Open Box Line 6 POD Studio GX with POD Farm Level 1

For the guitar player on a budget. Your typical everyday bedroom/ living room player. This is the piece of gear for you! Tons of high dollar amps, cabs and effects modeled after the real thing all at your fingertips. I will recommend this little box any day of the week. The only drawback that really bothers me: This thing basically acts as your sound card so you will not be able to play any sound over your laptop speakers (mine are better than the usual garbage metallic things they put in a laptop). The 3.5mm headphone jack however is also a line out so you can attach headphones, speakers or you can hook it up to an amp or PA. Comes with a free Cubase LE license so the next generation aspiring recording guitar god can record his or her creative output professionally

Looking for a cheap interface to do some home recording (Newer player) of my progress. Took almost no time to set up. The worse problem it that I didn't read the manual and had the volume turned all the way down in POD Farm. Thought I had installed it wrong. Read the manual and it works like a charm. Great tones and very easy to use.

I almost gave up hope in the replacement of my PodXT for the PodGX. I didn't understand why the volume was so low, I thought it needed a hardware preamp, I was very angry. Then, I found the software preamps and volume controls. This thing looks like nothing when it comes out of the box, you think you are going to be disappointed, but then you find the software interface and realize what you have been missing all of this time. Ultimate control and access to high end recording equipment via the software interface. I guarantee after you figure out the software interface, you will not be disappointed....

I purchased this product because I needed an audio interface to record mainly guitar tracks on my PC without latency. I would recommend the ux1 or ux2 as it has more features you will probably want in the future if your serious about recording. Pod Farm 2.5 is great once you get it all setup, its easy to use. But I also purchased this for Reason Limited since I've been using Audacity forever! Audacity is great but I needed a real DAW. However it took me over a month of back and forth contact with Line 6's customer support to get Reason working. They gave me used Registration codes with the included software disk for Reason. Finally I got new registration codes so I could finally get my Reason Limited license to active reason. However I consider myself lucky I even got it up and running, seems line 6 and Propeller head (makers of reason) have some kinda beef over the licenses for Reason, my best advice is you will have to deal with Line 6 to get your Reason Limited up and running and goodluck with that!

Bottom line, this is a great product for the money. It truly is. And if the install wasn't such a tremendous pain in the butt, I'd give it 5 stars. First of all, the install is simply a bear and after you go through a bunch of hassle and time getting it installed (I think it took me about 45 mins-1 hour), it then immediately forces you to upgrade (kiss another 30 minutes goodbye). And if this wasn't enough, the licensing was a pain to get going. I kept thinking I had done what I needed, I'd fire up the software and it would tell me the device wasn't licensed. I was so frustrated, I was honestly about 10 minutes from downloading a cracked version (and I would have felt ZERO guilt for having done so). And this, my friends at Line 6, is why people will be even more likely to pirate your software. As someone who's been in the software development business for 25 years, let me pass along a piece of advice. Anti-piracy stuff does nothing but frustrate legitimate users and pisses them off. Think I'm wrong? Then you didn't read the stuff I just wrote above. Ditch the licensing stuff. Make your install better and DON'T force people to upgrade. Let them decide when they want to upgrade. I finally got the licensing to work, only to discover there was no sound. After seeing the hundreds of similar posts on their web site saying, "I get no sound", it was clear I simply needed to plug the speakers into the device (instead of the computer's main sound card). You know what could save people all these posts? A tiny little sticker saying, "Plug speakers in here." There's no installation guide or anything. Just a stupid little thing that any idiot should be able to figure out by the time the thing is out of beta testing. Finally, Visual Studio 2005? Come on guys, time to upgrade your development environment. VS 2012 just came out. Get with the program. Despite the nightmare of getting it set up, once it was set up, it's an awesome product. I love the huge variety of sound options. I rocking out late at night with headphones with my daughter just down the hall and in my head I hear an arena and in her room, she hears silence. Fix your install and licensing and I'll happily come back and give you guys 5 stars.

I got this about 2 years ago. There was some difficulty setting it up, sometimes the computer would recognize the device and sometimes it wouldn't. I'm a tech savy person and have not had issues with any hardware I use on any of my computers. Line 6 installs a control panel called "Line 6 Audio-Midi Devices" on your computer, there's no problem with this except! IT CANNOT BE UNINSTALLED. It puts its files into your "system32" folder which cannot be removed. Once it's on your computer it is on there for good. I bought an Akai MPK25, it's a phenomenal midi controller, it doesn't work on my computer because the L6 Audio-Midi Device manager is blocking the incoming midi signals. I've talked with microsoft to no avail, no help from the non-existent support from L6 and Akai told me if the MPK25 works on other computers, which it does..both my brother's and my friend's laptops, then they cannot help me with the L6 problem. And to be honest the quality is subpar and sounds thin and for lack of a better term "fake".