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POD Into a Power Amplifier Driving Speaker Cabinets

Stomp Boxes, Live Setups, & You

If you’ve been playing guitar for a while, you probably have some favorite pedals 
that you dig. And even though POD has now graced your life with some pretty hip 
digital effects, you probably still want to have the option of keeping those old 
pedals in your arsenal. No problem! Just remember that if you’re going to use POD 
with those other effects boxes in front of your amp, you’ll need to think about 
where to place everybody in the line-up. If you have a distortion pedal or wah, try 
positioning it in between your guitar and your POD. Reverb and delay should 
generally go after the POD, before the input that you are using to feed POD sound 
to your amp. And things like compressor, chorus, flanger, phaser, tremolo and 
vibrato might work either before or after your POD, depending on what sound 
you’re looking for. Putting a volume pedal after POD lets you control the volume 
without changing the tone. Or put it before POD to control how hard you’re 
driving POD’s input, which lets you pedal yourself to cleaner or dirtier tones. If 
your amp has a line level effects loop, you probably won’t want to try to hook your 
effect send into the POD input, since POD’s input was designed for guitar level 
inputs (you can use just the return, as mentioned above, with your guitar plugged 
right into POD).