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Echo that, Jeff. I'm not playing out at this point and the POD is awesome in the studio!

Possible ways to make a pod sound less than great ...

1 - use a factory patch ... most guitar and bass processors have lame patches from the factory
2 - follow line 6s instructions ... they say run it into an amp and turn the and bass treble to 0,and turn the middle to 10 ... that will guarantee an unpleasant tone.
3 - get the gain structure wrong ... this means that some where between the bass and the speakers the signal gets too hot or too cold.
4 - make a patch that sounds great playing quiet and use it to play loud.
5 - make a patch for one amp and use it with another amp.
6 - make a patch for one bass and use it for another bass.

sometimes you can violate those rules and still sound good ... especially 5 and 6 ... but those are some of the ways the pod can fail to produce a good sound.

I have my pod set up to run into my ampeg b2r with 2 2x10 cabinets that have eminence 10" pa speakers ...

In my mind the purpose of the pod is to add character to the bass sound ... if you want a clean sound then the pod won't really help your sound much ...

I'm very happy with my old style kidney bean pod. It's set for a 360 & 2X15 cab model, and then added compression and drive as needed.
I have separate programs for my V63 and Jazz Bass. That way I don't have to tweak my amp when switching between the basses.

What Rath said.

It's a very flexible tool that uses the instrument as a sound/signal source. It's SUPPOSED to strip the sonic characteristics out of the sound source and replace them with the programmed ones.