SETTING UP IN THE STUDIO: OUTPUTS
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OUTPUTS
POD makes friends easily. It’s right at home next to a multiple hundred thousand
dollar, bajillion input SSL console, and will just as happily do its thing with your
portable cassette recorder.
When you’re introducing POD to the other equipment in your studio, be sure you
are plugging its outputs into line level inputs on your other gear, as opposed to
microphone level or guitar level inputs. This will insure that you get the best
signal-to-noise ratio (lots of juicy guitar tone, not too much hiss) with POD. Some
equipment uses the same physical inputs for mic & line level sources, allowing you
to trim low level signals (like mics) up to a high level at the inputs. If you are
plugging your POD into one of these inputs, try setting the trim to minimum, and
twisting POD’s Output Level and Channel Volume knobs up to maximum. If
your equipment has a couple of open line-level only inputs, you’ll probably get
better performance by plugging into these, rather than the wide-ranging mic-to-
line level trimmed inputs.
Your POD includes several outputs for interfacing to a variety of equipment, for a
range of applications. Here’s the rundown, from left to right as you’re looking at
the rear panel:
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