post processing with POD xt?

[Fry13]

What kind of post processing do you guys do to make your guitar tracks sound professional? I know it is a good idea to run a high pass filter on the low end, but is there anything else you do to the POD's tracks to get them to sound professional? I am going for kind of a processed sorta sound like on Collective Soul's latest albums. Let me know any ideas!

 

[Ronan]

Its best not to use a Pod at all, but if you must run a low pass filter and cut all the high end off.

 

[Fry13]

Where do you like to start cut off at?

 

[sile2001]

One thing to keep in mind is that the Pods already generate somewhat "radio ready", already processed kinds of sounds. Always messes people up because they try to do all this extra processing on it afterwards and it comes out sounding like crap.

 

[JazzMang]

are you recording direct from the outputs?
If so, I've read that sending the output to an amp's line in, then mic-ing up the amp may breathe some life into the otherwise harsh, digitalness of the pod's emulation.

 

[Fry13]

Yeah, I am recording direct via the normal L/R outputs. I have heard about that idea of running the POD into an amp and recording THAT, but I am not really in the position where I can turn up an amp at all and record it...that is why I got the POD. Before I had been recording via a Hughes and Kettner Tubeman, which sounded pretty darn good, but I wanted more than one sound....

I have been messing a bit with the POD, and it sounds like it is pretty cool for more processed type sounds (which is what I am trying to get), but I can totally see how it doesn't sound like a "raw, real amp standing in front of you" type sound. But that isn't what I am after, so it's all good.

I just kinda wondered where to draw the line of the LPF for the high frequencies. I have been filtering the lower frequencies below 150-200 to take away the excess bass, and that seems to work well.

Anyways...thanks for your help!