I bought a pod xt live when they first came out, it was quite a lot of money back then. It serves me well for 2 uses. It replaced all my pedals with this one floorboard. I care not for wah pedals but the noise suppressor, volume pedal and tuner are very useful. Second use was I could play with headphones modelling my real head and cabinet - I can jam with my drummer who uses an E drum kit. I haven't bought anything new since it still works. They go very cheap second hand these days, if you want to get your foot in the door pod xt live is worth considering.
Lance Page well said man! This thing is truly a beast! I still have to say that I love my Boss ME-50 over this, but it does have a ton of useful settings. I use it in a studio setting for getting authentic amp sounds without lugging around huge amps. Thanks for the helpful comments!
man, these tones are amazing! As a worship person its so hard to find people who use the POD XT Live, thanks so much for sharing this! Im gonna definitely use these, that swell tone is beautiful!
Awesome tones! I'm looking for jazzy cleans/delays/swells and a lot of this is spot-on! Mind sharing what your output knobs are set at, whether you're doing amp vs. line, etc? Like where all the physical buttons on the back of the board are set and if there are any other settings you tweaked at the beginning of making these tones just to get a solid baseline for playing through an amp
How cool is this. I Still use a Line6 XT Live I have a Helix too I have 2 Veriax Guitars One original and a newer one. On my Video page I have show the setting for some songs like Fooled Around and Fell in Love but every video Lesson or Cover Song was made with a Line 6 XT Live I even bought a new in box unit from EBay when my first one started to go bad. I couldn't live without it. I'm Glad Other people Find the Value of this Wonderful Pedal and are still using it like I do. Awesome Video. I Run my XT Live into a PRO D2 Stereo Direct Box and Out Right and Left into 2 PA speaker and a Through out to a Spider IV 4x12 half stack set on Clean No effects this adds a bit of Low end from the FR FR from the Right and Left PA Speakers. All Recordings were done though a Mixer into a Laptop I use headphones for recording.
I have one of these. I gotta say it-s pretty useful for recording or if you dont have a great amp. When I bought my first good valve amp, the xt completly killed my tone and I wouldnt recommend it to anyone. Bottom line: if you want to record or have an average transistor amp, then its AWESOME. For Valve amps, stick with the individual pedals and by a pedalswitcher.
Thank you for posting! I am looking for a great clean sound as well as an ambient swell sound to use with my volume pedal. Unfortunately, I can't run the software on my Mac anymore so I have to edit everything on the footboard. It is possible to share your amp, cab, mod and delay settings for the sounds you feel best fit those criteria?
...And there's a Bass version too. Looks identical (say 'Bass Pod"), I have both and love them greatly. Very versatile...stacking of effects between patches that share a basic tone. Everyone digs bass with drive and wah for coloring during jams! I've replaced rotary encoders, flushed solder slag from the IC chip sets legs (poor manf. QC), etc to keep these things going.
@@Homestudiosimplifed I'll dig around and see what I can find. I know I have some old recordings where I used the canned drums in my Zoom 1608 recorder and layered two bass tracks (one as bass and one as treble) with a good deal of swirly effects. Very atmospheric but driving.
Nice man. thx for reminding me of some of the options. You would be a perfect guitar player for an Elvis tribute band. U got those rythyms down. Nice lighting and vibe too.
