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markedly different tones resulting from the choice of speakers, wood, and other
details of a great real-life speaker cabinet. Other equipment also fails to reproduce the
significant tonal contribution of microphone selection and placement, and do
nothing to reproduce the subtle ambience of the recording space.
The result is the familiar dissatisfaction with direct recording products — even those
that deliver a reasonably usable basic tone fail to reproduce the “life” of the guitar
sound, and destroy the proper feel in the process. It is as if your guitar strings became
heavier and less responsive, like they just went up a couple of gauges when you
plugged into your direct box. And your sound lost its life.
POD
XT Live’s combination of Amp Models and A.I.R. technology provides superior
direct tones by recreating all the elements contributing to a great recorded guitar
sound, and giving you that tone with the same feel as playing through a real amp and
speaker cabinet:
•The effect of the guitar amplifier circuit is emulated by the Amp Model you choose.
Each model was developed from extensive study of a classic amplifier treasured as a
tone classic.
•In a guitar amp, once the guitar signal passes through the electronics, it is output to
one or more speakers in a speaker cabinet. The specific design of the speakers, how
many there are, and how they are arranged contributes significantly to your guitar
tone, as does the construction and resulting tone of the wood box itself. A Marshall
head driving a single 12-inch speaker in an open-back cabinet, for instance, will
sound dramatically different from the same head driving a 4x12 closed-back
cabinet. Line 6 has carefully constructed virtual software speaker cabinets that
emulate the contribution made by real speaker cabinets to get great guitar sound.
• Once the sound makes it out of the speaker cabinet, the next important link in the
recording system is the microphone that receives that sound. Guitar recordists
select different microphones, and arrange them in different placements, to get
particular sounds. A microphone pointing directly into the cone of a speaker will
hear something different than one positioned off-axis. Line 6 carefully analyzed the
coloring that various microphones add to the guitar sound, as well as the effects of
different mic placement techniques, and gave you control of these details in your
POD
XT Live.
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