Unforgiving POD tones

[Mm1066]

Hey there. I've been getting into DI'ing recently, and since I don't have a box at the moment I was wondering if anybody knew of any models that are very unforgiving for me to use, as I'm usually quite forgiving with the tones I use from it.

I know some of you (if not most) will tell me to get an actual DI box to maximize quality, but I'm more of a convenience home recordist and don't really have that much spare money to buy or rent one.

Thanks!

 

[[UEAK]Clowd]

huh?

 

[Mm1066]

Thanks for the reply.

Line 6 PODs. I have the X3 which is able to act similarly to a DI box. Whilst I don't want to have to listen to myself completely dry of processing, I want to listen to myself through a tone which will show me all my noise, mistakes etc.

 

[Vinny]

Ohhh. So instead of covering up your mistakes with the tone you want the tone to uncover your mistakes?
Umm, have you tried a clean tone?












































Sorry. I couldn't resist.

 

[Genius Gone Insane]

huh??

 

[MindMunch]

Instal POD Farm on your computer, dial the tone you want for monitoring, go to the "mixer view" and set the REC sends to "Dry input". This way you´re going to hear what you´re playing with the tone you want but only send the DIs to the DAW.

 

[SimonTaddio_Qc]

I always lay down tracks with a very transparent tone..."unforgiving" as you'd say
No reverb, effects and almost no bass will give you a tone as dry as could be

 

[Mm1066]

Thanks for all the serious replies guys.

 

[Plankis]

On the xt you were able to record dry while monitoring a wet tone, you did that by opening the gearbox's controlpanel and change it from there. But you had to use the xt's asio player to be able to use this feature. Surely the x3 must be able to this?

Edit: Which probably is what Mindmunch replied...

 

[Backe]

on ye olde pod 2.0 the stereo outs when splitted act as dry and wet sends, X3's gotta have that. I know it's not the MANLY way, but read the manual lol
but if you're using the x3 as your soundcard, go to the farm

 

[Rex Rocker]

Don't abuse the gain knob. It's pretty easy to do that with the POD.

 

[Cryo114]

Turn the gain down and play it slowly first, hitting every note evenly. Hope that didn't sound condescending.

 

[Mm1066]

Hey guys. Thanks again

Reading back, my post was a bit vague. I intended to record dry using the X3 as a sound card whilst recording. So hearing the 'unforgiving' wet tone whilst I recorded the dry track would maximize my chance at getting something that sounded decent.

 

[MarcusGHedwig]

In truth, in my many years owning an XT I always found pretty much all the tones to really mask flaws in playing; I'd look into a software amp sim solution such as LePou's Lecto, TSE X50, etc. combined with impulses (and a new interface, unless they improved the drivers for the X3, cuz when using my XT as my interface I could never get the latency low enough to monitor in real-time through amp sim plugins on a track without tons of clicks and pops, which went away when I got a dedicated interface)