I just picked a great condition used one. I am trying to learn how to use it. So far the stock sounds seem thin an tinny to me and I vast get the overdriven amps sounds to feedback like a regular pedalboard/amp set would. I could def use your guidance
I have noticed a general problem with my head. Given discrete pedals, I default to turning everything off and getting a sound I'm happy with between my guitar and my amp. I'm in tune? Guitar sounds good? Intonated and set up right? Pickup sounds pleasant? (Pickup height where I want it). Now dial my amp in where I want it, add maybe at a touch of clean boost, and sound good right? Same guy (me) with a PodXT live: Just flailing around on presets. This all sounds garbage. Turns it off. Goes back upstairs and watches more TH-cam. Just cos the thing lets me preset surf instead of tweaking, why is it that I expect I can skip all the work of building a sound, piece by piece, layer by layer, starting with a good in-tune and intonated rig and a basic transparent stompbox base sound. I think I can answer that question. Analysis paralysis, or Option paralysis. I do love my Pod XT Live, and I do love multi-stomp boxes and multi-effects, and digital audio processing. But given N capabilities, my brain shuts down. So I'm trying these days to do minimalism with my pod. Do the "pod bypass", set myself up. Now set up bank 1A, 1B,1C,1D to have four useable preset. All starting with all four sections (AMP,STOMP,MOD,DELAY) off. There are sections that are still on in that case. EQ. the master compressor, the noise gate, the reverb settings. My master level (on amp section bypass) etc. Getting that tone to be something I can stand that doesn't make me sad, is the key for me. You can lose a sound you're happy with, and then try to make it up with a boatload of phaser or autowah or delay trails, but really, that's not making me happy as a player anymore. I'm gravitating to minimalist use of a maximalist (and currently out of vogue) floor box, and now my Pod XT Live is making me happy again. The fact that most people have ditched these and moved up to a HX series boxes makes the Pod XT Live an absolute powerhouse buy these days. These are going for dirt cheap and for someone willing to add one external stompbox if there's something they want that the Pod XT won't do. (For me, it's another Line6, the DL4, so I can have two delays on at once, and an external analog fuzz because none of the built in Pod XT fuzzes sound like I want.)
Warren...I feel you! I zipped through and found the few I liked. Have decided to play with this one. I've got an old DigiTech GPS 2112 that I have no urge to tweak. Simply trying to figure out how is headache enough.
@@Homestudiosimplifed I have a Pod XT Live and the bass pod xt and both are such dirt magnets. I keep a pack of baby wipes right beside the thing because it drives me bonkers.
It's funny you would say that! I have one and yes it's seen it's fair share of use and abuse. That's one of the reasons I like it, I've put it through a lot and it hasn't had any issues other than the original power supply cable was thin and eventually broke, but I was able to get a new one for like $25 that was was better designed. But in the rare instances where I have nothing to do, I do clean it up...
The Cab Sims sound quite outdated today. I still use the XT live in front of an amp, with the Cab Sim switched of and the Output Setting set to "Studio direct". With the parametric EQ, you can get really good results. You just shouldn't see the amps as exact reproductions, I see them as 101 distortion boxes... I think, recordings would sound much better, if you had added modern IR's in the DAW.
Me too. I use mine in front of a 5 Watt valve Blackstar and get some glorious sounds. I also have a James Tyler Variax which sounds pretty awesome as well. Great for mic'd up recording because it is so quiet.
Good question. That's actually a very big deal. There are 3 ways to use this pedal. 1)In front of a guitar amp (amp setting). 2)Direct out to PA and/or recording studio monitors (Line setting). 3)Out to a power amp and then Celestion guitar speakers (Line setting). I've tried all 3 and number 3 is by far the best way to use it. Sounds killer! With Line setting you can choose your cab and mic emulation which opens up a whole other category of sounds. Also when downloading patches created by others it matters how they are using it. If someone is using the pedal in front of an amp, the patches they create will not be dialed in for a Line sound. That's a pet peave of mine, most people don't mention the setup used when they created their patches. Best setup I had with this pedal was Line out to a 2 channel power amp, one channel to two 12" Celestions and one channel to two old 12" paper cone Rockford Fostgate subs. Separate volume so I could balance between them. I could get that massive Djug Djug muted power chord sound even at low to medium volumes. ie - early Anthrax. If I had unlimited funds I would get that setup back but with a mixer in front for volume/tone control and two power amps to run it in stereo. Perhaps get two Marshall MX212 cabs and mod them with a sealed sub on the bottom and celestion on the top. Separate jacks, separate powered for total control. That would be the perfect setup IMO.
I am unable to find any Line6 software that works at all on the XT Live ... it appears that support for this Line6 product has ben dropped ... I am not surprised. My XT Live is more than 14 years old and still going.
