Line 6 POD 2.0 User's Manual
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Rev A. Electrophonic version available at www.line6.com.
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Version 2.0 software enhances the already beloved POD with a host of new features
and improvements requested by the growing community of POD users, or dreamed up
by the product design crew at Line 6. This publication gives you all the details.
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Before we dive into the new stuff, this is a good time to let you know that if you’ve got
ideas about products and features, we want to hear them! A lot of the new goodies that
await you in POD 2.0 software were suggested to us by happy POD owners. We invite
you to email
or other products you’d like to see from Line 6. If you’re not up on the email thing yet,
you can call and talk to our customer service team, or track down one of our Product
Specialists – the roving band of Line 6 evangelists that help support Line 6 products at
your local dealer. At Line 6, we’re eager to work with you to create the tools that help
all of us make great music.
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with your own thoughts about features for your POD
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The following pages cover everything in detail, but we figured you’d want a little
overview to get you started:
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32 Amp Models
they’re all available right from the front panel knobs (so you no longer have to use
SoundDiver software to access more than Amp Models 1-16). Hold the
and turn the Amp Models knob to get amps 17-32; details on the new Amp Models
are in the pages ahead.
Mix ‘n’ Match Cabinet Models
speaker cabinet models via SoundDiver. Now you can do it right from POD: Hold the
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button and turn the Effects knob to choose cabs; details on the Cabinet Models
are in the pages ahead.
Customization
Amp Model or Effect selection. When you turn to the Rectifier Amp Model, say, the
Drive, Bass, Mid, Treble, etc. will be set automatically to give you an awesome readyto-rock tone – so with one knob twist, you’re ready to go. The Effects knob works the
same way. Even cooler, you can set exactly what the memorized settings are for each of
the Amp Models and Effects knob positions, and thereby customize your POD tones to
reflect your very own sonic genius or depravity. The MANUAL button, as always, lets
you override these automatic settings for the where-the-knobs-are-is-how-it-sounds
experience. We go into it all in the pages ahead.
– POD now includes 32 Amp Models (before 2.0, it was 28), and
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– POD has always allowed you to access a variety of
– The Amp Models and Effects knobs now set more than just the
ToneTransfer
incredible sounds, and our ToneTransfer system lets you take advantage of all that
sonic creativity. Number one, all the sounds you use in your POD can be transferred to
(and from) any Flextone II series amplifier or the new POD Pro. Number two, an
expanding library of these sounds is available for you at
search the library by musical style, artist, and more, to find just the sounds you’re
– All those folks with PODs have been busy using them to make some
www.line6.com
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looking for. And while you’re there, we invite you to add your own great tones to the
library. We’ll be continually adding to this great collection of sounds ourselves as well,
to make it
Tuning POD for use with amplifiers
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place for great guitar tone.
– POD has always had an AMP/DIRECT
switch for optimizing POD to run in various setups. The DIRECT position is used
when you’re running POD directly into your mixer or recorder. The AMP position is
used when you’re using POD as a tone-shaping front-end for another guitar amplifier.
We’ve now added a choice of tuning modes for the AMP position, selectable at power
up. By default, POD expects to be plugged into the guitar input of an open-backed
combo. But with the new tuning modes, you can alternatively optimize your POD to
run into the power amp input of a closed-back system, or with closed-back cabinets.
Details are in the pages ahead, along with some illustrations that folks suggested would
be helpful for getting PODsters plugged in and happening with a variety of setups.
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MPROVEMENTS
While we were in there adding the new features to POD, we also took the time to
make a few additional improvements:
Faster Channel Switching
– Channel switching has been made more intelligent,
and is faster and smoother as a result. When changing channels, POD only updates
those parameters that change from one channel to another. So, for instance, if two
channels have all the same settings except the reverb level, switching between them
means POD only updates the reverb level. That means the channel switch is nearly
instantaneous, and as glitch-free as possible.
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New SoundDiver
– The SoundDiver software has also been updated, and now
includes support for the Flextone II amplifiers, POD Pro, and POD 2.0 as well as
original PODs (be sure to check the Support section of www.line6.com for the latest
free SoundDiver download).
Better Tuner
– The chromatic tuner now tracks faster and more accurately.
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