[marc bolan]

hi guys
just need a bit of advice,i have got my electric guitar plugged into my line pod and then the pod connected to my amp now i want to record my playing whats the best way to do this,i see a lot of you record to your pc can i do this with my pod or do i need any other equipment and if not do i connect the pod to the pc without the amp ,forgive me if this has been asked before

thankyou

[fly135]

To connect to the PC you have two options.

1) 1/4" TS to 1/8" mono into the mic input.
2) 1/4" TS to 1/8" stereo into the line input.

You can (and maybe should) use the left and right outputs with the appropriate adapters to the stereo line input. Simpler would be the mono mic, but you should probably turn off the mic boost in the volume control panel to reduce noise. The Pod should drive the mic input with the boost off.

[Tekker]

Originally Posted by marc bolan

i have got my electric guitar plugged into my line pod and then the pod connected to my amp now i want to record my playing whats the best way to do this.

If you have the equipment for it, the best way to do it is to mic the amp. Do you have a mic and either a small mixer or a mic preamp?

If you don't have a mic and mixer/preamp then the next best way is to plug the pod straight into your soundcard. POD's have the speaker simulators, but don't quite compare to a real amp. In this case plug the POD into the line input on your soundcard (the signal coming out of the POD is at line level). If you want to record your POD in stereo, you can take the right and left outputs from the POD into a stereo Y-adaptor and go into the line in (which is also stereo). The two female ends should be 1/4" to connect to the POD and the male end should be 1/8" to connect to the computer.

-tkr

[marc bolan]

thankyou for your advice im now up and running so once again thanx