Hello,
I am a long time user of the POD UX1/POD Farm 2 setup and am looking to upgrade to a newer, better quality Line 6 device. Currently I use the setup to record directly into my DAW (Reaper). I use the UX1 as a DI interface, then in Reaper I load the POD Farm 2 VST. This is great because I am able to make a signal chain/amp setting then record a track with it. If I am unhappy with some aspect (too much gain, not enough mids, too much bass, etc), I am able to make the changes within the POD Farm 2 plug-in in real time and hear the changes reflected in the play back as I listen and tweak.
So my question is, which newer POD interface will be able to still easily do this for me, while giving me the best POD tone quality? I've been juggling a bunch of options and can't really find any straight forward answers. I'm between a POD HD Pro X, the X3 Pro, or a newer Pod Studio UX2. They each have their pro's and con's for me and I was hoping someone could shed some light on which would be best for recording the way I'm comfortable recording.
The cons (and I may be misinformed):
-The HD Pro X needs either another interface, or complicated routing to get dry signal reamping to work. It does not support any kind of real time tone tweaking ability over USB.
-The X3 Pro is outdated/not supported anymore, so I can't find one new (easily) that still carries some kind of line 6 warranty. It still uses older modeling technology (i.e. prior to the HD releases)
-The UX2 Studio does not seem to be much of an upgrade from the UX1. From what I've read, there's not any hardware changes that would actually result in a higher quality signal/better audio/less latency/etc. Again like with the X3 Pro, it's built on the older gen of modeling capabilities.
So what do I get?
Thanks.