Patches Pal
I’ve had my POD XT Live for a few years now, and it does a good job of providing the tones I use in my various bands. I’m almost upon the time of year when I do “spring cleaning” for my saved effect patches. Every year (or so) I like to save all my old effects patches to the computer, then completely re-initialize the effects back to blank presets and rebuild from scratch. This forces me to reconsider the original patch configuration and it also keeps me familiar with the patch editing interfaces on the POD XT Live.
I’ve already re-implemented the base configurations for many of my most commonly used tones, and this will be a good start for tweaking the parameters for the more specific signature tones (e.g. Stevie Ray Vaughan “Let’s Dance”). I’m also going to spend some time building up patches for Warr Guitar. Fortunately, the POD XT Live has a decent librarian and editing interface; this will speed up the management of the programming. Some day I would like to see more manufacturers including fully-customizable color displays on guitar pedals. There are some aspects of the programming which are difficult to accomplish without a computer attached.