Controls & Connections
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MIDI In & Out - Connect PODXT to your MIDI equipment to select
Channel Memories (via Program Change messages), or automate POD
XT settings (via
controllers and/or SySex). You can also use MIDI (or USB) to communicate with the
free Line 6 Edit software downloadable from www.line6.com. The POD
XT MIDI
OUT connects to another device’s MIDI IN; its MIDI IN goes to another device’s
MIDI OUT. Please also see Chapter 7, Deep Editing and MIDI Control, to setup
your MIDI gear with POD
XT and find out what MIDI can do for PODXT and you.
Drive - This knob controls how hard you’re driving the input of the chosen
Amp Model. Like the input volume control on a non-master volume guitar amp, higher
settings give you more “dirt.”
Tone Controls - BASS, MIDDLE, TREBLE, PRESENCE. Just like any guitar
amp, only when you change Amp Models, the response and interactivity of the
controls changes, too — so they act like the tone controls of the original amp that
inspired the Amp Model you’ve selected.
Chan Vol - This knob controls the relative volume level of the “channel” you
are playing through — thus, C
HANNEL VOLUME. Use this to balance levels between
the sounds you store in two different POD
XT Channel Memories (say between your
rhythm and lead tones). In general, you want to set the C
HAN VOL as high as possible
to insure you’re getting the best signal-to-noise ratio performance — but back off on
this control if you’re seeing CLIP in POD
XT’s display.
TIP: You probably want to have all of your favorite sounds as loud as
possible, while also having the right difference in volume between your
lead and rhythm sounds, clean and dirty sounds, etc. Right? OK, then, to
get this happy balance, start with your favorite ‘clean’ sounds. Turn up
their Chan Vol as high as you can without getting the CLIP indicator in
PODxt’s display when you strum hard. and save them that way. Then
switch amongst them to see if some are too loud, and turn them down a
bit to match well with the others. Next, move on to select your ‘dirtier’
crunch and lead tones, comparing them to the clean sounds and saving
them with lower Chan Vol settings to match well with those clean sounds.
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