Owner's Manual

GETTING SET UP: SCENARIO TWO – POD PLAYS LIVE
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POD Into a Power Amplifier Driving Speaker Cabinets
Stomp Boxes, Live Setups, & You
If you’ve been playing guitar for a while, you probably have some favorite pedals
that you dig. And even though POD has now graced your life with some pretty hip
digital effects, you probably still want to have the option of keeping those old
pedals in your arsenal. No problem! Just remember that if you’re going to use POD
with those other effects boxes in front of your amp, you’ll need to think about
where to place everybody in the line-up. If you have a distortion pedal or wah, try
positioning it in between your guitar and your POD. Reverb and delay should
generally go after the POD, before the input that you are using to feed POD sound
to your amp. And things like compressor, chorus, flanger, phaser, tremolo and
vibrato might work either before or after your POD, depending on what sound
you’re looking for. Putting a volume pedal after POD lets you control the volume
without changing the tone. Or put it before POD to control how hard you’re
driving POD’s input, which lets you pedal yourself to cleaner or dirtier tones. If
your amp has a line level effects loop, you probably won’t want to try to hook your
effect send into the POD input, since POD’s input was designed for guitar level
inputs (you can use just the return, as mentioned above, with your guitar plugged
right into POD).