James Holt - Line 6 POD X3 LIve, Variax 700 Electric Guitar, Cakewalk Sonar 4

A little 12 bar blues ditty I put together to test some of the clever things that can be done with this gear. Bass tracks are cut by reprogramming the Variax with Workbench down an octave (works really well though a little flakey on very low notes, but all up pretty darn impressive. Lead and Rhythm tracks using same guitar on various normal pitch settings, inc the Telecaster for some clean punch and a Les Paul for the lead. All fed into my POD X3 live. Lead improv was done with plenty of high gain distortion into an emulated Mesa/Boogie Dual Rec and Quaddy. Now I'm just a very, VERY, average musician, but really this gear rocks. I think anyone who says bad stuff about POD X3 and the Variax wasn't prepared to sit down and spend the time to understand them properly.

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• LIve
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[RockHailand]

i dont really understand this guitar... can you explain me how you change the "type" of the guitar? And where are the pick-ups? Oo

[Zerohour1967]

You change the sound with the dial and pickup switch on the guitar body. You can also program it with new sounds with software. It does not have magnetic pickups. It uses piezo tranducers at the bridge to turn the string vibration into electrical signals which are then fed into the DSP in the guitar. The DSP converts the signals back to normal guitar magnetic pickup levels after processing to make the particular guitar sound selected.

[bcrichboy06]

hey man wat speakers do u use

[Zerohour1967]

Just really crappy realistic and sansui hifi speakers. The sounds on this track have nothing to do with the speakers. It's all emulated from the X3 Live into the sound card. Totally different to micing up an amp.

[OrbitOfOurOwn]

very nice video and test for this gear. I am an avid Line6 POD xt Live and POD X3 user. I am interested in any more commments you have around using Workbench to get your bass sound. I have need to do electric guitar, banjo, mando, 12 string guitar AND BASS for acoustic gigs. It would be phenominal if I could pull it off with one instrument.

[Zerohour1967]

Really I'd have to day the Variax make a very poor base. Very bad at the low end where it struggles to get enough cycles in time to read the note properly. For me it was the only choise I had for a baseline. But reallly you couldnt use this as a live base, it just sounds too crappy.

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[variaxguitar]

Excellent

[CptjackSparrow80]

You look like Egon Spangler from the Ghostbusters.

[tubsucks]

You seem much like a pro to me buddy. Rock on!

[moncholastico]

nice pants

[Zerohour1967]

Hey man.. hows the XTL and 700 going, are you happy with it?

[Zerohour1967]

Never owned a 600. Form what I recall the 600 does everything the 700 does, but is lower quality timber. machine heads and finish etc. I've even seen people post that the 300 is a good guitar, so I'd say you'd be happy with a 600. My 700 feels great to play and stays in tune as long as I dont hit the whammy bar! Will mix the lead up more next time ;)