Indianrock2020 Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 The title summarizes it and forgive me for covering old ground. Does this sound correct? Let's assume for my purposes there are advantages to using the XLR over 1/4 out, and I will never run both left and right out -- only using one PA channel direct. Also assume I'll never use a stereo effect and will always put a noise gate as the last effect with 100% decay and 0% threshold ( unity gain mono summing ). Finally the mixer for the xlr not in use will be muted and input 1 set to guitar, input 2 to variax. Any loss of gain/db doesn't seem to be an issue for me at home running into a stereo receiver with speakers and I doubt it would be at church with a fairly large, quality PA system. If I do run this way I might want to consider a short xlr male to female adapter so the xlr out on the POD isn't suffering a lot of wear over time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brue58ski Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Well I would put the Noise Gate at the beginning of your effects. Then it uses only the clean guitar signal as it's reference and not a bunch of noisy effects and amps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indianrock2020 Posted April 3, 2015 Author Share Posted April 3, 2015 The only purpose of the noise gate is to sum everything to a mono out because on the HD500x the xlr outs are separate left and right. I'm not using the noise gate to reduce noise, at all, nada. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceatl Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Assuming there is some advantage to using the onboard XLR, I would likely take a different approach if mono was required....Likely I would just use a direct box and be done with it and just make sure my patches are summing consistently in stereo or mono regardless of the input.... However, if I had to use the onboard XLRs, I would get an XLR Combiner and use that....That would sum mono and save on wear and tear... Either way, you still have to insure that summing makes sense....The advantage to using a combiner (or 1/4 out for mono) is that it allows you to check the summing and it is possible to have stereo patches that sound good in mono and stereo....That is actually a pretty good thing to do regardless and allows you to run on either way with the same patches...But you have to tweak it... something like this: http://www.guitarcenter.com/Art-SplitCom-Pro-2-Way-Mic-Splitter---Combiner-108581737-i1386015.gc?country=us¤cy=usd&isfullsite=1&source=4WWRWXGP&gclid=CjwKEAjw9PioBRDdpqy0-ofG3DgSJAACe5NEQSKz4vL818rKjHMuOyNgXcbIB0WBUVqtPmxeZt0NkxoCd03w_wcB&kwid=productads-plaid^87085911162-sku^108581737@ADL4GC-adType^PLA-device^c-adid^44639487282 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indianrock2020 Posted April 3, 2015 Author Share Posted April 3, 2015 I'm going to have to test both the single xlr out and the single 1/4 out to see if there is any noticeable difference in a live band situation. As far as the Art SplitCom Pro 2 Way Mic Splitter / Combiner I'm not sure how that reduces the amount of wear and tear on the POD's xlr jack, unless you just leave something plugged into that jack all the time, in which case it might be harder to get the POD into its travel case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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