The Line 6 thread

[Mac]

Ok i want to start a thread which i reckon should be stickied *cough*

Share your line 6 settings in here

For Example

"Metal tone great for pinched harmonics"

Guitarport

Amp = Line 6 Spinal Puppet
Settings - Drive = 60%
Bass = 55%
Middle = 30%
Treble = 100%.
Presence = 100%
Volume = however loud you want it

Cab model = 4 x 12 Brit Celest 1996 V30's

Stomp-classic distortion
D = 68%
G = 43%
T = 50%

Delay = Digital Delay
Pre Config
Time = 300 ms
Feedback = 39%
Bass = 50%
Treble = 50%
Mix = 8%

Modulation = Sine Chorus

Default settings

Verb = Medium Hall

Default settings



Mac

[MrScary]

You should not really have to post details like that. You could just send the patch. I just use the Line 6 editor and then save it to my desktop. Then I can email it to anyone with a Line 6. Bruce (BKeen) sent me a couple and I have used nothing else since I started. I just tweak as needed.

I agree that this is a good post. It is just a lot to type when you can just pm your email addy for a great patch.

Something like..."hey...I need a good lead patch" Reply: "Ok...pm me your email address!"

Eric

[MrScary]

P.S. I can NOT get a good pinched harmonic tone out of it yet...I must be compressing it out or something. They will just NOT come through! I can hear the string squealing but coming through the recorder/speakers...nada. I plug into my practice amp and gotta hold my ears the harmonics are so high pitch! WTF!?!?!

Sometimes I miss my Boss GT-8. I wish I could figure out how to use the line 6 amps with my GT-8 effects. I know it can be done...but every time I try it, it sounds like garbage.

Eric

[bkeen]

hmmm, I get pinch harmonics all over the place with that patch!
Actually, I was playing around the other day and got a pinch on just about any where I tried. Moving the pick position forward and backward to find the sweet spot.

[PacerMedic]

In the little bit of fooling around I've gotten to do with mine, I've found the J800 patch is harmonic-y. The Eruption patch flat sucks balls. Looking forward to th etreadplate one when I get home later. Uh-oh, it's calling me...

[PacerMedic]

How do you get that damn TAP light to quit flashing? (I haven't RTFM'd that far yet).

:happy1 :happy1

[RockStringBender]

it's supposed to flash. if it stops that means somethin's wrong :(

if yer jammin and want a 3 tap (or whatever) delay to coincide with the beat stomp it several times in rhythum with the beat and kick the delay on and it will follow real cool trails in-time with the song.

[sumrnitz]

How do you get that damn TAP light to quit flashing? (I haven't RTFM'd that far yet).

:happy1 :happy1

Light explosives will do it handily.

Chris

[BeN5150]

I like the Eruption sound, but since they had that I had to make a "VH-90s" with the Brit J-800 with some Chorus.

Break out the Drill and you've got Poundcake!

[PacerMedic]

it's supposed to flash. if it stops that means somethin's wrong :(

if yer jammin and want a 3 tap (or whatever) delay to coincide with the beat stomp it several times in rhythum with the beat and kick the delay on and it will follow real cool trails in-time with the song.

I got that part, just wanted to not have to see it flashing all the rest of the time! I guess I will order some multi ply resonant post-it notes to cover it up with.

[Lightningdan]

For pinch harmonics, where you hit the strings in relation to the pickups is everything. There is a 'sweet spot' on every guitar, hit the strings with authority, move toward and away from that bridge pickup untill you find it. for me, its about 1/2 to 3/4" away from it. And below the neck pickup the same distance when I switch to that one. But it may be different for you.

[atomicholiday]

I got that part, just wanted to not have to see it flashing all the rest of the time! I guess I will order some multi ply resonant post-it notes to cover it up with.

You'd love the Rocktron Xpression. It's got this EXTREMELY bright blue led that flashes all the freaking time. Most damn annoying and distracting thing I've ever seen on a processor.
By the way, that JCM800 patch is one of my favorites too. I always end up going back to that one.

[sumrnitz]

I think i'm going to try the explosives on mine. The more I play this XT Live....the more I hate it. I just got finished playing it at church, through a very nice, large PA and it just sucked. I couldn't get a good tone out of it for anything.
I used it a lot in the studio yesterday and the sound was really bad coming from clean amped studio monitors: thin and lifeless. A little better through an aluminum coned Behringer bass stack. I switched to headphones and that was the best of all but so dull. I get the best sound from the Soldano and the Treadplate but I've been very disappointed with the Marshall models. I've tweaked on this thing for a month and have yet to find use for it.

Out of all of my years of studio engineering work, most of which professional, I've yet to find anything that I couldn't get a good sound out of in the studio (even an Arion HotWatt headphone amp and a $15 Rocktek Distortion pedal)
I'm going to give this thing one more try and then it's going out the door.
Grrrrr.......Chris is grumpy today.

