Toneport
Professional producers, engineers, and musicians turn to Line 6 in studios around the world because they know that great mixes start with great recordings. Now we’re introducing the world’s first line of recording & modeling interfaces with our pro grade tone for guitar, bass, vocals, and more.
TonePort™ is like a rack full of premium tube recording equipment, plus a perfectly engineered recording room for guitar and bass, thanks to our acclaimed guitar/bass direct tone with mic and cab modeling. What else would you expect from the makers of the revolutionary POD® product family? TonePort even comes with a special Line 6 edition of Ableton Live so you can start making great sounding recordings as soon as you open the box!
GearBox™
The included GearBox™ software controls TonePort and gives you a premium tone front end for all your recordings. Includes meticulously crafted models of premium tube studio preamps, vintage guitar and bass rigs, and sought after, personality-rich effects. This is the tone that pros rely on and only Line 6 provides. Now it comes to your desktop with TonePort.
Guitar & Bass
GearBox™ is the Line 6 software that gives the TonePort™ UX1 and UX2 hardware interfaces world-class studio tone on the desktop. Built on the technological foundation of the studio-standard POD® XT and Bass POD® XT direct recording devices, GearBox provides a hardware-like, simple to understand and operate interface for dialing in the perfect tone every time.
GearBox's meticulously crafted recreations of a dream collection of 16 classic and modern guitar amplifiers, 5 must-have bass amp models, and 24 stompbox and studio effects capture the range of tone found on the best tracks ever recorded. You can mix and match PODXT-based amp and cab models based on * Marshall®, Fender®, Mesa/Boogie®, Vox®, Roland®, Soldano and more, with realistic looking controls that make any guitarist feel right at home.
From PODXT
- Line 6® Treadplate
- Line 6® Chemical X
- Line 6® Insane
- Line 6® Piezacoustic 2
- Line 6® Spinal Puppet
- 1953 Small Tweed based on* "wide panel" Fender® Deluxe Reverb®
- 1958 Tweed B-Man based on* Fender® Bassman®
- 1964 Blackface 'Lux based on* Fender® Deluxe Reverb®
- 1967 Class A-30 Top Boost based on* Vox® AC-30
- 1968 Plexi Lead based on* Marshall® Super Lead
- 1968 Plexi Jump Lead based on* Marshall® Super Lead with "jumped" channels
- 1987 Jazz Clean based on* Roland® JC-120
- 1990 Brit J-800 based on* Marshall® JCM-800
- 1993 Solo 100 Head based on* Soldano SLO-100
- 2001 Treadplate based on* Mesa/Boogie® Dual Rectifier® Tube Instrument Preamp
From Bass PODXT
- Rock Classic based on* Ampeg® SVT
- Flip Top based on* Ampeg® B-15A
- Adam and Eve based on* Eden Traveler WT-300
- Silverface Bass based on* Fender® Dual Showman®
- Eighties based on* Gallien Kruger 800RB
Stompbox and Studio Effects
- Facial Fuzz (based on* Fuzz Face)
- Fuzz Pi (based on* Big Muff Pi®)
- Screamer (based on* Tube Screamer®)
- Classic Distortion (based on* ProCo Rat)
- Vetta™ Comp Line 6® Sine Chorus
- Line 6® Flanger Phaser (based on* MXR® Phase 90)
- U-Vibe (based on* Uni-Vibe)
- Opto Tremolo (based on* 1965 Fender® Deluxe Reverb®)
- Rotary Drum & Horn (based on* Leslie® 145)
- Analog Delay Modulation (based on* Deluxe Memory Man)
- Tube Echo (based on* EP-1 Tube Echoplex)
- Line 6® Digital Delay
- Standard Spring Reverb Brite Room Reverb
- Medium Hall Reverb Cavernous Reverb
- Slap Plate Reverb Wah (based on* Vox® Wah)
- Volume (Pre- or Post-Amp Routing options) Compressor (based on* LA-2A® Compressor)
- Female De-Esser
- Male De-Esser
Vocals
TonePort™ hardware features studio-grade microphone preamps that make getting a truly professional-grade vocal tone easy. The exclusive GearBox™ tone software gives you models of the most sought after preamps in the recording world. GearBox even lets you run a completely different signal path for your microphone input with models of vintage preamps, compressors, and reverbs while still giving you the ultimate direct recording sound for your guitar or bass. In minutes, you’ll be creating sounds that typically take an entire studio, an expert engineer, and a huge hourly rate to pull off!
