Owner's Manual

CREATING & STORING SOUNDS: USING THE CHANNEL PROGRAM MEMORIES

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CREATING & STORING SOUNDS

USING THE MANUAL MODE FEATURES

When you are using your POD in Manual Mode, all of the controls are active and

the sound of POD always reﬂects the knob settings. Sounds just like any ordinary

guitar amp or pedal, doesn’t it? Who says technology is threatening? You know

you’re in Manual Mode, by the way, whenever the Manual button is lit (but

you probably already ﬁgured out that part). Play with the knobs until you get a

sound that you really like. At this point, you can either follow tradition and put

tiny little pieces of tape on POD or mess it all up with grease pencil to mark your

favorite settings, or you can take a bold step into new technology and save your

sound to one of POD’s memory locations. Which we’re about to tell you how to do

in the next section of the manual, appropriately titled…

USING THE CHANNEL PROGRAM MEMORIES

So, there you are with a sound that you really like – wouldn’t it be nice to be able

to call it up any time you want it? That’s simple once you have it stored into one of

the 36 POD channel memory locations. How do you do it? Just press the Save

button . It will start to ﬂash. Press the Up and Down buttons and you will

see that you are switching through memory locations A, B, C, and D in each of

POD’s nine numbered banks. Pick one to store your sound in, and press that Save

button a second time. The light will stop ﬂashing, and the sound is stored at the

location you chose, replacing the sound that was stored there before. Doesn’t get

much simpler than that. After the sound is stored, you can bring it back any old

time by simply pressing the Up and Down buttons to call up the location where

you stored it. (See Chapter 7 to learn how to do all this with your feet on the

Floor Board). If you decide that you don’t want to store the sound after you’ve got

all the lights blinking, pressing Tap or Manual or Tuner or Noise Gate or MIDI