Line 6 POD Express, Bass

Super fun practice equipment. Lots of quality tonal options

Compact size, for bass guitar.

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!!

I had trouble with the first couple of these. I had various issues trying to get what I wanted out of it. I now use it in line with my other pedals as an amp modeler. It works perfectly for that. Also for what it's worth, the thumbwheel near the headphones jack is the overall gain for the unit. I would have never guessed that. I have LOTS of pedals and this was the first that used the headphones gain as the pedal gain. That should be spelled out better in the manual.

I bought this because of the newly released software functionality allowing to tweak more parameters for each effect. I can not update to firmware to access this functionality I have spent days trying to trouble shoot this with no solution. I was hoping to, at the very least, get a decent chorus out of it. Using the controls without the software is extremely un-intuitive.I might bother to fight through using it manually if it didn't feel so insanely cheap that I don't feel comfortable stepping on it. I knew it was plastic when I bought it but this is the cheapest possible flimsy happy-meal quality construction possible.

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.

This pedal has several effects built in it that you can play on the bass without having to buy several various pedals alone sounds great too for playing live or recording!!!

Wife loves it.