have this or that valve amp to get the true benefit... and this might be true, I don't know, but for my money the POD models are good enough to warrant upgrading your pups to BKPs :D

What you might find is that the POD models don't quite cut it enough for you after a few months of feeding BKPs into them - that's what happened to me, and I switched to a Vox Tonelab (still use the POD for some stuff). I'm still firmly in the "modellors are OK for what I do" camp though!

[MDV]

"Even my wife noticed..."

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Speaks volumes! No pun intended (for a change).

Anyway, yeah, it'll sound different, but you wont get the full benefit.

The line 6 stuff in particular, the dynamics of that stuffs $%&#ed up, notes are almost 'on' or 'off' through them, and much of the benefit of BKs is in the dynamics. But yeah, you'll get some benefit from it. Just not all of it.

[Denim n Leather]

^ I agree. The more resolution you have available, the more you will notice how far superior the BKs are. But even on the lower res side, you will still hear improvements in the all-important midrange.

[dheim]

Will I be able to hear/tell any difference after installing some new BK pickups when going thru a Toneport?

of course you will. i do indeed...
and, although my impression of some pickup tends to differ very much if played though POD or tube amp, i never noticed a lack of dynamics with line 6 models...