Harp Ninja is probably the guy to ask about Line 6 stuff for harp.
I play guitar through a Line 6 Spider IV 75 and have a Pod XT Live. Both are excellent and for the money, I'd certainly recommend the Spider as a back up harp amp.
I'm getting one of Greg's mics in the next couple of days and might do a vid running it through the Spider.
hi Boris, I haven't tried the POD X3 but I have a Line 6 Pocket Pod. The POD X3 has a superior "sound machine" so you should be able to get a more real sound.
You should spend quite a good ammount of time for setting the pressets. As you know line 6 devices are made for guitar players so you should look and try before getting the sound you like. It will be very time consuming (hours of trying and trying) but you can get something you like.
One problem I found with the pocket Pod is getting "feedback" on stage. I'v e been told that the bet way to avoid it is to connect the pod to a DI BOX and then to the PA to lower the signal impedance. I haven't tried it myself but I guess it must be true.
However, I think that the best think you can get is to look for a tube pedal.I tried a VOX tonelab (valve pedal board) and the sound was very good and warm. You also had a lot of amp combination and effects and you could get some very interesting sounds. I think the price is around or maybe cheaper than a POD X3. You should check it out.
Here is a soundclip of me with the pocket pod and a mid impedance Turner 500 mic.
Hope it helped. And please after you try the units put the feedback in here so more people can learn from your experiences. ---------- With some latin flavour for you, chico!! :P
I tried one of the floor POD's a while back...it had an expression pedal, and it was good. I really want to check out the POD HD pedals...that would be my first Line 6 option. It has all the M Series effects, which work well for harmonica (I gig with the M13 all the time), and is at a VERY reasonable price point.
HarpNinja HD series is to big for my purposes, I'd prefer my pedalboard instead of any big multiFX.
CamiloHarper Nice tone! I think it'd be enough for most situations. So do you try noise reduction/gate on your Pocket POD plus EQ. I think I'll use POD with Fireball, as most cleaner mic to let POD do more. ---------- Excuse my bad English. Click on my photo or my username for my music.
Thanks Boris. yes I use the noise gate to reduce Feedback. However it sorts of distor the sound of the device. In mu recording I have the nosie gate to 0, but if i Want to play with some speakers or a PA I have to turn on the sound gate.
I ve been told that I need a DI BOx and I'm about to buy one. I don't know if with your pedalboard you would need one too. If not, feedback nightmare again!
ask in the line 6 forum for help.
As for the microphone. The truth is that with a low impedance MIC you won't do much (I don0t know if the fireball is low IMP). Before getting my MID impedance mic (750 OMHS) I used a pair of low class shure mics with low impedance and believe me, the tones where not very good, not any close to the recording I posted before. They lacked distortion and strenght. Think of a weakened Fender Champ version of sound.
I do think taht you would get some very nice presets with the POD. I think you are not after a typical chicago tube sound, but after something more experimental (from waht I hard from you). The pod will get you there. Maybe is not the greatest thing, of course its a "simulation" but for live playing, let's be sincere, most of the audience won't care as long as it's sound good to their ears.
If you want to do some serious recording, well, that's another thing, but for that you already have theequipement. I believe what you want is to go practical (that's the main reason why I looked at the podo) and don't go around with a 13 kilograms amplifier everywhere. It's gets tiresome really fast.
---------- With some latin flavour for you, chico!! :P
Yes, I love my rig for local gigs, I take my pedalboard plus two amps to my car and I'm almost always happy with my tone. So when I have to fly or take a trane it's usually PITA, I always have to decide how to reduce the weight, no wireless, no Sonic Stomp, only one mic (which to take SM57 or Fireball), depending on amp in club, it can be big marshall!) or depending on PA soundguy, who is usually too lazy and hardly imagine how harmonica have to sound. I have to plug and to have a great tone with me like at local gigs. ---------- Excuse my bad English. Click on my photo or my username for my music.
I just experimented with POD X3 in music store. I can say that there's pretty good amp models. I made a decent fat tone without feedback with Line6 Class A model, small tweed model with great analog delay. While effects disappointed me. Octaver completely sucks comparing to my Digitech RP200 or Boss HR-2 or Boss PS-3, don't track chords and even too low or too high notes. Rotary speaker sucks, but phase shifter is OK. I use octavers a lot so I'm not sure I want to buy this one at least as the only unit... The second disappointment it have size about 3 separate pedals, not too compact as it seemed to be... ---------- Excuse my bad English. Click on my photo or my username for my music.
