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POD Farm 2 Advanced User Guide – How To....
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How to use the Tuner
Click the Tuner View button on the POD Farm 2 Main Control Bar to display the Tuner. Or, insert
the Elements “POD Farm Tuner” Plug-In on your DAW audio track. For POD Farm 2 in standalone
operation, the Tuner accepts input from anything plugged into the Instrument jack on your Line 6
device. For the POD Farm 2 & POD Farm Tuner Plug-Ins, the Tuner receives input from the track
on which the Plug-In is inserted - note that you’ll need to enable your DAW track’s Input Monitoring
function to allow your instrument input to feed into the Plug-In.
The Tuner View display
Pluck an open single string on your guitar (or bass), and the display will show you the note that string
is currently tuned to. The large meter in the tuner shows you whether the string is sharp or flat relative
to that note. When the indicator is anywhere on the left side of the meter, your string is flat and needs
to be tuned up. When the indicator is anywhere on the right side of the meter, your string is sharp and
needs to be tuned down. The Mute/Bypass switch lets you choose to Mute your guitar, or to hear it
while tuning (with amp/cab/effect processing bypassed).
The Tuner’s Reference control tells the Tuner what base frequency to tune to. 440Hz is the standard
reference value for A, and is generally used for most modern, western music. Unless you have a
particular need to adjust the Tuner’s reference, you probably want to stick with the standard 440Hz
setting for this control.
The standard tuning for guitar is, from the largest string to the smallest, E-A-D-G-B-E. The POD Farm
Tuner is “chromatic” - meaning it can tune to any note in the chromatic 12 tone scale - so you are
not limited to using it for standard guitar tuning. Use the tuner to try some different tunings as well.
For instance, “Drop-D” tuning is accomplished by tuning the biggest string down to D instead of E.
The table below provides a number of alternate tunings for you to try. Tunings are listed on the left.
Columns labeled String 6 (the fattest string) to String 1 (the thinnest string) tell you the pitch to tune
to for each string: