What is a soundcard, What is stomp, What is tap tempo – Line 6 3.7 User Manual
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Line 6 GearBox 3.7 – Glossary (What Is...?)
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What is a Soundcard?
A soundcard is the piece of hardware in (or attached to) your computer that plays back and receives
sound into the computer for recording or other uses. The purpose of a soundcard is to convert audio
from analog to digital (for recording into your computer) and to convert digital audio to analog (to
send to speakers so you can hear it). Line 6 TonePort, GuitarPort, POD X3 and PODxt devices all
operate as USB soundcards, since they utilize high performance audio drivers and can be accessed by
most any audio software on your Mac or Windows computer for quality audio recording and playback.
Additional information is provided in the Recording Setup Guide on the
section of the Line 6 web site.
What is Stomp?
Stomp is one of the categories of GearBox Effects. A selection of stomp box distortion, fuzz and
compressor effects are available from its Effect Model menu. For details on each of the Stomp controls,
move your mouse over the control and look in the Info Bar at the bottom of the GearBox window.
Many of the effects are modeled after classic gear described in the
What is Tap Tempo?
All GearBox’s Delay and Mod Effects (except for Rotary Drum + Horn) allow you to set their time/
speed two ways. One way is to turn their speed or time knob. The other way is to choose a tempo.
You choose a tempo one of two ways. You can type into the TEMPO field shown for these effects. Or
you can select a note value from the button to the left of their FX TEMPO display, then click a few
times on the TAP button to set tempo to match the tempo of the music you’re working on.
The most common use of tap tempo is to set the note value to a quarter note (as shown above), tap
along with the song you’re recording, and enjoy GearBox’s Delay and/or Mod Effect as it pulses in
quarter note time to match your song. You can also choose other notes values — U2’s guitarist, The
Edge, is fond of using dotted-eighth note delays.
GearBox uses one tempo for both the Mod and Delay effects, so when you set it with one, it will also
be used by the other. Choose (OFF) from the button to the left of the tempo display if you’d like Delay
or Mod to ignore the tempo. Mod and Delay can have different note values, so for instance your delays