CREATING & STORING SOUNDS: USING THE CHANNEL PROGRAM MEMORIES
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CREATING & STORING SOUNDS
USING THE MANUAL MODE FEATURES
When you are using your POD in “Manual” mode, all of the controls are active
and the sound of POD always reflects the knob settings. Sounds just like any
ordinary guitar amp or pedal, doesn’t it? Who says technology is threatening? You
know you’re in Manual Mode, by the way, whenever the Manual button is lit
(but you probably already figured out that part). Play with the knobs until you get
a sound that you really like. At this point, you can either follow tradition and put
tiny little pieces of tape on POD or mess it all up with grease pencil to mark your
favorite settings, or you can take a bold step into new technology and save your
sound to one of POD’s memory locations. Which we’re about to tell you how to do
in the next section of the manual, appropriately titled…
USING THE CHANNEL PROGRAM MEMORIES
So, there you are with a sound that you really like – wouldn’t it be nice to be able
to call it up any time you want it? That’s simple once you have it stored into one of
the 36 POD channel memory locations. How do you do it? Just press the Save
button . Save will start to flash. Press the Up and Down buttons and you
will see that you are switching through memory locations A, B, C, and D in each
of POD’s nine numbered banks. Pick one to store your sound in, and press that
Save button a second time. The lights will stop flashing, and the sound is stored at
the location you chose, replacing the sound that was stored there before. Doesn’t
get much simpler than that. After the sound is stored, you can bring it back any
old time by simply pressing the up and down buttons to call up the location where
you stored it. (See Chapter 7 to learn how to do all this with your feet on the
Floor Board).
Note: If you decide that you don’t want to store the sound after you’ve got all the lights
blinking, pressing either the Tap Tempo or Manual or Tuner or Noise Gate or
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