Hi everyone! First time poster here! Just bought Music Creator 6 to do a bit of editing fell in love with recording at home again. So I've decided that I want to start recording more demo's, practice mixing etc etc. Rather than me bring my entire guitar rig into my room to record, I've been contemplating purchasing some form of line 6 pod so I can have a bit of freedom and versatility when it comes to experimenting with recording delays, distortions etc. Would it be better to purchase a pod 2.0 and an audio interface to run it into my laptop with? If so, what audio interface would work best for me? Running windows 7 on a Dell XPS15. I was looking at something like the Mbox2 Mini. After all, I don't want to spend massive amount of money on this. Or would I be better off purchasing a larger pod unit, like a HD which I believe comes with USB connectivity and run it as the interface? Thanks! Matt.

Greetings...and welcome. 

I use  a POD 2 and a simple interface for my guitar recordings. 

On my web site, you can see picture of the studio set up and listen to the music that comes from that studio rig. I don't like the software based amp sims. I prefer the POD.  or a miked amp.

Definitely the audio interface. You can plug the guitar directly into the interface and record without effects and add them later if you want.
And welcome to the forum.

hi i am a noob to the site.being a guitar player i feel it near on impossible to get any sort of feel without the sound i can hear.

Like I said.... I use the POD 2 to get the sound I want.... then I record that with my interface into the DAW software.

It's the best of both worlds.... real sounding guitar tone and no latency.... and clean and quiet going into the track.

I know what you mean.
I usually record my amp with a mic, but since I moved to a noisy area and don't want to record the sounds of the cars going by, lawn mowers and weed eaters and kids playing or drunks yelling, I bought an amplifier with a line out, the Fender Musiang I. It works pretty well and i can dial in the sound I want easily and record it.
But, if you have a good audio interface and have it set up properly, you can plug the guitar directly into the interface, add an effect to the audio track, click the Input Echo button, and hear the effect as you record.
The beauty of doing it this way is, if you decide you don't like the particular effect you heard while recording, you can delete the effect and you'll still have the non-effected guitar track and you can try out different effects until you find the one you like better. And tweak them to your preference.
Once you record the sound from an amp that's effected, you can't remove the effect from the track unless you delete the entire track and start over.