GearBox™ Exclusive Preamp Models
- American Classic: This model gives you classic rock tone that’s focused and a bit compressed through soft distortion. It even includes the treasured tonality and saturation you'd get when recording to classic 24-track analog tape! Good for transients and maintaining a leveled vocal.
- Vintage UK: Warm with mild distortion when pushed. Vintage UK handles transients very well and is great for vocal tracking. Extended bass range also makes it great for direct bass and drum work.
- Modern: This modern must-have has a clean, bright, and non-compressed sound with soft transients.
- Console: Has a flat frequency response that’s clean with no artifacts or colorization. A great choice for tracking line level instruments like a keyboard.
- Vintage: This model yields vintage Motown, Memphis, Nashville, and early rock sounds.
- Lo-Fi: Has a small speaker sound that’s slightly distorted. Great for adding an overdriven vocal to a track.
UX2
- 2 Mic Inputs with +48v Phantom Power
- 2 Guitar/Bass Inputs – use the high gain input for guitars and basses with high level pickup outputs, or the normal input
- Stereo Line Inputs for your line out level gear
- Stereo Digital Output S/PDIF via RCA
- Stereo Line Outputs via balanced 1/4-inch
- Stereo Monitor Input via stereo 1/4-inch jack
- Headphone Output with independent volume knob
- VU Meters assignable to input, record send, output and monitor levels
- Footswitch Jacks send MIDI commands to recording programs (start/stop, punch in/out, etc.)
- Pro Audio Performance with over 100dB signal-to-noise & dynamic range
- Unique, full tone low latency monitoring regardless of recording software's buffer size
- 44.1 & 48KHz, 16 & 24 bit recording
- 96KHz mode with built-in sample rate conversion for simultaneous input and output
- USB-powered
- Rock-solid Drivers: ASIO, WDM, Mac OS X
TonePort™ UX2 has all the features of its little brother UX1, plus a whole lot more!
Stereo Mic In
The 2 mic ins are perfect for vocals and other mic'd sources, with +48v Phantom Power to drive the finest microphones. Use them for mono or stereo sources, and tone process them together or separately.
Digital Out
Connect UX2's digital out to your hardware digital recorder for direct digital recording of your premium Line 6 tone, as well as playback from your computer. Provides S/PDIF digital audio at 44.1/48KHz sample rates perfect for CD, DAT and many popular digital recording setups.
Extras
Some are obvious, like the hardware VU meters and footswitch jacks. You'll appreciate others when you need them, like guitar/bass inputs that handle high output instruments, separate volume control for the headphone out, and assignable metering.
System Requirements
PC
- Pentium® 4 1.2GHz or better (2.5Ghz or more recommended)
- Windows XP® (with SP2 only) or Windows® 2000 (with SP4 or later)
- 512MB RAM minimum (1GB or more recommended)
- 1GB free HD space minimum (10GB or more recommended for recording)
- Drive speed 5400rpm minimum (7200rpm or faster recommended)
- CD-ROM drive
- Internet connection for online features
Mac
- G4 1.25GHz or better (G4 1.67 or better recommended)
- OS X 10.4 or better
- 512MB RAM minimum (1GB or more recommended)
- 1GB free HD space minimum (10GB or more recommended for recording)
- Drive speed 5400rpm minimum (7200rpm or faster recommended)
- CD-ROM drive
- Internet connection for online features
USB
- One free USB 1.1 or 2.0 compatible port on computer, or self-powered USB hub (requires power from USB, so bus-powered USB hubs are not supported)
* All product names used in this webpage are trademarks of their respective owners, which are in no way associated or affiliated with Line 6. These trademarks of other manufacturers are used solely to identify the products of those manufacturers whose tones and sounds were studied during Line 6’s sound model development.
