adagosto Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Hi. Question for you POD HD folks. I have one of those Redwitch Medusa chorus pedals and I really like it a lot. I plug that into my effects loop. Can I plug the POD HD Desktop into my effects loop and then out of the POD and into the Medusa and then into the loop? Does that make sense? Amp -》loop POD -》Medusa -》loop amp. Basically can you put the POD in the loop along with your other pedals. Thank you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceatl Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 HD Bean works great that way. If you have another head you could configure to drive two returns if you wanted to. I have run my HD bean in tandem with conventional pedals and it can work just fine that way...Just takes some tinkering... Not sure if you would be interested, but you can actually run the bean in 4CM the bean to your head...Here is a link to the old thread...Might help you with understanding what you can do with the routing. What you want to do is less complicated as you wanting the bean in the fx loop... http://line6.com/support/topic/2177-4-cm-the-hd-pod-bean-oh-yes-this-works/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joel_brown Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 I wish the PODHD Bean had an effects loop but it's a discontinued item. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adagosto Posted December 28, 2014 Author Share Posted December 28, 2014 Hi. The 4CM seems like a very good option for the way I want to use it with my Mesa Boogie. My son on the other hand would use this as a recording tool. I'm not so sure he'll want to share it once I get it... In the case of a 4CM hook up, I've read that you can use the POD HD Desktop pre-amp models. How does this work? Can someone explain how the app modeling is different? Is it just the same amps configured for a pre-amp tone as opposed to the modeled pre and power tone? So confused as to the best way to connect this into the app for the best results. Thx! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceatl Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 If you are confused, I would suggest that you start just running the bean into the power amp in (or FX return)....This is a fairly simple and effective way to run the bean. I use the HD bean pretty exclusively and rarely use 4CM anymore. 4CM can work, but it is a fairly advanced approach that requires some decent understanding of how the bean works in terms of the signal paths as you can get into some trouble when you serialize the signal paths...The HD Pro is a better choice for this, but the bean can be made to work this way. Start with your HD bean set to Combo Power Amp Output Mode and use the power amp input on your amp...Sit down with the manual and learn how to spin up a fairly simple tone...Start with the PRE models alone...get something decent going and move on to adding FX...This exercise will give you great idea of what you can do with the bean in terms of complete tones...Once you get under running it that way, the next step is running 4CM... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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