In today's video I briefly confess my eternal love to the X3 Pro which remains an awesome digital guitar AND bass processor for cheap money! Music by Soulhenge.
I totally agree! Over the last 6 weeks, I had the chance, (thanks to a hometown music store owner), to spend 2 weeks each with LINE 6 POD HD PRO, LINE 6am POD X3 PRO and LINE 6 POD HD PRO X. Now 2 weeks isn't a long time to spend with these units but it gave me a good idea, to find out which unit could excell at the parameters I wanted or if a unit couldn't do tasks I needed to have performed. As a songwriter who was a lead vocalist before I was a competent guitarist, I tend to look at guitar gear in general from a different light. All 3 units are excellent peices of kit and depending on your needs, your sure to find it within these rack-units. For myself, LINE 6 POD X3 PRO had all the tools for constructing excellent production values while writing original music. Plus I'm still getting wicked hard and heavy guitar tones! I also have a LINE 6 VETTA II Full Stack that i still love and i find the VETTA and POD X3 PRO have similar user interfaces. Our bands lead guitarist runs LINE 6 POD HD PRO X and it's very cool to hear two similar but different guitar tones while performing. I'm powering the X3 PRO with an older but still killer PEAVEY - PV 2.6C - PROFESSIONAL STEREO POWER AMPLIFIER, 130w per side. So, my choice to purchase in 2018 is the. POD X3 PRO .
I own a Flextone iii and a couple of years ago had the same problem with some knobs on the amp,then after searching on the net I found a guy on a forum that said that all I had to do was open the amp and spray all the knobs with a contact cleaner and whait for a wile,so I did it and the problem was gone,no more volume drop or other stuff since then..
cand you put it up against the helix and HD500? It would be nice to hear de evolution of the modelling technology in the order of their releases! Thx dude. cheers!
dude amazing as always... please share your patches
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I just bought it a few weeks before because of this Video! I mean i sell it right now again but not because it is bad i simply only wanted to check it out and the lower tuned the guitar the more i liked it ^^ but the dual mic /instrument inputs are great too :)
I had this rack, sold it 2 years ago, and for some very strange reason even thou i dont find their amps to sounds good at all, effect section was amazing. I feel like i miss a lot of without having it. Wah wah was amazing from my recollection, chorus was not too shabby either, and as you said piezo is very effective. Looking forward to buy it again used. And its 2021. I`ll consider it as family reunion.
The effects are awesome. They were the same as Line 6's M series of effects. I got mine in 2017 and am still happy with it! This video helped me decide. ;)
Nice, recently sold my axe fx ultra as I'm broke! Will be picking up one of these to go with my mesa 50/50, reckon it will make a decent rig. For live use, I've found that the limitations of the PA, sound guy, and room acoustics will alter your tone far more than the difference in performance between the axe fx and an older modeller, at least in the smaller venues I play. And most people in the audience don't care anyway!
+GeorgeSandle To be honest, this unit's weakest part are the cab simulations. The amps are quite good. So as you're using a good power amp and cab setup, it should sound great!
I agree the pod x3 series is still badass. i let a friend use mine for a gig awhile back and had better tone then anyone using tube amps . even had better tone then a band using the helix. You can make these things sound great if you know how to tweak your tone!
Yo, managed to get a POD x3 Pro myself finally, one of the best purchases I have made in a long time. Thanks to you ;-) I was just wondering what the setting were for both Piezo sounds 5:04? How did you get those sounds? What were the amps and effects?
Hello, maybe a litle bit out of topic...but would you advise me to buy a second hand hd500x for 250 dollars in 2018 or is it already out of date (not good enough anymore) ?
Thanks Soulhehnge for this review. I like to ask you, about this Master volume Knob influencing the patches volume, is something wrong in this exactly machine you show us...... .....or is something that belong to all the LINE6 POD X3 Pro? And if its so did you manage to overcome this in the setting of every single patches? Thanks a lot!
