Originally Posted by: z0s0_jpline 6 tone port ux1 seems ok and in my budget

I was just going to suggest that. It's a pretty basic recording unit and it's all pretty straight forward... It also comes with most of the features of a POD. I know someone who has the earlier version which was called 'GuitarPort'... and it's not too bad at all for fiddlin around with recording on the computer.