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justinmcnally966 Just Startin'
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May 29, 2012 1:24 PM

PLEASE HELP POD HD 500

Hello I have been working on this thing feels like forever and still not happy if some of you could help with advice or anything it would be great ....

 

This is what I have ...Ibanez guitars ...hd 500 ...peavey bandit 112 (silver one) and a peavey supreme head (silver one) with a 4x12 sheffield cab ..I want to down size to the bandit 112

 

Ok i want to run direct but use my amp for a stage monitor , but the problem that I'm having is I cant seem to get the sound that I want out of the amp as a stage monitor

 

I'm running into the effects return and the pods global setting is on studio/direct mode.....Please help

  • silverhead Expert Line 6 User
    silverhead
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    May 29, 2012 3:01 PM (in response to justinmcnally966)
    Re: PLEASE HELP POD HD 500

    The best advice I can give is to use an FRFR stage monitor - not a guitar amp. Try a keyboard amp or a true stage monitor. I think you will remain frustrated as long as you try to use a guitar amp purely as a monitor. That's not what it is designed to do; it's meant to colour the sound.... and as you've discovered it's very difficult to make it not do what it's designed to do.

     

    Here is a recent thread with some suggestions:

    http://line6.com/support/message/377522#377522

     

    ... but that's just my $0.02......

  • justinmcnally966 Just Startin'
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    May 29, 2012 3:20 PM (in response to justinmcnally966)
    Re: PLEASE HELP POD HD 500

    when you use that type of speaker do you set the pod to studio/direct or something else because i do want go direct to the board as well ...if i understand you right that speaker will be used as a stage monitor right

    • silverhead Expert Line 6 User
      silverhead
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      May 29, 2012 4:12 PM (in response to justinmcnally966)
      Re: PLEASE HELP POD HD 500

      Yes - you keep the Pod output set at studio/direct. An FRFR (Full Range Flat Response) speaker/monitor will accurately reproduce the sound that is being sent to the board. The definition of FRFR says it: it is deisgned to NOT cut/boost certain frequencies, nor add/remove any tonal characteristics. What it receives is what you hear, other than the amplification and the unavoidable minimal colouring that is proivided by the cab/speaker; it is designed to NOT process the incoming signal.

       

      A guitar amp, on the other hand, is specifically designed to take a dry and completely unprocessed input signal - and process it!

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