External Sound Cards Vs. Pod Xt |
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Jan 27 2009, 11:09 AM
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As far as I know the POD IS a soundcard...
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Jan 27 2009, 11:17 AM
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The POD acts as an external soundcard, and I think the main reason for having a different sound compared to the headphones has to do primarily with your speakers connected to the computer. It makes quite a difference which monitor speakers you are using, as they all have different specs.
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Jan 27 2009, 11:32 AM
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You should do the following:
1. connect POD XT live to your computer via USB cable 2. connect speakers/monitors to your POD XT live 
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Jan 27 2009, 11:36 AM
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QUOTE (wrk @ Jan 27 2009, 11:31 AM)  I tested and use both. POD only as audio device for input and output over the mac output or the POD as complete sound card for in- and output. For both, the sound is different when the signal does the loop through the computer compared to just use the POD on it' own. Does this makes sense? Maybe i do something wrong ... Question: If you loop throught the computer the output is the PC speaker? If you use POD on its own the output is your headphones? Am I getting this right ?  QUOTE (Dejan Farkas @ Jan 27 2009, 11:32 AM) You should do the following: 1. connect POD XT live to your computer via USB cable 2. connect speakers/monitors to your POD XT live smile.gif That may indeed solve the difference, as long as the speakers/monitors don't color the sound different
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Jan 27 2009, 11:40 AM
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QUOTE (wrk @ Jan 27 2009, 11:24 AM) Yes it is, i just don't know how it compares to other external sound cards, specialized to convert the A/D, D/A signal. ... A specialist ADC/DAC will produce a much better result then a general card with ADA conversion. Specialist cards, including Apogee, use higher quality components - particularly the clock - and so achieve much better results wrt jitter and quantisation.In short you (should) get a clearer signal, more SNR and less digital distortion and noise with a specialist card. Apogee, along with RME, is renowned for the high quality of its digital conversion by the way in the sub 5000 US dollar price bracket so the Duet is almost certainly very good kit. I use RME but if I was Mac based may have gone with Apogee. Cheers, Tony -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Jan 27 2009, 11:54 AM
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How do you connect the POD to computer?
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Jan 27 2009, 12:02 PM
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Maybe the problem is not in the POD, but in the recording software, I am not sure how good the Garage Band is, have you tried any other?
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Jan 27 2009, 12:11 PM
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QUOTE (wrk @ Jan 27 2009, 11:00 AM) 1. Does anyone know if this would make a difference and if, which sound cards are able to give better results as the POD? ... are there any values to look for when choosing a sound card? 2. Beside improving sound quality, is a better sound card processing the signal faster as well or what else i can do to optimize this and have better performance? 3. I use a mac book pro with 4gb memory. The computer should be able to manage this or not? 4. Not thinking so much about budget for now, but of course there are some limits. I don't need 10 inputs or a lot of options. Maybe something similar to the Apogee Duet for example(?). I would appreciate any ideas or informations. Thanks ! Andy 1. Yes it would make a difference. POD is not designed primarily as a sound card, it is more of a guitar processor. You can use it as a sound card, but there are better sound cards than POD. There are values to look when you are searching for a new sound card and based on your needs those would be: - number if inputs/outputs - onboard DSP (Digital Signal Processing, effects in the card itself, free CPU from processing) - DAW monitoring latency - quality of converters - sampling frequency and bit depths (24/192 on hi quality models) - external/internal card - possibility of input upgrade - other stuff 2. Yes, a new sound card will process the sound faster, and it will enable you to monitor the signal in your DAW with very little latency. This means you can put third party VST reverb, or any other VST effect on the track and the effect could be monitored, adn this is what gives you greater flexibility. You don't need to optimize anything, cause OS X is already optimized for audio work, so all you need is a good DAW and a good sound card. 3. Yes, your computer is great for audio work. 4. Instead of Apogee Dute, which I think it is terribly overpriced I recommend Digidesign M-BOX 2:  It is in the same price range as Duet, but has lot better features, both hardware and software. Also you'll get ProTools LE, the industry standard DAW system for audio production - for free. Check out the features: HARDWARE: # 100% USB powered for maximum portability # 2 analog inputs, 2 analog outputs # 2 channels of S/PDIF digital I/O # 1 MIDI input and 1 MIDI output (16 channels in/16 channels out) # Zero-latency monitoring # Superior sonic performance # 48V phantom power for condenser microphones # Separate source selection and gain control per channel # Headphone output with dedicated volume control # Dedicated studio monitor volume control SOFTWARE: * Award-winning Pro Tools® recording, editing, and mixing * 48 simultaneous stereo audio tracks (expandable with Toolkit options) * Includes dozens of pro effects processing plug-ins and virtual instruments * Professional MIDI sequencing with dedicated MIDI Editor window * Integrated Score Editor based on award-winning Sibelius notation software * Full Elastic Time and Elastic Pitch to easily adjust timing and pitch on your tracks * Unique Beat Detective™ LE automatic groove analysis and correction tool * ReWire support for streaming you favorite applications right into Pro Tools * Support for the Digidesign C|24™ and Command|8® control surfaces * Huge selection of compatible third-party plug-ins and software options * Works on Windows and Mac computers Virtual Instruments * Boom drum machine and sequencer * DB-33 tonewheel organ emulator with rotating speaker simulation * Mini Grand acoustic grand piano * Vacuum monophonic vacuum tube synthesizer * Xpand!2 multitimbral synth and sample workstation * Structure Free sample player * FXpansion BFD Lite acoustic drum module Effects, Sound-Processing, Utility Plug-ins * 1-Band EQ III * 4-Band EQ III * 7-Band EQ III * AIR Chorus * AIR Distortion * AIR Dynamic Delay * AIR Enhancer * AIR Ensemble * AIR Filter Gate * AIR Flanger * AIR Frequency Shifter * AIR FuzzWah * AIR KillEQ * AIR Lo-Fi * AIR MultiChorus * AIR Multi-Delay * AIR Nonlinear Reverb * AIR Phaser * AIR Reverb * AIR Spring Reverb * AIR StereoWidth * AIR Talkbox * AIR Vintage Filter * BF76 Compressor * BF Essential Clip Remover * BF Essential Correlation Meter * BF Essential Meter Bridge * BF Essential Noise Meter * Celemony Melodyne Essential * Chorus * Click * Compressor/Limiter * D-Verb * DC Offset Removal * De-Esser * Delay * DigiReWire * Dither * Duplicate * Eleven Free * Expander/Gate * Extra Long Delay II * Flanger * Gain * Invert * Lo-Fi * Long Delay II * Maxim * Medium Delay II * Multi-Tap Delay * Normalize * Ping-Pong Delay * Pitch * Pitch Shift * POWr Dither * Recti-Fi * Reverse * SansAmp * Sci-Fi * Signal Generator * Short Delay II * Slap Delay II * Time Compression Expansion * Time Shift * TL AutoPan * TL InTune * TL MasterMeter * TL Metro * Trim * Vari-Fi -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Jan 27 2009, 12:31 PM
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No problem man, glad to help. You were spot on with your doubts, so I think you'll make a right choice. Ask if you need anything more,cheers!
