PodXt Live and Boss GT8

Kenny_D

How does the Pod compare to the GT8 in regards to customising sounds? I cant for the life of me get the hang of tweaking the sounds on my GT8. The Pod uses a pc interface right? Is the pod a worthy upgrade from my GT8?

Where's the cheapest place to pick one up. Thomann have it for €420. Anywhere cheaper like from the states?

Voodu Child

GStormcrow wrote:

I cant for the life of me get the hang of tweaking the sounds on my GT8.

Yeah, I never thought i'd complain about a product having too many features...:D

Kenny_D

I get enough stress and headaches from work. I dont need extra stress to get my desired guitar effects Think a pc interface would be a lot easier for me to use and hopefully to get patches. Getting patches for the GT8 isnt the greatest

feylya

You can always go the midi route with the GT-8 and download them but it is a pain alright. The XT's strength is it's amp simulations. Effects aren't as good as the GT-8 supposedly

DeadSkin

I find gettin patches for the pod is hit and miss, when you download them you find yourself tweaking them anyway.
Keep an eye on ebay, that's where I got mine second hand
Also from time to time you see them on Thomann under the Blow Out section.

Kenny_D

I dont need 20 different heavy metal distortions though. I like my clean sounds. Play a strat through a JC120. Use the fender amp setting mostly on the GT8. When you say it has better amp modelling do you mean it can do good clean sounds or can it do good amp model distortions as well?

Voodu Child

It doesnt make much sense to be critiscising having too many options, but that's the only problem i have with the GT8.

Give me a tweakeable parameter, and i'll tweak it, I can't help it. I can't help wonder if everything is sounding as good as it could.

But with rakes of different parameters for each effect, i'd be there for hours..:rolleyes: Feckin around with EQ-this, low-cut that. Too many options

The Freeman

the pod is very straight forward alright, i don't use the actual pod that much at all i do it all on the desktop, patches are very easy to download also, toake bout 2 secs.......really ya could train a monkey to do it, didn't like the look of the gt-8 with all those dials myself....

Kenny_D

Yeah it mainly boils down to how much time you have or are willing to put in to learning and customising all the effects. When I bought the GT8 I had a lot more free time on my hands so it wasnt too much of a problem. Havent got the free time anymore though and its becoming a pain

Paladin

I have a GT8, and I was actually very disappointed with it to begin with.
I felt the built in patches didnt suit my setup and I couldnt tweak things to my liking.

However, little by little I got to understand its nuances. I did get a new amp/cab setup between when I got the GT8 and now, but I think it just took me a while to grasp how to use the amp models.

I think if you understand the amp models the effects/distortions follow quite easily. It just took me time to get used to how the amp models sounded and how to get what I wanted from them. Now I love the pedal. It makes live gigs so easy to set up.

Id say for E400 quid Id try and put in the time to getting your GT8 right. Thats a lot of money to spend because you havent got time. How many hours do u work to earn that much money? Take that time off work and put it into the pedal

darrenw5094

I am the owner of a POD XT Live.
I have heard some bad reports on the GT8....not a patch on the XT Live.

XT Live is serious piece of kit.......connect it to your pc.......download the sounds from your fav rock tunes or artists from the Line 6 webpage and then transfer to the XT.......simple as that.

I also have the Line 6 Guitar Port.......connect to the pc and dvd surround sound and the tones are perfect.......from Metallica to Bob Marley's 'No Woman No Cry'

However, the Xt Live connected to the Marshall Valvestate 80w is not just as easy. The Marshall has a tone of it's own and the settings clash a little bit with the XT......takes a bit of tweaking to get them right.

Not sure how the GT8 gets it's tones, but the XT has modelled a lot of amps and effect pedals........the only one it doesn't have is the Marshall JCM 900.
You have to buy that with your creddit card for 50 US dollars.....it comes with a lot of other effects too.

Try this German website for prices www.thomann.de
It's got everthing ever made for a musician...including cases for the pedals too. Great prices.

Giblet

I prefer the GT-8 with its FX-Chain and FX Loop features. Way more versatile.

Voodu Child

I think the OP is wondering if the PODxt is more 'plug and play'.

I reckon it might be.

darrenw5094

Plug and play if you want.....but you can tweak everything...and even create your own sounds from scratch and store in whatever memory bank.

Kenny_D

Right the GT8 is sold and I'm getting a second hand Pod next week for the same price I sold the GT8 so its all good

Thomas from Presence

I'm a working guitarist and use a POD XT exclusively. There's no point plugging it into a guitar amp. Best to use it's speaker sim straight into something a powered monitor or keyboard amp. The sounds are more traditional whereas the GT8 has more of a capacity to be outlandish and weird but you'd have to get nerdy with it to get those type of sounds.

The POD XT is amazing. Always natural sounding, aways warm and completely authentic. It's inerface is very easy to use. Just like using virtual amps and FX pedals. Top notch all round either way.

Kenny_D

Picking up the Pod this evening. Anyone got any good websites for patches?

Owen

GTPro here, it came with USB, and a software app that allows you to drag and drop stomp boxes in a chain to edit the patches you want. Make the whole thing very simple to use indeed!