Monitor through amp

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Hey guys, got a question on the pod or any amp modeler. I enjoy playing my through my amp and messing with the settings on the pod but doing it on the actual pod i a pain. I was wondering if i could plug my guitar into the pod, then to my soundcard, then use my guitar amp as an output monitor (using cubase) and use the digital tweaking on the computer instead. This way i wouldnt have to make a setting, unplug, plug in the amp... etc.

THANKS
 
How did you plan on getting signal to the guitar amp?
 
I was going to plug the out of the soundcard to the guitar amp, and just route my outs under cubase to the amp, i would use the pod as a plugin... would this work?
 
ESPplayer7 said:
I was going to plug the out of the soundcard to the guitar amp, and just route my outs under cubase to the amp, i would use the pod as a plugin... would this work?
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Hmmmm. The output of your soundcard is hotter than your guitar's output so you run the risk of overpowering your amp's preamp stage. If you have a slave input on your amp (that allows you to bypass the preamp section), that's what you need to plug it into. If not, just make sure that your amp's channel volume is way down when you plug the soundcard output it into it.

Regardless, what you hear out of your amp is not going to sound anything like what you would hear monitoring your computer.
 
ESPplayer7 said:
Hey guys, got a question on the pod or any amp modeler. I enjoy playing my through my amp and messing with the settings on the pod but doing it on the actual pod i a pain. I was wondering if i could plug my guitar into the pod, then to my soundcard, then use my guitar amp as an output monitor (using cubase) and use the digital tweaking on the computer instead. This way i wouldnt have to make a setting, unplug, plug in the amp... etc.

THANKS
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When I was doing this kind of stuff I used the SoundDiver software that came with the POD and a MIDI interface to the MIDI in and out of the POD. It brings up a GUI on your computer that is way more convenient to use than the POD knobs and gives you access to some variables that you can't get to otherwise. You can also go to the Line 6 website and download banks of settings that you push onto the POD though MIDI. The way you are thinking about won't give you access to the POD parameters at all.
 
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