Beginner questions for wet/dry setting for metal guitar sound.

[ragzy02]

Hello everyone!  I am just getting started with Pod Farm and love it so far.  I have several years of experience with home recording, but this is the first time I have used a guitar amp modeling software, and so far I have one major question/issue in getting my metal guitar tone set up. (I have seen several posts that seem to be related to what I'm about to ask, but I wanted to discuss and ask in my own words.)

 

I am getting very decent tones but here's the deal: After recording into my DAW (Reaper), on playback, I am hearing the dry (clean), unprocessed guitar sound along with the wet signal and it's affecting my tone.  It's not very loud, but it's definitely underneath, and it's affecting my overall tone. I would guess that there is a way to minimize this somehow.

 

What I would like is some pointers/solutions/settings on how to properly adjust this or compensate.  Is there an optimal setting for the wet/dry signal or is this dry tone something that's always going to be underlying as a subtle thing?  It's really awful sounding once you pinpoint it because it's just raw, electric guitar with no distortion.

 

Now, what I HAVE tried is creating a buss and routing the dry signal pre-fader, but this doesn't seem to sound quite right either, but I could simply be setting something up wrong since I have little to no experience with modeling software.

 

So in summary, I'm just looking for advice on how to set up the tracks within Reaper to record metal guitar with the metal shop pack in Pod Farm, and get a tone similar to Pantera, Metallica, Megadeth, Avenged Sevenfold, etc.  Not really looking for extreme distortion, just a good "clean" distortion like the aforementioned bands have/had.

[Triryche]

Are you using a POD Studio UX1 or UX2?

If so, make sure in Reaper you selecting ASIO UX and enable First Input 1 and Last Input 4.

Arm 2 separate tracks to record, one capturing 1/2 and the other 3/4.

In Pod Farm's Mixer view select dry for 2 of the sends and tone A+B for the other 2 sends.

 

This allows you to capture wet and dry simultaneously to 2 separate tracks so you can treak the dry track with the plug-in post processing.

[clarke_hubbard]

Guru,

 

Sorry to jump in on this convo but I had trouble trying to get my own string started... I'm having a similar issue as "just startin", UX2 to POD Farm 2 I'm getting:

1. A low input signal- I can find now way to take control of my input signal... This cant be the way it was designed right?

2. I have way too much dry signal coming through the software when playing (not recording). I don't want to hear dry signal, or I want to at least be able to control it 100%.

 

Can you advise?

 

Win 7 Pro

UX2 Driver 4.2.7.2

POD 2.57.0

[atempfer]

Bump; this is my exact problem, with the exception that I am using Logic Pro X. Would love to get this figured out.

[Triryche]

Can you post a snapshot of POD Farm's Mixer View?

[Brozz]

I had the same issue (Reaper) heres how I fixed it.
 

Open PODFarm and go to "mixer view". The icon directly right of the Line6 logo.


Tone A input: instrument
Tone B input: same as Tone A
Send 1-2: Rec: Tone A+B
Send 3-4: Tone A+B

This allows me to record into Reaper using PODFarm standalone, and still get the fully processed signal.

I hope I explained that correctly, or at least gave you an idea of how I corrected the problem.