Modeled Amps & Cabs • Class A-30 TB
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Tube Preamp
Not even close to being a guitar amp, but once we got started, we just couldn’t stop
ourselves. The thinking went like this: ‘Once people get this POD
XT, they’re gonna
wish they could use it for everything — warming up keyboards, crunching up drums,
fuzzing up vocals. We’ve gotta give ’em something to do that!’ So we did. The Tube
Preamp Model lets you warm up any sound source the way producers and engineers
often do in the studio with vintage tube gear. For more “edge” on vocals, try running
your vocal tracks through POD
XT. Or punch up (or munch up) a synth bass track by
sending it through POD
XT and cranking up the Drive and EQ controls to suit your
taste. Although this is not actually a guitar amp model, you can even get some great
guitar tones out of it. Also try using it as a direct box for bass. When you do this stuff,
you want to use the Drive control like a mix knob on a reverb to control how much
processing you want to hear. You generally don’t want to mix the pre-POD
XT sound
with the post-POD
XT sound because of the comb filtering that results. Instead, jack the
sound source right into POD
XT and then only monitor it through PODXT. With the
tone controls at 12 o’clock, the EQ is “flat.”
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