The classic that started it all.

The industry standard for direct recording in the studio, POD ® 2.0 delivers the tones heard on hit records everywhere. For practice, it's the ultimate way to get inspiring, stage-perfected tones with headphones. In the studio, you can become more productive and creative. You can instantly get the sounds you need! Classic clean to modern high-gain tones all perfectly dialed in. POD 2.0 guitar effects processor allows you to quickly choose amps and effects without the long set up times and expensive equipment.

Are you frustrated trying to record great guitar amp sounds? POD ® 2.0 is the answer. You get a wide variety of classic and modern guitar sounds with convenient, easy-to-use effects built right in. Line 6's revolutionary A.I.R.™ modeling accurately captures the tone and feel of speaker cabinets, microphones, and studio room characteristics for an amazing recorded sound direct to any recording setup or PA. Sounds like having a great amp mic'd by a great engineer in a great studio!

Effects
POD ® 2.0 comes with a built in set of effects that are tweaked to perfection. This "best of" collection of effects makes searching for the perfect sounds ultra easy. Multiple versions of the effects give you rack or stompbox versions, and the combination effects give you classic setups like Delay and Chorus simultaneously.

There's even a full time Reverb, Tap Tempo for getting your delay's in time with the band, and an Effect Tweak knob for custom tailoring your effects. Plus, you'll never be out of tune because you'll get a Chromatic Tuner with a silent mute function for tuning between songs.

Ins and outs
POD ® is equipped to handle today's guitar recording needs with +4dBu balanced or -10dBV unbalanced 1/4" connectors. MIDI lets you automate every move and Line 6's optional FBV™: generation foot controllers let you do it all with your feet. POD 2.0 also comes with a high-power headphone output for silent jamming.

Left & Right Output - These are balanced 1/4" TRS connectors, and ready to rock with pro +4 dBu balanced equipment. They will also work happily with unbalanced -10 dBV equipment and standard guitar cables.

A.I.R.™: Mode If you want to plug POD into a guitar amp as front end, flip the A.I.R. Mode switch to AMP, and set your amp for a clean tone. This defeats the speaker-microphone-room tone simulation of the A.I.R. processing. If you're using POD in almost any other setup (plugging direct into a mixer, recorder, PA, power amplifier, etc.) you want the DIRECT position on the A.I.R. switch.

Foot Pedal Connector - POD ® 2.0 is now compatible with the entire line of current foot controllers including FBV Express™: and FBV Shortboard™: !

MIDI In & Out - Connect POD to your MIDI equipment to select channel memories or automate POD settings.

All Line 6 products come with Line 6's 24-7 customer support services. Use Line 6's automated help request system, access Line 6's discussion forums, and download software updates and user manuals, plus a lot more.

* All product names used are trademarks of their respective owners, which are in no way associated or affiliated with Line 6. These trademarks of other manufacturers are used solely to identify the products of those manufacturers whose tones and sounds were studied during Line 6's sound model development.

Line 6 POD 2.0 Guitar Multi Effects Processor Features:

• Amp Models based on*:
• '64 Fender ® Deluxe Reverb ®
• '59 Fender ® Bassman ®
• '68 Marshall ® Plexi 100 watt
• Marshall ® JTM-45 meets Budda Twinmaster
• '60 Tweed Fender ® Champ ®
• Budda Twinmaster head
• '65 Blackface Fender ® Twin Reverb ®
• '60 Vox ® AC 15
• '60 Vox ® AC 30 non-Top Boost
• '85 Mesa/Boogie ® Mark IIc+ Clean Channel
• '85 Mesa/Boogie ® Mark IIc+ Drive Channel
• Dumble ® Overdrive Special Clean Channel
• '95 Mesa/Boogie ® Dual Rectifier ® Head
• '89 Soldano SLO Super Lead Overdrive
• Dumble ® Overdrive Special Drive Channel
• 1987 Roland ® JC-120 Jazz Chorus
• Line 6 ® Insane
  
