Palico

Good to know! I'm in the camp that understand you must move on but that really doesn't make my gear obsolete, it just means it's not the newest out there. I've been using my POD X3 for years now and it still works just as good as the day I got it. In fact it works better simply becuase I understand how to use it better now then when I got it. I am now looking to upgrade to the HD series. Not becuase my current setup is lacking, but because my my current setup with an Atomic Recator 212 is heavy and hard to move. I used to play in house type band where that didn't matter. Now I'm moving stuff around again. So time for smaller lighter setup. The DT series amps look great and get great reviews. Because of the new feature of the L6 link is attractive and I've discovered, there is really only two or three models in the POD I used on any regular basis. I didn't upgrade previously becuase I didn't like the low number of models on the HD even if they sounded better. But I came to think later that was not big deal, but the $$$ wasn't worth it until I had other reasons. With the better sound and smaller setup now I want a dream rig. I already have the Variax and won't be upgrading to JTV, unless my old 500 craps out. The JTV offers some nice features but models are still basicly the same and I don't like the magentic picksups on them. For some reason I have an adversition to picking over the top of the pickups on guitar, so the original design Variax without any magantic pickups was perfect for me. So I'll stick to my 500 and if it craps out look at finding another 500 to repair it with or maybe a working 700. To the topic of the original post topic, if you bought a Les Paul back in '59 was it obsolete when Gibson discontinued the line around '61 Les Paul/SG? No it was still a LP and still worked just fine. The argument for those is you could still get parts that fit them. That is mainly because of the populatairty of the instruments. If you something like a old Kay guitar and need some thing odd like specialized bridge do you think you could just get one today? Probably not, you would have to get another one or have a luither custom fix it. No different with Line6 stuff. I play a open mic thing every once in a while and where we use the house bands equipment. They have two old Line6 amps on each side of the drum set. We all play thought them and the still sound good. The house guitarist knows them and how to make them sound good. Do they sound as good as DT amp? Nope, but they still sound as good as the day he bought them. They only thing that really sucks is to buy the latest and greatest gear for full $$$. Then the next month a new better item comes out for about the same $$$. Being I'm looking a the HD500x & DT25, which have both been out for while, I hope I'm not getting into that situation. Of course latest and greatest also means the latest and greatest unknown problems. At least if you bit back, the problems you encountered have probably been encournered before and solved.

I got them all correct as well. The pedals sounded a bit sweeter and organic but the POD did quite well and that was up against some really good pedals and not the models the POD pedals were based on, from what I could tell from post he had on the pedals he used. A better blind test would be to compare it to the actual emulated pedal. Still the price points do prove a good point. Maybe the actual pedals are better but the digital stuff is very close for much better price.

Thanks guys, I would love to hear from someone with Stagesource just to know. I am leaning towards the DT. The atomic is great amp and would do nicely except for the fact the 212 only has two 12 but is the physical size and weight of a 4 12 cab. I love the Atomic but want something smaller that is easier to move around, hence looking at the DT25 combo or the Stagesource.

Currently I play a POD X3 Live into a Atomic Reactor 212-50. I'm looking to upgrade the to the POD HD500X and get smaller more moblie setup instead of the Atomic Reactor 212. I do like the Tube amp sound of the Atomic Rector gave to the X3. While it was good straight into a house PA or across a small power amp and monitor the Atomic added a nice tube kind of vibe to it. Typically I setup the X3 to run into the Atomic with speaker and mic emulation in place. This didn't always work great but I could tweak it to work pretty well. I know understand I probably should have that set to the power amp setting and let the mic and cab emulatars be off. Just let the cab sound like it does. But I also dig some of the differnet cab tones, with certian speakers. Anyway, I'm know I want to get the POD HD500X but I'm trying to decide if the DT25 112 combo or the StageSource would be a better setup for me. As I said I kind of like the cabent emulations but can also really dig a real tube type of sound and feel. I will also be playing acoustic over the system from time to time but it will not used for acoustic gutiars much. Mostly will be used with my Variax 500. Thoughts on advantages/disadvanges of either "dream rig" setup?