CREATING & STORING SOUNDS: CUSTOMIZING AMP MODELS & EFFECTS
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that you’ve made a change to your stored channel memory, and (if you like it
better that way) you should use the Save button to save it. This is what’s called
Edit Mode since you’ve done just that: edited a stored channel. To commit your
edit to POD’s memory, press Save and it will start to flash. Press it a second time,
and the sound will be stored into the currently selected memory. If you want to
choose a different memory location for the save, then use the Up and Down
buttons once you’ve got Save flashing and pick the memory you want.
If you don’t want to save your edit, that’s OK, too – just ignore the Save button. If
you decide not to save after pressing Save, you can touch the Ta p , Manual,
Tuner, Noise Gate, or MIDI button to abandon saving. Keep in mind that if
you switch to another channel without saving your edit, all your sound changes
made during that edit will be forgotten.
CUSTOMIZING AMP MODELS & EFFECTS
You can customize the settings that are called up by the Amp Models and
Effects knobs. Using this feature, you can pack your POD with all the special
sound genius that only you possess, and have this brilliance available instantly at
the turn of a single knob. To understand how this Customization works, we’ll start
with an explanation of what happens when you turn the Amp Models and
Effects knobs: Turning the Amp Models knob picks an Amp Model, and turning
the Effects knob picks an effect, right? Actually, each of these knobs is setting a
number of parameters behind the scenes. When you pick an Amp Model, POD
sets the following controls to values determined by the Amp Models knob: