Using A Line 6 Pod 2.0 For Home Recording

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I am trying to use my line 6 pod and I just can't get a good sound out of it. If anyone can help me please do.
 
What are you recording into? PC interface? Standalone recorder? I used to use a POD 2.0 with a Zoom MRS-8 and got pretty good sounds from that.
 
Define "good sound". I've gotten dozens of "good sounds" out of Pods. Of course, I never use presets for anything other than a starting point.

You will have to get more descriptive to get much help with this problem.

What type of sound are you looking to get? What type of guitar do you have? What have you already tried?
 
name a few standards you'd consider "good guitar tracks".

this might lead to pickups, settings, and more details of effects.
 
I have the 2.0.
Biggest part of amps lacks,for my taste, "a bit or a lot" on mid region (between 400 and 1,5k).
Bass control of some amps has unnatural fatness that I particulary dislike.
I use to play/record with low latency and an eq plug in.

Ciro
www.soundclick.com/ciromoreau
 
shawn0821 said:
I am trying to use my line 6 pod and I just can't get a good sound out of it. If anyone can help me please do.
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Should have gotten V-Amp 2 instead :D

Seriously though, we'd need more details on your setup.

If you're routing your POD's line-out into some build-in soundcard of your PC's motherboard everything would sound like crap, full-stop.
 
Farview said:
Define "good sound". I've gotten dozens of "good sounds" out of Pods. Of course, I never use presets for anything other than a starting point.

You will have to get more descriptive to get much help with this problem.

What type of sound are you looking to get? What type of guitar do you have? What have you already tried?
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I think what he's saying is that he can't get a good recording with his POD, not the sound he gets with a POD as it is.

At least I hope that is the case.
 
Mish said:
I think what he's saying is that he can't get a good recording with his POD, not the sound he gets with a POD as it is.

At least I hope that is the case.
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In which case Farview's question is still relevant. With more information we might be able to help.

Mish said:
If you're routing your POD's line-out into some build-in soundcard of your PC's motherboard everything would sound like crap, full-stop.
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I think that's a rather a presumptuous statement. It might not yield as good results as a dedicated recording card, but to just outright say it will sound like crap may be a little rash.
 
I have a few clips up on FrugalGuitarist.com (click on the "Issue 2" tab) of the Pocket Pod which has the same engine as the POD 2.0. I thought it sounded good and was capable of a wide range of tones. What guitar are you using?
 
legionserial said:
I think that's a rather a presumptuous statement. It might not yield as good results as a dedicated recording card, but to just outright say it will sound like crap may be a little rash.
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Depends on a motherboard, but that was the case with all of the 4-5 PCs that I've owned. Depends on music as well - clean sound they might handle.

With my distortion, all the tracks look like a seismograph's scale in the eruption zone :eek:
 
wbcsound said:
I have a few clips up on FrugalGuitarist.com (click on the "Issue 2" tab) of the Pocket Pod which has the same engine as the POD 2.0. I thought it sounded good and was capable of a wide range of tones. What guitar are you using?
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And that's the other major component of good tone; good playing. Nice job?:)
 
wbcsound said:
I have a few clips up on FrugalGuitarist.com (click on the "Issue 2" tab) of the Pocket Pod which has the same engine as the POD 2.0. I thought it sounded good and was capable of a wide range of tones. What guitar are you using?
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some good POD clips, I like those much better than the recent article/clips with the Triac.

the Jazz POD clip was really nice imo, the Heavy clip was very well done too, but the Jazz clip was really well recorded too..

yeah agree, good playing...makes a big difference.

I was downloading the POD 2.0 manual 97 pages? damn.
I got mine at a pawn shop a few years back $125, its a great piece. It hangs in there.

Reading the manual there's several cabs, direct/amp switch, and it mentions to keep the Control volume up as far as possible....cool little unit.

It mentions in the introduction how they set out to simulate the infamous Tube Amps, and how transistors didn't do it right.
 
Mish said:
Depends on a motherboard, but that was the case with all of the 4-5 PCs that I've owned. Depends on music as well - clean sound they might handle.

