Line 6 POD

I took this right out of the box, didn't even glance at the manual, and I had the whole thin figured out in 5 minutes. Everything is on the front panel, so there are no menus to scroll through.

Overall, the sound you get out of this box is very proffesional. I gig AND record with this thing. Recording is where it really stands out. You switch the AIR mode to direct and you get the sound of a stack. I mostly use the high gain stuff, but I do step into the clean areas every once and a while. The clean channels are a little muddy, but with a little tweaking it will sound fine. If you want an acoustic sound, play an acoustic! The only problem I have is with the volume settings. Some of the amp models I want to use for some soloing do not get to loud. But with a little clever tweaking with the levels here and there, your problem is solved.

For practicing at home, I plug this direct into my amp. For small gigs, i just run it into the system while in the DIRECT mode. For bigger gigs, however, I bring the amp along and mike it up.

Some of the reviews said that it sounded like crap. Bottom line is, if you have a crap guitar and can't play worth crap, your sound will be, well, crap! I play Les Pauls, and this little box shines.

As I have said, I gig with this, record, and just practice at home. It is a solid metal chasis, so unless there is nuclear holocost or something, it will survive. The only problem (electronical) I have had is the EDIT light coming on every now and a while. I have noticed that this does NOT change the sound, it just gets a little anoying. The floorboard you can buy with it is good, but a little slow switching effects. I use a korg MIDI floorboard, and it works just fine.

I haven't dealt with the company, I never had to.

I play mostly the harder stuff, but the for the bands I gig with there are various styles. I play lead guitar, none of this rythem crap. I have been playing for a long time. I am no ametuer. I own Les Pauls, as I have said, and don't think I could bring myself to playing anything else. I comapred this to the Johnson J-station, V-amp, and the DigiTech Genisis. The POD came out on top, no questions asked. I love how easy it is to use. If you are looking for an excelent recording tool, or for live shows, I would say this is for you.

For a device that tries to do so much in a relatively small unit, its fairly easy to use. The knobs all have a second function through the use of a "tap/hold" button, and there are quite a few knobs. Because there are a lot of knobs to play with, it can take a while to tweak your way to the sounds that you want...not something you could mess around with on stage, for example. The factory presets are all garbage.

The manual is a hype-fest of epic proportions, but manages to give you all the important information. You just have to supress your gag reflex as the author talks about how wonderful the POD is over and over again.

I use the 2.0 version.

I run very nice guitars through this thing. In my case, I bought it for direct recording and apartment-playing in an environment where high volumes are forbidden. I did not buy it to dress up a mediocre guitar to sound like a more expensive model. In any event, I use a Strat, Les Paul, Telecaster, etc. Good stuff.

I haven't noticed any more noise through the POD than I do through any other amp with a particular guitar. You still get 60 cycle hum with single coils, etc. More noise with high gain settings and so on. No surprises here.

The effects are inconsistent. Some (ambient reverb) are excellent while others (spring reverb, flange, chorus) are crap. Outside of reverb, I really don't use the built-in effects much. Controls for things like delay, for example, are incredibly difficult to mess with due to the fact that every knob on the POD has to have several functions.

I've run this through a Mesa/Boogie Rect-0-Verb amp just out of curiosity and found that its sound suffered tremendously compared to headphones. It just sounded completely emasculated, to be honest. I would never use this as a stompbox due to this phenomenon. Direct recording good, amp bad.

I've found it quite enjoyable to practice along with CD's using two sets of headphones...a pair of earbuds connected to my CD player with a set of high-end muffs connected to the POD over the top. It does a good job matching the tones on the recordings...of course, I'm not listening to these tones through a million dollar system. I haven't got the best ears in the world for tone, so if its close I'm happy.

One thing I've noticed about the POD is this: you MUST use good headphones for this thing. This is particularly true if you are looking for good bass response. Little Sony earbuds will give you terrible sound from the POD...all treble with no balls whatsoever. Invest in good headphones, however, and you will find the sound to be quite tasty.

I've found the the POD does distorted, high-gain sounds best and suffers on clean tones. In particular, the AC-30 models leave me cold. I haven't been able to find a setting that makes them sound good. Love the high-gain Soldano and Dumble settings as well as a mid-gain Fender Bassman model with my Telecaster.

Flakes out when you connect it to an amp. Very reliable when used for direct recording. I would never gig with this thing, however. Just use an amp and, if necessary, some stompboxes.

