Modeled Amps & Cabs • Which Amps and Cabs Are Modeled?
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MODELED AMPS & CABS
Which Amps and Cabs Are Modeled?
General Notes About the Models
As you may have guessed, we’re tone fanatics here at Line 6. Once we’ve set our sights
on creating a software emulation of a particular kind of amp, we will (and have) scour
the globe in search of just the right specimen—that one, very particular amplifier that
has the magic. We are also intensely mindful of the fact that, although amp model
names may stay the same over the years, the circuit designs sometimes change radically.
Amps from ’57, ’62, ’65, ’67, ’75, and 2001 may all bear the same model name, yet
sometimes have totally different sound and response, and quite often a different look as
well. And as we all know, even two amps with the same circuit design, from the same
era, can sound radically different, just on the basis of variance in component tolerances,
among other things. Plus, there’s the fact that every amp has its own special way of
settling in over the years. And, just like people, some of them only get better with age.
That’s exactly why we went to so much trouble to find the very best examples we could
of every amp that we wanted to model for POD
XT. And it’s why, when describing the
software amp models that are emulations of other amplifiers, we’ve included photos
here of the actual, individual amps that we lovingly selected, studied and measured—
so that you’ll know exactly which amp we’re talking about.
So, now that you know what’s in store, let’s take a tour of the amp models that live
inside your POD
XT, and the original equipment that helped to make them possible.
There are 32 Amp Models living within your POD
XT, plus 22 Cabinet Model
selections. When you turn the A
MP MODELS knob, you select an Amp/Cab
combination. You can then mix’n’ match different cabs with the amp by pressing the
CAB/A.I.R. button and choosing any Cab model you like with the E
FFECT TWEAK
knob. Chapter 4 tells you how you can customize POD
XT to call up your favorite
Amp/Cab combinations.
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