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With bigger setups including a mixer and a multi-track recorder, or with new 
fangled setups like computer-based and stand-alone Digital Audio Workstations, 
you’ve got a couple choices. If you’re a MIDI computer user, you’ll also want to 
check out the 

Deep Editing & MIDI Control

 chapter to learn about the 

complete MIDI control available with the POD, including the SoundDiver editor/
librarian program that’s included on the POD Tools CD.

First Time’s a Charm

Make sure the POD A.I.R. switch 

 is set to 

DIRECT

. The “normal” thing to do 

is plug your guitar into POD, and then connect your POD’s +4 dBu stereo TRS 1/4" 
left and right outputs to the inputs of your system (the POD outputs are also 
perfectly happy connecting to -10 dBV and unbalanced equipment). POD will 
process your guitar as you play, and you can print that processing to tape (or disk) as 
you make your tracks. For most situations, you may find this is perfect.

Changing History

But there is another option that can give you the exciting ability to go back in time 
and change your amp and effect settings weeks after you’ve recorded your guitar 
tracks, bringing you flexibility and creative control during mixdown that you could 
never get with a traditional guitar amplification system. It’s like this: the simple 
setup just described in the preceding paragraph is basically like taking a reverb, 
running your vocal mic’s preamp into it, and printing the reverb-processed sound to 
your recorder’s track. Now you’ve got that vocal performance, with that reverb 
setting, on tape (or disk). The more often used studio setup is to record the vocal to 
your recorder’s track dry, using an effect send on your mixer’s tape return channel to 
send the vocal to the reverb to audition the effect processing as you record your 
track. Then, when it’s time to mix, you can make final decisions about the verb to 
insure that it’s fitting in with the rest of your tracks. You can use a completely 
different verb if you want to, or no verb at all – all your possibilities are open. You 
can use POD like this – in an effect send/return set up – and get great advantages of 
flexibility for your guitar tracks. Here’s how this configuration works, plus other 
hook-up details:

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