This is a wonderful tool for practicing and home-recording. It models a lot of tones closely enough to satisfy me at a fair price. It is no substitute for the real deal, so I was shocked to read a studio engineer talking about musicians wanting to use this on their records. Hey, if you have access to a vintage Fender Twin Reverb, chuck the POD and use the real thing. If you spend a lot of time playing in your bedroom, however, the POD may just be the best investment you ever make.

Most of the built in patches sound great, and it's easy enough to navigate through them without the foot board (if not a little slow). Editing the basics of a patch is easy, really editing the effects all but requires the use of a computer and midi interface. That being said, the computer interface provides a huge array of tweaks that you can perform, and this is where the POD really shines.

The first version (the version I have)has the unfortunate circumstance of not being able to select half of the amp models without the computer interface.

For direct recording, I've never found a more useful or better sounding device. It's indispensible for my music. The ability to simulate the 20 or so amps and 20 or so amp cabinets provides an immense tonal range for the musician without the capitol to buy one or two of the real thing. Does it sound as good as the real thing? no, but at around $200 it's versatility more than makes up for it. It's shortcomming in my eyes(ears anyway) is in it's live application. Played through an amp (practice amp or gig tube amp) it just doesn't have the definition that it exhibits when direct recording. There is a switch near the outputs to change it from direct to amp mode (which shuts off the speaker cabinet emulation), but it's just not as lively or interesting fed through a real amp.

Recently I've been using the POD's software with bass and acoustic guitars to create patches for them, and I've had some great results. Most notably with the bass, you can accomplish some truly usefull and good sounding bass patches with a little editing.

It frequently freezes up when loading the midi control software for the first time... shut it off and turn it back on and it's fine. Other than that I've never had a single problem with it.

Never dealt with them, thankfully. But, they have amp patches on their website, you know, sound like your favorite rocker with the touch of a button. That's downright generous of them.

This unit is the most versitile peice of equipment I own, and it's been in countless songs and produced some amazing tones. I'd recommend this to any budding guitarist looking to expand his/her possibilities.

I'd also highly highly recommend buying a midi interface cable ($30 or so) and using your computer to run the POD. The software is a little hard to figure out at first, but it gives you the ability to edit any facit of your POD's sound.

The POD has knobs for every part of your sound that you may want to modify. This however can be tricky, adjusting everything just the way you want to sound may take time. However, There is no way around that aspect! This is as easy as I have seen as any pedal or "box I have used.

This sounds awesome (as good as one can get out of a "box" such as this). There is no way to knock this unit, unless of course you happen to have 36 new and vintage tube amps laying around your house! I play this through a 50 watt Marshall equipped with Celestions and it sounds amazing! The only downfall here being that it is not actually 36 tube amps.

I have yet to have a mechanical problem with my POD. The paint however may be another story. Two days after I got my POD I noticed two chips in the paint. This was no big deal since I'm playing live shows, which tend to focus around the sound of a band not the looks of their gear. This thing would still sound and work great if it looked like a piece of dung.

Never used customer support, will let you know when I do!

This is one fine piece of amp modeling arse! With the combination of choosing your amp (Fender, Mesa Boogie, Marshall, Roland,Dumble, to name a few), choosing your own effects (2 flangers, 2 chorus', tremolo, compressor, delay, which can all by customized), to choosing your own speaker cab (from fender tweed, to Marshall 4x12) There is no way I could not give this a ten!

I have to admit the guitars i use aren't very nice at all but when you think about it, my review is perfect because people who buy this amp usually wouldn't have very nice guitars. I have a De Armond( the one that looks like an SG but is really modeled after a Gretsch) and a Fender amer stand strat( i have used it stock through this and with a hum bucker mod) I've used this through a PA and Let's just say... don't do it. It sounds better than a little 8" practice amp but doesn't compare to what it's trying to compete with. what everyone says about the channels is correct. They are thin. it's difficult to get that correct tone. To try and get a better sound i bought a mesa rectifier 4x12. It changed the sound magnificently. but still not close. Both of the rectifier channels on the pod don't sound so close. I stuck a sonic maximizer after the pod and it sounded like a very decent amp. But then I started using a friends mesa dual rectifier and lets just say i havent used my pod for more than the tuner. The reason why the mesa sounds so much better is because that is what we've been listening to all our lives. Distortion was sort of invented and needed to be tuned in a way that is was pleasing to the ear. Well the mesa rectifiers definately do that and that is why they sound so much better. We strive for a tone that we know.

