One alternative method is to split the signal out of your guitar.

Step1:  Send one clean and dry to be recorded.  You can use this track to do virtual re-amp as needed.

Step2:  Send the other track to your Pod, and record with the sound you like.  You can drop this track later if you want to re-amp, but you may end up keeping it.

You can re-amp using the plug-ins as folks normally do.  But there's another way.  More like the traditional method used in modular recording studios (rather than on computer).

Take the clean track (from Step1) and send it through the audio output of your sound card (or audio break out box, or whatever you use to get sound out of the computer) and send it to your Pod.  It will probably be WAY hotter than what the Pod expects, so you should drop the level on the computer output AND set the trim on the Pod to compensate.

Then find the exact sound on the physical Pod device.

When you find the sound you like, send the output back to your computer and record it.  You will now have a third track, which will be this new sound.

No, you cant keep tweaking through billions of plug-ins to your hearts delight.  But you can find a great sound that you love and actually move on to mixing and having a great sounding recording, just like real studio engineers do.  The more distractions you have, the longer it takes to actually come up with a finished product anyway.

Good luck.

Hello,

  The USB audio drop out will not affect the authorization in POD Farm at all. The problem you may run into is the POD Studio GX "trumping" the POD when you have both devices connected via USB. What this means is that the POD Farm plug in will only recognize the GX as the main authorization (dongle) device and therefore you will not get all of the models available to you in the POD X3 Live until you disconnect the GX.

  So the workaround would be to record what you can through the GX and then set your audio project to your computer's internal sound card, plug the X3 in and use the plug in without the GX connected.

  Or, you can conenct the analog out of the X3 into the input of the GX and route that signal into your recording application.

  Does this make sense at all? Let me know if it helps.

  Line6Miller