I’m posting this blog to help others and to share my experiences and trials with the Line 6 Pod X3 Live unit, which I must say unequivocally, that I love. I play acoustic, electric, bass and sing and I’m highly technical (work on computers for a living) so I enjoy presets, configurations, settings and saving patches anyway.
My primary music outlet is I lead worship at my church regularly. So I have the luxury of the same PA every time I play and, with the exception of levels and rarely EQ-ing at the soundboard should the soundguy be feeling particularly ambitious that weekend...a preset of settings should sound pretty consistent from week to week. So this made a lot of sense for me. If you have a similar setup, this might also be helpful for you.
Guitars
I used two different guitars.
1. Taylor 314CE with a stock Fishman 3-band active Preamp/EQ. This is an UST pickup (under saddle transducer).
2. Yamaha from the mid-70's dreadnaught with a Sunrise S-1 picking. This is a passive magnetic soundhole pickup that's permanently installed (and surprisingly sounds GREAT!)
