Can IR's Save the Line 6 Pocket POD?

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[Crowbar]

Broke my arm in the late 90s...required a hospital visit, pain meds and a cast.
Broke my arm in 2020...poured some IR on it and was doing push-ups later that day.

[scottpeters]

The IR’s and power amp emulation made a huge difference....actually made those POD sims sound pretty good...never would’ve thought it would make that big of an impact on the sound...great video..

[dvaoa]

What a difference modern day IR's make on these old gizmos. They now sound totally usable!

[wakjob]

Spent two miserable nights with my new HX Stomp, then decided to try these Ownhammer things...wow, night and day!!!

[AXguitarplayer]

Wow! That’s a huge difference. Those IR’s make it sound like static to something with some depth. Awesome video idea 🤘

[woodward_alan]

The ability to load external IRs sets the pod ahead of where it was for sure! Thanks for reviewing.

[wadeburgan]

I love these videos with old gear that people just kinda disregard. After watching this video, I found some old clips of me playing on my computer. I busted out my POD 2.0 that I got new years and years ago and recreated the exact same riffs. Is it the greatest tone I've ever gotten? Not even close, but I think it's possible to get something usable out of it. That said, I'll stick to my real Marshalls for anything serious, but I could see the POD getting used for overdubs and late night playing, I like the fact that you can grab onto knobs and tweak, unlike a plugin. I'm old school like that I guess....or I'm just getting old. Thanks for doing videos like this reminding people that old gear that has fallen out of favor can still be useful.

[christianutter]

What I do with my POD is cut out around 4-4.5k with a parametric eq. Take out that digital fizz.

[matthewearl]

Lol that classic brit sounded like some old 60's hi-watt stuff. Old floyd. Pretty cool.

[juegoperfecto]

You read my mind... I was thinking: "Man!, hooking this up with a Radar and you would have a ultra portable decent sound unit"... And there you said it at the end of the video...😅👍

[HipGuitar]

Nice video ! Thanks ! I have been able to breathe new life into my Pocket Pod by adding a Digitech CabDryVR and Boss GE-7 in the chain.

[aaaargl]

Leon again with the reversed toggle switch install.
I like it. Its the Van Halen way, too.
Really liked the sounds with the extra IRs, especially the modern chug tone was far superior.

[stevenmgyori]

I've a feeling we're about to find out! Pretty sure if it's saveable, you'll find a way! Thanks for sharing brother, Be Well Leon!

[noworries]

just tried my old 2.0 POD with a Mooer Radar.What an improvement!
So far I prefer to use it without the power amp sims in the Radar, but I will dive a little deeper in the next days.
In fact, I like my "new POD" so much, that I bought the rack version (POD pro) for my recording rack as an option. Tons of famous albums in the early 2000s have 2.0 PODs/AmpFarm on it.(even Dann Huff used them). PODs are already legendary!

[xWILZTAx]

Curently been using my pod 2.0 with mooer radar into a flat response speaker with great results. It honestly sounds fantastic. Using the pods pre and power amps and the ir cabs and mics.

[chrisday]

Such a rad idea. Sounded good with the power amp emulation!

[wayney.]

They sound much better with the IR's added. I wonder what the pod would sound like thru a tube power amp and a nice cab, that would be cool to hear.

[jake_peralta_BR]

You can throw a stone in my head, but I like the original sounds!

[felipe_sousa]

The IRs really make a huge difference, and I my opinion the best tone was with the recto + IR + PA sim, i guess it's a good investment if you want to upgrade your old multi-effects and don't have money to a new, by the way, Ignite Amps has a free power amp sim and it works really well!

[lucaszembrzuski]

I had and used POD HD500X for some time, and it sounded alot better with ir's from Two Notes Wall Of Sound plugin, also i could use it in stereo for delays etc.. because in W.O.S. You can use multiple cabs in stereo spectrum. Definitely the best option for an old modeler user, because W.O.S. has free version with two cabs, and if You buy any cab (even only one) it becomes a full version.