Owner's Manual
POD Farm 2 Advanced User Guide – Using Your Line 6 Hardware
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On Windows Vista
®
and Windows
®
7 only, you’ll also see this “Listen” tab once you click the
Properties button from the Recording tab screen. The “Listen to Device” checkbox and “Playback
through...” menu, when congured as shown above, route any audio that is fed into an input on your
Default Recording Device to the selected Playback device. For example, this allows you to hear an
instrument, mic, or line in source plugged into your UX2 through the UX2 outputs - which you would
not otherwise be able to hear unless running the POD Farm 2 standalone application (or if running a
DAW application that offers input monitoring features).
Note that once this “Listen to this device” box is checked, however, it will always route input audio
to the device’s output. This may not be what you want when using POD Farm 2 and/or DAW software,
since you’ll likely prefer to monitor only your POD Farm 2 processed or DAW track signal! Since this
also utilizes the Windows
®
audio driver and internal routing, the input signal suffers a bit of delay
before heard through your monitors (i.e. - not a “low latency” functionality, unlike the POD Farm 2
ToneDirect Monitoring and the ASIO audio driver provide). Therefore, it is not recommended to
check this option with POD Farm 2 or DAW software running..
Connecting Line 6 Hardware to an Existing Audio Device
If you want to use POD Farm 2 in standalone operation and your Line 6 device in a computer recording
setup where an audio interface already exists, then you might nd it useful to connect your Line 6
device’s Analog Outs into the analog inputs of the existing device. This allows you to use the existing
audio interface to receive the signal from your Line 6 device’s Source Inputs, optionally processed with
POD Farm 2 or POD Tones, if this is your desired setup. When your Line 6 device is connected to
another audio interface this way, then you will want to be sure your DAW software is set to use it as
its audio input device for recording. In this conguration, since your Line 6 device is not in use by an
audio application as an audio interface, its Analog Out signal is what is being recorded, and therefore,
levels are controlled by the POD Farm 2 Volume knobs and the Line 6 hardware Volume knob.
GuitarPort users:
Connect a 1/8-inch stereo cord to
the Headphone Out, or use the
Stereo RCA Line outputs with an
adapter.
Connect the other end to the Line
Input of your sound card.
POD Studio & TonePort users:
Connect the mono 1/4-inch
Analog Outputs (if you have a
UX8 then you probably want to use
Outs 1 &2). Or, connect a 1/4-inch
stereo cord to the Headphone Out
Use an adapter if needed to connect
to the Line Inputs of your sound
card