Getting the ass sound out of POD tracks

[danny.guitar]

Allright Hangdawg, here are some tracks for you, all guitars were recorded with a V-AMP Pro. For the record, I have 3 tube amps, a 120 watt all tube half stack (a Red Bear), a 100 watt 2x12 Laney, and I just picked up a Epi Valve Junior to mess around with, plus an 80's randall solid state, so I have options.

On a couple of these tracks, this screamo band came into my "studio" ( and I use the term loosely) with an MG100 to record, which sounded like fried ass. I'll be damned if I was going to burn up my tubes recording them for next to nothing as a favor, so I gave them the choice between their own setup and the V-AMP Pro. Compared to the sound they were getting from their MG, the V-AMP Pro was a big improvement, so they went that way and loved the sound. Other than situations like that, I use it for doing song concepts,etc.

Now I am not saying these are the cats fucking meow, but the guitar tone on these is definitely up to snuff with most mic'ed amp people are posting around here.

Only the Innocent

Regret is In

X-Caliber

And two of my song concepts;

Fleshwound

Fantasy Fuel

I thought the clean tone was real good on X-Caliber, and honestly if you didn't say it was recorded with a POD I probably wouldn't of known. I wasn't crazy about the other 2 though, but I'm not a big fan of that kind of tone/music.

 

[kojdogg]

I think it makes a huge difference to start by stripping the presets down of reverb, compression (may be defaulted into the preset), and then to turn the channel volume and the drive volume down and then turn them back up to where they work with your guitar. I'd recommend doing the same with the eq's depending on your guitar, which model you're using, etc. Those presets, like many effects units presets, are generally meant to get people excited about the units in the store. Make sure to make decisions about which models with your ears instead of reading what the model/preset cheat sheet says.
I also got much better results by using a tweaked preset sound (adjusted channel volume and gain and toned down the pod eq) and running the pod output into my Chameleon Labs 7602 preamp/eq line in and using the eq's on that.
Still while I find that pods and other modellers are really useful, I'm looking to get a small variety of low watt amps to use instead, maybe in conjunction with a reamp box (which would make the pod useful again for tracking/monitoring). On bass I'm finding that I strongly prefer the sound of a good DI.
YMMV.

 

[Sonixx]

Then answer me this. Why won't anybody post some tunes done with their PODs then? I ask and ask and ask. Still no samples. People will tell me how great they are but have nothing to prove it. Why damn it, WHY?


And I don't want to hear no clean shit either. Cause if there's one thing they can do have way decent it's clean tones.

there's ton's of excellent POD work at Ultimatemetal.com