Does anyone know if you can use your old l6t files with this one (upload them to the X3 via usb)? I have a guitar tone that I just can't replicate anywhere else other than gearbox/pod farm and been using it for years and I'm looking for a line6 device that supports the l6t sound files.
I still have my X3 pro, I skipped on the 500hd because as a recording interface the 500hd dropped the bass pres the vocal pres and the acoustic guitar pres . I'm considering buying a helix only because it has a looper and I like the harmony guitar plus it what 15 years newer maybe 10 but I paid almost 800 for my Xperia pro there only worth about 3 to 4 hundred and I still love it as a recording interface. I love the bass pres. I play guitar, bass and Roland TD 30 electric drums. This is incredible to run your drums through too. I wonder why line 6 decided to drop this all in one concept ?
I can't confirm the compatibility with Catalina unfortunately. I probably used Yosemite back then, I'm now at High Sierra to keep most of my older plugins working.
@@MilianMalivukMusic oh ok, thanks for the reply. This is really flexible but I wonder if I should get this or just go for the gojira neural Dsp , you’ve tried both do you fell like the plug in is on another level?
Hey man :). As i'm on a pretty low budget i have been looking for multi effect pedals/racks, and now i'm kind of stuck. At first i wanted a hd500x but when i saw your hd500 vs x3 video i wasn't so sure anymore. I mainly want to get a versatile (metal) tones and the x3 sounds really cool. The hd500 does too but has more effects. Do you have any advice? Thanks in advance
Lester van den Berg Don't forget there's such thing as x3 live. Runs around 150 bones used max so even if you don't like it it's probably not the worst investment you could make
Bought mine new and still use it on every record lol.Its severly underestimated. I tell people who ask how I get my sound to get a Line 6 X3 and they always go out and buy what ever the newest one is and are dissapointed lol. X3 is just awesome.
Thanks for the reply, and one more question. Do you have a string set you'd recommend that would be able to go as low as drop Ab but still play nice in standard on that scale length? I'm looking to play Monuments and Periphery stuff, but also Scale the Summit in standard. Thanks for the helpful videos! :D
I use D'addario 11-64 and they're perfect for Drop A, I sometimes tune to Drop G# (or Ab) but it starts getting a bit too floppy then. I'm not sure what gauges exist between this and the like 80 gauges for 8-strings - you have to experiment and find what's right for you!
Well the HD500X is a bit more expensive and is focused on live use because it's the floor version. However, there's a floor version of the X3 too! Can't really tell you to go for the more expensive one nor for the old one... The HD series sound more modern.
Hi, do you use the workbench HD through the X3 to edit your Variax settings? I can edit the settings in the Workbench HD for my Variax, but when writing back the setting to the Variax makes the Workbench software crash. Or do you use the separate USB VDI interface?
+raul elias martinez escalona Hey man! What OS are you using? I have mine running on Windows 10 with no issues at all. I can use Gearbox as well as record. Download the latest available Gearbox release and it should work.
Not familiar with the darkglass stuff personnaly but if you mean a blend of clean low end with distorted high mids, yes you can totally do that with an X3, use a bass amp sim on one signal chain and a guitar amp sim on the other (that's what Nolly used to do with his axe FX and what I used to do with this very unit on the video) and it should do the trick just fine
A bit late here, but I use my X3 Live with Windows 10 without any problems! I can record with it, using it as an interface, and edit the tones using Gearbox.
Love my Pod X3. HD sounds terrible. The HD series power amp algorithms are defective, that's why people are constantly tweaking them to fix the problem. I hope Helix fixed the problem, but they really should have corrected the HD power amp algorithms.
They are great. Though, I have to say I've always been frustrated tone wise. Software (I have them all), Eleven Rack, X3 Live I finally went back to heads and got a Two Notes Reload. I don't know exactly how to say it. I always felt the EMU heads were (haven't tried Kemper yet), missed something in the low and low mids and the upper end seemed "disjointed". Whether it was a little too "snowy" or very "blocky". So I always felt disappointed. I think the IRs for the cabs like Two Notes or Rosin Digital are really where it is at. I've heard "yes" to AXE and "hell NO" to AXE. I've only heard "yes to Kemper". That seems to be the MAIN goto. However, I like to experiment and running with a head and IR's sound so much better. Its just rounder and more even.
