Line6/Recording guitar

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I´ve got an Line6 POD. Using a distortion pedal before and set to POD clean I get a
reasonable sound - however only using headphones. When I connect my Yamaha MD8
to my stereo it sounds awful. Can anyone help?
 
Hmmm, that sounds strange. I've got a Line6 POD and a Sony MDM-X4 (also minidisc) and my recorded POD stuff sounds terrific. It's a great tool.

Generic suggestions:

1) Is the signal coming out of POD the mono signal? It should be (assuming you're not doing stereo effects).

2) Is the AIR switch engaged? That'll help.

3) Is the signal out of POD so strong that it's overloading the Yamaha inputs? That can happen. Adjust your trim levels.

3) Turn the Channel Volume knob on POD to 10 and then adjust the master volume out on POD. Finally, adjust the trim recording level on the Yamaha.

4) Monitor the sound on the Yamaha as you record. Should be identical to what the POD puts out.

5) Final option: Record the guitars clean, then run the signal back out of the Yamaha, to the POD, dial in your tone, and re-record on the Yamaha. That may help you pin down what it is that makes it sound bad. (It's also how the big boys add effects, so it's a great technique to learn. The POD Manual discusses this.)

Hope this helps -

K-wey
 
maybe the input on pod can't handle the distortion pedal..i tried running a metal zone into pod and it sounded horrible. pod would be cooler if it had an effects loop, but then it would have cost more. actually just heavier sounds would have been cool. the spider has a model of a rectifier with a distortion pedal.
 
Hey! Aren´t you listening. I said, it sounds
reasonable=good using headphones (AKG studio). So the sound as such is okay, but ONLY using headphones. Using speakers it doesn´t sound as good which I found out is normal. But I heard I could do with some compression.........

Toby
 
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