Owner's Manual

POD Farm 2 Advanced User Guide – Standalone Operation
6•11
Record Send Level Controls
• Use the Level Fader to adjust the output of each Record Send. This is how you adjust the level
of the signal that gets recorded into your audio software.
*Note that the Record Send Source selection and Level controls do not affect the POD Farm 2 Tone A
& B Monitoring signal (the signal you hear from your main analog & headphone outs of your Line 6
hardware). These controls affect only the POD Farm 2 signals fed to your Record Sends, providing you
with independent control over your software recording levels versus your Monitoring signals!
• Use the Output Level Meter to gauge your levels. The red clip indicator will light up if your
level is too high - clipping should always be avoided to produce good quality recordings!
• Use the +18 dB Boost button if your Send signal is not hot enough. When this button is lit, an
18 dB gain boost is applied to the Record Send output signal. Watch the meters and adjust the
Level fader for a nice, hot signal.
Record Send Behaviors
It is important to note that, when in Dual Tone mode, the Record Send Source menu selections also
result in slightly different interactions between the Tone A & B and Record Send Mixer controls.
• When a Record Send Source menu is set to “Tone A+B”, the Tone A and Tone B Output Level
fader, Balance knob and Mute buttons all affect what is fed to this Record Send (as well as what
you hear as the POD Farm 2 ToneDirect Monitoring signal).
• When a Record Send Source menu is set to any option other than “Tone A+B”, the Tone A and
Tone B Mixer controls do not affect what is fed to this Record Send (they only affect what you
hear as the POD Farm 2 ToneDirect Monitoring signal).
Note: The Mixer View Record Send (Send menu, Send Level, Balance and +18 controls) are “global”
settings - meaning, they are not saved individually with each Tone Preset, but rather persist regardless of
the Tone Preset loaded. However, you may see the Record Send menu options change accordingly when
loading a Preset with a Single Tone versus Dual Tone configuration.
ToneDirect™ Monitoring
ToneDirect™ Monitoring is a unique feature of your Line 6 hardware that provides an extremely low
latency monitor signal of your POD Farm 2 Tones through your device directly to your Main/Analog
Outputs, while your Source signal is simultaneously fed out the Record Sends to your DAW software
for recording. This allows you to congure your Tones in POD Farm 2 however you want to hear them
for your performance, and then choose to feed either this “processed” signal, or a “dry”, unprocessed
signal to your DAW. Recording a dry signal in your DAW software allows you to then use POD Farm
2 and POD Farm Elements Plug-Ins on the DAW track to “non-destructively” make changes to your
recorded track’s Tone any time up until your nal mix. Or, you can choose to feed the fully processed
Tone from the POD Farm 2 standalone application to the Record Sends, and record your POD Farm
2 Tones exactly as you hear them! Please see the Mixer View section for details on conguring the
Record Sends.
Also, since ToneDirect™ handles all the monitoring completely through your Line 6 hardware rather
than through your DAW software, you won’t need to use your DAW’s “software monitoring” features.
This means you can keep the DAW software’s buffers at higher settings for greater stability and better
CPU performance! Please also see “ToneDirect™ Monitoring” on page 2•30 for more info.