POD X3 Live Review! 

I absolutely LOVE my X3 Live and so glad you love yours too! It's such a powerful tool and agree that buying pedals is a scam of all scams!! Especially when you can get a used/ mint X3 Live for under $200 and be fully set!!!! :)

Kevin! What's up brother! I'm glad to assist! Grab it and have fun! The X3 Live has brutal tones that ring out when you run through an amp! It's great!!!

@@louistorres I'm on it 😁🤘🎸

Holy smoke, I have to try that now! Haha! I've always either ran into my Headrush FRFR112 or used the 3/4 cable method! Lol! You are the man for experimenting!!! And thank you for sharing that!

You're going to laugh!! After posting that video, I reached out to a guy locally who's selling his POD HD500, which I think has a looper built-in, that's what I want it for! Lol! You have so many great toys, Jimmy!!! I love that you're like, "you see that? I'm going to buy it now." Hahaha! You got me fixated on that 2000w Headrush FRFR cabinet!

Louis Torres Yeah Louis, that cabinet is great because all you need is the XT and the Headrush, what you hear through your headphones is the same out of the cab, you can use the IR’s and it’s so freaking loud!! My bands first show is Sat and that’s what I’m bringing with my Atomic Amplifire pedal as well!!

Hahaha! Thanks, Allen!! :)

Bro, want to laugh! The whole cable thing drove me nuts, so I bought the Seymour Duncan Powerstage 170 and run my POD X3 Live and Headrush Pedalboard through it and out to my Mesa 412 cabinet! I didn't know you could add pedals too, so I'll give it a shot and mess around with it again! Hahaha! Thanks for the heads up, brother! I really appreciate that. I'll try that tomorrow with my Boss DD3 Delay pedal. : )

@@louistorres I was talking about the POD. Don't know if you can do it with the headrush. Probably you can but I just bought an X3 like 9 years ago and never looked much else. I've learned all of its features and most of the time, gearheads everywhere get surprised with my tone being just achieved with that pedaalboard and sent as a stereo signal directly into mixers. Gets the job done and I'm not a gear junkie that much xD

Now I have to go to the website and download some new patches! Thank you so much for the info and yes, I love my X3 Live!!!

@@louistorres The patches I made are created by "gtarsonline6" , but Louis, there are thousands of pages of patches.. Many are repeats, but there are enough on there to keep you busy forever probably.. What I do is make a folder on my laptop and put the ones that sound interesting in that folder, then transfer them to the x3 live if they are real good ones.. Use the gearbox software (free download) on your computer, to shuffle things around with. You can drag and drop patches right in to the slots you want them in on your pod with your mouse etc... Gearbox makes that part easy.. Just make sure and hit "save" after your transfer stuff, or your pod will forget that you put them in there.. The save button has to be pushed to keep the new sounds. I can actually spend a whole evening going through all of the new patches! There are some great ones on that site for sure.. Then keep coming back every other month or so, and see if there are new ones you like. Download as many as you like onto your computer's folder you make, then later hook up your pod to the computer any old time you want via the usb, and go through the folder.. All you have to do is double click on the patch in the folder and it will load automatically to hear on the pod x3 live.. just go down the list and click, then play, then go on to the next one, OR, download the one's you like onto the pod by dragging it to a spot on the list in gearbox. Then hit the save button and it will be there until you replace it with something else someday.. Way cool! Have fun. If you need any further advice, just hit me up on here.

Happy Friday, Barry! I'll pull it out and run it again! I haven't used it much since getting the Headrush and Kemper! :)

I agree, me too, brings back such memories (wanting shite you can't afford as a kid)

I love my Headrush pedalboard! I'll check out the RP20! My best friend had one years ago and he always raved about it!

Rp1000 are obsolete sad to say that they where good back on the day not hating I had 2 of them😂😂😂 but I even upgraded to the rp360 one whit the expression pedal one whit out I couldn't never make them sound good bought them because I heard their racks units where bad ass and I thought heck this pedals might be good to

Omg, the bean! I remember seeing that years ago and wondering what it was and someone said it was a multi effects processor! I love Line6 products! I have the POD X3 Live and their wireless G50 and they're both great!

@@louistorres i ment the x3 beam!

guys i’m in a pickle here,i’d like an multieffects pedal(or in this case an effects processor) and i’m deciding on either the line6 pod x3 live or the line6 pod x3 please tell me the differences so i can get out of this unfortunate situation 👍

I have the X3 Live but there are a few RU-vid videos that compare the two. Check those out.

Funny enough, I love my Bad Horsie and don't ever use the expression pedal on my X3 Live or on my Headrush Pedalboard either. Lol.

