Line 6 GuitarPort XT

by Line 6

Product Features

• 16 amp and cabinet models based on PODxt, 19 must-have Stompbox and Studio effects, Effects can be routed Pre- or Post- Amp
• MP3, WAV and Audio CD playback, Looping and real-time half-speed without changing pitch
• 24-bit converters & 32-bit processing, Line level and headphone outputs, Ideal guitar front end for other recording software
• Metronome for practicing, Built-in chromatic tuner, Includes preset tone library

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 0.6 x 0.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000AJQ42
• Item model number: 99-072-0105
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,777 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)
  • #39 in Musical Instruments > Recording Equipment > Computer Recording > Software > Instruction

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Wish your guitar could sound like your favorite band or guitarist?

GuitarPort is an entirely new music experience from Line 6 designed for guitar enthusiasts of all levels. If you play guitar and have a USB equipped computer, then you need GuitarPort. Hook it up and unlock a collection of legendary amp and cabinet models plus effects to use with them. To put all this great guitar tone to use, GuitarPort lets you jam along with MP3 or WAV files, or any audio CDs in you personal collection. You can scan through the audio, jump to any point, loop any section, and even slow to half speed without changing pitch for careful study of your favorite licks.

15 Killer Amp & 14 Cab Models Line 6 invented digital modeling guitar amps and is the magic behind the guitar tones used on countless platinum albums. Now, Line 6 brings that same acclaimed tone technology from the greatest recording studios in the world to your desktop. GuitarPort's meticulously crafted recreations of a dream collection of sought after amps capture the range of tone found on the best guitar tracks ever recorded. You can mix ‘n match amp models and cab models with controls laid out for a guitarist and not some computer geek. And the sound? The same dead-on classic tones used by hundreds of thousands of Line 6 users every day.

22 powerful effects GuitarPort also features classic stomp box effects like delay, chorus, tremolo, flanger, reverb and more. Tweak to your heart's content, save as many variations as you want, or choose from our extensive library of ready to rock tones.

30-day free membership to GuitarPort On-line Think you can match licks with Steve Vai? You'll do it all with an optional Guitar Port Online membership, because we've assembled hundreds of classic tunes, recorded in top studios with world class musicians like the Band of Gypsies, Double Trouble, Brent Mason, Simon Phillips, and more. We've created lots of original music, and in some cases even remixed the artist's original master tapes! Just choose the song you want to play (with or without the main guitar part), load the tune, and feel the rush of jamming with the best players on earth. It’s a dream collection of the most classic guitar songs of all time. The library also features cover versions of newer acts like Rush, Joe Satriani, Korn, Danny Gatton, ZZ Top, Jerry Reed, Eric Johnson, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Cream, Buddy Guy, B.B. King, Jeff Beck, Johnny Winter, Toby Keith, Pantera, Black Sabbath, Allman Bros., Papa Roach, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Iron Maiden, Alien Ant Farm, Brent Mason, Chet Atkins, Freddie King and! more. Selected tracks include leadsheets and tablature.

Product Description

GuitarPort� XT introduces major enhancements to the GuitarPort� hardware/software system. Now all GuitarPort customers get the incredible benefits of using the powerful GearBox� software platform. GuitarPort XT delivers 18 classic and modern guitar amp models, 24 cab models, and 28 must-have studio and stompbox effects. With GuitarPort XT and the GearBox software, you'll have an entire studio full of perfectly dialed in sounds to practice or play along with whenever inspiration hits. The GuitarPort hardware delivers studio-grade tone with 24-bit converters and 32-bit processing via USB and the GearBox software runs on both PC and Mac� - even the new Intel-based machines! Customers can also add the optional GuitarPort Online� service for the ultimate practice setup with tons of great tracks, tabs, and lessons. GuitarPort XT can take any guitarist � no matter what playing level or style � and make them sound and play better!

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Customer Reviews

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Awesome, May 25, 2005

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Jason Jackson "Jason Jackson" (Rapid City, SD, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Line 6 GuitarPort XT (Electronics)

I purchased the Guitar Port from Amazon the other day, and when it arrived I was excited to see what my Les Paul would sound like though my computer. My old amp fried out a couple of years ago, and I have only been playing acoustic since. I was afraid that it might sound a little artificial. Boy was I wrong!

After only a few hours of use, I can tell you that this is going to reinvigorate my play. This product is much, much better than I though it could ever be. It sounds great! The ability to pick from 10 heads, 10 cabinets, and several effects allows you to create the exact tone needed for a given song. I have already saved 5 "tones". I can just pick from a list to grab a nice tube "warm" amp, to the heavy crunch I save for Metallica licks, to a sweet chorus with a bit of distortion for a number of rockers.

I also love the hum reducer which learns from your guitar, and removes almost all of the guitar hum. Between that and the noise gate, my guitar seems much cleaner than I have ever heard it.

A small but very nice feature is the tuner, which makes it pretty dead simple to tune your axe. There are a number of other features I have not used yet. You can play along with Mp3, CD, etc.

A previous reviewer mentioned that the online service is a rip-off and you have to watch "the fine print". I bought this product as an amp replacement, so I have not subscribed to the online service. You do not have to pay the online $10/month fee to use this product. All the cool stuff that I have mentioned is yours, forever.