what im trying to say is if you want a preamp (thats the only thing its good for) buy it because its cheap and fun to play around with. It definately beats some crate half stacks that ive heard. after days of dissappointment i finally realized that to even get a clear sound you have to turn off the cab simulator (i run it through the 4x12)

on a side note: in certain channels if you turn the mid knob around while holding the HOLD button you get delay. and in certain channels if you turn the bass knob while holding the HOLD button you get infinite delay. its useful in some applications.

If you Don't know what's in this, you shouldnt be reading these. go to line6.com and check it out.

after 3 years it still works just a little paint chipped off which looks pretty cool because its grey underneath

i beat the hell out of my equipment. I mean I'm in a cover band that plays a frats. alcohol and keeping your equipment nice don't mix. this thing definately holds up to all rugged standards i have.

pod pro. lots of editing can be done. (actually too much if you're the obsessive tinker-type). any preset can be made to sound better. remember it's all subjective. manual is ok. written by techs that think theyre funny cut-ups. i think they had a comedian come in and punch it up a bit...i guess it's the world we live in today...everybody thinks they're adam sandler. if we're gonna connect with the kids that buy the product, we better act like class clowns.
i've had it for about 2-3 years. tough to change certain features, because it requires two hands. i've learned to do it with one hand. in order to access certain features, you have to press and hold down the tap tempo, then while doing that turn/punch other knobs. if you have a guitar in one hand like i do, it's difficult. it's taken me a couple of years to get the most out of it.it's a slow process... i guess i'm a slow learner. while it has many applications to computer-midi, etc, i never use it for that. i paid the extra money for the pro to get the rackmount style. there is no way the kidney shape could be a handy-dandy form, at least not the way i have my "studio" set up.

i own the pod and the behringer v-amp-2. anybody that claims the vamp sounds as good is making an excuse for being a cheap bastard. they drive a rusty car and claim it's paid for...the only thing we know for sure is that its a rusty heap. don't listen to these people. pod is a matchless and v-amp is a crate. that's overstating it a bit but it's the same thought process. v-amp is ok for the money but so is a rogue amp. right? we all want to improve our tone, and in this case get a pod.
sound quality is excellent. it's in there...you just have to "dial" it in.
while it sounds ok out of the box, you can certainly tell the diff between recordings i did 3 years ago (when i bought it) and now. best sounds to my ear are the rock-blues, british hi gain, some of the clean sounds. a few are too thin, or too buzzy. even tho there are 32 amp models in here, many sound the same---or too close. i guess if i thought about it, that's the way real tube amps are as well: there are marshalls, fenders, soldanos, mesas, and then the rest are derivative of these...(if i left any original sounding amps out of this list, forgive me). the most annoying thing about the pod is the "3rd" ghost note you get when playing two strings..mostly when there is some gain/distortion involved. i';ve found it's in the lower registers and can be "dialed out" with the bass eq knob. it never goes away completely but can be minimalized. when you add drums and bass and vocals, etc, you can't hear it.
i just work around it. other's who have a certain personality, it will drive them crazy. some people will sell a car because it has a rattle in the dashboard. you say "hey steve, where's that cool car that ran so well...?" "oh it had a rattle so i sold it."
if you're recording at home, this pod is very close to sounding like a real amp. the thing to remember is the pod isn't a real replica of any exact amp. but you'll get a ballpark "marshall" and tweed sound that fits in the fender category.
but even if it doesn't sound exactly like your favorite amp, it does sound like an amp! the effects (chorus, flange, etc.) aren't that great. the delay is probably the best. the other effects are for special occasions anyway. definately can be overused and abused. rackmount effect units for reverb and such are better and i recommend getting one. high gain settings are noisy to an extent...just like amps, single coils suffer more, and humbuckers are pretty quiet. i've just purchased a carr amp for a gazillion dollars and while i haven't had long to record with it, i find it very hard to hear the difference on a cd. the diff is hearing it live. the carr is like cream and butter with the naked ear...but on a recording, in the mix, the diff is so minimal it's hard to justify spending the money on an amp. the pod has just enough truly usable sounds to justify it's price. it will do a marshall sound pretty well, voxac30, blues like clapton played with mayall...i can't find a decent srv on here...tweed is just kind of ratty.but it will do in a pinch. high gain is good. rectified is ok but could be better. i give an 8 in this category. i'm grading on a curve here. almost everything on this site is overrated with 10's. that tends to skew everthing else.

