spgrooms

Haha; after reading this I realized that the board has it's own internal noise gate that you can add... that makes way too much sense :) If I only connect the L channel of the XLR to the board it will only receive the Left portion of the stereo output; assuming I have the settings on the board set appropriately. The noise gate would be placed at the end of the chain to achieve a mono stereo output, correct? Depending on the board and speaker system in use at the stage; that will really dictate whether you should provide a mono or stereo output; i.e. do they have separate left and right speakers or are they using a mono system.

The settings on the board is certainly one part of it, yes, however I am mainly curious what the people in this post concluded after their discussion, specifically 'onetruevibe' as he essentially has the same question as me, and they came to a good conclusion, I just don't fully understand their conclusion from the discussion. Obviously; it all comes down to the sound that you like, but it would certainly have a nice place to start!

Hi everyone, I've read through this chain here and am a bit confused on the connections here... This chain has been helpful though to understand the outputs from the POD HD500x. Just so everyone is aware; I am simply looking at purchasing the HD500x and was just wondering how to connect the pedal to a sound board. From what I can understand after reading through this, there are two options... Use the 1/4" L Unbalanced output to send to the board because this output mixes both left and right channels. Use a Noise Gate to use the XLR outputs to connect to the board. The part where I am confused is with #2... How does this connection actually work? Are both L and R XLR outputs connecting to a noise gate and the noise gate has an XLR out that goes to the sound board? From reading the latest post it sounds like the L XLR out goes to the board and the noise gate is connecting to the R output? Also; could you give me an example of a noise gate that you all use? Forgive me if I'm asking some rather dumb questions. Thanks, Spgrooms