I have my X3 Live since 2017 and still love it! Works great as an interface as well. @@justoalvarez3940 Agreed! I've been meaning to get the Radar for some time. The IRs give the X3 a new life. The Radar is great for live use. Studio use isn't much of a problem as you can use IRs in your DAW anyway.
I gave the x3 pro...I got it back in September for 200 bucks in mint condition with the plastic still on it. My friend dialed in a meshuggah catch 33 patch on it that's insane, wish I could figure out the meshuggah lead sound but that's gonna remain a mystery I guess. I didnt know the piezo thing existed on the x3, I'm gonna have have to figure out how to get it. I hope mine stays fine and doesn't have future issues with the knobs because it happened to fall off the top of my cab and hit the hardwood floor last week -_-
guitar -> pod -> poweramp -> cab. In regards to the power amp there are a lot of options out there, just search for reviews and go for the one you like the most.
well yeah. But you can also buy a FRFR monitor speaker. Those are active speakers so you won't need either the power amp/cab solution. Unless you already have a cabinet. Or you can just go straight to the PA. But you can find some decent used poweramps for cheap out there.
Great playing. However your video didn't explain why it's still relevant in 2017. "I really love it" isn't a reason.. For you it's relevant because you like monuments and you like the pietzo preset, but the HD pro is a bit more relevant these days I guess (though I think for live you need the 500X instead of the pro, they are the same with a bit different IO)
I still use the X3 Pro, I bought the HD Pro X about 2 years ago and I had the Axe FX II from my band mate, I tested all 3 for 3 days using the same emulation amps (ENGL and Mesa Treadplate), through headphones and through a Carvin power amp and a Laney 212 cab, the result kind of shocked me, the X3 Pro was the best by far, there's more bite and punch to it, the HD Pro X and the Axe FX sounded more like amps with a lot of mid and no punch, now in 2019 I'm still searching for a replacement to the X3 Pro if there's really one, I guess the Kemper would be the answer to that, I'm even considering getting a second X3 Pro just in case. X3 Pro sounds exactly like the Vetta 2, and Vetta 2 is the best amp Line 6 have ever made. I eventually returned the HD Pro X to Thomann the same week. I have used valve heads and valve preamps in the past and the X3 Pro is still my favourite, it's also a cracking recording interface and it weights nothing.
hi man, i have an X3 and i really like it but i use it with 2 guitars, and I'm searching for better effects, can you help me with that? i like pretty much your tone, it would be awesome if you can help me with that, I play some metal but you know I'm looking for better sound with my X3.
I was thinking of buying a POD X3 Pro used. My plan is to put it together with my Peavey 6505 with the 4 cable method, giving me a digital clean channel. i wondered: is it possible to get some good TesseracT/ Periphery/ Architects like clean-ambient sounds out of this unit? And if so how would anyone do about this? (I was thinking of something like this czcams.com/video/-RwEyRi6J-0/video.html or this czcams.com/video/J0OI-VsMwSE/video.html) Awsome videos man, keep it up!
I think that is doable :) The X3s cleans are bonkers. You even have a Piezo simulation that gives you a awesome glassy tone with single coil! For the TesseracT-ish clean I'd recommend to use a pitcher (shift one octave higher/lower with a 50% mix) and some delay and it should be it ;)
The first two Tesseract albums were recorded using a POD XT (don't know which variant). Since the X3 models are quite similar, achieving Tessetact-ish clean tones shouldn't be a problem. As +Soulhenge said, you'd need a pitch shifter and some delay. However, one main thing about their clean tones is that there is *no* cab simulation, which helps in getting that really glassy tone. If you want purely ambient tones, check this video out: czcams.com/video/YQeNzyUcgQ4/video.html Hope that helps!
metal droped......... :/ want to see srv tone, vai, satch, ect.... slo100 tone, mesa, peavey evh ect ect ect... i saw just a verrrryyyy metal tone, want to hear 100% of his capacity
Not in my ears. I didn't mix a lot, probably just a low cut on the EQ and slight compression. If shit is getting in, shit is also coming out so it can't be that bad.