Love the video...I recently brought out my pod xt and having trouble adding patches. Do you know what software I currently need to download? Any tips for updating this would be killer
Cory Thorpe I had to delve into the nether worlds of the inter webs but did find an incredibly outdated program. I can’t remember the name right now, Tone Monkey or something. Anywho, it is possible but it will require some time. Best of luck!
Hello bro is awesome your setting excellent, I have a line 6 xt but is dificult because is my first time with this pedal can you help me I from mexico bro I speak english a little, I need configure my line 6
segundo bermudez the best thing to do is start on a setting you don’t like. Then start tweaking knobs until you get it somewhat better. The more you mess with it the better you’ll understand it. This will help to: line6.com/support/manuals/podxt/
I have one of these still, I'm honestly not sure why. The drives sounded like dirt, and the clean tones and cab models were just poorly colored eq's. I used it live for many years and I cringe listening to any of those recordings. Thank god in 2021 we have mobile apps that will blow this thing out of the water!
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This video sold me on the XT Live over the Boss GT5. Fantastic review. No guff, just a solid play through of presets.
+Jack Thunder thanks man!
I love my POD XTLive. I use it in my cover band primarily with a Variax guitar. You can check out some of our recent live stuff. It's a great combo.
I bought a pod xt live when they first came out, it was quite a lot of money back then. It serves me well for 2 uses. It replaced all my pedals with this one floorboard. I care not for wah pedals but the noise suppressor, volume pedal and tuner are very useful. Second use was I could play with headphones modelling my real head and cabinet - I can jam with my drummer who uses an E drum kit. I haven't bought anything new since it still works. They go very cheap second hand these days, if you want to get your foot in the door pod xt live is worth considering.
Lance Page well said man! This thing is truly a beast! I still have to say that I love my Boss ME-50 over this, but it does have a ton of useful settings. I use it in a studio setting for getting authentic amp sounds without lugging around huge amps. Thanks for the helpful comments!
man, these tones are amazing! As a worship person its so hard to find people who use the POD XT Live, thanks so much for sharing this! Im gonna definitely use these, that swell tone is beautiful!
Would you like to see a similar vid for the BOSS ME-80?
@@Homestudiosimplifed i don't own one but yes please! Could you help me recreate the boss-m80 The 1975 tone on the POD XT Live?
Home Studio Simplified how do you upload your tones from the pod farm into your pod xt live?
Awesome tones! I'm looking for jazzy cleans/delays/swells and a lot of this is spot-on! Mind sharing what your output knobs are set at, whether you're doing amp vs. line, etc? Like where all the physical buttons on the back of the board are set and if there are any other settings you tweaked at the beginning of making these tones just to get a solid baseline for playing through an amp
Sure thing! If you check the description of this video I’ve included my presets there.
How cool is this. I Still use a Line6 XT Live I have a Helix too I have 2 Veriax Guitars One original and a newer one. On my Video page I have show the setting for some songs like Fooled Around and Fell in Love but every video Lesson or Cover Song was made with a Line 6 XT Live I even bought a new in box unit from EBay when my first one started to go bad. I couldn't live without it. I'm Glad Other people Find the Value of this Wonderful Pedal and are still using it like I do. Awesome Video. I Run my XT Live into a PRO D2 Stereo Direct Box and Out Right and Left into 2 PA speaker and a Through out to a Spider IV 4x12 half stack set on Clean No effects this adds a bit of Low end from the FR FR from the Right and Left PA Speakers. All Recordings were done though a Mixer into a Laptop I use headphones for recording.
I have one of these. I gotta say it-s pretty useful for recording or if you dont have a great amp. When I bought my first good valve amp, the xt completly killed my tone and I wouldnt recommend it to anyone.
Bottom line: if you want to record or have an average transistor amp, then its AWESOME.
For Valve amps, stick with the individual pedals and by a pedalswitcher.
Alvaro Casas thanks for your insight man!
I have a problem....when I start Band lab...under CakeWalk is button Install, when I click it, is start to download, but nothing is happening
Thank you for posting! I am looking for a great clean sound as well as an ambient swell sound to use with my volume pedal. Unfortunately, I can't run the software on my Mac anymore so I have to edit everything on the footboard. It is possible to share your amp, cab, mod and delay settings for the sounds you feel best fit those criteria?
