User Manual

Line 6 GearBox 3.6 – GearBox with POD X3
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here channel 1A is loaded in the Gearbox editor:
Once you’ve modified any of the parameters in either of the Tones included in the loaded Channel
preset, you’ll see the Channel appear outlined in red in the Hardware Memory window to indicate it
is now in an edited state. You’ll also see that the Tone names change to italicized text. For example, in
the following example, Channel 10B is the Channel currently loaded in the GearBox editor (as you
can see by the speaker icon at the left), and the red outline and italicized text tell you that its Tone
parameters have been modified from the original Channel preset...
Editing an individual Tone name - Click directly on any Tone’s name within a Channel and you’ll
see the name become highlighted. You can then type in a new name for the Tone - hit the Return key
(Mac) or Enter key (Windows) for the text to be accepted.
Double click directly on the text
name of the Tone to highlight-select
it so that you can edit the title
Storing your edited Tones - Once you’ve edited a Tone in GearBox (or both Tones within a Channel),
it is up to you if you want to Save this as a Tone Preset on your computer or to “Put” the Tone Preset to
your POD X3’s internal memory, if you wish to be able to retain these Tone settings for the next time
you use POD X3 or GearBox. What is the difference, you ask?....
When you Save a Tone Preset to your computer - You can open it later within GearBox anytime.
But this Tone Preset will not be available within your POD X3’s internal memory - meaning this
Tone Preset will NOT be available unless your POD X3 is connected to your computer and you have
GearBox open to load the Tone preset. The advantage of saving Tones to your computer is that you
can literally store thousands of them since the .l6t files are very small and your hard drive can likely
hold tons of them. To Save the Tone to your computer you can use the File menu commands, or the
Drag and Drop options.
When you “Put” a Tone Preset to your POD X3 - This stores the Tone Preset within your POD
X3’s internal memory, in one of the User folder (1A thru 32D) memory locations. The advantage
here of course is that the Tone preset is always available to you, whether POD X3 is connected to
your computer or not. The disadvantage is that you have 128 User locations to hold up to 128 Tone
presets, so if you want to retain more Tone presets than this, you’ll have to choose to overwrite one
to fit it into one of the locations. To “Put” a Tone Preset to your POD X3, select the Channel in the
Hardware Memory window and click the PUT SELECTED button. This will write the Channel’s
contents to the POD X3 user memory location of the same number (which can be one Tone or a