Harsh and clicky chug sounds, cheesy acoustic simulations...basically you get what it is: a old piece of gear that shows all of its age. Not to mention the lack of dynamics in anything but square wave rectification of the signal. There's a reason why this is not the current state of technology, why Helix and the like are around and why anyone should stay away from this ear-piercing monstruosity unless the cacophonic tone is sought after for precise creative intents.
It's 2022 and it's still my go to rig 👍🏽
Tasty riffing dude! :) Keep up the good work!
I totally agree! Over the last 6 weeks, I had the chance, (thanks to a hometown music store owner), to spend 2 weeks each with LINE 6 POD HD PRO, LINE 6am POD X3 PRO and LINE 6 POD HD PRO X. Now 2 weeks isn't a long time to spend with these units but it gave me a good idea, to find out which unit could excell at the parameters I wanted or if a unit couldn't do tasks I needed to have performed. As a songwriter who was a lead vocalist before I was a competent guitarist, I tend to look at guitar gear in general from a different light. All 3 units are excellent peices of kit and depending on your needs, your sure to find it within these rack-units. For myself, LINE 6 POD X3 PRO had all the tools for constructing excellent production values while writing original music. Plus I'm still getting wicked hard and heavy guitar tones! I also have a LINE 6 VETTA II Full Stack that i still love and i find the VETTA and POD X3 PRO have similar user interfaces. Our bands lead guitarist runs LINE 6 POD HD PRO X and it's very cool to hear two similar but different guitar tones while performing. I'm powering the X3 PRO with an older but still killer PEAVEY - PV 2.6C - PROFESSIONAL STEREO POWER AMPLIFIER, 130w per side. So, my choice to purchase in 2018 is the. POD X3 PRO .
I still have my X3 Pro. I might not be able to play as well as you though. :) Thumbs up to ya man. Keep on crankin out the cool riffs.
Excellent work. With a little time, and patience, you can get a great sound from anything.
That bass tone is insanely cool. Would love to see a breakdown of how you get your bass tones :)
its nearly the end of 2020 , and im still watching this. as always im a fan of your playing , great tones man !
I own a Flextone iii and a couple of years ago had the same problem with some knobs on the amp,then after searching on the net I found a guy on a forum that said that all I had to do was open the amp and spray all the knobs with a contact cleaner and whait for a wile,so I did it and the problem was gone,no more volume drop or other stuff since then..
Great demo friend
Just grabbed one today at a pawn shop and I can't wait to run it through my fx loop tomorrow
cand you put it up against the helix and HD500? It would be nice to hear de evolution of the modelling technology in the order of their releases! Thx dude. cheers!
dude amazing as always... please share your patches
I just bought it a few weeks before because of this Video! I mean i sell it right now again but not because it is bad i simply only wanted to check it out and the lower tuned the guitar the more i liked it ^^ but the dual mic /instrument inputs are great too :)
I had this rack, sold it 2 years ago, and for some very strange reason even thou i dont find their amps to sounds good at all, effect section was amazing. I feel like i miss a lot of without having it. Wah wah was amazing from my recollection, chorus was not too shabby either, and as you said piezo is very effective.
Looking forward to buy it again used.
And its 2021. I`ll consider it as family reunion.
The effects are awesome. They were the same as Line 6's M series of effects. I got mine in 2017 and am still happy with it! This video helped me decide. ;)
Unbelievable bass tone. Please, could not you upload it? I'm looking for exactly that. THX!
