On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 04:51:30PM +0000, Michael T D Nelson wrote: > It's clearly a replacement for a Line 6 POD Pro. No doubt about that. > > However, it comes in a rather stylish blue colour - better than that > Line 6 red :o) > > Behringer have also improved on Line 6's device by cleverly surrounding > each continuous rotary digital control with a ring of LEDs, allowing the > user to see in which directon each knob is pointing as soon as a new > preset is selected. I might be a sucker. I thought the the V-Amp Pro looked better from the user interface perspective that the Line6 pods, not to mention that a V-Amp Pro was cheaper than a Pod Xt (let alone the Pod Xt Pro). However, I couldn't get my hands on a V-Amp Pro to try out, so I chickened out and bought the Pod Xt since I loved playing with it at the local music store. It is very nice, but the knobs are somewhat irritating. They aren't continuous rotary encoders, and so if a knob is high and the parameter is low, if you want to boost the level a little, you actually turn the knob down since the knob position has no relationship to parameter position until you start editing the parameter. I thought that AES/EBU output would be nice, but in the end I run the Pod Xt into USB on my Mac, so I don't miss that feature so much. I do still think that rack mount would have been nicer though. -- Joshua D. Boyd jdboyd@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.jdboyd.net/ http://www.joshuaboyd.org/
