Line 6 Bass POD xt Live User Manual - MIDI Manuals

Stomp, Mod & Delay/Verb Models • Stomp ModelsStomp ModelsBass PODXT Live’s Stomp effect slot give you a whole line-up of delicious stompboxeffects. There are several types of effects here: (1) Distortion and Overdrives, (2)Stompbox Compressors, (3) an Auto Wah and (4) Synths. Let’s start with a few wordson each:Distortions and OverdrivesCan you remember that magic moment when you first heard a distorted bass? Was itMcCartney credited as “Paul on Fuzz Bass” on Rubber Soul’s “Think For Yourself?”Could it have been Jack Bruce overdriving his Marshall ® s to fill up Cream’s low end, orwas it on some post-modern classic by Spiritualized or My Bloody Valentine?Regardless, the mesmerizing power of real low end growl cannot be denied. Distortedand overdriven bass sounds are all over contemporary music. From Hip Hop to TripHop, through Psychedelic Trance and all things in between, distorted or overdrivenbass is gaining prominence in every mix and every live performance. You must havebeen asleep for the last ten years not to know there’s a popular musical idiom known asDrum and Bass! Need we say more? Now with all the Distortions and Overdrivesavailable in Bass PODXT Live, we have more ways to furry up that Funk.6 • 3Stompbox CompressorsA compressor takes quiet sounds and loud sounds coming into it, and makes them havea more similar volume, so the loudest sounds aren’t so loud versus the quiet sounds, andthe quiet sounds are closer to the level of the loudest sounds. The result is that acompressor can be set to keep boosting the level of your bass signal as a note dies away,giving your bass a longer note decay. In other words, plop a stomp box compressordown in front of an amp and you’ve got an instant sustain enhancer! As a side benefit,the compressor evens out your attacks and enables you to make up some gain (so youcan hit the front end of your amp a bit hotter, but without extra before-the-amp* All product names are trademarks of their respective owners, which are in no way associated oraffiliated with Line 6. These product names, descriptions and images are provided for the sole purposeof identifying the specific products that were studied during Line 6’s sound model development.MARSHALL is a registered trademark of Marshall Amplification PLC.