I come here for two things: genuinely informative reviews about gear and for the "okay this is the pedal thing, I'm Rob, let's get this over with" delivery.
That my friend. Wins best comment of all time. But you don’t get a prize. That wouldn’t be in keeping with the delivery. Too flowery. Genuinely loved that comment man. Thx
@TheGuitarEffect ha! Wouldn't want it any other way: genuinely, I appreciate you getting straight to the point. Been following ever since you were spot on the money about the M5 and TC's Nova Drive (which is still unbeaten as a bass pedal). I'm seriously considering the POD Express because I want to do a "bi-amping" Royal Blood thing, but not carry a lot of heavy shyte, so this was really helpful.
@@TheGuitarEffect Exactly that, but i won't always use it with pitch shift; a low cut signal into a high gain or a clean chorus with reverb also seem like nice options. I'm only planning to throw it in occasionally for a bit of impact. We're only a hobby band, 3 pieces, couple of 15" Yamaha speakers, no woofer, just me and a small 2*12"Ashdown cab, no drum mics... We still get told we're too loud. For the octave, I still need to choose between: the POG with a Y splitter (I think it's because I use active basses, but seems the "dry out" from the POG really colours my signal) or the HX One (split left/right). I also own a Source Audio C4 synth, which I had high hopes would be the all-in-one answer, but I've ruled it out as impractical I've had some preliminary success, in rehearsal and at a couple of gigs, with the M-Vave Tank-G of all things (I think I got it for £35 on AliExpress!) - there's precious little point in something natural-sounding, if I'm playing a POG into it. Appeal of the POD Express is therefore the natural, unshifted option. I wouldn't need many presets and could switch them from the ctrl-out of the Boss MS-3, which would handle everything else, except my Nova Drive. I've also read a rumour that there is ample infrastructure for MIDI control on these puppies, so maybe Line 6 or some diligent enthusiast will do a firmware patch...
Kind of a no brainer as a backup. I have a Harley Benton pedal power amp for emergencies. Adding one of these would be a complete "oh shit, everything's's dead" backup rig. Definitely gonna stick one in the cart next time I'm doing an order Great video Rob
Hey Philip. Thx for the comment. Yeah if you had the power amp with it you could plug into your cab and just kill the speaker sim on it. One other thought I e had since making this video is most of the time with Kampala if I have a delay on, it’s on for the whole song which means I could put mod on the other footswitch on the POD express and do away with the footswitch altogether making it even more compact. And it’s so easy to program. It’s a huge thing. I’m making a review of he two notes Opus right now and while it sounds absolutely stellar there are so many options that every time I put it down for the night and come back to it the next day I’m tweaking it. There really isn’t that capacity with this which I think can be a really good thing.
Read this before purchasing a Pod Express : I had one for 2 weeks trying to get some decent tones out of it. Yes the clean sounds were OK but the moment you added gain in most cases it sounded, cold, fizzy, no 'body', raspy, ratterly, I could go on. The moment you added gain, it was basically either on or off. I did try hard to be fair with this pedal but overall I found it suitable only for a 15yo kid just starting out. Money back!
Thx for the comment. I honestly can’t say I agree with you. But I suppose hats heavily dependent on what type of music we are both playing. I actually found the tones pretty useable. It’s the Uber basic functionality that makes it not instantly a pro spec gigging unit straight away. But it’s surprisingly close.
Looks like a nice unit. I have the Boss Pocket-GT which is more of a practice tool, but with the added Bluetooth pedals I can do almost as much as I can with my Boss Katana-Air or other amp plus one of my pedals or multi-effects units. I really dug the song you played also!
Hey. Thx for the comment. I’ve come across the pocket GT before. Looks interesting. The Bluetooth pedals thing is very interesting too. I’m gonna check that out. The song is by my band Kampala. You can check us out at TH-cam.com/@kampalaband
I come here for two things: genuinely informative reviews about gear and for the "okay this is the pedal thing, I'm Rob, let's get this over with" delivery.