  Cabinet Models based on*:
• 1960 Fender ® Tweed Champ ®
• 1952 Fender ® Tweed Deluxe Reverb ®
• 1960 Vox ® AC-15
• 1964 Fender ® Deluxe Reverb ®
• 1965 Fender ® Blackface Twin Reverb ®
• 1967 Vox ® AC-30
• 1995 Matchless Chieftain
• 1959 Fender ® Bassman ®
• 1996 Marshall ® with Vintage 30s
• 1978 Marshall ® with stock 70s
• 1968 Marshall ® Basketweave with Greenbacks
• Line 6 ® 4x12
• Line 6 ® 1x12
• Line 6 ® 2x12
• Line 6 ® 4x10
  
  POD 2.0 Effects
  
• Compressor
• Delay/Compressor
• Tremolo Delay/Tremolo
• Chorus 1
• Delay/Chorus 1
• Chorus 2
• Delay/Chorus 2
• Flanger 1
• Delay/Flanger1
• Flanger 2
• Delay/Flanger2
• Rotary Speaker
• Delay/Swell
• Delay
• Reverb

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Line 6 POD 2.0 Guitar Multi Effects Processor

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Must Use Computer

Posted by the tonecrusader from Florida on Oct 4, 2009

Experience w/product: I have used it

Reviewer's Background: Active musician, producer

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, electronic, worship

I do agree that the controls are very irritating to work with, no matter how many times you read the manual. That said, I connect to my computer via the MIDI ports, and I LOVE it. I avoided these things for ages, but didn't want to be dragging the Marshall stack back and forth from church. I bought mine used with the small footswitch (FB-4) for $100. Excellent value. If you build your presets well, it sounds fantastic - it's just very difficult to do without using the computer GUI. I build/adjust/rearrange my presets before each performance and always get complements on my sound and tone. FYI, the floor POD, which is a little cheaper does NOT connect to the computer, so I would recommend the 2.0 over that one.

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Line 6 POD 2.0 sucks

Posted by Boe M from UT on May 1, 2009

Experience w/product: I have used it

Reviewer's Background: Active in a band

Reviewer's Play Style: Metal/Rock/progressive/All Styles

The Line 6 - POD 2.0 sucks. This is one of the worst things that I ever bought over a hundred dollars. Although the clean settings can be quite good, the distortion tones on this P.O.D are horrible. For over two year I’ve tried to get something good out of this and all I’ve been able to get is good clean sounds. The clean is amazing I will admit but the distortion and everything else on this is horribly and horrifically weak and atrocious. It always has a hissing sound and every distortion reeks with bad tone and feedback. I use Marshall Amps and equalizers but nothing can fix this P.O.D’s Problem. You can’t even run anything through it without a very loud hissing sound. If you’re going to get a pod I would highly recommend the POD X3. The Pod X3 Works Great and is less confusing but still I wouldn’t recommend using it for distortion. Distortion wise I would buy the Line 6 Uber Metal Distortion since it goes great with the X3.

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Beautiful

Posted by DaN from Canon City, CO. on Apr 24, 2009

Experience w/product: I have used it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, alternative, country, classic rock, metal...

I've played this effects processor a few times about a month ago and it was the first time I used it. I was amazed with the sound quality this thing and put out! Decent effects, and awesome amp models to chose from. Good for making classic rock sounds from bands such as lynyrd Skynyrd, Led Zeppelin... even Pink Floyd. I will eventually own one of these.

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Posted by Randy Savage from West Covina, CA on Apr 3, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Occassional Performer

Reviewer's Play Style: Hard Rock

There is a lot to admire about the POD 2.0. It's made from a solid and sturdy metal case, unlike the cheap plastic of most of its direct competitors. The knobs and switches have a nice, solid feel compared to the POD's peers. It comes with a nicely printed manual, and a good power supply.