just like some people will pay $4000 for a matchless amp, and gladly, to get a better tone, i'll pay $500 for the pod pro...it's that much better than a v-amp. if you buy a v-amp, and then your buddy gets' a pod, you'll then wish you had your money back. why not get the pod now and make your buddy feel bad? it's much better that way!

works like a champ. and i hope i don't jinx it by stating that.

don't know, but customer support from car dealers to broken toasters to heating and cooling etc sucks. period. i don't know why line 6 would be any different. once in a great while i'll actually meet and talk to somebody that tries to help, but it's so rare i don't even care anymore. try and get some health insurance info sometime! i assume if i have a problem with the pod, i'll get the runaround-vague nonanswers...you know the drill. call me pessimistic. i'm 47, so don't kid me about customer support. everybody gets a "1".

bottom line: it is a lifesaver if you have anyone in your house that is bothered by a guitar amp.( AND I DO!) i would go crazy too, if i had to listen to me play the same riff over and over and over trying to get a good one on tape. going direct is a godsend. i've been playing about 30 years. ive' got a prs mccarty, melancon tele (good guitar by the way), guild starfire III (? without the bigsby, single cut), reverend with P-90's(a goofy-ass guitar that sounds real good), a carr imperial 4x10 amp, used to have a voxac15...schecter electric 12 string (another solid value at only $400),american deluxe fat strat. i play into a joemeek mic pre---art dmv pro effects rack ( a decent unit for the money-then you don't have to use the unusable effects from the pod)i would get another if lost or stolen, at least until something better came along. very versatile, can get many diff usable sounds for when i'm in diff moods. again, the best thing is it won't bother or wake up the dead (my wife...please don't wake her up!).

4 years of use should be enough time to give a fair review. I use a Fender American Standard Strat and an Ibanez AS-80 (335 copy) and it sounds pretty good on both guitars. For what it was designed to do, it sounds pretty good on some "amps", better on others, and lousy on some. In the beginning, I only recorded with it and have been very satisfied. Later, I took it to the church (where volume is critical) and ran direct to the PA using the stage monitors for my monitor. The clean sounds were OK, but the distorted sounds were like an old transistor radio with a busted speaker. So I ran the POD into a direct box which fixed the problem (more in a minute). To me, the best models include; 1)"POD clean" for basic generic sounds. That setting fattens up nicely with the more "Drive" you add. 2)"Tweed Blues" for the Fender Bassman sound, but any drive past 12 o'clock gets annoyingly fuzzy. 3)"Modern Class A" after a Matchless. Open, yet throaty sound. Great from no drive to max drive. 4)"Brit Hi Gain" after Marshall Plexi. Great distortion but never really cleans up with no drive (notice how important the "Drive" knob is?) 5)"Rectified" after Mesa-Boogie. Great wall of distortion, but not punchy enough for lead work. and 6)"Modern Hi Gain" after a Soldano. Great "midrangy" distortion that is punchy enough for lesd work. The other models are either too thin (POD Layer) or too bassy (Vox model) The effects sound just ok, the best being the compressor, chorus, tremelo, and delay. The combination delay effects aren't tweakable enough. The flangers are not subtle enough. For some reason, when I add chorus to a sound, the volume lowers a bit (???). Also when I change amp models in manual mode, the volume significantly lowers. I have to decrease the channel volume to turn it up, then it suddenly gets louder, then the channel volume acts properly. Every time! (???) I don't like the fact that the volumes vary greatly from amp to amp. Makes it hard for live work (even though I do use the FB-4 floor pedal). I recently decided to simplify my stage setup because we learn songs sometimes on the fly, and getting the right sound for the song takes too long. Too many options!!! I also got tired of taking the POD back and forth. So, I pulled out my old Crate amp and immediately noticed how much punch I'd been missing. Even though the POD sounded good thru the PA, it just didn't have the punch a speaker gives. I recommend not using it live, but you certainly can with reasonable success. Recording with it is a joy! It sounds much warmer than the Roland sounds that are in my BR-8 multitracker, and those are good, just brittle.

