Owner's Manual

POD Farm 2 Advanced User Guide - POD Farm 2 Plug-In
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• When dragging any one of these models left or right in the same Tone path, the entire Amp
Group is always moved together. This allows you to reposition the entire Amp Group within
your Tone’s signal flow.
• Effects models cannot be placed between any of the Amp Group models.
• If you drag any model of the out of the Signal Flow View to delete it, you will see the entire Amp
Group being dragged, however, only the selected model is deleted.
• When dragging any of the models within an Amp Group to the opposite Tone, not all models
are moved or copied as a group. These behaviors apply:
• When dragging an Amp model to move or copy it to the opposite Tone, both the Amp and
its (default or Custom) Cab is moved with it. Therefore, an existing Amp & Cab in the
destination Tone path will be replaced.
• When dragging only a Cab to the opposite Tone, this moves or copies only the Cab.
• When dragging only a Preamp to the opposite Tone, this moves or copies only the Preamp.
Pre Versus Post Effects Placement
As mentioned above, any effects model can be positioned “Pre” (to the left of the Amp Group) or
“Post” (to the right of the Amp Group) within a Tone path. Tonally, you will hear some differences
with many effects in these two positions, just as you would by placing an effect pedal in front of an amp
(Pre) as compared to placing it in the amp’s effects loop (Post). For example, many guitarists prefer the
sound of delay & reverb pedals in their amp’s effects loop since these effects’ decays sound “cleaner”
being “Post” some of the amp distortion. Likewise, Wahs and Mods effects can sound quite different
in Pre versus Post, (as well as before versus after a Distortion effect model) so feel free to experiment!
You’ll also note that there are some inherent differences in the “stereo-ization” of some effects models
in Pre versus Post positions, and more differences still if your Tone’s input source is mono versus stereo.
By design, many of the POD Farm 2 Mods, Delays and Reverbs models are created with stereo output -
for example, Phaser (stereo), Rotary Drum + Horn, Ping Pong Delay, etc. Once again, the POD Farm 2
signal chain emulates the “real world” amp & effects sonic behavior here, since a stereo effect followed
by a mono-only input component (such as a guitar amp or distortion pedal) results in the stereo output
being “collapsed” to mono at this point in the signal chain. This can get a bit deep, but if you just
try moving your effects models around in POD Farm 2, you’ll likely hear the tonal and mono/stereo
differences pretty easily. The following rules apply with POD Farm 2 effects.
• Mono input source / one Tone / Stereo output (such as when inserting POD Farm 2 “Mono-
Stereo” Plug-In on a DAW’s Mono in-Stereo Out track).
• Effect in Pre: Mono (only a mono signal is passed through the Amp Group models)
• Effect in Post: Stereo
• Mono input source / Dual Tone / Stereo output - Same as above, except two completely
independent audio paths are being run, which are both fed the same input signal.
• Mono input source / one Tone / Mono output - Same as above, except the Left/Right audio
channels are collapsed to mono before output.
• Stereo input source / one Tone / Stereo output (such as when inserting POD Farm 2 “Stereo”
Plug-In on DAW’s Stereo In and Out track, and playing a stereo clip).
• Effect in Pre: Stereo - However, it is worth noting that in some stereo effects, LFOs are not
strictly “synced,” so you might hear some phase differences in the stereo oscillation.