[jtm45]

Does anyone here know of any good sites that you can download quality patches for the Pod XT ?

Some of the ones i've tried have been shockingly bad, nothing like they were described.

Thanks.

[The Rx Elite]

Alot of them you have to download the update for the pod from their site. Sign up for the 30 day trial and alot of those patches will sound alot better. I ran into the same experience.

[jtm45]

I've downloaded all of the latest verions of Firmware and the other stuff from the Line 6 website but i'm looking for some really good sounding patches more than anything at the moment.

I want to get the 'Metal Pack' upgrade but i'd just like to get some decent patches i can use with the amp models that are on there at the moment for now.

I'm still digesting the manual so i haven't really come up with any particularly good patches myself yet (i've only had it for a few days).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Drew]

Tell ya what, mail it over to me and I'll send it back fully programmed for ya...




in a few months, anyway

I can't recommend any place to download patches, but I can give you some general pointers - most Line6 patches I've heard (and this is true of most modelers, IMO) are way too gain-y, overcompressed, and over-effected. Gainy and overcompressed probably go hand in hand, here, but use your reverb knob judiciously, and while as i recall you like lots and lots of gain, keep in mind that the models seem to have a bit more gain on tap than the original amps themselves, to my ears, and that you'll probably get best results with less than you think you need.

[jtm45]

Cheers Drew.

I think i just need to do a lot of playing around with it and to get used to everything that's on there. I'm so used to using valve heads and the whole modelling thing is new to me so it sounds as different as can be at the moment.

I'm one of those people who refers to the manual as a last option but i don't think that's gonna' work with this,lol.
When i upgraded the software on it i seemed to have twice as many patch locations available to me all of a sudden (128 now!),which was cool.

I'm still tempted to get a Rocktron Chameleon pre-amp but they're hard to get hold of over here.
The Ibanez Toneblaster head also sounds quite tempting after reading Shannon's review.

[The Rx Elite]

Also, there are some good links if you check their message board. I found it with google.

Heres a link to a pack that I like.
http://line6.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb....=3&t=013230&p=

[jtm45]

Cheers man!
I've just saved that bunch of patches but i haven't downloaded them to my Pod yet.

Do you need the metal-pack for many of the patches ?

I think i'm gonna' have to invest in the extra model packs as soon as anyway.

Thanks again.

[eleven59]

Yeah, Line6 gear you really need to read the manual, and then forget it all and just fiddle with it once you know what it all does until you figure out how to get it sounding the way you want. I can get almost any sound I want out of my Flextone II (both the combo and HD) but would be lost on a Vetta, for example, until I read the manual.

And yeah, for years I had the gain knob cranked on all my high-gain patches, and I've since turned it way down and found the overall sound got way way better.

[cadenhead]

I have had an XT pro for a few months now, I still need to play with it. I have the same problem with the gain being too high. For me, too much gain makes my guitar sound muddy. Of course that might be because I use an 85 guage low B string that is tuned to G. It takes a lot of tweeking (no drugs! lol). You'd be surprised to see how much the sound changes with the slightest turn of a dial.

[Mind Riot]

The model packs aren't for everyone though. I got the Metal Shop pack and returned it because I couldn't get anything in there to sound as good as the stock Soldano. The SLO just has these great vocal mids that I don't find in any of the other amps.

So give 'em a try (you've got thirty days to return them if you don't like them, after all) but don't feel bad if they're not for you.

Now for an anecdote (true story):

Even though I tried and returned the Metal Shop pack, a few months later I was hearing people raving more and more about it and the other packs so I decided to pick up all three just to have them. So I got them, and played with all of them trying to find something I liked for 27 days. For distorted, I can't find anything better than the SLO. For Cleans, I can't find anything better than the HiWatt (for me anyway).

So I go to return them three days before the trial period is up (I know I said I wanted them just to have them, but a hundred bucks is a hundred bucks), and go through the whole rigamarole and it says they've been removed and my card has been credited the full refund amount. Okey dokey, except when I go to play again, the packs are all still in the PODxt and usable. Hmmmm...

I try to return them again, but of course it's telling me that they've already been returned and it won't recognize them in my XT. So I call Line 6.

Me: "Hi, I have a PODxt and I bought the model packs and tried to return them, and Line 6 Monkey said it was done and my card was refunded, but the packs are still in my PODxt. I tried to return them again, but it won't recognize that I have them."

Line 6 guy: "Um...Merry Christmas."

Me: "Huh?"

Line 6 guy: "Well, our system shows that they've been returned, and there isn't a way to take them out again when the system reads them as being removed."

Me: "Is there something else I could do? I kind of feel bad about keeping something when my money's been returned."

Line 6: "Well, you could mail in the PODxt to us and we could remove them."

Me: "Is that what you guys want me to do?"

Line 6: "No, it's not really worth it. I appreciate your honesty, but it wouldn't be worth it to send it in. You might as well just keep them."

Me: "Okay, thanks."



So that's how I got a hundred bucks worth of free model packs that I don't really like and never use. Oh well. But the Line 6 guy sure was cool about it.