Joined: 10 Sep 2004 Posts: 2783 Location: Chino, CA
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 3:09 am Post subject:
I had one of the original PODs. I got it for headphone practice more than anything else when I was living in a small apartment in AZ after my wife and I first moved over there back in'98. Didn't care for it much. And the sound I really hated was that digital zoom echo you heard everytime you changed the patch. The technology behind it is cool and the sounds themselves aren't half-bad, but they just feel really cheesy: no warmth, dynamics, or life to the sounds at all...
I later got the H&K zenTera and that was a significant improvement over the POD and the CyberTwin which I got for virtually nothing while I was at Fender. But you're playing digital bits on these things - 0's and 1's. Your signal is being chopped to digital 0's and 1's, being reassembled into some software code that's been programmed to sound like a snapshot of some type of tube amp, and then reconverted into an analog signal and then amplified by a solid-state power amp. Do you like the idea of your precious guitar signal getting chopped up into digital bits? Didn't think so... _________________ Ed Yoon
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