Line 6 Floor Pod Plus

I had to say I have been disappointed in FFP in my first round of review, but and but I have to say after a few weeks i'm more than a revived man having the floor pod plus setting my own effects on banks. Yes, manual is that important unless your neighbor tells you how to use the correct way to a floorpod plus.....Now I found it more cooler to use...yeah!

Floorpod plus is amazing, good thing I continue my patience figuring out the correct settings. Now all of the tones i created distortions,mods and delays are up to standard and goes very well.

Yes, as long you've got a good cable, and its very easy set-up packed & go thing.

All I can say from now on is that I will never leave home and go to gig without it.

Yes easy to use, but not easy getting the right sound. The amp models on the manual well written... BLAH BLAH BLAH doesnt sounds like it.

I'm using a yamaha RGX 420 DZ/Squier Fender stratocaster and line 6 spider 30 watts amp. All of the amp models doesnt feels right,mods/delays are ok. Amp models are weak and not that aggressive and impressive, on the other hand modulation & delays are good & bright, only don't have much of the parameter. Wah is not to impressive but is still ok to play around with.

I dropped it once with the stupid line 6 carrier bag strap gave off, but no damaged done. The body is made out of plastic , which light and rugged. But would rather have backup for gigs.

Why I bought this effect is that I found it cheap, better at that price range & I did not did my homeworks . Sobbingly realized vox tonelab is better just for a few more bucks....else have to be more creative!!!

For starters, I'm a professional guitarist (40+ years). I make my living still playing and writing music. I have used many effects pedals in my time. Recently, I decided to purchase the Plus after I gave it a brief run through in a store. So, by now, it has been about a year that I've had it. Let me say the ease of use for me is basically the same as the reviewer lpdeluxe. I find it a bit non-intuitive. It would take a very long time to become a "power user", at least for me. Whenever any unit is replete with multiple-function buttons and switches, it can quickly become a steep learning curve. I don't know about you, but just because I dig into a manual and learn something once and on the fly, it doesn't mean I'm going to absolutely remember it later. By the way, highly intuitive to me means "don't have to look in the manual a lot."

I'm playing a strat and a custom guitar through a Matchless amp. I love the basic sound of my guitars through the Matchless amp. I do think the Plus slightly colors the natural tone of the guitar/amp. But in general, the f/x sound ok. They are somewhat tweakable, although not easily. The only f/x I'm not thrilled with are the distortion filters. They are not all that warm and have to be altered a lot to get tone.

So far so good.

CS is fine.

The one thing I would like to have onboard this fairly pricey pedal board that is sorely absent is a second controller pedal that could do things like alter the speed of the rotary effect. I mean if you're going to go to the trouble of putting a rotary effect onboard, how could there not be a "Leslie On/Off" switch? I will probably not stick with this unit much longer.

I find the Floor Pod Plus non-intuitive, although as I get used to it, it's easier to find what I want.

Particularly confusing are the pedals marked "Amp", "FX" and so on: you would think that you'd turn the dial on the effects section, and step on the pedal to engage or disengage it. Not so fast -- first you have to reach down and press two pedals simultaneously until a red light comes on, then you can use that effect...or can you? With at least several I've tried, the box defaults to "all the way off" on the intensity knob. So you learn to press the "manual" knob (or one of a couple of others that act as shift keys) while you turn the intensity to where you want it. Good luck on stage.

Now, the manual says you can save your settings, but that the settings are saved according to the position of the amp knob. What? Meanwhile there are two pedals that allow you to scroll up and down through preset banks but I'm afraid I can't tell you what they do. Apparently they route you to arbitrary combinations of amps and cabs and whatnot. I don't understand why they didn't configure this thing so that stepping on the pedals would take you to a setting you had saved.

Or maybe it does -- I can't figure it out from the manual.

The manual appears comprehensive: it's simply that there's something about the rationale that I don't get. I'll keep at it, for the reasons given below.

The thing is quite versatile, so I'll give it a 5, taking some away for its inability to tell me what it wants me to do and giving some for the depth of its capabilities.

I use this with a Gibson Les Paul Deluxe and a Pignose G40V, a 1963 Sears Silvertone Twin Twelve, and into a digital mixer and solid state amp, depending on the venue. I have not yet gigged with it, and I won't until I can discover more of its secrets.

It seems to pick up a fair amount of RF, but it's hard for me to tell what triggers it. It's dead quiet in my studio, but at a friend's, we had to turn off the computer in the room due to static from the speaker. The "intensity" knob aggravates the noise, and the "delay" knob caused a pulsation in it. I recorded another guitarist with a Floor Pod, and it was totally quiet -- but that was in my studio, which is not problematic.

My LP has Seymour Duncan mini-humbuckers and is the only really good sounding Les Paul I've ever played. Most of the amp settings sound excellent, but I find myself rolling off the treble (on the Floor Pod Plus) on several of the choices. Since I'm only using it for rehearsal, I tend to move the knobs around a lot, something I would not do if I were gigging. The Fender emulations sound equivalent (not identical) to a friend's '67 Super Reverb, the single best sounding amp I've ever played through.

Disclaimer: I don't try to emulate other artists, so I have no opinion of what imitations you can accomplish with this box. That said, it is capable of many useful tones, some of which are awesome. I'm very glad to have the amp choices, since I am in the process of thinning the herd and getting rid of all my old, great sounding, but very heavy, tube amps. This device is certainly a viable alternative to humping a 100-lb amp up a flight of stairs.