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Jan 27 2009, 12:32 PM
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Andy I strongly feel POD will do great job for your collaborations or single tracks that you do for lessons.
The reason why I would go for quality sound card is for one reason and one reason only - RECORDING COMPLETE SONGS. Sound cards have MIDI input in them, so you can record all the parts in real time with no latency using Midi controler (keyboard or guitar with midi pick up). Another good thing about sound cards is you can add up lots of effects and VST's and there will be far less latency (if none) compared to POD . Of course this also depends on your overall computer performance (RAM memory, Hard drive space and Processor). So if you are looking to start doing more than backing tracks and guitar tracks, sound card is the way to go. Otherwise, save your money and get some great headphones Bose has some amazing headphones, sound is just unbelievable ! Here is a link for you http://www.bose.com/controller?url=/shop_o...hones/index.jsp |
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Jan 27 2009, 01:05 PM
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QUOTE (wrk @ Jan 27 2009, 11:57 AM) Thanks Tony !! So the sound quality will improve. Will the conversion be faster as well? When i use the pod on it's own, i have feeling the response of the guitar is faster, more direct. I seem to have a very very small latency with a DAW. I think on the configuration side i can not improve much more. Could the Apogee soundcard help here as well? Normally via USB. The way you explained above and it works great, thanks !! I mainly just want to improve the sound and performance .. As Ivan says conversion will be faster. Whether you'd notice any difference is a different matter though since the delay you're getting may be more due to overall latency in the entire signal chain (particularly at the mac end) rather than conversion. However, the Apogee may place less demand on the mac which in turn may allow you to improve on the configuration. Cheers, Tony -------------------- Get your music professionally mastered by anl AES registered Mastering Engineer. Contact me for Audio Mastering Services and Advice and visit our website www.miromastering.com
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Jan 27 2009, 01:22 PM
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QUOTE (Pedja Simovic @ Jan 27 2009, 12:32 PM) Andy I strongly feel POD will do great job for your collaborations or single tracks that you do for lessons. The reason why I would go for quality sound card is for one reason and one reason only - RECORDING COMPLETE SONGS. Sound cards have MIDI input in them, so you can record all the parts in real time with no latency using Midi controler (keyboard or guitar with midi pick up). Another good thing about sound cards is you can add up lots of effects and VST's and there will be far less latency (if none) compared to POD . Of course this also depends on your overall computer performance (RAM memory, Hard drive space and Processor). So if you are looking to start doing more than backing tracks and guitar tracks, sound card is the way to go. Otherwise, save your money and get some great headphones Bose has some amazing headphones, sound is just unbelievable ! Here is a link for you http://www.bose.com/controller?url=/shop_o...hones/index.jsp You are right, the POD does the job really well and i'm happy with it. I don't really have a choice and will have to stick with digital devices as i can not fully use a real amp where i live. To invest in something to optimize the sound and performance/feel for this digital direction would makes sense i think(?). I have quite good headphones AKG K 271 MkII, but i plan to buy some monitor speakers as well (Yamaha HS50, HS80 or similar). The plan to update some components comes up regular and i push it further each time as it will not improve my overall guitar playing . But at the end the goal of practicing is to create and record own songs and produce backings for this as well. I have tones of captured ideas which i one day want to turn into songs.QUOTE (tonymiro @ Jan 27 2009, 01:05 PM) As Ivan says conversion will be faster. Whether you'd notice any difference is a different matter though since the delay you're getting may be more due to overall latency in the entire signal chain (particularly at the mac end) rather than conversion. However, the Apogee may place less demand on the mac which in turn may allow you to improve on the configuration. Cheers, Tony Probably true. The delay is already really tiny and maybe their are some limits. Thanks for your help, i will compare the Apogee and M-BOX 2 devices a bit more detailed. |
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Jan 27 2009, 02:16 PM
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QUOTE (wrk @ Jan 27 2009, 01:22 PM) ... but i plan to buy some monitor speakers as well (Yamaha HS50, HS80 or similar). ... i will compare the Apogee and M-BOX 2 devices a bit more detailed. One thing to watch for on the interface then is the type of speaker connect. I don't think that the Duet doesn't have XLR for the speakers - a lot of monitors however are XLR. It's not a great problem as you can always convert phono to XLR but check anyway .
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