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Hello, I am using a Line6 GX sound card with macbook air OS X 10.10.5 to record guitar sounds. My setup looks like this: Line6 GX Input: Electric Guitar Line6 GX Output: USB to computer + double mini jack wire. Output from Line6 GX is mini and other end of wire is a mini with mini-to-large jack adapter. That end is inserted into a Line6 Guitar Amp (Spider IV 15). Pod Farm 2.5 Pro is used. Manipulations in Pod Farm 2.5 result in effected guitar sound from the Line6 Amp. Smart Recorder software has been used to record the effected guitar sound. MacBook Air microphone is used as recording tool. This is now unacceptable. Macbook air microphone produces undesirable grating effect. I have in my possession an AKG Perception Live P4 microphone, though I can't figure out how to replace the MacBook Air microphone with it. I understand that I can connect the AKG microphone to the Line6 sound card. This would however prevent me from connecting my guitar to the sound card and effecting my guitar sound with Pod Farm. Is there a way to bypass the Macbook air microphone and replace it with this better microphone, so that I may record the guitar amplifier sound as I am recording now, only with a better microphone? Thanks, Hani

Yes exactly! I was coming to post about this right now as I've stumbled upon it my self. Only I didn't do it like that. All I had to do was to create 2 Audio Tracks in reason, 1 with reason monitoring enabled and one without. And both tracks can record simultaneously, so I get one track non-reason monitored which is the PODFarm sound and one track reason monitored which is the (PODFarm + Reason FX) and I get the sound I want. Thank you!

Hi Silverhead, I tried what you said and what you said happened. So the problem: "headphone sound is different from recorded sound" has been solved. And here we find that the headphone sound is no longer the one that I want! So I discovered something wonderful about this situation. If I keep the monitoring on the reason audio track turned on, I hear TWO guitars being played simultaneously. There is the Reason Output sound and the PODFarm Output sound. It turns out that PODFarm amp setup affects the Reason Output sound, but that the Reason FX do not affect the PODFarm Output sound. So if Reason monitoring is kept on, the sound I hear from my headphones is: A- PODFarm Output Sound + B- Reason Output Sound Amplified by PODFarm units and manipulated by Reason FX Sound A is the REAL guitar sound. It is the guitar sound that guides me to play what I want to play. Sound B is TOO FAR OUT into the distance and cant be used as an adequate guide while playing, but when it is in the background while I am playing, the compounded affect is wonderful. This compounded affect is the sound I want recorded, only that can't be recorded, because if Reason Monitoring is on, the PODFarm output sound will not be recorded. So this is a new idea in recording using Reason: First, record an Audio Track with Reason Monitoring switched on. This way you'll still be able to hear the Amplified PODFarm guitar output, used as a playing guide, but the recorded sound will only be the reason output. Then create another audio track and switch Reason monitoring off, and play the exact same notes. In this case you will only hear the PODFarm Output through your headphones and that will be what is recorded. Now you have 2 audio tracks, when played back, that give you the compounded sound you hear in your headphones when you are playing with outputs from both PODFarm and Reason 7!

I have realized something new about this issue. Explaining it this way may help someone help me. There are 2 output tracks that work independently of one another. This is peculiar as this makes PODFarm 2.5 and Reason incompatible when they shouldn't be so, or my configuration is faulty. One may play guitar on reason 7 with no podfarm and hear a guitar sound through the line 6 gx headphones out. _ Reason 7 Output One may play guitar on podfarm with no reason 7 and hear a guitar sound through the line 6 gx headphones out. _ PODFarm Output One opens PODFarm 2.5 and reason 7, adds an audio track in reason 7, the 2 outputs mentioned above are operating simultaneously. And the effects added in reason affect the output of the PODFarm signal. The effects added in PODFarm effect the output of the Reason Signal. I want the PODFarm output Signal to be recorded. "It was the one that I hear in my headphones" is an incorrect statement. I hear both output signals through my headphones, but the reason 7 output signal is in the far background so I barely hear it. That "in the background" sound is what is being recorded. I would like to record the PODFarm output signal but this has been impossible so far. Regards, Hani

The input source is specified as GX 1 and that is GX Tone A. If we try stereo (GX 1 + 2) there is no difference. The problem is quite strange. If I find a solution I will post it here.

Hi Silverhead, It is ALWAYS doing what I just said. Whether or not I add an effect IN reason, Reason is always recording the track as if I have the fader of Tone A in the Pod Farm mixer pulled all the way down. So this is strange.... how to fix this?

Hi, Ok I figured out what is happening. If Silverhead you can help I would appreiciate this a lot. If you click on Mixer VIEW in podfarm you can see the volume fader for TONE A. So what is happening is this: If the volume fader of tone A is at Max, When I hear through the headphones, i hear the reason reverb + podfarm sound. However, when I record and playback, I hear a sound that is identical to the sound I would hear through the headphones if the tone A volume fader is turned all the way down! How do I make it so that the recorded sound is taking the tone A volume at max when that is what is set? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Hani

Hi Silverhead, Thanks for the reply. I am using non-Pod Farm reverb FX because Reason has an advanced reverb unit which is "pretty amazing." The reverbs in Pod Farm do not do what it can do; do not give the atmospheric control that it gives. I could not find how to turn off the monitoring feature in the GX. If you could advise about that I would be greatful, but there is something I should point out first: You said "What you hear from the headphones while recording is the sound produced by Pod Farm. It sounds like the reverb FX you are adding is not from Pod Farm but from some other software FX library. Reason is adding the Reverb FX to the sound after it leaves Pod Farm and before it is recorded. Hence you don't hear it while recording but you do hear it on playback." But that isnt what is happening. When I insert the Reason Reverb to the Reason audio track, there is a noticeable change in the headphone sound. It becomes the reverbed sound that I want (amplified and manipulated by POD Farm tools too.) The sound i hear on the headphones is PODFarm + Reason Reverb. This is quite frustrating, as if I could maintain the reverbed sound i hear through my headphones that would be ideal, but when I record and playback I get a different sound. What's the difference: In Headphones: guitar loud and sharp, atmospherics supporting. After recording: guitar low and "out there," atmospherics dominating. Any more ideas are very much appreciated. Regards, Hani

Hello, I am using PODFarm 2.5 and reason 7 to record guitar. Sound card is Line6 GX. Mac Yosemite. I create an audio track in reason and add a reverb effects unit to it. I hear from the headphones connected to the line6 gx soundcard output. I get a certain sound I open pod farm 2.5 and insert an amp. i get the sound that i want. I play the guitar then record what i play. What i play, what i hear through the headphones, is different from what ends up being recorded in reason. This happens with all effects added to the audio track, not just reverb. What I hear on headphones while playing is different from what ends up being recorded. Any ideas? Thanks, Hani