I think Fletcher was talking about POD's direct in sound like crap, there is one amp simulator that I like a little which sounds nice on the PODs running thru a real tube amp I kinda like the POD.s clean sound with a touch of delay and chorus which aint to bad, nothing like a real Fender Princeton amp but the other Rectifier,Marshall type cab simulators are not even close to the real thing, I know I have a real Marshall with real tubes but. I have some kids who actually prefer the cheesy sounding rectifier sound over the real Marshall tube amp go figure I spent 2500$ for the amp and 75$ used POD and kids pick the cheapest thing I have for their main guitar sound. Guess it's kinda like a fashion statement with the Boogie sound.