Today I worked on recording the guitar solo for The Ballad of Stumpy Ron. Of course my Line 6 POD X3 Live is all over that! I wanted the solo to sound a bit like Tony Iommi with a little C.C. DeVille sprinkled on top and be very energetic in [...] Read more »
POD X3 Live Tips and Tricks: Solo Boost
It is nice to get a bit of a boost during guitar solos when playing live. Changing patches is the easy solution but that leaves you a bit of a gap in the audio. I’m going to outline a few ways in which you can get a nice volume boost [...] Read more »
POD Patches – Guitar World (Holiday 2007)
These tones the tones for the songs transcribed in the Holiday 2007 issue of Guitar World. They are billed as POD patches but will work on any Line 6 gear but you can probably enter the settings in any Line 6 unit with the appropriate amp models. I have also [...] Read more »
POD X3 Live Patches: Tracking Guitars for “Stumpy Ron”
I’m currently working on recording final tracks for a song titled The Ballad of Stumpy Ron. The overall sound and feel of the song draw heavily on Black Sabbath but fall somewhere between there and Wolfmother. My new POD X3 heavily influenced my approach for tracking this song. I decided [...] Read more »
POD X3 Live Tips and Tricks: Dual Tone Wah
I’ve been having a blast with my new POD X3 Live. The dual tone feature is so much fun to play with. In general, using different things on each of your two tones will fill out the sound and give it more character. Something I tried today was using a [...] Read more »
POD Patches (Guitar World – Dec 2007)
These tones the tones for the songs transcribed in the December 2007 issue of Guitar World. They are billed as POD patches but will work on any Line 6 gear supported by Line 6 Edit or GearBox. This should include Vetta II, HD 147, Flextone III, POD XT, POD X3, [...] Read more »