All of the effects I have used work for me, but then I'm not into effects a whole lot. I use the tremolo on one song, and I may find songs where I'll use the chorus, not because I'm crazy about that effect, but because it sounds really lush. I bought this so I'd have an integrated wah and other options without hooking up a string of battery-eating boxes (I have a Cry Baby, which has arrived at the point in its life when it is unusable due to a scratchy pot. Yeah, I could fix it, but in this modern era I wanted something less clunky).

Speaking of which, the wah is great, and the pedal doubles as a volume pedal, both of which functions get used a fair amount.

I'll give it a 9, because it really does the job I bought it to do.

I have no qualms, but I could be surprised. I'd hate for it to die on a gig, because I can see that I'll come to depend on it to add spice to my playing. I don't have a backup.

No opinion, no experience.

I am playing rock-, folk- and blues-influenced original music in a duo. I play lead, typically. I've always felt that duos (and trios) need some extra oomph in the way of effects to get the musical point across. Obviously, I'm playing exclusively electric guitar with it. The Floor Pod Plus works quite well, but, as noted, once I get a handle on its workings I'll be happier.

I started playing in 1971; I have been a lead guitarist, harmonica player, Dobro player and even a full time bass player in different bands over the years. I once had a pedal steel, but never had the nerve to gig with it. Material has been blues rock, folk, country, and pop, depending on the band, which have ranged from duos where we played at parties to full-blown working bands. I have a computer based project studio, with all its attendant gear, a couple of acoustic guitars, two resonator guitars, the Les Paul (I recently added them all up,and found I have had 29 guitars and basses in all) and currently four Fender basses, two fretted and two fretless, and a small selection of amps (the Pignose, the Silvertone, a Music Man HD130 Reverb stack, and an Ampeg B100R) and I've owned quite a few more in the past.

If something happened to it, I'd look long and hard at alternatives, with an eye to finding something easier for me to figure out: I'm an old guy, so maybe that's a futile quest! I would certainly consider buying another example of this one. I checked out the reviews here for the Floor Pod Plus and several other similar products, and I'd do the same again. However, I'd find a dealer where I could try one out before I committed.

I love the wah, love the amp tones, love several of the effects and the overall versatility; but I truly wish all its features were more immediately accessible.

What do I wish it had? A "Floor Pod Plus for dummies" manual. An internal power supply would be nice, but Line 6 has taken the extra step of providing a transformer with an AC lead from it to the plug, so it doesn't fill up a power strip like older ones do.

Despite my gripes, I really like using it...I just feel like there's a lot in there that I can't access due to my own ignorance (or something), and that what I can access I can' get to as quickly as I'd like. So, overall, it gets an 8.

really easy to use , don't really need to look at the instructions for anything other than shift keys.

ive given this 5 out of 10 because the sound quality of the distortions aren't too great , they ok but really lack a true amp tone, especially when you dial in the marshall amp and cabs , they sound nothing like them , i have a marshall dsl 100 head and cab , which sound awesome with crisp bitey cleans and a sweet distortion, but this thing sounds absoloutely nothing like this , i mean i've tried all the other distortions and cabs , tweaking the tone controls on this unit and it just can't recreate any decent marshall tone, nor a mesa tone or even a fender twin ???? all of which it boasts that it can simulate.
i've looked everywhere for a decent home use multi fx and the only one that comes close is the zoom g9.2tt,
effects are ok , a little untweakable but ok, it lacks a whammy/harmoniser effect and the wah is a bit weak !
i won't go on slamming this pedal as for the money i paid for it ??145 new , you can't expect the world but it is a small effects pedal wrapped up in a supposed pro / live pedal which it doesn't do very well at !

seems a little plastic for my taste but it is sturdy and grips to the floor well.

never used

ok for the money but you could get a hell of alot more for your money from other better pedals such as boss and zoom.

Pretty easy to get a good sound out of it. I even like some of the presets but then some of them are a little goofy but they are there to show what the unit can do. Edditing is easy especialy if you are familiar with the Pod 2.0 or a Flextone III.

I use only use three or four tones when I play live and this works well for what I need. The amp models are the same as in the Pod 2.0 but the effects seem to be a little better as far as the chorus and flangers go. Plus there are about 7-8 new effects added like Tron Up and Comet Tails. I'm currently using this with a crown amp and a EV 30 band EQ. I think I'm going to try it all by itself live this weekend and just run it through out PA to see how it does.

I have a Pod 2.0, Pod Pro, spider III 210, Flextone II head and have had a duoverb. All with out a glitch so I hope the same for this unit. It is made of plastic though and is slightly gigger than I thought it would be so for that I'm going to do a 8

I have delt with them several times and have always had good service.

I play alot of everything with the band I'm in so we cover alot of music. The cool thing I like about this unit that unlike the original Pod 2.0 I have a seperate knob for Compressor, so I now can use chorus with compressor. Plus I can use chorus and a different delay if I like because there are 6 different delays. All the hidden stuff is still there like volume boost and reverb decay. The amp, effects and delay select knobs are set up like the Flex III with a rotary dial and lights. Basicly its a Pod 2.0 with some very cool add ons. The only things I dont care for is the plastic but I guess that keeps the price lower.