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Well, saturated/distorted guitar sounds are a very, very subjective thing and generally everybody should go ahead and use what gives good results to his/her ear, period. But I am a little alergic to these amp simulators because they are promissing you something they will never be able to live up to. One of the most important factors for a Marshall sound is the 4x12" cab with Celestions. There is no way on earth that you can duplicate this in a digital bean shaped box, it's physically impossible. The whole thing reminds me of the fact that people got so used to the taste of canned pineaple over time that a wide majority of people in a test found freshly squeezed pineable juice 'artificial tasting' as opposed to canned juice. Beware of the brainwash, guys! That said I have to admit that a) I have used sansamp pedals with fair results myself (the TriOD, for example, has a nice 'british' and a horrible 'tweed' sound in it), b) that Centara amp I mentioned seems to do a good job (but as I said, it is a big, heavy and expensive stereo 2x12" amp), c) I have the tried Line 6 stuff on three or four occasions and almost always found them terrible sounding. I have to work with rented or borrowed stuff occasionally and even with some goofy Boss pedals and a Twin with Sovtech tubes I'd manage to get by I think, but the Pod even has a latency problem...almost like a Midi-guitar. Again, given time one might be able to get more out of them, esp. in the studio. I have trouble with those soft knobs that turn without knowing when they dial in etc. TO GET BACK OT: I just played a Solo gig in a not-too-small club with two little 6V6 tube amps as an experiment, one '62 Fender and one '59 Gibson and put my modified G-force and EDP between the overdrive pedal (Baby Blue OD) and amps..........the tone was so phantastic (to my ears) it made me literally scream. I played a festival for classical guitar music earlier with the Gibson and an old Bassman amp a got congratulated for my great tone by prominent classical guitarists and boroque lute players. Then again, recording a great amp sound is another story, who knows what we will beusing ten years from now :-) andreas > i have to second this. > i also have the pod (v 1) and though i have not fully explored the > possibilities, > i think manual mode allows for some nice sounds. > i don't like the presets much at all. > the emulations are just ok but are much easier than hauling several amps > to a gig. > once the guitar is buried in the mix by a drums and vocals sound guy, >they > are probably indistinguishable from the real thing anyway... > > my only problem with this box is that you can't really overdrive it like > a real tube amp. > you can kind of fake it with the controls, but you have to think > differently. > (you can't just throw a tube screamer in front of it and crank the level) > > i think it is a great looper tool, because you can loop the amp sound > without > having to mike it. running a looper between guitar and amp just doesn't > cut it for me. > > > Hi Andreas. Have you really ever tried a pod??? Or some line6 >products? > Or > > have you only heard the preset sounds??? > > Having had and used some marshalls, fenders and laneys I find that the > > emulations in the pods are really good (certainly you have to use it > with > > some good power amp or pa system, not in front of a guitar amp or on a > > multimedia desktop system)...but I skipped completelly the presets > (those > > really suck), I use it in manual mode, and create my sounds from > scratch.