Line 6 POD Pro & BKP's

[Hellbilly1969]

Hi all,

I just bought myself a POD Pro today and found that it's a little muddy with my guitars loaded with BKPs (Miracle Man/Nailbomb).  Even with a eqing it still sounds a little strange.

Has anyone else had these issues?

I'll be doing more tweeking in the morning.

[Fikealox]

I'm confident you'll be able to tweak out the problems. What are you using it for exactly? Just as an effects box for your amp, as an amp simulator, or just for recording etc?

If you're just using it for effects, make sure to turn off the amp and cab sims. If you're using it as an amp sim, try plugging into your amp's slave input (if it has one) so that you're not doubling up on EQs, volumes, etc. In either case, it can make a difference what you set it up as injecting into (ie: into a combo, head, PA, etc. The manual'll tell you how to do that)

The pod's beauty and its curse is its tweakability. I got pretty good at driving mine after a little while, and I could get a ton of awesome tones out of it... but I almost felt there was too much choice, and too many parameters to tweak, so I never quite felt I was getting the best out of it that it could give...

[ailean]

I'm confident you'll be able to tweak out the problems. What are you using it for exactly? Just as an effects box for your amp, as an amp simulator, or just for recording etc?

If you're just using it for effects, make sure to turn off the amp and cab sims. If you're using it as an amp sim, try plugging into your amp's slave input (if it has one) so that you're not doubling up on EQs, volumes, etc. In either case, it can make a difference what you set it up as injecting into (ie: into a combo, head, PA, etc. The manual'll tell you how to do that)

The pod's beauty and its curse is its tweakability. I got pretty good at driving mine after a little while, and I could get a ton of awesome tones out of it... but I almost felt there was too much choice, and too many parameters to tweak, so I never quite felt I was getting the best out of it that it could give...

+1

I still haven't figured ours out :) Also check to make sure that you've told the Pod how it's connected to the amp / pc / whatever, that changes how it applies its effects.

[Nadz1lla]

Pod's are notoriously heavy on the tweaking front to get decent tones out of them. Also consider what the sound is coming out of. I find it best to run it through a decent set of computer speakers or studio monitors, so you get an uncoloured sound that you can work with properly.

[Hellbilly1969]

Cheers for the input folks.

I'm running it through a Mackie 32:4 desk into some Tannoy active speakers.  It's getting there, if managed to get some more top end using the TAP and Treble combination to access the Presence utility.

I must saying having owned an XT previously this unit has far better tone to it and much easier to use..

[TwilightOdyssey]

If the only problem is a muddy bass response, try a highpass filter @ 100 Hz or 150 Hz.

[badgermark]

How would this little beast sound plugged into a Macbook running Garageband? I assume it can be plugged in using USB, would it be a convenient way to record short clips of music? Not looking for studio quality here, just a simple method to plug and play and dazzle everyone with my song ideas.

[_tom_]

Doesnt Garageband have some amp models in it? I remember Carlaz doing some clips a while ago with what I think was Garageband modelling and the tone was great, better than anything I've heard from Line 6 or other modellers

[badgermark]

Yeah the amp mods are not bad, it's just I don't have a good way to hook a guitar up to the laptop, this seems an easy solution.

Also it would mean headphone practising that doesn't sound like ass!