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Tombolino Just Startin'
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Mar 14, 2010 10:50 PM

Using Acoustic Guitar with PODx3, your recos pls:)

Hi

 

I only know going to start using an acoustic guitar via my POD x3. Here are some things Im wondering about, whatever you have time for

 

-Are the Acoustic settings that came with the POD usually pretty good?


-Do most of you when using acoustic guitars run POD straight to PA? (in other words no amp?)

 

-I have several patches that I use for rock songs that I would like to keep the effects (delays etc) and create new versions of these patches for my acoustic? What POD amps do you recommend or should I just use Pre Amps of POD? Or create a hybrid of one of the POD acoustic settings and somehow mimic those effect settings in a POD acoustic setting?

 

How do I pan the Outs if going to PA?

 

thanks!

  • tommasi Iknowathingortwo
    tommasi
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    Mar 15, 2010 8:55 AM (in response to Tombolino)
    Re: Using Acoustic Guitar with PODx3, your recos pls:)

    I do not have an answer to all your questions, but here's what I can say:

     

    The default acoustic settings in the pod are actually often (if not always) "mic'd acoustic", that is, they are meant for an acoustic guitar being mic'd, and the microphone being run into the pod's XLR in. If your acoustic guitar has a piezo or otherwise, you will likely run into the instrument input. Those patches will give you no sound until you change the 'inputs' to something else besides the microphone.

     

    Concerning going straight to the PA and no amp yes, that will work ok. Acoustic amps are very flat anyway, so you will not miss an amp in this case. (heck, I don't miss it when I use an electric either!) When you go to the PA, you don't need to pan anything on the pod -- you'll have 2 signals L and R that can go into a stereo channel in the mixer, or into a hard L-panned and a hard R-panned mono channels.

     

    The X3 preamps are mostly meant for microphones, but I think they will work ok on an acoustic as well. That being said, within the guitar amp models there are a couple of acoustic amp models you can play with.

     

    And -- yes, you can copy an electric patch and change the input and amp (and cab) model settings if you want to keep all the rest (effects, reverb etc.)

  • BigChas52 Expert Line 6 User
    BigChas52
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    Mar 15, 2010 8:29 PM (in response to Tombolino)
    Re: Using Acoustic Guitar with PODx3, your recos pls:)

    Here are a list of amps to use with an acoustic:

     

    American Classic

    Vintage UK

    Vintage

    Modern

    Console

     

    You can also use "No Amp" , but you'll lose the tone controls.

     

    I would not pan the outputs, or use stereo effects for live use.  They will not sound good to the audience unless they are sitting in the center of the room.  I usually just take the left(mono) out and run it to the PA.

    • doncobb Just Startin'
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      Dec 5, 2010 4:16 PM (in response to BigChas52)
      Re: Using Acoustic Guitar with PODx3, your recos pls:)

      Thanks for your note regarding which patches to use with an acoustic. I oftentimes use both acoustic and electric guitars in my worship sets but I cannot figure out how to utilize the aux input for my acoustic guitar. Any suggestions? I would like to be able to assign it to a patch, if possible. If not, just a clean through would be a blessing. Thanks.

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