Line 6 Bass POD xt Live User Manual - MIDI Manuals

GETTING SET UP • In The StudioCHANNEL VOLUME 14 knobs up to maximum. If your equipment has a couple ofopen line-level only inputs, you’ll probably get better performance by plugging intothese, rather than the wide-ranging mic-to-line level trimmed inputs.Setting LevelsStart by setting Bass PODXT Live to the sound you intend to use, strum hard, and setCHAN VOL 14 as close to max as you can without getting the CLIP indicator in BassPODXT Live’s display. Now play with Bass PODXT Live’s OUTPUT knob and any inputvolume control on your system so you can get the maximum sound level out of yourBass PODXT Live without going so far that you overdrive the input on your system andcause unwanted distortion.3 • 9Here’s a handy tip: You probably want to have all of your favorite sounds as loud aspossible, while also having the right difference in volume between your more aggressiveand more laid back sounds, clean and dirty sounds, etc. Right? OK, then, to get thishappy balance, start with your favorite ‘clean’ sounds. Turn up their Chan Vol as highas you can without getting the CLIP indicator in Bass PODXT Live’s display when youplay hard, and save them that way. Then switch amongst them to see if some are tooloud, and turn them down a bit to match well with the others. Next, move on to selectyour ‘dirtier’ crunch and overdrive tones, comparing them to the clean sounds andsaving them with lower Chan Vol settings to match well with those clean sounds. Now,each time you use your Bass PODXT Live, you just have to set an overall volume youlike with the rear panel LEVEL 6 knob, and you can switch amongst your varioussounds without unhappy volume differences.Radiation AlertYou’re also likely to find that it is quite easy to pick up some serious noise from anycomputer CRT (which stands for cathode ray tube) display you might have in yourstudio. CRT displays are, after all, just special purpose ray guns that shoot photons atyou all day long. Your bass pickups receive and amplify the electro-magnetic fields thatyour display radiates, and you hear this in your audio signal as buzz and hum. Movingfarther from the CRT, and turning your bass so it does not directly face the computer’sdisplay, will minimize this problem. But if you find yourself in a tight studio setup,needing to lay down some quick tracks, and being pestered by CRT-induced buzz, youmay find it helpful to do as we have sometimes done: set up your track to record andstart your pre-roll; reach up and flick your computer monitor’s power switch off; recordyour bass part; stop your recording, flick the monitor back on, and check out the buzz-