Owner's Manual

POD Farm 2 Advanced User Guide – Using Your Line 6 Hardware
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In the PODxt Signal Routing selector you can choose one of four routing modes for the signals that
run inside PODxt, and to Record Send 1-2:
• Send Processed Guitar - This is the normal mode of operation: PODxt-processed sound is sent
to your computer via Record Send 1-2 so it can be recorded in your audio software. PODxt gets
its input from the guitar plugged into its INPUT jack, and you can listen to PODxt-processed
guitar sound as well as sound coming from your computer via the PODxt LEFT OUTPUT,
RIGHT OUTPUT and PHONES jacks.
• Send Clean Guitar - This mode feeds unprocessed guitar to your to Record Send 1-2, while you
listen to PODxt-processed guitar and DAW playback coming out of your PODxt. You can use
this to record an unprocessed guitar signal in your DAW for later re-amping, while hearing your
PODxt-processed guitar signal without latency being added by your DAW. You can then choose
USB Signal Routing modes 3 and 4 when you’re ready to playback that track and re-amp it
through your PODxt. You may also want to record a copy of your PODxt-processed sound from
the analog outputs of your PODxt when you are making your digital recording of the clean guitar,
so you have the processed version for reference when re-amping. This track is also handy for
punch-ins, since you can listen to it during punch-ins to hear the processed version of the part of
the previously recorded track that you want to keep.
• Send Clean Guitar Re-Amp Playback - This mode sends unprocessed guitar to your DAW,
feeds the signal from your computer into PODxt for processing, and lets you hear the PODxt-
processed signal at the PODxt outputs. You can use this to run an unprocessed guitar track that
you recorded using USB Signal Routing mode 2 into your PODxt for re-amping, allowing you to
listen to or record the PODxt-processed result via the PODxt analog outputs. You can also use
this mode during initial recording, so that unprocessed guitar can be recorded to a track, and the
output of that track can be sent by the DAW to PODxt at the same time. This lets you punch-in
on the track while you’re recording, and hear PODxt processing of the already recorded part of
the track as well as the new portion that you’re recording during the punch-in. Your recording
software will add some latency to the guitar signal that it is monitoring back through to PODxt.
You can generally get the lowest latency by reducing your buffer size in the recording software -
see your recording software’s instructions for details.
• Send Re-Amp Playback - This mode is designed to receive unprocessed guitar from your
recording program, and send processed guitar back to the recording program for recording. You
can use this to run an unprocessed guitar track that you recorded using USB Signal Routing
mode 2 into your PODxt for re-amping, so you can digitally record the PODxt-processed signal
back to another track in the recording program.
Note: It is not a supported practice to “hot swap” your Line 6 device (unplug the USB cable and plug it
into a different USB device) while it is in use by your computer and DAW software. In fact, this just isn’t
a good idea to do with any USB audio devices, since it can result in a loud pop, loss of sync and possibly
crash or corrupt your current DAW project.
Routing Audio From Your Line 6 Hardware to an External Device
In addition to the ability to route digital audio directly within your computer, you may instead want
to route your POD Farm 2 or POD signal into another sound card on the same or separate computer.
Further, with all the great tones you can now create for your mics & instruments, there is no need to
limit them to the inside of a computer! You may also want to send the signal to external hardware
such as an analog or tape Multitrack unit, a DAT or video tape recorder, or even to an amplier or P.A.
system for live performance. To follow are instructions for these different types of setups.