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Most important in plugging in your pod is what kind of guitar amp you are plugging into and even more important how. For most Pod users it seems the best solution for the pod is to go with a "atomic" amp. do a search on google... Or in my case and many others we've gone to an all around keyboard amp... Yes that's right I said keyboard amp. For me I have a traynor K4 that just rawks with my pod xtLive. The main reason I went with this setup is so when I'm making sound patch it works both for live and in the studio so I always sound the same... I assume you're using "Edit" and all those resources... when I first started up I used "user patches" from the online community that were great starting points... If you have to use a typical gitar amp, make sure you bypass the pre's and plug into the fx's return on the back of the amp. That way you're not going to add a pre amp to a pre amp... As well when you make your sounds you really need to audition them at the volume you're gonna play them at... Bedroom or headphone volumes don't traslate at all to stage. Yes you'll be doing some tweaking but the different sounds that can be made are cool. I don't emulate either I make "my" signature sound! Later;)

Hey Dylan, I can totally see what you're wanting to do. My wife and I adopted 5 kids after about a year, my fulling functioning recording studio sat idle more than it worked. I made a tough decision to turn it into an jam/ song writing room. I traded about $45K worth of gear, most of it outdated stuff, nothing vintage, and purchased smaller more versitile stuff. So from a dual Tascam DM 4000 32 channel digi boards to a Tascam 1884 controller/soundcard. 1 controller keyboard with plugins and Gigastudio instead 5 keybaords. I'm finding even though the room doesn't have a 1000 lights flashing nor that wow factor, I actually have more control over what I was doing (more so ITB) and the wife and I share the same space, so the kids have more space. As well because I only have $20K or so invested in my room now, I just have normal house insurance is cheeper, I find it easier to use, more productive as I don't have to repatch 100 things from someone else who just finished their session. As long as I have some toys to "make noise" with I'm happy. Even though my wife and I have to have a large house for all these guys, we miss our "row house" in downtown Toronto. 15' wide, 500 square feet per level. We could clean/renovate each level quickly, cheeply and with higher quality stuff. But ya where ever i live I will always have a space for some gear. I know some of the condo styled apartments limit what can be done inside the condo, if I could soundproof a condo that will be something I do after the kids go because doing house chores a lot of times gets in the way of what I want to do.

When someone inserts like everywhere, like when I lke went to like the show like everyone I know was like sooo like wasted like you know! I hate that