For example: compressors, wah, noise gates, boosters, etc. Then you can insert other effects blocks before or after the LOOP. So when you insert the FX LOOP block in the chain, what you are doing is to enable your amp´s preamp, which otherwise would be muted. And the POD goes stright to the POWER AMP Section of your amp. With this method your amp´s PREAMP is in the LOOP of the POD. You have to first understand the concept of the 4CM. I recommend you to read carefully JIMSREYNOLDS 4CM Manual. In my case I have it, but the DI BOX fixes that. Do you have a big volume jump between your amp´s preamp and the models on the POD? That would be normal, it depends on several factors. LINE increases the overall volume a lot, including your amp preamp´s volume. Try an amp model that you like, raw, with no added EQ or effects and take a good listen to the different Output Modes.ġ/4 OUTPUT: I set it to AMP. Many people here like the STUDIO/DIRECT Mode in this situation. I use the COMBO POWER AMP mode just because it sounds better to me, and that mode is intended to be used when you connect your POD straight to the Power Amp Section of your amp. I don´t agree with your settings, but again, trust your ears, you´re not going to fry your POD. To many people here the PREs sound thin, as for myself. I also do that, although with some models and sometimes I use PREs. It´s OK to use the full amp modelling instead op PRE, the CAB sims too. But if you´re talking about wooly-raw-coming from a guitar amplifier-tones, that´s where modellers fail. With finished tones I mean tones that sound as a finished track. What I observed, in my experience with digital modellers, POD HD 500 included, is that you can dial good finished tones, specially if you don´t use an amp and have FRFRs, for example. Perhaps if you never owned analog stompboxes and all-valve amps you aren´t able to compare, so you keep what you have and you are happy with it. I think you can get some good tones with the POD, but at the end of the day, they sound artificial. It´s not for nothing that most professional musicians use some stompoxes, maybe a couple of effects racks, and the amps of their choice. Perhaps I´m old-school, but I think it this way. Maybe a couple or 3 or 4 different kinds of sounds, but I don´t see the point of having emulated several amps, and many stomboxes, just to have an infinite variation of tones. I think you have to find your personal sound. Modellers like the POD try to emulate the character of famous amps, and sincerelly, that´s quite not a laudable objective. After years of tone-search, I can tell you that you can´t have 10-20 amps in one. I also play mostly at bedroom levels nowadays, so I know what you´re talking about. Most all-valve amps nowadays, get their gain from the PREAMP stage, not from the POWER AMP stage. I mean, you don´t have to crank them to get the best of them. Unlike in the 70´s, most modern amps sound good at bedroom levels.
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