...And there's a Bass version too. Looks identical (say 'Bass Pod"), I have both and love them greatly. Very versatile...stacking of effects between patches that share a basic tone. Everyone digs bass with drive and wah for coloring during jams! I've replaced rotary encoders, flushed solder slag from the IC chip sets legs (poor manf. QC), etc to keep these things going.
+BachelorsForBuchanan nice! Do you have any sound examples?
There was a "model pack" with great bass amps for all versions. I use it for guitar and bass
@@Homestudiosimplifed I'll dig around and see what I can find. I know I have some old recordings where I used the canned drums in my Zoom 1608 recorder and layered two bass tracks (one as bass and one as treble) with a good deal of swirly effects. Very atmospheric but driving.
BachelorsForBuchanan nice! I’d be interested in hearing that for sure!
Nice man. thx for reminding me of some of the options. You would be a perfect guitar player for an Elvis tribute band. U got those rythyms down. Nice lighting and vibe too.
Thank you very much for the kind remarks! Do you have any sound examples of some of your work? I’d love to check it out!
@@Homestudiosimplifed You're welcome. I play some guitar sometimes for a singer called Ace Gainsbourg.
I just picked a great condition used one. I am trying to learn how to use it. So far the stock sounds seem thin an tinny to me and I vast get the overdriven amps sounds to feedback like a regular pedalboard/amp set would. I could def use your guidance
And I want to ask if you created these tons with standard pack or did you purchase extra packs on line6?
hey man love your setting may i ask if you are open to share how you set those setting bc i am using a POD XTlive now and i have no idea how to use
I have the tones in the video on my G-Drive for download.
I have noticed a general problem with my head. Given discrete pedals, I default to turning everything off and getting a sound I'm happy with between my guitar and my amp. I'm in tune? Guitar sounds good? Intonated and set up right? Pickup sounds pleasant? (Pickup height where I want it). Now dial my amp in where I want it, add maybe at a touch of clean boost, and sound good right?
Same guy (me) with a PodXT live: Just flailing around on presets. This all sounds garbage. Turns it off. Goes back upstairs and watches more TH-cam.
Just cos the thing lets me preset surf instead of tweaking, why is it that I expect I can skip all the work of building a sound, piece by piece, layer by layer, starting with a good in-tune and intonated rig and a basic transparent stompbox base sound.
I think I can answer that question. Analysis paralysis, or Option paralysis. I do love my Pod XT Live, and I do love multi-stomp boxes and multi-effects, and digital audio processing. But given N capabilities, my brain shuts down. So I'm trying these days to do minimalism with my pod. Do the "pod bypass", set myself up. Now set up bank 1A, 1B,1C,1D to have four useable preset. All starting with all four sections (AMP,STOMP,MOD,DELAY) off. There are sections that are still on in that case. EQ. the master compressor, the noise gate, the reverb settings. My master level (on amp section bypass) etc. Getting that tone to be something I can stand that doesn't make me sad, is the key for me. You can lose a sound you're happy with, and then try to make it up with a boatload of phaser or autowah or delay trails, but really, that's not making me happy as a player anymore. I'm gravitating to minimalist use of a maximalist (and currently out of vogue) floor box, and now my Pod XT Live is making me happy again.
The fact that most people have ditched these and moved up to a HX series boxes makes the Pod XT Live an absolute powerhouse buy these days. These are going for dirt cheap and for someone willing to add one external stompbox if there's something they want that the Pod XT won't do. (For me, it's another Line6, the DL4, so I can have two delays on at once, and an external analog fuzz because none of the built in Pod XT fuzzes sound like I want.)
Great insight man! I unfortunately just got mine ripped off... ugh! Oh well I will get another.
@@Homestudiosimplifed Oh no!!!!
Warren...I feel you! I zipped through and found the few I liked. Have decided to play with this one. I've got an old DigiTech GPS 2112 that I have no urge to tweak. Simply trying to figure out how is headache enough.