You got the bean!! I always wanted to try one! I'm glad you said it's not too bad. That would be fun to use!

YOU ARE GOING TO LOOOOOVE IT!!! Hahaha!! It's such a great tool and you can totally create BEAST tones with it!!! How awesome! $100!! That's PERFECT!! Congratulations!!!

It's okay, brother. Get yourself the Seymour Duncan Powerstage 200 and enjoy ripping the heck out of things!!

@@louistorres thanks!

L'Amour was so much fun, except that Tyketto played there every Friday and Saturday!! Lol!!!

Oh my god! I've been using this thing with headphones for a bunch of weeks but today, I ran it through my Mesa and love it a ton!!! I feel like I may need to sell all my pedals and get a Helix! Actually, maybe that HD500x bc I don't have to deal with any software like you do with the Helix. Lol! Oh no! You need a rack in your life, Jeff!!!! :)

Hahahaha! I literally grew up with a Mike Miller! What's up, Mikey Mike!! :)

@@louistorres Mike Miller hailing from st Augustine Florida brother!!!!!! What is up! Thanks for the video. I received a hand me down pod x3 with zero instructions, now I can at least run that sucker thru an amp You da man!

Vincent, it's such a great option and reasonably priced at this point. You'll love using it with Reaper and you can use it direct or run it out and out of an FRFR speaker system. Get one!! It's so great!!

If you mean to say recording a wet and processed tone, then yes, it's absolutely possible! You have to get the Line 6 ASIO drivers. After you've done that, you'll find eight inputs in your DAW. Inputs 1-6 are various combinations of the wet signals, while inputs 7&8 are the dry signals.

I've never experienced that before, so I don't know how to resolve that issue but ask the question in the X3 Live Facebook group. That's where I go when I run into any technical issue and usually, one if not five people will be able to help. :)

I really should pull it back out and run it. I'll keep you posted. Maybe I'll do a Pod X3, Headrush Pedalboard, Kemper Stage episode. :)

I would also be interested in a tutorial :)

You know, I've never used the HD before but when I first got it, I was reading how some guys didn't like the HD. Google it and you'll read what people who switched from the X3 to the HD have written. Some had the X3, upgraded to the HD and went BACK to the X3 and they have great reasons for doing so.

Simple with good sound, you need the Kemper Stage, those others were made more than 12 years ago.

@@louistorres so boss gt1 then?

Hey Peter! That was my stepping stone to the world of multi effects pedals. More often than not, I was using it with headphones anyway. Hey, if you scroll through, you'll notice that I've since gotten the Headrush Pedalboard with HR/FRFR112 speaker. It's so much easier to use with XLR out, and I also have the Seymour Duncan Powerstage 170 poweramp that runs from my Headrush into my Mesa 412 cabinet too, so there's no need for fifty cables anymore. I'll probably give my POD X3 Live to someone eventually. : )

@@louistorres I'll check out that gear, sounds like a sick setup! Actually I found your video while doing research on the X3 b/c I'm trying to get something to record with that's in my budget and sounds good enough - I'm definitely on board for the pod x3 if you're ready to get rid of it, I'm in BK NYC

repair video on youtube shows how to open the unit use electronic contact spray on micro switches cleans it all up worked for me on all three of these i've owned and keep on playing not to mention the amount of tones you can down load on line so cool

Two weeks ago, I was going to buy a new Headrush Pedalboard but decided against it bc I need baby steps!! Lol! I just learned about IR!! Lol

@@louistorres headrush would not bea good choice of amp modeler because the touchscreen would be prone to shock damage and it would cost a few hundred to get it fixed, so I would steer clear of headrush and lean towards the Helix but it's alright tho, baby steps

@@ShreddyGuitar666 I'll check out the Helix then! The guy I bought my Randall RG1503C sold it for a few dollars bc he had switched to that Headrush Pedalboard. It was the first time I had ever heard of it. Didn't know it had issues with that touchscreen but yes! I'll check that other POD! Thanks for sharing, brother! I'm going to watch a few videos with it, yours included! :)

@@louistorres not a problem man, that is if one is reckless and negligent with the protection of the touch screen

Two cables!! I love it!!

Unfortunately, the X3 Live doesn't have a built-in looper. It's great to use if you're starting out with multi effects processors but the X3 Live not having a looper is the reason I bought the Headrush pedalboard, which offers an incredible multi track loop option. There are videos where guys use the delay to create a short loop effect but it's not like a typical loop which allows for layering, like the EHX 360 or EHX 720 pedals.