With my distortion, all the tracks look like a seismograph's scale in the eruption zone :eek:
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I always figured it would be more of an issue of laency as long as you aren't clipping the converters (which granted, it might be easy to do). How much distortion do you use when you're recording? Just out of interest? And when you say 'a seismograph's scale in the eruption zone' what do you mean? That it looks loud? :confused:
 
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another sound thing with the pod, is if your using an amp.

seems a person would want to use a solid state amp as the POD already has done the "tube simulation"....a tube amp would be doubling the tube-sound.
using a tube amp and having the already "tube simulated tone" from the POD might make it too tubey...or is that spelt tubie...to be or not to be. I flunked English.:p

the solid state amp doesn't color the sound as a tube amp will with its harmonics and all that, so seems a solid state amp will be a better fit for the POD (if using the tube amp simulation stuff).
 
COOLCAT said:
another sound thing with the pod, is if your using an amp.

seems a person would want to use a solid state amp as the POD already has done the "tube simulation"....a tube amp would be doubling the tube-sound.
using a tube amp and having the already "tube simulated tone" from the POD might make it too tubey...or is that spelt tubie...to be or not to be. I flunked English.:p

the solid state amp doesn't color the sound as a tube amp will with its harmonics and all that, so seems a solid state amp will be a better fitted for the POD (if using the tube amp simulation stuff).
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It actually sounds best when plugged into a tube power amp, like a mesa 90/90.

When you turn off the cabinet sim, (which you should do when running it through an amp) you don't get the power section breakup either. Running it through a tube power amp takes away some of that synthetic sound that poeple complain about with these amp sims.
 
so farview, thats using the POD just for the effects and eq, and gate, and compressor only?..into a tube amp. makes sense.

in other words once the amp sim is turned off, is all the cabinet sim disconnected (internally)? the left knob, with all the amp selections is in operable or is the user supposed to set it as "clean" for the amp setting?

and is the speaker cabinet removed form the internal-sim-chain?

I've not read the 97 page manual yet...:eek:
 
COOLCAT said:
so farview, thats using the POD just for the effects and eq, and gate, and compressor only?..into a tube amp. makes sense.

in other words once the amp sim is turned off, is all the cabinet sim disconnected (internally)? the left knob, with all the amp selections is in operable or is the user supposed to set it as "clean" for the amp setting?

and is the speaker cabinet removed form the internal-sim-chain?

I've not read the 97 page manual yet...:eek:
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You can't turn the amp sims off in a POD, only the cab sims. You CAN turn the amp sim to something fairly neutral like the clean preamp setting but one of the amp sim models is always on even if you choose the preamp .... that's still a sim.
 
yes, your both right.

I just got done messing about with the pod due to this thread,
into a tube amp, a solid state (discrete) amp, and direct in.

the POD's direct and sim button is a large difference in sound.

the left knob/amp sims is always ON, but the "tube preamp" selection is pretty neutral.
the right/effects have the bypass position. EQ,volume,drive and channel volume is always in the path.

the op never mentioned what sound they wanted as in, clean, distorted, flangy-echo floyd...spliknot growling, warmed up blues, ...direct or mic/amp'd?
 
COOLCAT said:
so farview, thats using the POD just for the effects and eq, and gate, and compressor only?..into a tube amp. makes sense.
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That's not what I said at all.

COOLCAT said:
in other words once the amp sim is turned off,
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No, the CABINET sim is turned off

COOLCAT said:
is all the cabinet sim disconnected (internally)? the left knob, with all the amp selections is in operable or is the user supposed to set it as "clean" for the amp setting?
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I'm still using the amp simulation, the amp is a POWER amp, not a guitar amp.

COOLCAT said:
and is the speaker cabinet removed form the internal-sim-chain?
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That's the only thing I turn off. There is a setting called "power amp stack" that I use that is voiced just for this purpose.

here are the power amps I'm talking about:
http://www.mesaboogie.com/Product_Info/Stereo_Power/Simul_2_Ninety/simul_2_ninety.html
or
http://www.marshallamps.com/product.asp?productCode=EL34-100100
 
Never cared for the Pod. In fact, I've never cared for anything Line6 has put out. I've yet to hear anything ever done with a Pod that I didn't know right away it was a Pod. I've seen people get by with them for demo's, but I've never heard anything done with them that I would call really good. I had much better luck getting "acceptable" tones from the Vamp Pro (clean tones are actually pretty decent).

I do have to agree, though, that the kind of sound (music) you are going for is a large factor in how close to a "good" sound you are going to get. If you want clean tones, you can get something passable for demo's (although I've found no matter what you do, it's going to lack warmth). If you are doing metal....forget it. Original poster needs to give a little more info on what it is he is trying to do.
 
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