P.O.D. bypass question

[Ed Mooney]

I'm using a POD2.0 through the effects loop of a Nashville 400. The POD has no bypass on it(a flaw in their design..IMHO), anf although I have programed a "transparent" patch, I would like to eliminate it altogether at times. Anyone know if a product like the Boss LS-2 Line Selector will work. I can't find enough info on it to see if it will work through an effects loop.
Thanks, Ed

[Paul Osbty]

Yea, that LS-2 should work. Put it in the effects loop and then run the POD through the LS-2 effects loop.

It will render your POD mono, but you are already donig that. POD's, IMO, are not very stereo anyway. I run ours in mono and the guitarist never noticed (I didn't tell him as an experiment).

[Jon Light (deceased)]

This is pissing me off 'cause I can't find the link now but I found this from someone's site-----you can configure the Pod so that the tuner function does not mute the signal---I think it involved something like turning the channel volume while holding the tuner button or while holding the tap button--something like that. Anyway, supposedly, the audible signal now, in the tuning mode, is un-modeled, un-effected. True bypass? I don't know.

[Bob Lawrence]

Jon,

I don't have a POD 2.0 but to bypass the tuner on the POD XT you can select the tuner button (put it in the tuner mode) then select the 3rd soft button
(one of the four buttons under the display). You can change the selection by turning the
"Effect/tweak" button. the options are mute or bypass.

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[Jon Light (deceased)]

Hey Bob---we may or may not be talking upside-down from each other here. To rephrase----the normally muted tuning mode, when activated to allow sound to pass thru, is, I believe, supposed to be straight, uncolored, un-modeled signal. If this is so, then hitting the tuner button should serve the purpose of bypassing the Pod without needing a loop selector unit like the LS-2. I cannot vouch that this mode is actually uncolored and truly bypasses the Pod.
But the person who described this was presenting it in the context of a "little known fact--that contrary to generally accepted belief that the Pod can't be bypassed, here's how you can do it."

FWIW

[Rainer Hackstaette]

Ed,

if the effects loop of your Nashville is foot-switchable there are 2 easy ways to bypass the POD:

1. with an A/B box: Steel - vol.pedal - A/B box - output A into input of POD - output of POD into effects return; output of B into regular input of the Nash. You will have to step on 2 switches, the A/B and the effetcts switch, to route the guitar signal either into the amp or into the POD.

2. without A/B but you need 2 outputs of your vol.ped.: connect 1 output of the vol.ped. with the input of the amp, the other goes into the POD, the output of the POD into effects return of the Nash. The effects footswitch selects the signal path.

Either way, the POD is taken out of the signal path when the preamp of the Nash is used. On the other hand, the POD is the only preamp when the effects path is chosen. The Nash is then only the power amp.

I use these setups with my Session 400, and it works great.

If you have any more questions, mail me.
Rainer

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Remington D 10 8+7, Sierra Crown D 10 gearless 8+8, Sierra Session S 14 gearless 8+5, Peavey Session 400 LTD

[Tommy Detamore]

Jon, don't you hold the tuner button down and turn the channel volume knob up? I think...

[Jon Light (deceased)]

I finally set it up and yes--that is how you do it. Further, I hooked it up to an FX looper in order to A/B it.

The results:

to my ears (in headphones) there is no difference between the tuner mode pass-thru sound and the completely bypassed Pod

BUT

the Pod signal, even in this mode
is affected by the output (and channel) level controls so this is NOT a true bypass---just a neutral preamped signal. I would consider it a viable option but some might not.

[Ed Mooney]

Thanks to all for the advice.....Ed