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and speaker cabinet:

• The effect of the guitar amplifier electronics is emulated by the Amp Model you 

choose. Each model was developed from extensive study of a classic amplifier 
treasured as a tone classic.

• In a guitar amp, once the guitar signal passes through the electronics, it is output 

to one or more speakers in a speaker cabinet. The specific design of the speakers, 
how many there are, and how they are arranged contributes significantly to your 
guitar tone, as does the construction and resulting tone of the wood box itself. A 
Marshall head driving a single 12-inch speaker in an open-back cabinet, for 
instance, will sound dramatically different from the same head driving a 4x12 
closed-back cabinet. Line 6 has carefully constructed virtual software speaker 
cabinets that emulate the contribution made by real speaker cabinets to great 
guitar sound.

• Once the sound makes it out of the speaker cabinet, the next important link in 

the recording system is the microphone that receives that sound. Guitar 
recordists select different microphones, and arrange them in different 
placements, to get particular sounds. A microphone pointing directly into the 
cone of a speaker will hear something different than one positioned off-axis. 
Line 6 carefully analyzed the coloring that standard microphones add to the 
guitar sound, as well as the effects of different mic placement techniques, and 
developed a set of cabinet simulations that give you the tone of great speaker 
cabinet and microphone combinations.

• The guitar amp, cabinet, and microphone don't just sit in empty space. The 

room that they are in contributes importantly to the guitar sound you will 
record. Reverb can be used to capture the basic character of the space, 
simulating the effect of the sound reflecting off the room's walls, floors and 
ceiling. But there are other subtle details that have more to do with the “spread” 
of the sound as it passes through the air between the speaker and microphone. 
This final component is the key to the sense that the listener is in one position 
in the room, and the guitar sound is in another position, and that the two are 
separated by a mass of air that sound spreads through to reach the listener.

All of these important sound-shaping components are accounted for in Line 6's 
POD. Turn the Amp Model knob to call up the amplifier emulation you want. 
POD automatically matches that amplifier with an appropriate cabinet and 
microphone setup, and gives you the sound of that setup coming through the air of 
a recording space. You can add reverb to taste, and start recording incredible mic'd