RE: [Harp-L] Bose PAS Redux?

[Richard Hunter <turtlehill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Noah Hoehn wrote:
<I have two L1 Model 1 systems with dual subs and love them...
<NOTE: my Pod xt Live sounds terrible through it.  Granted... my Pod xt Live sounds terrible--- but <I've tried to tweak patches I've used in auditoriums and everything was really bad. My conclusion <was that it's the PODs fault and the Bose exposed it for the guitar-voiced piece it really is, but I <thought I'd throw it in there.

There's no good reason why the XT should sound so lame through the Bose.  I've heard other harp players, like Steve Marriner for example, get good sounds from a POD.  My guess is that you haven't found the settings that will work for you.  

The biggest issue is gain--gain settings that work for guitar are totally unworkable for harp. Try backing the gain down to about 30% of maximum, dial back treble EQ, and keep bass and midrange EQ more or less flat.  Then tweak from there.

Regards, Richard Hunter

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