Line 6 POD Express, Bass

The volume control seems cheap but it works just fine. I dont ever have to dime it… it’s just fine on 60-70%. If I need it louder I just turn up the input volume on my Apollo. Raising it too high will cause unwanted distortion on the audio interface (Apollo). The unit is great. I have a variety of great bass tones to choose from by using this.

I have only been able to play with this for a little bit of time, but man do I love it! The various sounds I have gotten out of it excite me to record some tunes. The only hangup I had was that the volume on the side was the volume that would go into my amp and not just the headphones if I was using this as an amp modeler.

After saveral months of research and review the Line 6 Pod express for Bass player like me is perfect. I don’t like complicated pedals and this one just hits the nail. Very easy to use and has the right number of sounds, control and effects to play along.Easy to carry and use. Effects are not too fancy or complicated. Couple of points to not - this pedal comes in without an adapter (you need to buy it saperately) and doesn’t have an inbuilt tuner (mentioned that it has but doesn’t display anything) other than that I’m very happy to fiddle along to get the right effect and tone. Cheers!!

If you're looking for inspiration, this pedal will give you the sounds you need. For iPhone use, you need the camera adaptor, but with that, the app works well.

After 3 weeks, it no longer powers on unless I use an AC adapter. For the Podexpress application to recognize the pedal, I have to unplug and then replug the USB cable. I bought the bass version from Amazon and the guitar version from another retailer. Both have the same problems. The software is necessary to tweak settings in the patches. Changing settings with the unit requires finger gymnastics of holding down buttons while twirling knobs. I have had the old Pod XT unit for 20+ years and very satisfied. I thought pod express would be a good replacement since I just want basic sounds/effects. The sounds are pretty good, but it's obviously lower price and cheaply made. Podexpress has one fender and several ampeg amp/cab models--probably because line6 bought them--no longer offers marshall or vox but that's OK with me

The sound quality is great and there are a lot of amp models to choose from. I really recommend digging in to the app so you can fine tune things like the compressor, dirt settings, and swap cabs. I personally thought most of the cabs didn't sound great, but I found one I liked and use it for everything. It's made of plastic but I don't have any concerns about it breaking. For the money you're getting Helix tones that sound really nice. To get the most out of it you may also want to get something to add 2 additional switches. One complaint is even using the 4 switch method, you can't bounce around to different presets. You need to build one with all the effects you want. This is mostly fine unless you want to be able to switch between 2 different gain pedals, which you can't do. You can always switch to a different preset, but you're going in order, so going from preset 1 to preset 3 means you have to go to 2 first. It's not a seemless switch like a Stomp would be, though you're paying a fraction of the price. You could easily gig with this or just use it for home practice/recording.

I was looking for a simple, all-in-one solution for practicing my bass using headphones. Essential functions for me are: headphone out, tone shaping (ideally amp emulation and compression), and tuner. The Pod express seems ideal. However, the "tuner" only tells you if a particular note is in tune, not what note it is; it would happily tell you that you're in tune with your E string tuned to D. Fine if you're already tuned up and just need to check your tuning, but if you are putting on new strings you will need a pitch fork, or a real tuner, or some other reference pitch. So unfortunately this pedal is un-usable for my purposes. Line 6 saved a few bucks by not including either a small LCD or a super simple LED display. Considering that this pedal also allows saving and recall of presets, seems like that was a really bad choice for UI. I would have no problem paying $20 more to have a display, and a real onboard tuner.

Amazing!

つまみを捻るだけで簡単に良い音が出ます。 iPhoneにつないで調整もでき自宅で弾くだけの自分には最高のアイテムです。 z〇〇〇社の１万ぐらいのマルチエフェクターも持っていますが、 こちらの方が好みの音です。 ノイズも簡単に消せてよいです。

This is an excellent item if you want to have a compact bass rig for practice or jamming.

Excelente producto

El Line 6 POD Express es un excelente pedal para llevar y ensayar solo o cuando no puedes cargar con la pedalera. Se ouede conectar a un ordenador y personalizar un poco los efectos y jugar con los simuladores de gabinete.

Youtubeのレビューを見て衝動買いしたのですが、ものすごく使いやすく抜群の音質。ディスプレイを使わずにこれだけの種類のエフェクターを同時にコントロールできるのがすごい。単に繋いで五種類のボリュームを弄れば多様な音が簡単で出るしエフェクターのかけ度合いも簡単に調節できるが、本機の底力は、プリセットの使い方だと思います。自分で21種類のプリセットを設定することができ、プリセット自体も調整して記憶させ直すことも容易ですし、フットボタンで簡単にプリセットを前後に移動することができますが、説明書（英語の直訳のせいかわかりにくい）を読み込む必要がありますし、プリセットの説明のところは、別にフットペダルを買わないとプリセットが使えないのかと誤解する可能性があると思いますが、本体だけで大抵のことができます。注意すべき点というか他のマルチエフェクターと考え方が違うのは、エフェクターをかける順序という概念がなく、例えばコンプとディストーションを同時にかけた場合は、それぞれのレベルを変えると同時に音が変化する形です。前後をどちらにするか悩まずに済むのが私にはメリットに感じます。またエフェクターを一切かけずにプリアンプとして 低中高とゲインだけを調整することもできますし（これもプリセットに入れることができます）それにエフェクターを乗っけることもできます。大抵のエフェクターにはブレンドという原音とエフェクトした音のバランスをコントロールするつまみがあり、原音も出しつつエフェクトのかかった音もうまく調整できるというのが概念ですが、本機はそれがありませんが、元々最良のバランスに設定されているような気がします。調節できるパラメーターが多い方が良いように思いますが、ベストな状態になっているかわからない感じがいつもしていたのに対しLINE6社があらかじめ試行錯誤してベストなバランスにしてあると割り切って仕舞えば逆に悩まなくてすみます。一点気になっていたのは、タップテンポ（例えば空間系のエフェクトのスピードを変えるためのスイッチ）のランプが常に点滅しているのが邪魔に思っていたのですが、曲のテンポのメトロノームだと思えばリズムを正確に刻むベーシストの役割にとって助かる機能と思います。フットスイッチを2回押せば点滅速度が簡単に変えられます。いやもうこれを開発した人は天才だと思います。普段はUSBケーブルでパソコンと接続し、イヤホンを使っていますが、音源の音、ベースの音も非常にクリアで、ベースを弾かない時でも オーデイぉインターフェースとしても十分な音質だと思います。