Routing for a Pod XT

Jerry Touval · From: Great Falls, Virginia, USA

In reconfiguring my home studio this week, I decided to give my old Pod XT a new lease on life after years of gathering dust. In its past tour of duty, the way I had it hooked up was pedal steel to Goodrich 7A Matchbox to volume pedal to Pod input to Nashville 112 low gain input.

I’m wondering if other routing options would be better – (1) routing the Pod input/output to the Nashville 112 pre-eq send/return, (2) same but using the post eq send/return, or (3) using the Nashville 112 preamp out/power amp in connections for the Pod.

Any opinions on the plusses and minuses of those routings would really be appreciated!

Jack Stoner · From: Kansas City, MO

I used a POD XT then a POD X3 (same programs) for years. Effects only, no amp modeling. My main program was spring reverb and digital delay. I ran it between the volume pedal and amp input.

I did have one preamp program that I used with recording.

If you want to use it for overdrive/distortion then it needs to be between the guitar and volume pedal.

Brian Spratt · From: Oklahoma, USA

It depends on which effects you have engaged in your PODxt. If you're running a virtual preamp in the pod, then generally you would avoid running it through another one like the one in your Nashville. Same holds true for speaker simulation... if you've got the speaker simulation on in the POD then you really need to be running it direct and not through another amp speaker unless its like a PA speaker.

If however, you're just using reverb, chorus, delay, then absolutely run it into the front of your Peavey.

My suggestion is if you want to make use of the amp models in the podxt AND you want to run it through your Peavey, then run your steel into the PODxt, and then run the PODxt output into the power amp in section on the back of your amp. And - very important - adjust the setting in the PODxt to tell it you are running it into a power amp. There is a very specific setting for this and its buried in a menu somehwere which I'm sure you can find in the manual. That bypasses the speaker/cab simulation in the podxt, which is what you want in that situation.

Larry Dering · From: Missouri, USA

You use the tuner button then page to scroll to the connections settings. Then select what you hook to. There's a big tone change between these settings.

Jerry Touval · From: Great Falls, Virginia, USA

Thanks for the replies, very helpful.

I was looking to use the Pod for effects rather than amp modeling – reverb, delay, mod, compression. I have other amps that do a good job of amp modeling and don’t need to add more capacity for that. I was considering maybe using the Tube Preamp setting in the Pod – would that also need to run into the Power Amp In connection on the Peavey?

I know where the Pod menu option is for connecting it as Studio Direct or into a power amp. But that raises another question - which setting would I use if I’m running the Pod into the input on the front of the Peavey? Studio Direct?

Larry Dering · From: Missouri, USA

Jerry, I usually run mine as studio direct but it's been suggested to try the others as your results may vary. Some cancel the speaker IR and you may like that better.

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