Silent Fly

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[quote name='ped' post='82864' date='Nov 2 2007, 06:33 PM']Crikey! What a package! I have sent this to my guitar player.[/quote] Thanks Ped for sending my auction to your guitar player. It also a good unit for bass. I am not 100% sure but I don't think the [i]Bass PODxt[/i] can be upgraded with [i]FX Junkie[/i]. Moreover, the PODxt is stereo and the BOD is mono/biamp (which in my opinion makes the PODxt more interesting). I used it with bass and guitar and it is equally good with both. Silent Fly [i]P.S. I gather this is the right place for pointing member's auction on eBay. Would it be inappropriate for "For sale: Amps, Cabs and Effects"?[/i]

[size=1][i]I am not sure this is the right place to post this. If it isn't apologies (could also the admin tell me where move it to)[/i][/size] I decided to sell my PODxt+bass pack. It is in perfect conditions with the support unit and all model packs available pre-installed. Thanks to the bass pack the PODxt can behave like a [i]PODxt Bass[/i] (aka BOD). Here the auction on eBay: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330184014833"]<a href="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330184014833" target="_blank">http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=330184014833[/url]</a> The PODxt is a fantastic unit but I decided to move to a pedals-based configuration. ...and I know that in 1 year time I will change my mind (again)

Hi Wolper, Personally I wouldn't connect the mixer the way you did. There are a couple of reasons why is not good idea: - Guitar and basses need to "see" a high impedance input to work properly. From what you say I gather you have an active bass but a passive guitar. If the bass is active, it can be connected to a low impedance input but it is not ideal. This is why we use DI boxes. - The tone settings of you amp change the sound of your drums. Instead, I would connect it this way: bass-->amp and in the send/return of your amp: send-->[mixer input 4 ~~ mixer out]-->return then set the input gain 4 to gain 0 (aka no-gain and no-attenuation) and mixer output to gain 0. After you set it this way, do not touch it. The guitar tone is going to be bad anyway. You can resolve this using a pedal like an EQ o compressor before the mixer. You have to be careful as the mixer is connected to the power amp of you amp directly. In other words, your master volume has no effect on the mixer output.

It is not in the list and strictly speaking is not a "pure" compressor but I love the compressor section of my Presonus Eureka. One of the best compressors I ever tried + it has a very nice EQ [url="http://presonus.com/eureka.html"]http://presonus.com/eureka.html[/url]

It's interesting how people comments about the U5 are always very similar: "the real sound of the bass", "very clean", "tons of headroom", ... I must try one! I don't know where but sooner or later I will

[quote name='lowdown' post='64289' date='Sep 23 2007, 10:24 AM'](...) And it is one serious bit of kit.. (...)[/quote] A little bit short as a review Any other comment?

[quote name='lowdown' post='61673' date='Sep 17 2007, 01:41 PM'](...) will let myself know how i get on.. Garry[/quote] Please do let us know what you think about it - I am very interested!

I must admit that at the beginning I experienced the same thing: "muffled" and undefined sound. Here some tips: - The standard presets are bad. Do no judge the PODxt+BP on the bass presets and do yourself a favour: delete them. - When you change amp/preamp the PODxt changes automatically: pre-EQ, cabinet, mic, mic-distance. I wonder why especialy considering that the person that designed these automatic settings may not have the same taste that everybody else. This "system feature" makes the editing very difficult indeed. However, there is a solution. I use Line6 Edit. On the right side of the amp type selection, there is a small chain. If you click on the chain, you disable the automatic settings. This makes the editing much simpler. In practice I believe there is a way to define the automatic settings associated to every pre but to be honest I prefer to have full control of the unit. - The knobs are very sensitive. I suggest to start any editing with the EQ knobs on 12 oclock (however, I think, some models have the linear position on 0). No compressor, gate or effects. Then turn the EQ knobs by small amounts and only one at the time. - I suggest to start with just preamp and no cab modelling. I get better sounds in this way. You can always add cabs at a later stage. - The line6 documentation is not well written. Overall it is not bad but sometime I need to move back and forward between BOD, POD and model pack manuals. Other things like how the POD knobs map to the model packs are simply not written anywhere. - The parametic EQ is a nice feature but personaly I almost never use it. Once you mastered the amp models and the standard EQ, the parametric EQ is almost pointless. - The DI xover frequency default is 400Hz (why on the model pack? Who knows...). This makes any effect sound horrible (IMO). Set it to 0. I hope the above helps.

I have a PODxt (the red/guitar version) with Bass, Fx Junkie, Metal and Collector Classic expansions. I really like it. I actually prefer it to the Bass PODxt (aka BOD). The main reason is that (AFIK) the Bass pod is mono with biamp (or DI and Model out). The PODxt is stereo. Apart from the different connectivity, a PODxt+bass expansion is like a BOD. But... the PODxt is also an excellent MultiFx for guitar. Regardless if you use BODxt or PODxt+BE, they aren't the simplest units to program. I use the PC editor and it does help to sort out the varius preset and program the sounds. It is not difficult to get good sounds out of it but equaly is is very easy to get bad sounds.