POD xt/live question
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Posted on Mar 21, 2006 10:23 pm
meltdown5
Faze 2 Studios
Member Since: Aug 15, 2005
I think i read somewhere a while back that if you have a POD pro/xt pro (the rack mount one's)that you can play your guitar through it, record it, and if you dont liek the tone you can run it back through the pod with a different tone setting and it would in a sense retone it. I'd really love to know if this isnt some wierd lie i read. Can you do that?
If you can do that with the POD pro/xt pro can you do that with just normal Pod xt/live? that would make my life so much easier haha. thanks a lot guys, i love hrc
-Melty
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Jason H.Jack of all trades master of ___Member
Since: May 28, 2004
Mar 22, 2006 01:40 pm I have the POD xt live...I am not sure how to use it in its entirety...I am not even sure if my unit carries this feature being its a live unit...
However the process you list sounds like a MIDI function...It seems logical that the MIDI option you could back track and change the tone/sound of what you laid down...
Mar 22, 2006 01:51 pm yeah you record the 'direct out' signal (unprocessed) you should have an output for that in the rear....basically you record the guitar dry with no effects on it's own track, then you playback the track in your DAW and process it then....it's a pretty handy function if you don't like comitment.
Mar 22, 2006 08:40 pm There is no direct out on the XT Live but you can do this, check out the Line 6 user forum. I am not 100% sure of the details but it involves playing and monitoring through the XT Live but recording it direct and raw to the PC, then routing the PC recording back through the POD XT.
Never done it but I have read about it
Mar 22, 2006 08:41 pm bts: Definitely nothing to do with MIDI
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Mar 22, 2006 09:37 pm The live version will do it exactly as any of the others would. It is called Re-amping.
However, I dont know if you understand fully what it will do. You can take a guitar track you have recorded allready, feed it into the guitar in jack, and send it back out with differant patche selected.
But, this doesnt mean it will give you the exact sound you would nomrally get from the patche you choose. Unless of course you recorded an absolutely dry guitar sound.
What I am saying is, if you recorded with a crunch hi gain sound. Then re-amp it using another crunch higain sound you will just be adding more crunch and distortion to an allready crunched wound. So yes it will change the sound, but it just piles onto the sound you have allready recorded.
Which is fine as I stated above if you have a clean guitar recorded and want it distored. It wont however take an allready recorded crunch track and make it clean, or less crunch.
Mar 23, 2006 01:18 pm I think the PodPro does have a "dry" out line that lets you record dry and monitor/record "wet" the XT and XT Live do not though.
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Mar 23, 2006 11:40 pm Yes indeed you are correct tonyoci. But what he is talking about is the ability that Line 6 states to send an allready recorded dry guitar sound into its input and re-amp it with any given model in its arsenal. Or even just to add an effect or what have you.
I have even sent keys, drums or what ever through it before for just for that purpose. Even sent vocals through there for an interesting effect.
BavPolMember
Since: Sep 10, 2005
Mar 24, 2006 08:37 am This topic makes me wonder about reamping.
Here's a question for you Pod experts:
If you reamp a dry guitar track, does it really sound the same as if you plugged your guitar into the input of the pod and used the same patch? The reason I ask is that IME just putting your guitar thru an effect box, with the effect off, into an amp sounds different than plugging your guitar directly into the amp. Keep in mind, I'm talking about an effect that has the same input impedance as your amp, but does not have true bypass switching( in other words the effect has a buffer in between the guitar and amp when the effect is switched out). I've always attributed the difference in sound to the output impedance of the buffer being different than the guitar. But, I have never done the reamp thing and am curious how well it works.
Thanks
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Mar 26, 2006 07:25 pm I use it on occasion and it works very well. I will on occasion have an acoustic track dry and feel the need to have something a little more potent, like a hi gain sound behind it. If I cant get exactly what I want with internal DSP processors I will simply route the track out through the POD and back into the mix on another track. Works great in most cases. And it does sound pretty much like it would if had played it straight away with that patch.
As for the bypass deal. If you have a decent processor, you should not have that problem of getting a differant sound then being plugged straight away into the amp. I've never had that problem with any stomp boxes or processors I have owned over the years. I would suggest maybe looking into something else if that is the case.