Nice, recently sold my axe fx ultra as I'm broke! Will be picking up one of these to go with my mesa 50/50, reckon it will make a decent rig. For live use, I've found that the limitations of the PA, sound guy, and room acoustics will alter your tone far more than the difference in performance between the axe fx and an older modeller, at least in the smaller venues I play. And most people in the audience don't care anyway!
+GeorgeSandle To be honest, this unit's weakest part are the cab simulations. The amps are quite good.
So as you're using a good power amp and cab setup, it should sound great!
I agree the pod x3 series is still badass. i let a friend use mine for a gig awhile back and had better tone then anyone using tube amps . even had better tone then a band using the helix. You can make these things sound great if you know how to tweak your tone!
you can get an impressive tone but it takes time, stock presets sucksss
Rhett Reamy yeah they are great but I picked up an axe fx standard for 525 so if you can save for that baby
How do you find you Axe-FX standard? Good tone? Do you use the editor on the PC/Mac?
What's your setup in you rig? Poweramp, cab, etc...
the sound of this gear is amazing i got on a few days ago
Yo, managed to get a POD x3 Pro myself finally, one of the best purchases I have made in a long time. Thanks to you ;-) I was just wondering what the setting were for both Piezo sounds 5:04? How did you get those sounds? What were the amps and effects?
I can't quite remember but there is a clean amp called "Piezo acoustic" or something like that!
soundcloud.com/pablometal mesa boogie (x3)
Hello, maybe a litle bit out of topic...but would you advise me to buy a second hand hd500x for 250 dollars in 2018 or is it already out of date (not good enough anymore) ?
Thanks Soulhehnge for this review.
I like to ask you, about this Master volume Knob influencing the patches volume, is something wrong in this exactly machine you show us...... .....or is something that belong to all the LINE6 POD X3 Pro?
And if its so did you manage to overcome this in the setting of every single patches?
Thanks a lot!
The Master Volume controls the final volume coming out of the unit. However, it doesn't change the volume level saved in the individual patches.
Does anyone know if you can use your old l6t files with this one (upload them to the X3 via usb)? I have a guitar tone that I just can't replicate anywhere else other than gearbox/pod farm and been using it for years and I'm looking for a line6 device that supports the l6t sound files.
I still have my X3 pro, I skipped on the 500hd because as a recording interface the 500hd dropped the bass pres the vocal pres and the acoustic guitar pres . I'm considering buying a helix only because it has a looper and I like the harmony guitar plus it what 15 years newer maybe 10 but I paid almost 800 for my Xperia pro there only worth about 3 to 4 hundred and I still love it as a recording interface. I love the bass pres. I play guitar, bass and Roland TD 30 electric drums. This is incredible to run your drums through too. I wonder why line 6 decided to drop this all in one concept ?
Hi bro. Don't you know if it works as interface in Windows 10? Thanks!
I'm totally agree with you. I have pod x3 bean and it's still awesome. I don't need axe fx and others exprensive stuffs like that.
Hi ! do you have this distortion tone available to download ? it's awesome!
I still use it regularly and some people even asked what I was using for my guitar tones, thinking it was a much more recent unit.
Great video mate! Does it work with the latest Catalina? Or do you use it just as a stand alone kinda preamp?
I can't confirm the compatibility with Catalina unfortunately. I probably used Yosemite back then, I'm now at High Sierra to keep most of my older plugins working.
@@MilianMalivukMusic oh ok, thanks for the reply. This is really flexible but I wonder if I should get this or just go for the gojira neural Dsp , you’ve tried both do you fell like the plug in is on another level?
Hey man :). As i'm on a pretty low budget i have been looking for multi effect pedals/racks, and now i'm kind of stuck. At first i wanted a hd500x but when i saw your hd500 vs x3 video i wasn't so sure anymore. I mainly want to get a versatile (metal) tones and the x3 sounds really cool. The hd500 does too but has more effects. Do you have any advice? Thanks in advance
Hm, tough one. To be honest, I don't know what I would choose. Right now I'm most happy with the HD500 and third party cab impulses.
