Advertisement
Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.
Hi all, please see this major site announcement: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058427594/boards-ie-2026

Kaoss Pad (Mini KP2) & PodLive XT wrecking my tone..

  • 04-05-2009 12:33AM
    #1
    Tellox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,680 ✭✭✭


    'ning all,

    Since I'll never ever be able to afford a Manson MB-1, I decided to kit out my tornado with a Kaoss Pad to aid me in annoying my band mates/neighbours/flat mate with "I'M MATTHEW BELLAMY!!" fweee-EEEEEEEEEEEEE-bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz when I'm intoxicated.

    You'll be glad to know that although I succeeded in the former, running through the kaoss pad also drasticly alters my tone - normally I have a very distorted (almost processed tone) by using full gain/contour on my hi-watt MaxWatt G200R stack, along with Max Treble & Bass, and leaving the mid around half-way. Normally this gives off a great tone (with some control and practise as to not deafen everyone with feedback), but after running my guitar through the Kaoss Pad, the tone has gone to ****e - very bare sounding/chunky, and reverb/general string echo/sustain seems to vanish.

    Unfortunately this seems to be a common occurance with my Amp - I also wind up getting a dreadful tone through the PodXT when connected to it (always becoming chunky and bare sounding), wheras throwing in a pair of headphones will give me an amazing tone.

    I've tried running the Pod through my Fender 65w amp, but it seems to just blow the shíte out of it - winds up just being an absolute mess of feedback.

    Would anyone have any suggestions on how to overcome these issues? They'd be greatly appreciated - I always sound like crap going through all my gear when an amp is connected, wheras everything is rosy and perfect through the Pod and a pair of headphones. Very annoying for those "oh, let us hear you play" moments.

    Cheers


Comments

  • #2
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    ya need to spend time tweaking your amps , i remember when i got my first pod back in 99 , i tried it through headphones in the shop and thought "this is deadly".

    Got it home and plugged it into my amp and thought "wtf this is horrible"
    It tok a long time of perfecting the eq and matching the volumes , keep at it and you'll get there.


  • #3
    darrenw5094
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,126 ✭✭✭darrenw5094


    The Pod range are amp simulators plus some extras.
    If you select and amp model in the Pod and go into another amp (Fender 65w), you will get a combiantion of the two amps together. Sometimes the tone is ok, sometimes it is gak.

    You will get a more realistic sound from the Pod with the ear phones, as the ear phones are not an amp.

    The best way to use the Pod, is straight into the mixing desk when live.
    Or at home, maybe a toneless amp, like a keyboard amp.

    Also the Pod is not a real valve amp, is it. It can never replicate a true Marshall JCM800 or Mesa Mark IV etc.


Advertisement
Advertisement