On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 17:32 -0500, Joshua Boyd wrote: > 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. > Did you know the Line6 Pod has a Linux driver? http://www.tanzband-scream.at/line6 Lee
