I got POD Farm a while ago with my UX2, but it has always had a bad sound. It sounds like it's being played through one of those little 9V-battery-powered amps, rather than a professional, high quality amp, even when the volume is turned up.
No matter how much I turn up the gain (I've even boosted my treble to the max and cut the low-mids out), it still sounds like it's muffled, and it sounds really bad.
Even when I plug the cable into it and it makes the buzzing sound that usually happens, even that sounds muffled. It sounds like I'm plugging it into a $15 interface rather than a professional guitar amplifier.
NOTICE: I play different songs on YouTube that have the same settings as I use, and the songs I listen to there have a high-quality tone. So I'm almost certain it's not the speakers.
HERE IS MY EQUIPMENT:
-MacBook Pro (Mac OS X 10.8.5)
PROCESSOR: 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
MEMORY:3 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
-Creative Inspire T3300 Speakers
(They have a 1/8" input jack that I connect to the "headphones" input on the UX2 using an adapter)
-High-quality guitar cable
-Agile Interceptor Pro 930 with 30" scale and active pickups
-This guitar is HIGH-QUALITY and has a very bright tone, and it should have one on POD Farm, but it doesn't.
Is there a reason for the tone sounding really bad? Are there settings on my computer or something that I can change? OR could I upgrade my sound card?