That my friend. Wins best comment of all time. But you don’t get a prize. That wouldn’t be in keeping with the delivery. Too flowery.
Genuinely loved that comment man. Thx
@TheGuitarEffect ha! Wouldn't want it any other way: genuinely, I appreciate you getting straight to the point. Been following ever since you were spot on the money about the M5 and TC's Nova Drive (which is still unbeaten as a bass pedal). I'm seriously considering the POD Express because I want to do a "bi-amping" Royal Blood thing, but not carry a lot of heavy shyte, so this was really helpful.
Hey. You’d need some sort of splitter though right? And an octave pedal?
Would you send the octave up to the PA via this?
@@TheGuitarEffect Exactly that, but i won't always use it with pitch shift; a low cut signal into a high gain or a clean chorus with reverb also seem like nice options. I'm only planning to throw it in occasionally for a bit of impact.
We're only a hobby band, 3 pieces, couple of 15" Yamaha speakers, no woofer, just me and a small 2*12"Ashdown cab, no drum mics... We still get told we're too loud.
For the octave, I still need to choose between: the POG with a Y splitter (I think it's because I use active basses, but seems the "dry out" from the POG really colours my signal) or the HX One (split left/right). I also own a Source Audio C4 synth, which I had high hopes would be the all-in-one answer, but I've ruled it out as impractical
I've had some preliminary success, in rehearsal and at a couple of gigs, with the M-Vave Tank-G of all things (I think I got it for £35 on AliExpress!) - there's precious little point in something natural-sounding, if I'm playing a POG into it.
Appeal of the POD Express is therefore the natural, unshifted option. I wouldn't need many presets and could switch them from the ctrl-out of the Boss MS-3, which would handle everything else, except my Nova Drive.
I've also read a rumour that there is ample infrastructure for MIDI control on these puppies, so maybe Line 6 or some diligent enthusiast will do a firmware patch...
Kind of a no brainer as a backup. I have a Harley Benton pedal power amp for emergencies. Adding one of these would be a complete "oh shit, everything's's dead" backup rig. Definitely gonna stick one in the cart next time I'm doing an order
Great video Rob
Hey Philip. Thx for the comment. Yeah if you had the power amp with it you could plug into your cab and just kill the speaker sim on it. One other thought I e had since making this video is most of the time with Kampala if I have a delay on, it’s on for the whole song which means I could put mod on the other footswitch on the POD express and do away with the footswitch altogether making it even more compact. And it’s so easy to program. It’s a huge thing. I’m making a review of he two notes Opus right now and while it sounds absolutely stellar there are so many options that every time I put it down for the night and come back to it the next day I’m tweaking it. There really isn’t that capacity with this which I think can be a really good thing.
Read this before purchasing a Pod Express : I had one for 2 weeks trying to get some decent tones out of it. Yes the clean sounds were OK but the moment you added gain in most cases it sounded, cold, fizzy, no 'body', raspy, ratterly, I could go on. The moment you added gain, it was basically either on or off. I did try hard to be fair with this pedal but overall I found it suitable only for a 15yo kid just starting out. Money back!
Thx for the comment. I honestly can’t say I agree with you. But I suppose hats heavily dependent on what type of music we are both playing. I actually found the tones pretty useable. It’s the Uber basic functionality that makes it not instantly a pro spec gigging unit straight away. But it’s surprisingly close.
Looks like a nice unit. I have the Boss Pocket-GT which is more of a practice tool, but with the added Bluetooth pedals I can do almost as much as I can with my Boss Katana-Air or other amp plus one of my pedals or multi-effects units. I really dug the song you played also!
Hey. Thx for the comment. I’ve come across the pocket GT before. Looks interesting. The Bluetooth pedals thing is very interesting too. I’m gonna check that out.
The song is by my band Kampala. You can check us out at TH-cam.com/@kampalaband
I am actually on my way to pick one up for my birthday lol.
Happy Birthday. Enjoy!