Louis Torres how do I do that...I just want to be able to play something then it loops so I play on top of it or something I saw other guys doing it but I didn’t get to see how they do it and I looked everywhere I can’t seem to find the right stuff please help

You don't need to use the preamp portion of your stack, the pedal does it, you just need the power amp portion to boost your sounds

Holy smoke!! WHAT!!! Bro, I didn't know you could split the pedal to two separate amps and OMG!! That has to sound amazing!!!! Now I have to use my two combos to try that out!! Hahahaha! What two amps do you tend to use anyway? I'll probably end up using my Peavey 6505+112 with Celestion V30 and my Randall RG1503C 212 that also has two Celestion V30s! You are the man!!!!

@@louistorres I use my jcm2000 50w and AVT2000 150w both going through their own 1960A cabs

Make sure you set your outputs for each tone ... One pans left, the other right....click the Output button to configure that...use the Tone 2 switch to hop back and forth to configure 2 different amps in your bank, then hold it down to combine both sounds, then save it

It's time for you to get a new amp with a 12" speaker and effects loop.

@@louistorres I use my POD X3 Live on stage and simply plugs my guitar to the unit and from there into my amp, I do get the fx from the board. What is the difference?

@@macuswong4005 depends if you want your X3 Live to be affected by a preamp or not. You don't have a 120 watt amp with an effects loop, you should try one and see which you prefer but you currently have a 10 watt amp with a not-so-great 10" speaker. Sooner than later, you should consider upgrading.

@@louistorres can u have a complete chain with the preamp plugged into a clean amp through the output?

@@macuswong4005 did you subscribe to my channel yet?!!! :)

The only issue is that the X3 Live is a much older technology from roughly 15 years ago, so it sounds "digital." As an example, my Headrush Pedalboard and Kemper Stage both sound like real amps compared to my Line6 X3 Live. Unfortunately, you would have to get something newer than the X3 if you want something that sounds better or closer to real tones. Hope that helps.

@@louistorres so you can't only use stompboxes from pod x3?

@@eeveeaitch4735 Stompboxes are kind of shitty yeah. But everything else is very good. And it has almost everything (except loop recording).

You're hearing the X3 Live running through the effects loop, so it's all Line6.

I don't know what you mean, if you're using this X3 Live you have no choice but plug into the processor. Now, if you have FR speakers, you can run out to a Mission 412 cabinet and call it a day. But if all you have is a head and normal cabinet, then again you have no choice but to run it through the effects loop using the three or four cable method.

Funny enough, I've heard the xt live was revolutionary then the X3 Live nearly doubled all effects and I know a few guys who sold their HDs to return back to the X3 Live bc it was the best between the XT Live and the HD line. I love it X3 Live, it was my intro to the digital pedalboard platform which was followed up with my Headrush pedalboard, which is lightyears ahead of that X/ HD lineup from 2010-2014.

Hey Lew, to be honest, I'm actually not familiar with that G100r CD.

@@louistorres I found a Pod x3 Live for $70 today. Picked it up and it worked. Just used your 2 cable method. Thanks for the upload!

@@TheLewSiffer OMG, for $70!! What a steal! Bro, I love my X3 Live, I'm shocked at how well it works. Keep messing with it, you can get ultra brutal tones with it! Congratulations on getting one!!

It's just a different way of running it. What does it do differently? Nothing.

They were!!! I think it's crazy that you can find them for under $100 and they still sound great!!!!

What!! $60USD is amazing!! Hahahaha!! I love mine!! AND you have the THR30II!! Is it really loud at 30watts?

No, you just can't 4cable setup. You'd be limited to direct plug in to the front of the amp which is fine for most home setups.

Always living with anger issues!!

What a great price! That's about $107USD. You'll love using it, it's a really fun pedalboard! Congratulations!!!

What amp do you have?

@@louistorres JCM 800 Lead Series Marshal 🥺

No worries, there's about 500 other episodes you can watch. Thank God this isn't the only one that's terrible, a few are. It's just a hobby. :)

Hahaha! Pallaso, don't listen then. Change the channel, coño! It's easy to do! Hahaha!

Vito hasn't played guitar in 25 years, it doesn't even matter, just like White Lion doesn't matter! Haha! Why not mention Elvis while you're at it, you clown! Hahaha!

Another dude with 150 subscribers on his "channel." Hahaha! Maybe you should focus more on your channel and less on mine! Hahaha! Try to play catch up! Lol.

Guys like you, who don't do anything, are the reason I fucking hate RU-vid. Bunch of whinny men who complain more than teenagers. Why don't you do your own research and figure things out yourself?! How about them apples? SMH. You're bitching about some fucking transistor that's 17 years old! Shut up and go buy a Kemper. SMH.

People depend on these videos?! What are you talking about!!!? Literally , go do your own research and figure things out instead of always taking the shortcut.