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hmm thats a real pity,these are precisely the features i was interested in... i wonder if the rack echo pro has the same issue problems of the DL4 and would also need a mod i am using it with acoustic guitar so it has to be transparent when bypassed and id hate to have any gain loss. Cheers Rainer! Luis --- Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill <rs@moinlabs.de> wrote: > Hi Luis, > > just dug out a review I wrote on Harmony Central > when, back in 2004, I did > test drive the PodXT Live (which I suspect is > similar to the PodXT, although > details may vary). Here are the passages which I > deem to be of greatest > importance: > > About adjusting parameters with a real-time > controller: > "The expression pedal and one additional pedal (not > supplied) can be > assigned to Wah, Volume and "Tweak". Tweak can > adjust several parameters, > several others not. This is especially stupid > because none of the amp's > parameters can be "tweaked". No footpedal-controlled > drive." > > Tempo sync: > "MIDI implementation: well, it can neither send nor > receive MIDI clock. > Which is a real pity, because both delay and mod > effects can be synced to > the tapped tempo, so a MIDI sync would've come in > real handy." > > About quality of the effects: > "I could not warm to the EQ - it does not sound the > way either a typical > guitarist's gear EQ nor a professional studio EQ nor > a > Tchebychev/Butterworth/Gauss model should sound. By > choosing the algorithms > for the stomp effect, I didn't quite grasp their > approach: there are lots of > non-working guitar synth "emulations", yet it is > lacking i.e. the best > models from the FM4 modeler. The mod effects were > weak in the MM4, they are > weak here. Driving a delay model (i.e. multi head) > into saturation causes > the thing to produce horrible artifacts and display > CLIP. Neither the > original Space Echo nor its model in Line6's DL4 did > do this. Adjusting the > delay time with contents in the delay doesn't work > as smooth as with the DL4 > (or with the originals), either. > I could not warm to the reverbs other than the > Fender Blackface model, which > I personally like. I would've expected better > delays. > > The wah...is okay. But why not include different wah > models (i.e. choose > between a Bad Horsie and a Dunlop and...). Or at > least give me the > possibility to adjust it. > > Mainly, this thing is cool for its amp and cabinet > models. And they are > cool." > > Rainer > > www.myspace.com/luisangulocom __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com