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501 · 2nd September 2009

thanks a lot for replying bryan,

what you said makes a lot of sense now. the urge of getting that in your face sound usually clouds up judgement fairly easily.

What I ended up doing in the end, is I bought the Line 6 pod x3 pro. It seems to do a great job on guitars so long as you know the sound you're looking for. It's given me a lot of positive surprises (tracking is easy when the guitars sit well in the mix straight through the box). Of course this happens not so often, but its a huge improvement to where I was before.

Now, the only downside to having the x3 pro is that I should seriously spend more time tweaking and building up a catalogue of presets of my own!

After taking a critical look at my past work, I now try to keep focus on what sort of a sound I'm looking for and not begin dwelling on ideas of how to keep building bigger and bigger sounds. That might have been my initial problem...

2nd September 2009	#3
501 Gear Head Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 30 Thread Starter	thanks a lot for replying bryan, what you said makes a lot of sense now. the urge of getting that in your face sound usually clouds up judgement fairly easily. What I ended up doing in the end, is I bought the Line 6 pod x3 pro. It seems to do a great job on guitars so long as you know the sound you're looking for. It's given me a lot of positive surprises (tracking is easy when the guitars sit well in the mix straight through the box). Of course this happens not so often, but its a huge improvement to where I was before. Now, the only downside to having the x3 pro is that I should seriously spend more time tweaking and building up a catalogue of presets of my own! After taking a critical look at my past work, I now try to keep focus on what sort of a sound I'm looking for and not begin dwelling on ideas of how to keep building bigger and bigger sounds. That might have been my initial problem...