Sadly, there's more to dislike than like. My biggest complaint is the sound qualities the unit produces. Not so much the quality of the sound, although that too, but more the characteristics of the sound. The POD 2.0 sounds bad. Its really hard to place exactly what's wrong. It doesn't sound over-processed or have an excessive quantity of digital artifacts in the sound, there's just something, almost indefinably wrong with what it sonically produces. Amps and cabinets are not convincing. I've owned several of the amps the POD "models" (read 'tries to copy'), and it doesn't sound like the amps I've had. The POD doesn't have the same broad sound characteristics, let alone any of the nuance, of amps it purportedly emulates so well. The sound of the included effects is hit and miss. Chorus sounds okay. Flanger sounds bad. Distortion sounds terrible.

Another huge disappointment is the interface: "unintuitive." Oh, sure, you could plug it in, dial an amp, and be producing some sort of sound within seconds of turning it on, but try accessing its limited feature set, and the simplest of tasks, that devices from DigiTech, Zoom, Roland, and others handle readily, cannot be accomplished on the POD without reading the manual. Two (of many) examples: on the POD, the control that chooses emulated cabinets serves multiple functions, and picking a cabinet isn't its primary duty, picking effect(s) is. So how to pick a cabinet? You have to simultaneously hold the button labeled "Tap (Hold)" (whatever that means) and then turn the knob that selects effects. THAT was intuitive! I can think of many better ways to design the POD interface. Take the DigiTech Genesis for example: you have a knob labled "Cabinet" that when you turn it, selects the cabinet it's pointing to. Not only is the POD unintuitive and clumsy, the labeling provides none of the clarity of cabinet that most units do. Choosing "Flanger1," "Chorus2," "Chorus1," or "Tremolo" all (when Tap/Hold is held down) choose a cabinet emulating a "1x12." Is that four different 1x12s, or the same one? If different, what cabinet is a "Chrorus2" supposed to be? If I were an engineer, I'd be ashamed to show my boss an interface design like this. It's a usability nightmare: vague & arcane. Clearly "clarity" was not a design goal.

Another examle is adjusting effects, like compression for example: how does one change the compression level? You turn "Effect Tweak." That one could possibly be guessed without reading the manual. Possibly. But turning the knob which way does what to what? Again, you have to crack the manual to figure out a simple function that is labeled and readily accessible on other devices. On the POD, you have to memorize which compression levels correspond to the numbers on a clock face. Unintuitive, and un-labeled. That's only one of the effects: you have to memorize what unlabeled controls do for all the effects. There are other examples of the interface's lack of usability besides these two. A POD fan would argue that it's because the POD is so "feature rich" that they just couldn't fit the right controls into the unit, or maybe couldn't afford the paint to label things appropriately, or whatever. Whichever excuse is made for the device, the issue remains.

Lastly, there's the price. For all its bad sound and frustrating interface, the unit is more expensive than similar models from DigiTech, Roland, Zoom, and others.

My guess is that Line 6 put all the POD's money into that nice metal case, and the others put theirs into what's inside the case.

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Can't Imagine Playing Without it

Posted by Megadeth Mani4c from KY on Apr 3, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Hobbyist, Band guitarist

Reviewer's Play Style: Metal, Classic Rock, Blues

I got this thing as a gift and haven't played guitar without it since. It dramatically improves sound quality and makes it easy to get any particular tone you are looking for. Probably the best thing is that you can create your own tone by experimenting, and then save it and use it again later at anytime. As for tones it gets, it has high gain, blues, classic rock tones (all modeled after specific amplifiers) and a fuzz box, which I especially like. There are also effects like chorus but I hardly use them. Another neat thing is that it greatly increases amp volume. I play on a reletivley small amp and the POD makes it sound like its a cabinet. Another feature is the ability to download custom tones from the internet, unfortunatley the POD doesn't come with a cord; you have to buy it separatley. If you are having trouble getting specific tones or just want to easily improve sound quality at a decent price, the Line 6 POD 2.0 is something to consider getting. You'll wonder how you ever lived without it.

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