I got one of the first POD's in 1999, so it's the 16 amp modeler. It's plenty versatile. I play Contemp. Christian, Rock, Blues, Funk, some country and pop. It has 15 effects + a bypass. Other features are a noise gate, tuner, multi-function tap button, and it's midi capable.

Mine is very dependable. It has never broken down. The tuner, however, was never very accurate. Especially on lower pitchs. It seems to have gotten worse over the 4 years I've owned it.

I emailed them twice to find out about the channel volume quirk. I received quick, friendly response, but I still don't think they understood my question, so it wasn't properly answered. No other contact so I'll give an 8 for effort.

I've been playing for 30 years and have been thru more gear than I can remember. I'm stripped down to the aforementioned guitars plus a Jazz bass, a Fender acoustic, that Crate G120 amp that is well below my taste, but has served it's purpose (God, it's loud, though, for a little 1x12 combo), and recording gear. I've played everything but Classical (on guitar, anyway), professionally. If it were lost, I would get a higher level POD, probably. I did compare it to the Johnson box like a POD and believe the POD superior in every way. Good hard casing. I love the sheer number of quality sounds available. I hate nothing about it, but would like it to have a better tuner and more consistant amp volumes. If your looking for lots of good electric guitar sounds for a home recording setup, this is the deal. Get a real amp for playing live.

The box is crowded with knobs and little-bitty writing, which makes it something of a pain to figure out. The POD tries to do so many things at once that it demands a lot of manual-reading to get the whole story. Factory presets try to provide quick shots of tone, but almost all of them are lame, so you need to spend some time with the manual tweaking knobs.

The manual is written like a sales pitch, which is silly since you already bought the thing, but its informative about everything except for the MIDI applications. You absolutely must have the manual because only half of the amp models are written on the unit. The rest you have to look up.

Ah, the controversy...

I've had this for about a year now, and I've spent a lot of time playing through it in my apartment. I have a good selection of high-end guitars that I've been fortunate enough to own and play, so I've gotten a pretty good idea of what the POD can do.

First I'll explain the guitars I play:
-A 1999 Gibson Les Paul Standard
-A 1952 reissue Telecaster
-A 2002 Reverend Slingshot
-A 1993 Fender Mexican Strat


WHAT THE AMP DOES WELL:
-Even on high-gain emulations, its very quiet. The only real noise problems I've had to deal with have been with my Reverend. From what I've read, this is a problem with the pickups, not the POD.
-The range of amps that it models are very nice in terms of vintage/modern as well as hitting all of the higher end brands such as Soldano, Mesa/Boogie, Vox, Marshall, Fender, Budda, and Dumble.
-The high gain settings sound very good through headphones and do a decent job of modeling various amps and cabinets. The Mesa/Boogie model, for example, is fairly close to the one that I actually own.
-The ambient reverb for various cabinet models are quite nice. I love reverb, so this is a big plus for me.
-Various cabinet simulations make a significant difference in the sound. Whether or not this is purely accurate is beyond me because I've never had the pleasure of playing vintage 4x12 Marshal cabs. I liked what I heard.
-Different guitars sound better with different emulations. This seems good to me because it shows a certain amount of transparency. The Les Paul sounds best with ultra high-gain models while the Telecaster sounds best with the Fender Bassman and the Vox AC-30. The Reverend also seems to work best on the Bassman, although at lower gain settings.

WHERE THE POD FALLS SHORT
-Clean sounds are not good. Too thin and tends to be tinny. Only the Dumble sounds decent clean, but I've never been happy with it overall.
-Spring reverb modeling is terrible. It sounds way too "cave-y" and unpleasant. I tend to minimize reverb when using Fender models.
-Many of the built-in effects are weak and difficult to adjust, particularly the chorus and the flange. Delay is okay, but too tricky to adjust. Volume swell is the only effect that I've found particularly useful.
-Sounds like crap when run through an amp as a "stompbox." I use it only for direct recording and practice.

Overall: It's worth the price. It does what it should. It's not a stompbox for live playing. It's a damn good tool for practice, composition, and demo-recording at home.

No problems.

Never bothered.

I have not got a golden ear for music. I see this as an advantage because I don't need to play an authentic vintage Marshall stack to enjoy playing the guitar. I don't spend all my time finding fault with my gear and then bragging about how refined my tastes are. I like trashy distortion and trashy reverb. If it sounds close to the real thing, then my ears will accept it as the real thing. If you find the models so far from the real deal that its unlistenable, I pity you, because I've been enjoying the POD immensley.

