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POD HD for harmonica
POD HD for harmonica
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boris_plotnikov
619 posts
Sep 21, 2011
5:35 AM
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I just tried POD HD bean in music store. It defenitely have nice features for harmonica! It has XLR mic input, nice amp emulators with different tonal qualities and nice dynamics. Playing quiet is warm fat tone, playing accents or loud phrases have nice edge. It needs bunch of time to understand which amps and cabs will works best, but definitely, there is nice set to choose from clean acoustic tone to heavily overdriven and I've found some distorted tones which was really fat, but didn't feed back at decent volume, analog echo is very versatile and adjustable. I was wondered about nice liveloopin possibilities with overdubbing, reversing and slowing down. Finally it has nice pitch shifter, any interval. It's possible to add octave up and octave down at the same time (or even any interval), it tracks all notes fast without any problems and delays (comparing to POD X3, where pitch shifter completely sucks). I was disappointed by rotary speaker emulation, but I've found a decent sweet dynamic vibrato to emulate hammond organ the louder you play vibrato go faster (and it can work together: octave down plus octave up plus vibrato plus amp). Actually I really want to get this pod and to experiment with it. Other problem I've found I didn't find the way to change preset when loop is playing, but I didn't read manual, maybe it's possible. Did anyone else try POD HD series? Any other cons?
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HarpNinja
1697 posts
Sep 21, 2011
5:56 AM
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I've thought about nabbing one of these if it weren't for the learning curve. I also have the M13 already, which makes it a tiny bit redundent.
My understanding is that the most recent update lets you control all the features of an amp harp players would want to tweak including sag.
I know almost all the effects will work great with harp as they are the same as the M-series, including a horrid rotary sound.
I just don't see how it wouldn't rock for harmonica. I am anxious to hear more about your experiences if you go that route.
It is getting to the point where I am 100% cool with not bringing an amp to gigs. There are so many great under-$500 powered speakers and modelling-type rigs, it is just way easier (as I also sing).
Best of luck!
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Mike
Quicksilver Custom Harmonicas
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