POD PRO question

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OK. I just moved to a house from an apartment. This means I can play music louder. In my apartment I only used the POD pro through my headphones. Any playing guitar listening to headphones really limited my abilities.

I would like to get my POD connected to an amp. Such that I can listen to the amp. Any suggestions? I want to get the most accurate sound through the amp, even though I will be routing my POD outs to the mixer. Any recommendatons on this effects loop thingy? What amp is best for POD?

Thanks in advance.
 
The best sound would be through a Marshall JCM8000 or Fender Twin with the Pod bypassed :D
 
personally, i've never gotten a good sound out of the pod pro live. not to say it can't be done -- weezer's pod setup sounded pretty darn good when i saw em play at irving plaza a few summers ago. they had it running through a pa. i use it a fair amount on recording (along with amplitube, nigel, and the traditional mic'd amp route). i don't have the manual in front of me, but there's a switch in the back which you flip to live mode and then you have to futz around with the front panel's menu to flip it to pa, keyboard amp, etc. it's in the manual. anyways, keyboard amps and pa's supposedly work best (tho it never really worked for me). check out the lin6.com forum for more advise. good luck, buddy and lemme know what you discover.
-teddy
 
Thanks guys. I just need an amp to use as a monitor for the POD.
Now I have to postpone buying the amp since I was layed off yesterday.
 
This is one where I have to disagree with the big boys. I use POD Pro with a couple of combos through power amps and it works just fine. I use 2 basic setups, and both work. Don't jack the POD into a guitar amp, it will generally suck. Plan A- Get a clean power amp, the kind your mommy told you not to play your guitar through, one that is bridgeable to 8 ohms mono. I use a Carver PM125, but Hafler or Samson will work, if it bridges to 8 ohms mono. Send the mono signal to an 8 ohm cab, and set the POD for live mode, which disables the cab model. Plan B- which in my opinion is a better option- Take the XLR line outs from the POD directly to the XLR line ins of a good pair of active (powered) reference monitors, in studio mode (cab model engaged). The monitors, with their flatter response, will reproduce the cab model beautifully, and produce damn little self noise. For recording, use only the left channel (mono), and one monitor, which will decrease phase problems.
Then get up close and personal to the monitor, and back off slowly until you can no longer hear the woofer and tweeter as separate sound sources. That's the near field. Put the best mic you got right there. Now you are reproducing the amp and cab model accurately, and it moves air like a cab. If you use passive monitors, you can use a power amp unbridged, generally 4 ohms, and send the signal from the POD to the power amp, then to the monitor, then mic it up. This is a hybrid of Plans A&B. I'm here to tell you, this works. I use Plan A for live work, and Plan B for recording. Hope this helps.-Richie
 
I'm sorry to hear you are layed off. That sucks. Well anyway, if you have a pair of powered monitors and a couple of mic cables, you already have everything you need to do this.-Richie
 
Thanks for the excellent advise Richie. I do have monitor speakers . But I tried routing the POD through them via my soundcard and it did not sound too good. So I will try your method.

Thanks again!
 
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