Lester van den Berg Don't forget there's such thing as x3 live. Runs around 150 bones used max so even if you don't like it it's probably not the worst investment you could make
so now that you've sold it what do you record with now?
nice tone
So it's basically Dino Cazares tone from the 2000s ...
Please tell me what drums do you use mate?
Can you do the same with a POD XT pro?
one more things, do you use the x3 pro as your soundcard? that sound amazing.
Yes, same thing for the HD500!
So I'm not the one who use x3 series in 2017. Thank's god. God bless my x3 live
bayu ananta Yup, still have mine! Best investment ever
Bought mine new and still use it on every record lol.Its severly underestimated. I tell people who ask how I get my sound to get a Line 6 X3 and they always go out and buy what ever the newest one is and are dissapointed lol. X3 is just awesome.
Just got mine used a few days back. Loving it!
2018 !!
i still use the good ol´red kidney
Sick playing and tones bro. Is that Carvin a 25.5'' scale??
Yes I prefer the regular scale over the 27" baritones that Carvin offers!
Thanks for the reply, and one more question. Do you have a string set you'd recommend that would be able to go as low as drop Ab but still play nice in standard on that scale length? I'm looking to play Monuments and Periphery stuff, but also Scale the Summit in standard. Thanks for the helpful videos! :D
I use D'addario 11-64 and they're perfect for Drop A, I sometimes tune to Drop G# (or Ab) but it starts getting a bit too floppy then. I'm not sure what gauges exist between this and the like 80 gauges for 8-strings - you have to experiment and find what's right for you!
hey can I get the patches u demo here?
holy hell!. Guitar and Bass patches please!!!?!?!?!?
hmm so which do you prefer? the POD HD500 or this x3
HD500x is better in my opinion, but they're both great choices.
Is that a tune you've recorded already at the beginning?
It's his/his band's song named Resume.
It is now 2023, these racks can be picked up for the price of 2 mid range pedals. And they're still freaking awesome.
which one do you think is better to buy, the pod x3 or the pod hd 500 x?
Well the HD500X is a bit more expensive and is focused on live use because it's the floor version. However, there's a floor version of the X3 too! Can't really tell you to go for the more expensive one nor for the old one... The HD series sound more modern.
Coupled with my Line 6 JTV 59 it’s a totally awesome, it’s classic
Hi, do you use the workbench HD through the X3 to edit your Variax settings? I can edit the settings in the Workbench HD for my Variax, but when writing back the setting to the Variax makes the Workbench software crash. Or do you use the separate USB VDI interface?
bro.. Can i record and manipulate patches of my x3 pro on PC ? i know newer pedals have that.. but not sure if x3 pro does have that posibility
There's an editor called Gearbox. However it doesn't work on recent computer systems anymore.
basically there is no way even for computer recording ?
Recording is possible via USB, but not editing with software.
+raul elias martinez escalona Hey man! What OS are you using?
I have mine running on Windows 10 with no issues at all. I can use Gearbox as well as record.
Download the latest available Gearbox release and it should work.
Rhitosparsha Baishya thanks m8. I have w10 I'll give it a try
how about the line 6 pod x3 live? is it still awesome in 2017?
Same processor, so I guess yes?
great sound, in what tune is your guitar? drop A?
Yes!
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What are you using now if you sold this beast to your band mate?
My current POD is the HD500.
hi dude can you use it for bass and get a tone like darkglass? Pls helpme
Not familiar with the darkglass stuff personnaly but if you mean a blend of clean low end with distorted high mids, yes you can totally do that with an X3, use a bass amp sim on one signal chain and a guitar amp sim on the other (that's what Nolly used to do with his axe FX and what I used to do with this very unit on the video) and it should do the trick just fine
@@pideuhweuh8459 Agreed! Works just fine this way, even though it doesn't have the Darkglass models inside it.
Is it compatible with Windows 10?
