Pocket POD...Any use?

Fingers Mcginty

Howdy Folks, What think ye of the aforementioned? If I was to get one it would be only used straight into my PA system at home for late night jams when it's too loud for tubes. I'd never be using it in front of an amp.
My electric straight thru to the PA system atually sounds decent enough so I can only assume that a decent modeler would sound great. I'm not a huge effects guy so massive ammounts of effects and tweaking wouldn't be my cuppa at all. Just a few nice convincing clean/rock sounds would be nice for as I said those late night bedroom jams/recording. I was thinking about a pocket POD??

Thomas from Presence

They are nice but if you had a few quid more to throw at it you'd get much better results out of a second hand Pod XT plus you could always use the Pod XT for some credible computer recording.

If you've got an iPhone you might look at that Peavey box and amp sim combo. The adaptor costs €30 but even the free version of the apps would do you thereafter.

Grolschevik

I don't think you can go wrong with one, really. True, there are better sounding modellers out there, but for handiness, portability, battery powered headphone jamming while strolling round the house, and being small enough to keep in your gigbag for last resort emergencies, I'd go for the Pod. I only use about three or four sounds on mine, and I wouldn't be without it.

Incidentally, I took it to a jam session where it was just me and the singer+acoustic. I tried three different things into the front of the battered old Marshall Valvestate they had, and to my ears (in that situation with that amp), the JCM800 model on the Pocket Pod beat both my Carl Martin Plexitone and my Marshall GV2. That probably says more about my ears than it does about anything else...:D

Fingers Mcginty

Grolschevik wrote: »

I don't think you can go wrong with one, really. True, there are better sounding modellers out there, but for handiness, portability, battery powered headphone jamming while strolling round the house, and being small enough to keep in your gigbag for last resort emergencies, I'd go for the Pod. I only use about three or four sounds on mine, and I wouldn't be without it.

Incidentally, I took it to a jam session where it was just me and the singer+acoustic. I tried three different things into the front of the battered old Marshall Valvestate they had, and to my ears (in that situation with that amp), the JCM800 model on the Pocket Pod beat both my Carl Martin Plexitone and my Marshall GV2. That probably says more about my ears than it does about anything else...:D

Did you try going straight into the PA with it?

Owen

I've got the Pandora PX5d as a backup in my gig bag if my main rack ever dies. It's a nice bit of kit, similar to this, it does rhythm backing tracks to jam with, has a tuner, can slow a phrase down so you can learn a solo, and you can plug in footswitches if you need to gig with it in an emergency.

population

I moved to Italy over a year ago and had to leave all my lovely gear at home due to the expense of getting it over. All I brought with me was a Strat, Pocket Pod and a decent set of AKG Headphones and honestly though I miss ramping it up with a tube amp, for the circumstances I am in, I am actually quite happy with the versatility the Pocket Pod gives me.

Might I suggest the "Breaking the Law" setting if you do pick it up. I am just hooked on it at the mo:D

Grolschevik

Fingers Mcginty wrote: »

Did you try going straight into the PA with it?

Not with my one, with my settings, but I tried a friend's one through a rehearsal studio PA a while back. It sounded ok -- emergency replacement for broken amp at gig ok, but not superb. It has a dedicated "PA out" setting that I didn't know about when I tried yer man's. And I still haven't tried it myself yet.


Edit: here's a thread from March last year where I asked the same question. I still haven't tried it properly with my own Pod, but some of the responses may be useful:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055862926

PeterIanStaker

I have one myself and its great for what it is, I like the built in tuner and some of the song presets, as the man above said, Breaking the Law is class, but Sweet Child O' Mine is as well. Its a good tool to have, but I'd never get a full floor multi - fx.