[Mac]

thats really bizarre, but saying that from my guitarport

the sound through headphones is a million times better than through my monitor speakers

[PacerMedic]

I think i'm going to try the explosives on mine. The more I play this XT Live....the more I hate it. I just got finished playing it at church, through a very nice, large PA and it just sucked. I couldn't get a good tone out of it for anything.
I used it a lot in the studio yesterday and the sound was really bad coming from clean amped studio monitors: thin and lifeless. A little better through an aluminum coned Behringer bass stack. I switched to headphones and that was the best of all but so dull. I get the best sound from the Soldano and the Treadplate but I've been very disappointed with the Marshall models. I've tweaked on this thing for a month and have yet to find use for it.

Out of all of my years of studio engineering work, most of which professional, I've yet to find anything that I couldn't get a good sound out of in the studio (even an Arion HotWatt headphone amp and a $15 Rocktek Distortion pedal)
I'm going to give this thing one more try and then it's going out the door.
Grrrrr.......Chris is grumpy today.

Chris, Bruce is spot-on with his assessment of this unit: it needs a full-range speaker system to really stretch its legs. When you say you played through a PA, did you play with the mids? Dial in the compression for tighter bottom end? Anyway, you know what to do there; it just seems a church PA is set for vocal pretty much exclusively unless you're doing a Billy Graham arena gig. I am going to get that RP back in my junk box, but more because it has some really cool models that the XTL doesn't, than for performance reasons. Don't get me wrong, I'm still confused as heck, but the Line 6 forums are a pretty good source for solving those quirks. Keep grindin' and good luck, Brother!

[bkeen]

Chris, try a Y spitter from the headphones out. If you get a good signal there but not out of the outputs, then there must be a switch for running to a board verses to an amp. I don't have the LIVE unit so I am a bit lacking to help you. I do know on my PRO, I have a s/w setting to select the target of the output for amp or PA which makes a hell of a difference.

I also find the standard patches bland or overdone which is why I have spent the last two years tweeking my homegrown patches.

The tone is in the box. It is up to you to find it!

[Lightningdan]

2 Things could be happening for you to hate your tone from the p.a.. Maybe you've got your patches too loud? Or your output volume is overdriving the input on the board? Try backing off. Also.. are you making sure you have a speaker cabinet selected in the patches? Try different ones. They all sound very different but if you aren't using them at all it will suck. I make sure I use amp and speaker models on all my patches. Also going into the output settings and flattening them (default is +10db on the treble and bottom end which can get very very bright) I go to "0" on all them and eq them on my rig and the p.a. I also select "stack front" instead of p.a. and that seemed to help me alot too. Tweak those output settings and cabinet models. It will make a huge difference. As I said I hated mine the first couple 3 weeks too but now I'm in tone heaven with it.

[MrScary]

For pinch harmonics, where you hit the strings in relation to the pickups is everything. There is a 'sweet spot' on every guitar, hit the strings with authority, move toward and away from that bridge pickup untill you find it. for me, its about 1/2 to 3/4" away from it. And below the neck pickup the same distance when I switch to that one. But it may be different for you.

I know how to do it...I am saying that the amp is not picking it up. I can hear the harmonic acousticly it is just not coming though the amp correctly. Since I play with a style close to Lynch's, I need and do hit them very regularly. Again, I can hear the string squealing but it is not coming through. It fizzes for a millisecond then goes away. I can still hear the string ringing the harmonic though.

Eric

[bkeen]

Have you checked it throught the headphones direct to the POD?

Do you have the noise gate on? If so, adjust it or turn it off.

[MrScary]

I run direct from the headphone jack to the recorder...yes I use the noise gate....hummmmmmm

Lemme check this out...

Eric

[sumrnitz]

I'll keep hacking at it....yesterday was just a bad day I guess. I haven't thought about the patch being too loud going into the board. That may be the key to it because as soon as I plugged in the sound guy had to turn me WAY down. I made the assumption that he was on the ball but might not have been. He is pretty novice so I'm thinking I need to work with him a little on the side. Were using a fully digital Yamaha board so I can set up a channel and save the scene for recall.
I guess I had really high expectations for this thing. For the last 3 years I've used an early POD, and my Flextone II XL has a built-in POD...both sound very good. I haven't had any issues getting great tones from those right off the bat when I got them.
What confuses me is I can't get a professional sound out of the XT Live in the studio...which represents optimal conditions. I can get good tones, just not great ones. I'm a perfectionist though which causes more harm than good at times. I do use the speaker simulators religiously.
I think I'm going to make a a blank patch, add one component at a time, optimize it, then add another and so on. Just build it from scratch. If this doesn't work then I'm going back to building that Guitar Rig 2 setup that I started on. That thing sounds amazing.
Thanks for the help guys,
Chris

[bkeen]

Chris, sounds like a good plan. Let me know if you need any help.

[Phred]

I don't have midi jacks on my computer, so how do I load patches to my POD 2.0?

Thanks
P

[PacerMedic]

I don't have midi jacks on my computer, so how do I load patches to my POD 2.0?

Thanks
P

USB port/Line 6 monkey

[bkeen]

Do POD 2.0 have USB?

I would ditch that and get an XT. Most of the patches we are talking about here won't work on a 2.0.