GETTING SET UP: SCENARIO TWO – POD PLAYS LIVE
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tone controls may vary, but just be sure you’re not overdriving the amp so the
POD tone comes through without extra coloration. Once you get going, you can
tweak the amplifier settings to suit your tastes. Try to set the POD Output Level so
you’re not overdriving the input of the amp, be sure the A.I.R. switch is in the
“Amp” position, and you should be in business!
If you have a guitar amp with an effect return or a jack that lets you connect
directly to the input to the power amp, you can plug POD’s output right into that
connection to bypass the tone controls of the amp and avoid their coloring of
POD’s tones.
Stomp Boxes, Live Setups, & You
If you’ve been playing guitar for a while, you probably have some favorite pedals
that you dig. And even though POD has now graced your life with some pretty hip
digital effects, you probably want to still have the option of keeping those old
pedals in your arsenal. No problem! Just remember that if you’re going to use POD
with those other effects boxes in front of your amp, you’ll need to think about
where to place everybody in the line-up. If you have a distortion pedal or wah, try
positioning it in between your guitar and your POD. Reverb and delay should
generally go after the POD, before the input that you are using to feed POD sound
to your amp. And things like compressor, chorus, flanger, phaser, tremolo and
vibrato might work either before or after your POD, depending on what sound
you’re looking for. Putting a volume pedal after POD lets you control the volume
without changing the tone. Or put it before POD to control how hard you’re
driving POD’s input, which lets you pedal yourself to cleaner or dirtier tones. If
your amp has a line level effects loop, you probably won’t want to try to hook your
effect send into the POD input, since POD’s input was designed for guitar level
inputs (you can use just the return, as mentioned above, with your guitar plugged
right into POD).
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