Line 6 Floor Pod Plus Multi-Effects Guitar Effect Pedal

This is an older Line 6 unit, no longer in production. The amplifier models are the famous POD 2.0 stuff. I am a tube amp snob, and have been since the early 1990's. I've owned MESA/Boogies (Studio 22 combo and Studio preamp), Marshalls (JCM 800 and 900, combos and half stacks), a Laney combo, an ADA MP-1 rack preamp, and numerous others that I can't recall at the moment. That said, I approached digital amp modeling with some degree of skepticism, but I will tell you that the Line 6 Floor POD models sounds very, VERY close to the real thing. I mean REAL close. The problem with reading reviews like this is that many are written by newbies who have no clue what a good tube amp should sound like, and are annoyed because the Floor POD doesn't sound great through a $99 Fender Frontman amp or headphones. Gee, I wonder why. You can't polish a turd, that's why. I have enough experience to know what a good tube amp sounds like, as I have owned many. And I can tell you this that Line 6 units sounds awesome.

It's very important to download the PDF of the manual for this, as there are some things that are impossible to do without it, such as calibrating the wah pedal. Also, so save space, there are only 7 knobs on it, but most of them perform two functions, requiring you to press a button while tweaking the knob (the BASS knob also adjusts midrange, and the TREBLE knob also adjusts presence). The Amp Model knob selects the type of amp you want. The Marshall tones are dead-on. The "treadplate" amp (modeled after a MESA Dual-Rectifier head) sounds very tubey. There's are two "insane" models, one replicates a Soldano head, and the other is a Line 6 original. Both sustain for years, with the Soldano model having a bit more "guts". I'm not really into effects, but this unit does deliver a few - flange/chorus, phaser, temolo, delay, echo/sweep, and reverb. You cannot "deep edit" these, but they sound alright. There is also a compressor (a second function of the overdrive knob).

This unit is great for recording or going direct to a PA. You'd swear you're hearing a tube-driven amp, not a little floor device. There is no USB output for recording, however - you need to use one of the two stereo outputs with a 1/8" adapter and go straight into your sound card. The unit allows you to store your settings into any of the 64 banks. The first 60 of these are pre-programmed with mostly useless settings that are obviously designed to show off the effects capabilities of the unit, but are truly useless in every other regard because they are so over-the-top. That's ok, because they can be overwritten. You move up or down through the channels with the UP and DOWN footswitches. Those switches also have other functions as well. The wah sounds great, and that pedal doubles as a volume pedal. Nice!

I use the Line 6 Floor POD in our church, with a MIM stratocaster (DiMarzio HS-3 bridge pickup). Really, is truly sounds nice through a PA of our church, which is a fairly large church. The one thing to keep in mind is that this unit gives you A LOTof tonal control, probably too much. By that, I mean that the tone controls are very reactive, so achieving that Marshall sound in your head may take some tweaking. As you know, the Marshall amp tone knobs are useless, as everyone just cranks them all to 10. Well, the Line 6 unit give you much more control than a Marshall head would, so there's some tweaking involved. Great buy. Get one!

The line 6 floor pod is a plug and play multi effect processor. It is great if you just want something to jam on without having to set up your whole pedal board. Or if you want to work on some riffs through headphones so your neighbors wont hear you.
None of the effects sound as good as you would get from any decent stand alone effect pedal, and no where near as good as an analog set up, but you never will from a digital processor. (at least probably not in my lifetime).
The amp models are pretty cheesy, but they give you a range of sounds you can achieve by just twisting the dial. It's solid state so you will never get a real tube sound out of a digital modeling processor.
The whole unit is very easy to use right out of the box and will give you loads of effects that are very simple to manipulate. What you lose in tone it makes up for in portability, diversity, and convenience.

Great for jamming alone.
Would never use for a serious recording.
Really fun, and loads of effects.

Well the pictured item is not the floor pod plus. I purchased this as part of my work to compose music. this effect station has hundreds of things that are good but if I was to choose the negative, I would say to have the technical instructions as to the wave shape attack and delay time settings more visible as patches.

Other than that I dig this pedal.


Ross

The floor pod isnt near what i expected , when i amped it through my line 6 spider 2 x12 120 watt ,put the amp on a clean channell , and enguaged the heaviest metal distortion i could find . I was extremely disappointed . Especially compared to the metal/insanex3 effect on the amp alone . the reason i bought it was for something i can interface with the computer and actually finally make some recordings im proud of presenting which is something i have yet to accomplish .I havnt tried it through the computer yet , hope i have better luck . But the way it sounded on my amp >>> pothetic

This is a great pedal! I have recorded quite a few songs with it and it's been very easy to use. Nice crunch sound as well as many other tones. The Wah/Volume seems to work well....better than I expected from an "all in one" pedal. I use this for direct recording and as a pre-amp through a Fender Twin Reverb (or any tube amp on clean settings) and it sounds awesome!.... well worth the price!