This is no substitute for tube amps. I own two real tube amps, and they both have big bonuses over the POD. Of course, they were both more expensive than the POD. This is a compromise, but a nice one. Don't buy it expecting to replace your vintage Fender Bassman or your Marshall Plexi. If you suck without the POD, you'll suck with the POD. For 300 bucks, this thing is a nice deal. I like it. It sounds cool. For those of you with "oh-so-sensitive" ears for pitch and tone...I'm sorry.

I like brutal distortion for most stuff I play, but it is nice to have other amps also. After owning both the Behringer V-AMP 2 and the Genesis 3 I can truly say that the POD blows them away as far as amp modeling goes. Anyone who tells you otherwise is "puffing the magic dragon".

The V-AMP 2 is good, but it and the Genesis cannot produce the "pushed cab" sound that the POD gets. The Modern High Gain and Rectified amps absolutely kill. Going through the presets, I enjoyed fiddling with every single amp.

I think the clean sounds are great on this thing. The Digitech Genesis 3 has better clean tones, but the POD's are good also. I also like the effects, but understand when people say that they are not real ambient and in your face. They still sound really good.

The noise gate is great. The V-AMP 2 was loud as hell next to my computer. With the POD I have been able to record right next to my computer with very minimal to almost no noise.

Brand new 2.3 version of the POD fresh from Musician's Friend. I am plugging my Gibson Gothic Explorer into it, then into my computer for home recording.

About a month ago I was going to buy a POD, but instead I bought a Behringer V-AMP 2 and then a Digitech Genesis 3. Now I am finally back to a POD. This is my third purchase of the POD and I don't know why I ever got rid of it in the first place.

This thing is very convienient for me with home recording because it sits on my desk right in front of me. I tweak sounds and then can immediately hit "record" and get down to business.

I think the features are outstanding on this thing and with the 2.3 upgrade, they really improved on an already great product.

I have never had problems with PODs before and don't anticipate any now. I had problems with the Flextone amps, but never the PODs. These things are solid.

I don't think I would try to get a hold of these guys. The company is just too big. My POD is already upgraded to 2.3, but I heard they give free upgrade chips to people who need them. That is really cool I think. Their website is done very well.

I have been playing for about 18 years and have owned alot of equipment. The POD is definitely worth the money and is an outstanding recording tool. I hear it works great live also. I need to try to play it through my power amp and cab to see how it sounds.

I'm not trying to rip on Behringer or Digitech, but if you like high gain amps and sounds, just buy a POD. I bought all three within the last month and ended up going back to the POD, which I have bought twice already!!! Save yourself the headaches. The POD was the first desktop modeler and is still the king.

I play this with a Gibson LP Standard through a Fender bass amp. The amp itself has a decent clean sound with a guitar, so it doesn't color the tone from the POD.

As others have said, this is really a practice amp. I played a couple of small gigs with it, one playing classic rock and some original stuff, and the other was mostly country. It was able to cover any tone the band needed, but not as well as I would have liked. Still, no one seemed to notice. The amp models are good enough for playing by yourself or with some friends, and the singer/rhythm player in my last band really liked its ability to dial in a tone that was really close to what he had in mind.

With that said, I'm still looking forward to the day I can afford a Plexi or JCM-800.

Plenty of features, and easy to figure out. No need to go in-depth here.

The knobs don't stay where you set them, but there aren't many to worry about. Also, the finish chips very easily. It never fails to turn on, though.

No need.

It was great when I was trying to figure out my sound. I was fluctuating between death metal and twangy country, plus everywhere between. I got really sick of playing country (I didn't like it that much to begin with) and now that I know EXACTLY what tone I want, I need a great amp that will nail it. The POD comes close, but no cigar. This unit impressed me at first, but I'm alot more sensitive to my sound now. The POD is well worth what I paid, which was a couple hundred if I recall. Buy it if you want a great practice amp, play in a band that has to switch between several diverse sounds, or are trying to figure out your own tone (it's much easier and cheaper to fiddle with this thing than to buy several tube amps). I'm glad I bought it, but it doesn't quite compare to the real thing.

Plus, I feel like I need to be playing through an amp that costs something close to what I paid for my guitar.