A bit late here, but I use my X3 Live with Windows 10 without any problems! I can record with it, using it as an interface, and edit the tones using Gearbox.
Love my Pod X3. HD sounds terrible. The HD series power amp algorithms are defective, that's why people are constantly tweaking them to fix the problem. I hope Helix fixed the problem, but they really should have corrected the HD power amp algorithms.
Do you use gearbox program?
Nope just dialed in like that.
They are great. Though, I have to say I've always been frustrated tone wise. Software (I have them all), Eleven Rack, X3 Live I finally went back to heads and got a Two Notes Reload.
I don't know exactly how to say it. I always felt the EMU heads were (haven't tried Kemper yet), missed something in the low and low mids and the upper end seemed "disjointed". Whether it was a little too "snowy" or very "blocky".
So I always felt disappointed. I think the IRs for the cabs like Two Notes or Rosin Digital are really where it is at.
I've heard "yes" to AXE and "hell NO" to AXE. I've only heard "yes to Kemper". That seems to be the MAIN goto. However, I like to experiment and running with a head and IR's sound so much better.
Its just rounder and more even.
Its 2021 and I have just bought one.
Next upgrade is the Mooer Radar BTW
I've owned an X3 Live for years and the IRs just make it current... pretty awesome stuff...
I have my X3 Live since 2017 and still love it! Works great as an interface as well.
@@justoalvarez3940 Agreed! I've been meaning to get the Radar for some time. The IRs give the X3 a new life. The Radar is great for live use. Studio use isn't much of a problem as you can use IRs in your DAW anyway.
I gave the x3 pro...I got it back in September for 200 bucks in mint condition with the plastic still on it. My friend dialed in a meshuggah catch 33 patch on it that's insane, wish I could figure out the meshuggah lead sound but that's gonna remain a mystery I guess. I didnt know the piezo thing existed on the x3, I'm gonna have have to figure out how to get it. I hope mine stays fine and doesn't have future issues with the knobs because it happened to fall off the top of my cab and hit the hardwood floor last week -_-
hi man can you share the settings for the meshuggah catch 33 patch......would be awesome to crank in those dials ...cheers
@@wardy2783 do you have a email?or how can I reach you?
@@wardy2783 just sent you the email of the pics of the settings
@@wardy2783 idk if its because I didnt send it to yahoo.uk or what but that might be why
@@wardy2783 just sent another let me know if you got it, I didnt send it to Yahoo.co.uk..
Give us those tones fam.
Is pod X3 live the same than this ?
Soundwise yes
can you plug the line 6 pod x3 pro directly into a cab man ?
You need a poweramp to amplify the sound first!
Thanks for the answer, so the thing is cab>poweramp>pod>guitar ? im so lost man, and which power amp to take ( or what do you use) ?
guitar -> pod -> poweramp -> cab. In regards to the power amp there are a lot of options out there, just search for reviews and go for the one you like the most.
Thanks! but it add a cost again :(
well yeah. But you can also buy a FRFR monitor speaker. Those are active speakers so you won't need either the power amp/cab solution. Unless you already have a cabinet. Or you can just go straight to the PA. But you can find some decent used poweramps for cheap out there.
Great playing.
However your video didn't explain why it's still relevant in 2017.
"I really love it" isn't a reason..
For you it's relevant because you like monuments and you like the pietzo preset, but the HD pro is a bit more relevant these days I guess (though I think for live you need the 500X instead of the pro, they are the same with a bit different IO)
The title says why it's still awesome. Not relevant.
Could you share your presets ?
Please watch my recent videos about the X3 on my channel! :)
Line 6 got a little ahead of themselves with the x3 as it will dual-amp for all that djenty goodness.
The little known secret out there is that the X3 and Vetta actually do high gain tones better than the both the POD HD series and the Helix.
