Well that sucked...

mystixboi1

Kick Henry Jackassowski
Over the past few years, I've been using an evh 5150 III 50 watt amp. I've been controlling it via midi with a line 6 pod xt live.

Using the pod, I've been able to control the volume jump between channels 1 and 2 and I use it for the efx and noise gate. I've added a volume, wah and boost pedals but it's pretty much the same set up.

This past week, I bought a mxr carbon copy and isp decimator to use in the loop. I spent about 45 min rewiring the pedal configuration using the only 1 spot with some connectors.

I finally got a pretty good lead tone, but nothing that blew me away.

I flipped over to the clean channel... Epic fail. It sounded lifeless and dead

I came to the conclusion that I spent a lot of time over the past few years on getting the xt live to work perfectly with the 5150.

To get the same versatility without the 5150, I would need more than just a delay pedal and decimator.

What a waste of time and money
 
just curious. try the delay in the loop without the noise gate. i think the "dead" problem is that it's the gate. but that's just me.
 
I thought so too but I had the gate off when I was playing with the clean tone

The xt live adds additional eq and compression to give the clean channel more life
 
I thought so too but I had the gate off when I was playing with the clean tone

The xt live adds additional eq and compression to give the clean channel more life

remove the pedal from the signal chain. no matter what the bypass, it'll still load the signal some.

i'm not doubting that the XT is the way to go for you. but if you've still got it set up. might as well experiment.
 
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