The best amplifier/cab for the POD X3 Live? Possibly full-range active PA speakers?

[boriology101]

I am not sure if here is the right place for this post, I apologize if it's not.

I recently bought POD X3 live and I found that this box has quite nice tones both for guitars and basses... so I was wondering how it's going to sound when I connect this to a Mackie SRM450 directly?

There will be no mixer in the middle, the POD is going to work as a multi effector/preamp and the Mackie speaker is going to work as an active cab. Since the mackie speakers have pretty good full-range reference, I guess it will amplify the modeling tones pretty well! (and probably I can also use it for guitars or etc when needed....)


I think I am gonna order one pretty soon and try it by myself... but I would appreciate if there is someone who already tried especially on live stages...

Thank you!

[honestjohnny]

I don't use the POD, but I do something similar with a Zoom MFX pedal. It should work okay as long as you realize that one SRM450 probably won't give you all the bass you want at loud rock volumes. You may find that you need another one or a subwoofer, which is easy enough to do. Good luck!

[will33]

Ya, results should be good. I've always thought that a good speaker for using emulation live would be a fairly flattish PA type speaker, not that they're all that flat but better than a bass cab. It makes sense to me to not have a bass cab coloring the sound, the coloring is done in the models. One would think you'd want something that would more accurately reproduce what's coming out of the unit.

+1 to adding a small sub to the stack.

[boriology101]

Thanks for the comments!