Owner's Manual

POD Farm 2 Advanced User Guide – Troubleshooting
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The Line 6 device Audio Driver cannot be found
When your computer does not automatically detect your Line 6 device on startup, (assuming you
didn’t forget to plug in the USB cable or power it on), it means that one of the Line 6 device driver
les may be missing or corrupted. Download the latest POD Farm 2 installer directly from the Line 6
Software Downloads page and run it to install POD Farm 2 and the latest device drivers. Any missing
or corrupt les will be re-installed, leaving any Tones Presets that you’ve saved in place.
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POD Farm 2 volume/output level is too low
If you’re not getting as much volume as you want from the POD Farm 2 Tone you’ve chosen, you may
need to go through your signal chain - from instrument to POD Farm 2 to hardware - and optimize your
levels at several different stages.
Guitar/Mic Volume - Make sure that the Volume knob on your guitar/bass is turned up. If you are
using a stomp box between your guitar and your Line 6 device, be sure its output level is turned up
as well. If plugging a Mic into the Mic in of your Line 6 hardware, adjust the Mic Gain knob to get a
sufciently high signal. The only thing to be careful of here is that you shouldn’t turn up so loud that
you are now clipping the input of your Line 6 hardware. POD Studio UX1, UX2 and many other Line
6 devices offer meters and red CLIP light indicators on the front panel to warn you of this.
Amp Drive & Volume - Turn the Volume knob on the Amp Model that you’re using as high as you
can go without clipping. An Amp’s Drive knob will add distortion as you turn it higher, which may
not be the sound you are after, but if the Drive knob is very low this will affect the overall output of the
Tone as well. So, you may need to turn up the Amp Volume knob to compensate for low Drive settings.
Different Amp Models and settings of the Amp knobs will result in different perceived ranges for the
Volume knob. This is because of the very different amount of energy that the Tone includes at various
frequency ranges, and how the different distortion characters of the different amps are perceived as
volume by our ears and brains. Turning the mids way down with a heavily overdriven sound to get
a classic metal Tone, for instance, can result in a perceived lack of volume because all the midrange
portion of your guitar signal has been removed.
Master Input & Output Level knobs (POD Farm 2 Plug-In only) - When inserted on a track, POD
Farm 2 Plug-In receives the input from your DAW software’s track, meaning it is affected by the level
of your track input, the software’s track input controls, the amplitude of audio clips within the track,
and the track volume for output. Therefore, POD Farm 2 Plug-In offers both Master Input and Output
knobs & meters at the top of the window. Use these knobs to balance the in and out levels, and of
course always turn down to avoid clipping at either stage.
Master Input Level knob & meter Master Output Level knob & meter
Note that when using POD Farm 2 in standalone operation, the Master Output Level knob controls the
monitor signal levels only, and not the levels sent to the Record Sends.