For practice and familiarization with effects, this is great. Lots of sound variants, tones are very close to the sound you hear on recordings by artists like Hendrix.

Just a USB cable and CD software. The software is the key to the usefulness of this device as the tones and tools such as metronome and tuner are part of the software interface.

Very intuitive interface. Easy to change and modify tones. Lends itself to experimentation. Sounds great over headphones and I assume external speakers.

Looks very well made - haven't owned and used it long enough to test durability. It looks solid.

For a practice tool, this is great as long as you have a computer to support it. It WILL NOT work without a computer so you are tied to either you desktop or laptop and you must also have an internet connection for the services. Nevertheless, it fulfills my current requirement for a fun little practice tool.

Have not had need to contact the company. Some problems with connecting to the services that interact with the Guitarport. There is a user discussion forum that is helpful.

I like the compactness and the layout of input and output jacks and volume control

hobbyist

rock

This little gadget is "DA BOMB"!...It is great!....the guitar port will allow you to sound like all of your Guitar Heroes! If you want to sound like JIMI HENDRIX,then just dial it up! Wanna sound like a HEAVY METAL GUITARIST, just dial it up....you can be a blues player, a jazz player, or any kind of guitarist you wanna be...The Guitar Port will allow you to do this.This little machine is also a sound card, just plug in your computer speakers to the outlets and you are on your way.Buy this!....it is great!....you will be very happy! Also you can plug your BASS into it.

With this interface, you can go online and dial up all kinds of GOOD STUFF!You can get guitar lessons,you can jamm with tunes from many famous gutarists! This is a great little machine.....BUY IT!...BUY IT NOW!

Active Musician

jazz, Blues,Funk,R&B

I just picked it up today, I'm very leary about picking up guitar amps, footpedals and especially the lame excuse amp modlers digital pedal systems., I can say this, it's basically the same as the higher end "not highest" of effects do dads you are going to pick up, a hell of alot cheaper then shelling out for 10 million pedals, the amp simulator I still consider more of an effect/equalizer then the real mccoy but I consider most amps and guitars to be pretty much crap no matter how much you are paying so I'm not an easy sell, the depth and distortion as to what you are used to just isn't any where near what you'd want it to be if you were trying to place this aside the real deal, but after tweaking it a bit I've been able to set up decent, playable, enjoyable tone that's got my mind realing knowing the shere volume of permutations that can be put in place and I haven't even plugged in any outside sources, ie. there will be things between my guitar and this little interface.

well... you started with a foot pedal design, might as well finish the job 6, I've found it to be a total pain in the ass having to mouse click, drag, mod, as I go along, I'm thinking it would be very nice to have at least 3 programmable foot activated presets built into it.

if it lasts a year, I'll be happy, if not, expect a negative review, any cardboard box that can do the job is fine with me, so looks are pointless.

before you go out and buy a ton of foot pedals and play the amp upgrade game, get this thing, it not only lets you play around with all of them be it only on your pc, and only close, it's going to save you alot of money in the long run. Once you are happy with your sound, then you can realisticly buy only what you want to use for the real world ie. real foot pedals, amps, effects. etc.

tons of new toys I'll be playing with forever, of course.

hobbyist

blues, metal, theory

Ever want to have all the classic sounds at your fingertips? Cant quite get that VH sound you want? Get this! You will love it.

Incredible versatility! Great sounds. Little limited due to copyright issues though. But its the best tool I have seen for guitar. I would like to see direct recording without buying add on, and print functions.

Looks great. Built sturdy. Input jacks are well protected in the rear.

for 99 bucks, this will replace quite a but of equipment, cut practice and learning time, and can be used as amp model with a PA. With the optional $79 a year website membership, you will eliminate the need to buy TAB books.

Have not needed

I never put much in looks of equipment, if the equipment works as or better than I need or expect, I use it.

Active Musician

Classic Rock

For a measly $100 who could complain. It is the best money I've spent on a piece of gear lately. Paying with my Dimarzio equipped Dean I find the sounds to be acurate enough to play the Online downloads. The Floyd and Sabbath songs sound great with Super Distortion bridge pickup. I use my Tone Pro neck pickup for Clapton and SRV. It is a fun toy and I totally enjoy using it. It got me playing a lot more than I had been lately.

8 years

rock and roll

I bought the B-stock and it's totally a crap. The previous review about the B-stock is very true.It's a shame they sell it. I will talk to BBB and see.

This thing sounds great, and it does a very close imitation of everything I have tried to make it do, but don't be fooled, it is not a 100% replacement for a tube amp sound. It is a 98% replacement, and a 100% effects-processor. I will comment at various times on the tube-amp sound in the following. Sadly, it does not do a "real acoustic" sound (as far as I can tell) unlike the other "variax" line-6 products, which sound pretty darned good. :(

Guitarport can do more to your your guitar sound ("tones" as line-6 calls them) than piles of pedals and racks of very expensive effects processors. Albeit, it needs your expensive computer, which you probably don't want to lug to gigs or rehersals, do you? It integrated perfectly into my PC, leaving the soundcard and other peripherals unaffected, and they are all happily working together. Note: I jacked up the guitar-port quality (there is a simple control panel), the USB signal, and reduced the latency. This is supposed to make it sound all the better. I couldn't notice a difference in sound, but my machine (2.6Ghz, 512Mb SDRAM) is barely sweating the guitar-port's max system load (it's always between 10%-15%). If you have a PC already, this thing is great and works better than you might imagine and BETTER than advertised. If you don't have a guitar-port (and have a newish computer) you are a self-righteous snob living in a tube-amp fairy-tale, or are really poor and need to get a better job. It's only $99!

Well, it's not perfect, in fact it's fake. Sometimes you can actually tell, most of the time you can't, unless you are the tube-amp-fairy. It's really good fake. Everyone should get one. If you really, really want a "real tone" only play acoustic. Honest purists wouldn't play an electric guitar at all. Ancient amplified guitars, vintage vibrato and spring reverb are just as fake as guitar port. In fact they sound worse. You purist loosers must flee before my acoustical logic! Put it this way boys: if you see a girl looking just the way you like, but you think parts might be fake, do you stop looking? Would you forgive her if she confesses to you? If it's good, it's good!

This is the best thing I have seen in music at all, and will be for years to come. It helps the open-minded guitarist select and listen to himself playing through almost every conceivable tone. You can learn what sounds (I mean "tones") you want and like, and guitar port delivers them in a VERY simple and flexible package. It can help a true artist find their "voice" in the privacy of their own room, without mockery from tube-amp purists OR complaints from upstairs neighbors (yes, there is a built-in headphone jack).

You must pay for the guitar-port "online" experience. This REQUIRES a credit-card. Most teens don't have one, thus the "online" crap is a greedy way to make steady cash ($8/month or $96/ year) for line-6. Most of all, I have heard that it is near-impossible to cancel the service once you start paying for it. The actual guitar-port tool is great, why do they mess it up with a crooked online business? A little hint: just buy the thing, ignore the online pay - BUT go the the "wrong" section : the one for pod-xt "tone" downloads. These work fine on my guitarport. You are going to need to tweak the sounds once you get them, anyways. There are 1000's of online guitar tabs and tips online to help you learn, so ignore the lessons, unless you like getting trapped in a credit-card loop and paying $100/year forever.

The actual Guitar Port box is wierd looking and keeps getting underfoot if it is on the floor, and falling off the amp or table. Bad physical design. Plus: candy apple red is sooo wanna be cool. It really good as a device, but a flop as a fashion accessory. SO WHAT!

Rock, Jazz, Progressive, Acoustic