500x Coming Tomorrow And A Few Noob Questions

[sacredgrooves]

I am after best of both worlds for recording, and just and to make sure I am understanding this correctly.

 

I had a Pod 2.0 for years that I loved, but it was broken in a move about 6 years ago. I always wanted a Soldano, so bought one at the time, and love playing it. I am married w/ 3 kids living in the 'burbs however, so cranking that monster into the proper range is not a frequent occurrence. I ordered the new 500x and a decent pair of phones so I can play/record direct into pc.

 

I was reading that I can use the pre/power amp of the Soldano with the four cable method and go directly into the pc. I can just disconnect the cabinet and use a cab sim right? I would love a way to capture the tube amp essence while running the Pod through the phones. I also have a TC Electronics G Sharp in the effects loop of the Soldano. How could I incorporate all 3? If I had the pre/power and reverb/modulation from an outside source, it would leave a lot of room more effects/DSP on the 500 right?

 

I am not looking to play exclusively this way, just wondering about the options. I look forward to having a large variety of tones again, and the ability to play late at night as loud as my ears can take it. Thanks for the help, sure to be doing a lot of reading with this new toy lol.

[GTLazer]

Couple of quick points on this:

 

If you use a valve amp without speakers connected, you're liable to break the output valves/transformer; you need a compatible load.

 

You also can't use a cab sim without an amp sim on the Pods. You could use a fairly transparent amp sim, but it would have to be there nonetheless.

 

You could use the G Sharp. You could go Guitar > Pod guitar in > Pod loop out > amp guitar in > amp loop out > G Sharp > Pod loop in > Pod out > monitor/PC (you'll get unavoidable latency if you monitor through your PC, though - I wouldn't recommend it)

That would allow you to use Pod FX before your amp, then again after the G sharp.

 

There are other people on here with much more experience of 4CM than me, so it might be wise to get some of their advice before making a final decision on how to make this work best.

[sacredgrooves]

Thanks for the heads up on the not having a load for the amp! I had completely forgot that part of the equation, but luckily I have not gotten around to the 4cm yet. I did run into the latency issues monitoring with pc. I can play mp3's from the pc and monitor with the Pod through headphones though, so good enough. I am going to try and run my M-audio Delta 44 for pc monitoring to see if it will handle the latency issues better, but not the end of the world.