Mynameismatt Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 I don't have a POD HDx yet but I wondered if anyone prefers to use external drive pedals instead of the Pod ones. I prefer to use my external drives with my M13 as they sound more transparent. I also like that I leaves me more DSP to play with. What are your thoughts? Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lachinelli Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 Besides having a good selection of drive pedals, the pod also has excellent high gain amps to choose from. When I got the POD, I used to think I should make pedal-like patches since I was using a real amp for live sound, but now my patches have amp emulations and distorted patches use high gain amps instead of pedals in the POD. I use them combined as well (Screamer+high gain amp) and it sounds even better. Still, if you prefer to use external pedals, there's a loop available in the POD, so you can connect anything you like and add it to the chain within the POD. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjnette Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Some have complained the FX loop for pedals has a lower volume or described as a tone suck. I haven't confirmed it but the TRS output is a stereo output. A mono TS jack most likely will cause some combfiltering or more correctly an out of phase if used into a pedal. This means that a stereo chain of pedals could be run for some creativity and hopefully no tone loss for good pedals in your rig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mynameismatt Posted July 26, 2014 Author Share Posted July 26, 2014 Im not so bothered by the effects loop. I would be running over drive pedals in front of the pod and maybe a compressor. I know the issues with clipping but I wondered how the amp modelling reacted to overdrive pedals. I tend to run my amp clean and stack overdrive pedals to get the specific gain structures i like... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watchbr Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 I'm with you- distortions and overdrives are probably the weakest part of most digital multi-FX IMO. You can tweak them to sound alright, but put an analog pedal in front and all is right with the world again... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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