All in all, this is the coolest guitar toy I have ever used, far better than any of the pre-amp pedals/effects that I have tried out over the years.

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Revolutionary Product for Guitarists, October 9, 2006

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Peter Anderson (Levittown, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Line 6 GuitarPort XT (Electronics)

What I purchased is the GuitarPort (a hardware device which acts as an interface between your guitar and computer) bundled with an excellent music recording software program called RiffTracker. The GuitarPort plugs into a USB port on your computer, and you plug your electric guitar into the GuitarPort, which enables your guitar to have many great sounds; then, the RiffTracker software enables you to do professional quality multitrack recording and mixing on your home computer. Read on to better understand all this.

I've owned the GuitarPort for over a year. It allows you to change the way your guitar sounds in the same way that a word processor allows you to choose different fonts. If you want your guitar to sound the way Jimmy Page's guitar sounds on the song "Heartbreaker", you change to a preset which is in fact, called "Heartbreaker". If you want your sound to be like John Fogerty's on "Rolling on the River", you change to the preset "Rollin'". And so on.

All the presets are organized by genre: metal, blues, classic rock, surf, jazz, etc. They also include preset bass guitar settings, so you can use the GuitarPort with a bass as well. It's great: you can sound like Sabbath, Cream, The Ramones, etc. By using this device, you can avoid the expense and complexity of utilizing hundreds to thousands of dollars worth of effects pedals, and/or the expense of purchasing several different types of guitars (hollow body guitar vs. solid body guitars) to obtain different sounds.

Also, you can tweak and customize the presets, and give them a name of your choosing, or start from scratch to create your own unique sound, that you can save and get back to quickly and easily. And let me tell you, this customization feature is actually very comprehensive and sophisticated: I've created settings that incorporate echo, delay, distortion and octaves (where you can add more distortion to certain frequencies of the sound and keep other frequencies cleaner), where the sound you get out of your guitar is unique and amazing! PLUS, I've run my electric violin through the guitar port, and it's worked great for creating a truly memorable audio experience!

Much of the time I plug my headphones into the unit, so I can play to my heart's content, without disturbing the family. For recording, the RiffTracker software (which you can purchase later after buying and implementing the GuitarPort), which works quite well, allows a non-engineer to create complete recordings with guitar, bass, vocals and drums (using the drumbeats included with the software) with any number of overdubs. RiffTracker allows you to alter the volume level of each overdubbed track independent of the other tracks, so you can "mix" your final musical creation in the exact manner you desire. The vocals are recorded by simply plugging your microphone into the GuitarPort.

I e-mail MP3's of my recordings to my musically interested friends and they listen to them and give me feedback. Anyway, the GuitarPort is tons of fun and well worth it's affordable cost! I only give it four stars, because it's an electronic, computer product, and as such, it can be a pain to set up, with drivers to install, cables to set up just right, etc. I'm sure you've experienced the same type of trouble with setting up new printers or multifunction devices. So I had to struggle with it a little bit in the beginning, but overall, nothing was too difficult in getting it set up and configured.

Now, here are two other excellent and noteworthy bonus features you get when you own both the the GuitarPort and RiffTracker software. The RiffTracker software enables you to upload your completed musical compositions to a website for RiffTracker users. At this website, you can listen to hundreds of songs created by other hobbyists using this same recording technique, and you can leave comments about their songs, and you can read comments left about any of the songs you've uploaded. Plus, you can read questions and answers posted by hobbyists about using this technology, and figuring everything out. This "bulletin board" finally enabled me to determine how to record vocals with the GuitarPort/RiffTracker. This website and service is free.

The second bonus feature is that Line 6 has hundreds of pages of guitar lessons available in conjunction with the GuitarPort, plus a very clever "guitar-aoke" feature. The "guitar-aoke" feature refers to thousands of songs they have available where you can listen to the song with or without the lead guitar. Of course, the version without the guitar is available so you can play the guitar part, while the rest of the band accompanies you; plus, tabs are included so you can figure out how to play the guitar part for each song. This feature, the guitar lessons with "guitar-aoke", is available for GuitarPort owners even if you don't purchase the RiffTracker recording software. It is free for the first month you try it, but then costs seven bucks a month thereafter (if you want to continue with it.)

I hope I've been able to make everything clear about what the GuitarPort with RiffTracker is, and what it can do for you. Thanks for reading all this!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Perfect Way To Record On The Cheap!, February 20, 2005

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Adam (Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Line 6 GuitarPort XT (Electronics)

This is the perfect option for those who don't want to spend a fortune on equipment and software. You get the GuitarPort hardware along with software that will give you a ton of unique sounds. If I would've known about this when I bought my first guitar I wouldn't have picked up an amp (it's just been collecting dust while I use my GuitarPort). The sound is superb. It's very rich and sounds like it was recorded in a studio.

Set up of the GuitarPort was very simple and I was playing in about 5 minutes!

One important thing to note is that you cannot record with the software provided with the GuitarPort. But not to worry! Once you have the GuitarPort software installed you can go to the Line 6 website and download their RiffTracker software to record all the music you can make. One nice thing about the RiffTracker is the InstantDrummer feature which allows you to set the tempo and variation for different types of drums and match it with your style of play on the guitar. And the drums sound great!

GuitarPort($99) + RiffTracker Recording software($99) = Equals the perfect way to record your own music on the cheap!