I forgot what these looked like when not full of spilled beer and dirt
Jerry Emerick oh my?! My OCD would not allow such gear abuse!
@@Homestudiosimplifed I have a Pod XT Live and the bass pod xt and both are such dirt magnets. I keep a pack of baby wipes right beside the thing because it drives me bonkers.
It's funny you would say that! I have one and yes it's seen it's fair share of use and abuse. That's one of the reasons I like it, I've put it through a lot and it hasn't had any issues other than the original power supply cable was thin and eventually broke, but I was able to get a new one for like $25 that was was better designed. But in the rare instances where I have nothing to do, I do clean it up...
The Cab Sims sound quite outdated today.
I still use the XT live in front of an amp, with the Cab Sim switched of and the Output Setting set to "Studio direct". With the parametric EQ, you can get really good results. You just shouldn't see the amps as exact reproductions, I see them as 101 distortion boxes...
I think, recordings would sound much better, if you had added modern IR's in the DAW.
Thanks man!
Me too. I use mine in front of a 5 Watt valve Blackstar and get some glorious sounds. I also have a James Tyler Variax which sounds pretty awesome as well. Great for mic'd up recording because it is so quiet.
Philfy Phil Do you happen to have any videos with sound results? I’d love to share them
Hi,this unit have interface built in to record Direct in DAW?or just USB out- to tweak the tones in editor?
Awesome setting!
Thank you! Feel free to download the patch below!
Los preset sirven tambien para la Pod x3 live?
Cara eu tenho uma dessa como vc criou esses presetes😱🎸Show👏👏👏
I love the beginning how did he play it ?
SavG very carefully... 😂
😂 no but Fr is it like a song or u made it up ?
It’s a simple four chord progression that I used in a song of mine
I might have to pick up one just for an ampless headphone rig
The sounds are pretty awesome!
They are a smoking deal used in most places, via craigslist. I use one with an external looper pedal for my home practice.
How about the swith behind near the volume control. Line/amp. Witch one better. How to use. . Thanks for the video. Cheers.
If you'll be running through a PA system or into a PC then use line. If you're playing through an amp, use amp. Thanks for watching!
Good question. That's actually a very big deal. There are 3 ways to use this pedal. 1)In front of a guitar amp (amp setting). 2)Direct out to PA and/or recording studio monitors (Line setting). 3)Out to a power amp and then Celestion guitar speakers (Line setting). I've tried all 3 and number 3 is by far the best way to use it. Sounds killer! With Line setting you can choose your cab and mic emulation which opens up a whole other category of sounds. Also when downloading patches created by others it matters how they are using it. If someone is using the pedal in front of an amp, the patches they create will not be dialed in for a Line sound. That's a pet peave of mine, most people don't mention the setup used when they created their patches. Best setup I had with this pedal was Line out to a 2 channel power amp, one channel to two 12" Celestions and one channel to two old 12" paper cone Rockford Fostgate subs. Separate volume so I could balance between them. I could get that massive Djug Djug muted power chord sound even at low to medium volumes. ie - early Anthrax. If I had unlimited funds I would get that setup back but with a mixer in front for volume/tone control and two power amps to run it in stereo. Perhaps get two Marshall MX212 cabs and mod them with a sealed sub on the bottom and celestion on the top. Separate jacks, separate powered for total control. That would be the perfect setup IMO.
Good video, bro! How do you change the volume to the Wah?
Just press the expression pedal a little harder.
good sounds man!
Thanks!
Nice settings sir
Mack Gumangan thanks! The tones are included below if you’d like.
does this pedal have a looper?? thinking in getting a used one
What software versions currently work with it? PC and MAC? which one do you use?
I am unable to find any Line6 software that works at all on the XT Live ... it appears that support for this Line6 product has ben dropped ... I am not surprised. My XT Live is more than 14 years old and still going.
I am using a PC
Great job!.
Did you use pod as a sound card to record sound?.
Yes sir!
@@Homestudiosimplifed Amazing quality .
lovely socks!! great video
Gotta love some funky socks man! 😂
ela tem modo manual? da pra usar os botões com as letras?
