Using your POD to play along with a portable CD player.

[Raven]

I don’t know if any of you out there have experienced the same kind of frustration as I have when using a POD to play along with backing tracks. Specifically, since the POD does not have any kind of CD input jack, you either have to wear only one earphone so that you can hear the backing track playing out of your computer or stereo OR crank the volume loud enough so that you can hear the music through the earphones while playing. I’m sure that Line 6 is reserving the CD input for their next generation of POD. HOWEVER, in the mean time….

It is said that necessity is the mother of invention – so anyway here’s my solution to this problem. Please accept my apologies, if this sounds so obvious and you have already figured this out.

You’ll need to purchase a few inexpensive items:

1 – 1/8” stereo “Y” adaptor – that has two female inputs and a single output
1 – 1/8” stereo female to female adaptor
2 – 1/8” stereo male to male cables

Hooking it up:

1. Connect the female to female adaptor to the male end of the “Y” adaptor

2. Connect one end of each of the 1/8” male to male cable to the female end of the “Y” adaptor

3. Connect the other ends of the male to male cables to each device [i.e. one cable to the POD headphone out (this assumes that you’re using an 1/8” to ¼” headphone adaptor on the receiving end of the POD) the other cable to the headphone out of your portable CD player].

4. Connect your head phone to the other end of the female to female adaptor

That’s it! You’re ready to rock out and hear full stereo backing tracks on your headphones while you’re playing through your POD. I’ve included a photo here for reference. Let me know how it works out for you! Enjoy.
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Raven