A few days ago, Musician’s Friend featured the Line 6 Gearbox Plugin Silver bundle as their Stupid Deal Of The Day at $100. Normally the plugin can’t be had for less than $300. It would seem this was only a hint at things to come as now the Silver and Gold bundles are available at bargain basement prices. Show me the deals»
This deal is over
Found a great deal on an active direct box. The unit is $10 off the normal price and is just over half the MSRP.
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ART Phantom l Active Direct Box price check
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This deal is listed as the retailer’s deal of the day so it will be expired by tomorrow.
Deal is over! No new purchases will qualify.
Line 6 are giving away free Variax Workbench kits to purchasers of a qualifying Line 6 Variax guitar. Your purchase must be made between February 1 and March 31. You will have to fill out an online form, print it, and mail it along with your guitar’s UPC code. Show me more details»
The Musician’s Friend stupid deal of the day for today is the Line 6 GearBox Plug-In Silver Bundle. This is a VST and AU compatible plugin that gets you the sounds of Line 6 POD, Bass POD, and even a half dozen vocal preamps all within your DAW software of choice as a plugin effect. This software usually sells for $300 and they are selling it for the next 24 hours at a third the price. You can’t get it through the normal product link at Musician’s Friend. You have to use the Stupid Deal Of The Day link to get the special pricing.
Deal is over! No new purchases will qualify. You must submit requests for free foot controllers by March 31, 2008.
Line 6 are offering you a free FBV Express foot controller if you purchase a LowDown bass amp between January 1, 2008 and February 29, 2008. It requires filling out an online form, printing it, and mailing it along with your UPC. Show me the details »
Deal is over! No new purchases will qualify. You must submit requests for free bags by March 31, 2008.
Line 6 are offering you a free carrying bag if you purchase a POD 2.0 or POD XT between January 1, 2008 and February 29, 2008. It requires filling out an online form, printing it, and mailing it along with your UPC. Show me the details »
Line 6 have since updated POD X3 flash memory to 1.11.0. Read more about it.
Update November 22, 2007
Today I opened Monkey to do some bundle manipulation and noticed the flash memory is now showing the correct version from the front page. You no longer need to do this manual process. I will leave this page up for people who would like to do it manually. Also there is good information on calibrating your pedal and diagnostic mode of X3 below.
In this forum post, Line 6 customer roblof cracked open his X3 and gave us specs on some of the electronic components inside the X3. This is what he saw: Show me the specs already »
Digital gear is here to stay and I am not one to argue that. I do not mind and use plenty of digital gear. What I don’t understand is why so many people are obsessed with making gear buying decisions based on the numbers. It seems like there are always people out on the message boards and forums asking for, and comparing, specs. “Buy product A because it has a higher sample rate,” “Buy product B because it has more DSP horsepower,” “Buy product C because it has higher internal bit depth.” Rubbish. What ever happened to the good old days (more…)
Even more great stuff is coming soon from Line 6. I’ve using the TonePort UX2 for a few years now. It is a great unit for quickly capturing quality tracks without fussing with a bunch of setup. Using a mixer with a conventional soundcard is a necessity to minimize setup time for recording but you still have to get everything connected to that mixer and routed properly when you are ready to lay down tracks. The TonePort series give you minimum need for setup and routing. Just plug in to the unit, select your sound source, and hit record. The UX8 is looking even cooler. The unit has eight hardware mic preamps with hardware gain controls right on the front panel and some nice routing and monitoring options. The thing that really impresses me with this unit is the inclusion of the Line 6 GearBox plugin for free! Yes, for free with the purchase of the UX8. I have long thought the GearBox plugin should be free with all Line 6 hardware. It just makes sense. Home recording and pro studio enthusiasts owe it to themselves to check out the TonePort UX8.
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