Nice video. Are these the factory presets?
No sir. These are carefully crafted tones.
What are the configurations of your presets? Can you show us? :)
Mark Dangan maybe I’ll reveal at 3,000 subs... 😂
bit.ly/HSS_Pod_XT_Live
Hi, Great Sounds. Do you have Mark Knopfler So Far Away , Brothers in Arms sounds for POD XT Live. Thank you
Senaka Rupasinghe sorry man. I have not dialed that in.
@@Homestudiosimplifed Thank you for quick reply. Your playing 7.59 sounds somewhat similar Brothers in Arms?
Senaka Rupasinghe thanks man! Do you have some sound clips of your tones?
@@Homestudiosimplifed Hi, If I can get these 2 that'll be great. th-cam.com/video/LYutAwHGyrY/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/FbI_mK6JEhk/w-d-xo.html
Love the video...I recently brought out my pod xt and having trouble adding patches. Do you know what software I currently need to download? Any tips for updating this would be killer
Cory Thorpe I had to delve into the nether worlds of the inter webs but did find an incredibly outdated program. I can’t remember the name right now, Tone Monkey or something. Anywho, it is possible but it will require some time. Best of luck!
Thank you! I got my old lap top with windows 7. Had to download:
Line 6 monkey
The Drivers
Gearbox(for editing)
It did take a hot minute!
Cory Thorpe I’ve got my tones on there man! Glad you got it going!
What would I search under for your tones on their site or so I need to download your google files?
bit.ly/HSS_Pod_XT_Live
Bed of Roses is my favorite! It's on Tone Monkey as well!
Nice! Thank you.
Welcome!
Splendid!
Can one re wire or route the pod xt to guitar rig or Ampeg software?
I wouldn’t see why not!
@@Homestudiosimplifed I'll give it a try thank you btw
Very nice - my Helix LT is pretty nice also :)
nice socks XD [ they remind me Jaws movie series ]
Nice!!!! My purpose in earth has been fulfilled!
do you own a variax to play with the xt live..?
squidskunk unfortunately... no.
What's the name of the 8:02 preset?
Juan Gonzalez I called
It: The Bed of Roses and the patch is in the description of the vid.
@@Homestudiosimplifed Thank you!
Bagaimana cara settingan nya
Hello bro is awesome your setting excellent, I have a line 6 xt but is dificult because is my first time with this pedal can you help me I from mexico bro I speak english a little, I need configure my line 6
segundo bermudez the best thing to do is start on a setting you don’t like. Then start tweaking knobs until you get it somewhat better. The more you mess with it the better you’ll understand it.
This will help to:
line6.com/support/manuals/podxt/
THe manual. Print it out. Spend time tweaking. Start with everything OFF. Add to build sounds. Don't just surf presets.
Are there any drum machine in that pedal board?
No sir.
@@Homestudiosimplifed thank you very much Sir...
Anytime!
Recommended with telecaster?
Absolutely!
What setting..??
I like your socks!
Nice
Want this 1A preset tutorial so bad
Berkay Soykan let me see what I can do
Que amplificador usas?
Isso foi direto para o Scarlett 6i6 da linha de saída da unidade.
What a socks!!!)))
Юрий Жданов thanks! I wore them just for you!
Thanks! 😄
MY VALUE BUTTON IS BROKEN. HOW CAN I MOVE THE TUNER TO 4:40 AGAIN?
Factory reset?
I have one of these still, I'm honestly not sure why. The drives sounded like dirt, and the clean tones and cab models were just poorly colored eq's. I used it live for many years and I cringe listening to any of those recordings. Thank god in 2021 we have mobile apps that will blow this thing out of the water!
Hahaha
Anjaayy koplo
Uno de la Pod x3 live por favor 👌
Don’t have a tutorial?
What settings did you use to make it sound like that at 0:25?
I honestly don’t know... 😩
Great tone, terrible socks
I got them from your mom… 😂
@@Homestudiosimplifed 🤣
I think you are a little out of sync with the video and the audio