Line 6 Bass POD xt Live User Manual - MIDI Manuals

QUICK START GUIDE • Introduction•The guitar or bass amp, cabinet, and microphone don’t just sit in empty space.The room that they are in contributes importantly to the guitar sound you willrecord. Reverb can be used to capture the basic character of the space, simulatingthe effect of the sound reflecting off the room’s walls, floors and ceiling. But thereare other subtle details that have more to do with the “spread” of the sound as itpasses through the air between the speaker and microphone. This finalcomponent is the key to the sense that the listener is in one position in the room,and the guitar or bass sound is in another position, and that the two are separatedby a mass of air that sound spreads through to reach the listener.1 • 7All of these important sound-shaping components are accounted for in your BassPODXT Live. Stomp on the AMP foot switch to enable an amplifier emulation. Youcan then press the second button under the Bass PODXT Live display while theEDIT button is NOT lit, select the Amp Model of your choice, and Bass PODXTLive automatically matches that amplifier with an appropriate cabinet andmicrophone setup, and gives you the sound of that setup coming through the air ofa recording space. So you’re ready to start playing or recording with incrediblemic’d up sound! Press a button and twiddle a knob or two, and you can switchcabinets, change out mics and their placement, and adjust the “spread” of thesound in your virtual room as well.The A.I.R. direct recording output is exclusive to Line 6. In combination with theLine 6 Amp, Cab and Effect Models, it is an indispensable part of Bass PODXTLive’s phenomenally satisfying sound.D.I.Of course, we also realize that many great recorded bass tracks and live bass soundsare achieved by going direct with a D.I., or using a blend of amped and D.I.together. And that’s why your Bass PODXT Live includes, along with its Modeloutput, a D.I. output that gives you an unprocessed direct bass signal line leveloutput that is exactly time- and phase-aligned with the amp+cab+mic+effectssound pumping out of the Model output.