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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2009 at 21:03
Originally posted by HughesJB4 HughesJB4 wrote:

For the price, you will probably not be able to beat a Line 6 X3 Live.
It's a recording interface solution, amp/cabinet and effect modeling unit.
Seems to be 500 USD at Musicians Friend.
The Toneworks is a complete turd compared to the Line 6 to be brutally honest.
The Boss GT-10 is also around the same price as the X3, but the general consensus is that the high gain tones are nowhere near as good as the Line 6 stuff.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2009 at 20:46
First off, can you tell me what amp you own currently?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2009 at 20:08
Eh, sorry about the late reply dude, I'm way too tired after work to be able to think and I was busy last night too, so didn't get a chance to make a good size post, give me a few minutes to tell you what you need to know in a fairly big postThumbs Up

First off, can you tell me what amp you own currently?


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2009 at 19:46
Apparently, the answer to these questions should be obvious to me...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2009 at 00:33
Gotcha. :) Right now all I have is a combo amp, so would it still sound decent running through there?
 
Could I use this thing in conjunction with actual stompboxes and pedals as well? Or is there really no point in that?
 
Also, with all these simulations and what-not, does it have the potential to sound a little fake or artifical? Or do the different amp and pedal tones really have as much depth and character as the actual equivalents do?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2009 at 00:06
The X3 Live isn't a 'pedal' per se, and don't worry about the whole true bypass thing with today's amp modeling gear, because they are usually far more engineered to hell compared to single pedals anyway.
You can connect the X3 Live to a guitar amp via the 4 Cable Method or you can even sell the guitar amp altogether, buy yourself a solid state power amp and FRFR speakers and run it through there to take full advantage of the cabinet simulations. The second method is preferable IMO and will get you the best sound quality.
You can still get great tone through a guitar amp, plenty of guys love running their X3 Live via the 4 Cable Method.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2009 at 23:52
Thanks again, man. I promise one day I will actually have enough knowledge about all this stuff to where I no longer need to ask all these questions, :-P
 
Hmm, well, even though it probably does suck, the reason why I was wanting something like the toneworks was because it's at least affordable, but hey, maybe I can do the 15 bucks a month thing on that pedal.
 
Now, another stupid question: Is this pedal true bypass? Or does something like this even need to have that feature? All I know is alot of  rocking pedals like wahs and volumes tend to suck tone when not in use unless they have true bypass, and I didn't know if the same thing applied to this. I just don't want to have to use up my Boss Master Switch as a seperate channel/loop creator if I didn't have to.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2009 at 22:42
For the price, you will probably not be able to beat a Line 6 X3 Live.
It's a recording interface solution, amp/cabinet and effect modeling unit.
Seems to be 500 USD at Musicians Friend.
The Toneworks is a complete turd compared to the Line 6 to be brutally honest.
The Boss GT-10 is also around the same price as the X3, but the general consensus is that the high gain tones are nowhere near as good as the Line 6 stuff.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2009 at 20:51
 . . . This:
 
 
 
I'm really buckling down on things that can give my guitar tone xtra depth and warmth. One step of that of course is to obtain a very good quality guitar, which I've already been helped with (Thanks, Harry! Smile), but I also want something that can give me that spacey, long-lived, ethereal quality to my sound at an affordable price. This toneworks pedal sounded like it could have done the trick, but alas, it is no more.
 
Apparently it's been discontinued. What I'm wanting to know is . . . does anyone here have one they are willing to sell, OR could anyone here tell me what would be a very good equivalent pedal to this one that is still readily available?
 
As always, thanks in advance to everybody who helps with my dilemma. Wink
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