Owner's Manual

POD Farm 2 Advanced User Guide – Using Your Line 6 Hardware
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TonePort DI
Connect your electric Guitar
or Bass
Instrument Input - To connect your electric guitar or bass, plug it into this input. When using POD
Farm 2 in standalone operation, this connection routes the instrument’s signal into POD Farm 2 where
you can choose your Tone, and then route the processed signal to the Record Sends (to your audio
software) and to the Analog Outs. This input also features a Pad switch - engage this switch when
using a guitar/bass with high-output or active pickups, to avoid over-driving the input.
Connect a USB cable from
here to your computer
Connect your stereo
Headphones
Connect to your 3rd-party audio
interface’s input for “dry” recording
Analog Line Outs – connect
to your powered speakers or
mixer
USB - This, of course, is where you connect a USB cable to TonePort DI, with the other end going to
your computer’s USB 1.1 or 2.0 port.
Phones - If you want to listen to the audio from TonePort DI using stereo headphones, then plug them
into this 1/4-inch stereo jack. This headphone jack outputs the same signal fed to the Analog Outs on
the rear panel; the audio from your audio software on the computer, as well as anything plugged into
the Instrument Input.
D.I. Out (“Direct Inject” Output) - This analog connection lets you record an unprocessed signal
to your DAW audio track, to which you can apply POD Farm 2 Plug-In. If you use a 3rd-party audio
interface (such as a Digidesign Mbox
®
, for example), you can connect the D.I. Out to one of its inputs,
and record the “dry” signal into your audio software, while still having the ability to monitor your POD
Farm 2 “processed” signal through the TonePort D.I. Analog Outs.