I still use the X3 Pro, I bought the HD Pro X about 2 years ago and I had the Axe FX II from my band mate, I tested all 3 for 3 days using the same emulation amps (ENGL and Mesa Treadplate), through headphones and through a Carvin power amp and a Laney 212 cab, the result kind of shocked me, the X3 Pro was the best by far, there's more bite and punch to it, the HD Pro X and the Axe FX sounded more like amps with a lot of mid and no punch, now in 2019 I'm still searching for a replacement to the X3 Pro if there's really one, I guess the Kemper would be the answer to that, I'm even considering getting a second X3 Pro just in case. X3 Pro sounds exactly like the Vetta 2, and Vetta 2 is the best amp Line 6 have ever made. I eventually returned the HD Pro X to Thomann the same week. I have used valve heads and valve preamps in the past and the X3 Pro is still my favourite, it's also a cracking recording interface and it weights nothing.
Zinzer Munch I’m looking modeling and im considering the X3 pro. The bean model can also achieve the sounds in the vid as well I believe.
You mean this X3 can rival today's mid priced amp /fx sim (Bias, Revalver, etc..)
This or the 11 rack?
I never got the chance to try out the ElevenRack, sorry!
Having owned both for a long time go with 11 rack, the line 6 is great but the 11 rack to me just sounds better in every area
I eventually got the eleven rack and I love it!
hi man, i have an X3 and i really like it but i use it with 2 guitars, and I'm searching for better effects, can you help me with that? i like pretty much your tone, it would be awesome if you can help me with that, I play some metal but you know I'm looking for better sound with my X3.
I still prefer this over the Helix.
I was thinking of buying a POD X3 Pro used. My plan is to put it together with my Peavey 6505 with the 4 cable method, giving me a digital clean channel. i wondered: is it possible to get some good TesseracT/ Periphery/ Architects like clean-ambient sounds out of this unit? And if so how would anyone do about this? (I was thinking of something like this czcams.com/video/-RwEyRi6J-0/video.html or this czcams.com/video/J0OI-VsMwSE/video.html)
Awsome videos man, keep it up!
I think that is doable :) The X3s cleans are bonkers. You even have a Piezo simulation that gives you a awesome glassy tone with single coil! For the TesseracT-ish clean I'd recommend to use a pitcher (shift one octave higher/lower with a 50% mix) and some delay and it should be it ;)
Does the X3 feature a pitcher?
+Kilian Wagnerberger I think so?
The first two Tesseract albums were recorded using a POD XT (don't know which variant). Since the X3 models are quite similar, achieving Tessetact-ish clean tones shouldn't be a problem.
As +Soulhenge said, you'd need a pitch shifter and some delay. However, one main thing about their clean tones is that there is *no* cab simulation, which helps in getting that really glassy tone.
If you want purely ambient tones, check this video out:
czcams.com/video/YQeNzyUcgQ4/video.html
Hope that helps!
+Kilian Wagnerberger Yes, it has a pitch shifter. It's called "Bender". It's located under the Stomp section.
an interesting accent where are you from?
Luxembourg! I try leaning my accent towards british english
Sounds great!
metal droped......... :/ want to see srv tone, vai, satch, ect.... slo100 tone, mesa, peavey evh ect ect ect... i saw just a verrrryyyy metal tone, want to hear 100% of his capacity
USA CUSTOM check out some older Lincoln Brewster stuff. He got all his tones with this thing and a strat.
my money is not awesome to get this. :(
Fuihh i'm just sold my X3
you must have done a lot of post-processing snce your mixing sounded really good, but the raw samples of x3 tone were painful to listen
Not in my ears. I didn't mix a lot, probably just a low cut on the EQ and slight compression. If shit is getting in, shit is also coming out so it can't be that bad.
Dude, fucking EAT!
that thing is creepy mate
Harsh and clicky chug sounds, cheesy acoustic simulations...basically you get what it is: a old piece of gear that shows all of its age. Not to mention the lack of dynamics in anything but square wave rectification of the signal. There's a reason why this is not the current state of technology, why Helix and the like are around and why anyone should stay away from this ear-piercing monstruosity unless the cacophonic tone is sought after for precise creative intents.
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