POD to a delta 66....how? Huh? What

  • Thread starter Thread starter Zeno
  • Start date Start date
Z

Zeno

New member
I have a delta 66 with a breakout box and a POD through which I play my guitar. I want to be able to record direct from the pod. Now, by reading the scanty manuals, I should be able to line out directly from the POD into two of the INs on the breakout box, and be able to adjust the sound via the delta software mixer. But I'm not getting any sound. I know I got this to work once, but it isn't working now.

A further question: right now I have my speakers set up to come out of the OUTs of the box via a complicated set of radioshack patches. Why doesn't the Delta have a regular speaker jack on it inaddition to the breakout box? How exactly do I hear anything out of it effeiciently? Do I have to route the damn thing through another sound system? Or can I buy a mixer or something that will have a speaker output on it?

Any tips and help greatly appreciated.
 
I have the POD and DMAN 2044 with breakout box. I've occassionally lost the sound when accidentally muting one of the inputs on the mixer or moving the volume slider to nought. Also you have to make sure your inputs are correctly routed to your outputs, i.e. that Inputs 1 and 2 are monitored at Outputs 1 and 2, for example (I hope that the Delta 66 mixer is recognizably similar to the DMAN 20044 mixer and this isn't useless gobbledegook).

Connecting the POD, breakout box and monitoring equipment should be simple: two guitar leads from the POD into the breakout box (at Input 1 and 2), then two guitar leads out to a mixer. Also I used to use a cable going from the breakout box to a power amp. This had a pair of 1/4" guitar jacks at the breakout box end and a pair of rca connectors at the other end going into the amp.

Hope this helps. Sorry if it doesn't.
 
Last edited:
if i remember rightly, doesn't the pod have a sp/dif out? and the Delta 66 has a sp/dif in.

plug & play!

d
 
OMNI

I have the Delta 66 with the OMNI Studio break out box. Now I don't know what kind of set up you are using but I bet that it doesn't contain a Mackie digital mixer or anything (RadioShack gave you away, just kidding mate) anyway, if you don't have a mixer then the OMNI Studio will save you a ton of head aches and a tone of $$$. It sounds great for the money and will give you all of the things you will need to direct record with any guitar processor.

Now I don't have the POD so I don't know if it has a Sony/Philips Digital Inter-Face (S/PDIF) out, but I know that the Delta 66 has the S/PDIF input... so if the POD is S/PDIF compliant, then as the man said... plug and play.

Yours Digitally,

001011100101010
001101011000101
101110010001010
101100010111011
101100001010100

Mike
 
1) The Delta is a soundcard, and that is all. It accepts line level inputs and its outputs are all line level. There is no speaker output on the Delta because it's not a power amp, it's a soundcard.

2) Yes, you need a monitoring system.

3) You don't adjust levels with the Delta software mixer, leave them all at 100%. You'll only use the software mixer for routing and setup.

In order hear anything, you're going to need something to monitor with. That is, you need a set of speakers, and an amplifier (a power amp and possibly a preamp or an integrated amp). You're going to run the POD into the delta, and the take lines out of the delta into your monitoring system.

Slackmaster 2000
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top