shoegaze

Have a Line6 ux2. Happy with the interface, their solution to allowing you
to play through your effects but still have close to zero latency, even on an old machine is brilliant.

Pod farm is ok. Easy to use but has some silly restrictions in it. Eg. Can only have one type of each effect in your chain at a time (no having two distortion pedals in a row) and many of the effects positions are fixed (can't have reverb first in the chain). When this is a problem, I record both wet and dry and screw with the dry version later.

Still, worth it I think, especially as their seem to be some ridiculously cheap deals on some of ther interfaces at the moment.

I use a M Audio Ozone, which has worked great over the last five or so years. It a decent midi controller/audio interface combo. It wouldnt be good for mulittracking a band or drum set, but one mic, or synth, or guitar runs nice. I dont even have to mess with the latency in my DAW with it. the con, after 5 + years, it seems to want to stop working every now and then and make me restart it.


I am about to order this Novation Xiosynth to replace it. it is similar to the Ozone, except it also functions as a novation hardware synth with its own sound engine, as well as being an audio interface and midi controller.

Plus you can go nuts with the XY pad and wand.
I've got an old Bass Station rack synth. Even though it's old school, I like the sounds you can pull from it. And Novation synths all seem to have a great sound engine in them.

I've got an Oxygen 8 V2. It's lasted for years. Same size at the Ozone, but not as many features.

So... my interest in the Pod Farm V2 is piqued! It could be alot of fun trying to coax out some crazy effect patterns.

So... after months of fiddling - plugging in direct, mic'ing my amp, having my mixer clip at the slightest pedal adjustment, constantly turning knobs and adjusting faders - and never being happy with the results... I broke down and just bought the Toneport UX2 today.
I'm actually super excited.
I've got several songs that are in various phases of completion because I am just never happy with the sound of the recordings. Hopefully this will solve all of that, AND spark some new creativity.

Hopefully I'll have it by the end of next week (early June)!