Line 6 Bass POD xt Live User Manual - MIDI Manuals

QUICK START GUIDE • Introduction1 • 6markedly different tones resulting from the choice of speakers, wood, and otherdetails of a great real-life speaker cabinet. Other equipment also fails to reproduce thesignificant tonal contribution of microphone selection and placement, and donothing to reproduce the subtle ambience of the recording space.The result is the familiar dissatisfaction with direct recording products — even thosethat deliver a reasonably usable basic tone fail to reproduce the “life” of the guitar andbass sound, and destroy the proper feel in the process. It is as if your guitar or bassstrings became heavier and less responsive, like they just went up a couple of gaugeswhen you plugged into your direct box. And your sound lost its life.Bass PODXT Live’s combination of Amp Models and A.I.R. technology providessuperior direct tones by recreating all the elements contributing to a great recordedguitar sound, and giving you that tone with the same feel as playing through a realamp and speaker cabinet:•The effect of the guitar or bass amplifier circuit is emulated by the Amp Model youchoose. Each model was developed from extensive study of a classic amplifiertreasured as a tone classic.• In a guitar or bass amp, once the guitar signal passes through the electronics, it isoutput to one or more speakers in a speaker cabinet. The specific design of thespeakers, how many there are, and how they are arranged contributes significantlyto your tone, as does the construction and resulting tone of the wood box itself. AMarshall head driving a single 15-inch speaker in an open-back cabinet, forinstance, will sound dramatically different from the same head driving a 4x12closed-back cabinet. Line 6 has carefully constructed virtual software speakercabinets that emulate the contribution made by real speaker cabinets to get greatguitar and bass sound.•Once the sound makes it out of the speaker cabinet, the next important link in therecording system is the microphone that receives that sound. Guitar and bassrecordists select different microphones, and arrange them in different placements,to get particular sounds. A microphone pointing directly into the cone of a speakerwill hear something different than one positioned off-axis. Line 6 carefully analyzedthe coloring that various microphones add to the bass and guitar sound, as well asthe effects of different mic placement techniques, and gave you control of thesedetails in your Bass PODXT Live.