REAR PANEL CONNECTIONS
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So what can you do with these jacks? Lots of stuff:
Re-Amping – One of the things that made the original POD a valued tone
tool was its value in re-amping of guitar tracks. Say somebody has already
recorded some guitar tracks, and you are now mixing them. If the guitars
seem to need a bit more edge, or some other tone shaping, you can run your
outputs from your tape or disk tracks into the POD and make magic. Don’t
forget to set the front panel Input Select switch to the Line Input position.
Hardware Amp Farm – Line 6’s Amp Farm software is sort of like a
software POD that runs on a Pro Tools system. One of the things that Amp
Farm lets you do is record un-processed guitar to disk, while hearing it
processed non-destructively by the Amp Farm plug-in software. You hear the
sound of the amp simulation as you track, but you haven’t committed it to
the recording. (This is much like the way you would handle reverb when
recording a vocal; you record naked vocal to the track, while using reverb as
you monitor the post-tape/disk signal or a separate feed off the signal before
it goes to the track.) The line level in/out on your POD Pro let you do this.
Plug the Unprocessed Guitar Out into your recorder, and plug the output
of that track into the Line Level Input (or feed the line level input via an
effect send that gets signal from the recorded track). Now you can hear your
POD processing as you track, but you haven’t committed your guitar tone
choice to tape. That means you can change from a modeled Marshall to a
modeled Boogie during the mix stage, once you see how your tracks are
fitting together. Or you can change Cab Models or any other aspect of your
sound. Don’t forget to set the front panel Input Select switch to the Line Input
position.
Non-Guitar Processing – Another thing people like to do with both POD
and Amp Farm is process everything else but guitars. Drums, vocals,
keyboards, entire mixes – you name it, people are using Line 6 modeling
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