Oh yeah Jonathan,

Unless you need the line 6 POD to connect your G7 guitar processor to the computer, an easy way to check is plug in all your stuff, hook up however you hook up and then go from the line 6 POD into the mono track on your soundcard, open a new project in Cubase to check, open an audio mono track, click the small button with a speaker on it on the audio track and you should be able to hear your guitar.

If not, did the line 6 POD come with software to install on your computer???

If it did and you installed the software, 3 things can happen, 1 - It may just work, which would be great. 2 - Click the little "e" button on the audio track it will bring up a small page, next to the volume there are blank tracks that are black and blank, on the top one click on the black spot and it will bring up a list of all your fx plug-ins. look for something that relates to what you have, weather it be Line 6 POD or G7 Zoom, if you do not see it then. 3 - You may need to go into devises, setup, then check your ASIO driver, it should be set to your sound card, check the dropdown menu, if your Line 6 POD or G7 Zoom appear on the dropdown then you have a problem, because as I stated above you dont want to change your ASIO driver from your sound card, (if you do all you will be able to hear is your guitar, you wont be able to hear Cubase which you need in order to hear your track and your guitar at the same time so your guitar is recorded in time with your track in Cubase).

Check there websites and see if they offer install software.

If they offer only standalone software then that means you can run there software and hear it through your speakers but it wont work in Cubase, at least not in the ways I have described. If they offer standalone software you would need to start a new thread about slaving programs to Cubase because the standalone software may be able to be slaved to Cubase and I dont know much about slaving programs.

If all these things dont work I would recomend you return the Line 6 POD and get your cash back and buy a piece of guitar modeling software. I own Amplitube 2.0, its pretty good and the cheapest I've seen, you can get the software for like $100 to $150 bucks. Now with Amplitube they offer a device called the stealhplug, dont buy the package with this stealthplug, the stealhplug is basically a quarter inch guitar cable with a sound card built into it, which requires you to change your ASIO driver in Cubase which ounce again you do not want to do, so make sure if you get it to only get the software, www.ikmultimedia.com/amplitube/features/

Now I am saving up for guitar rig 3, its the best it has more amp combinations, fx everything that you could never afford in real life, it costs like $300 to $350, now again only buy the software, they sell a package that comes with essentually a guitar pedal that have 6 assignable spots, that package costs like $500 to $600, you dont want to buy this because ounce again the guitar pedal has an internal soundcard which ounce again requires you to change your ASIO driver in Cubase which again you dont want to do, so remember to just buy the software, www.native-instruments.com/index.php

If you get either of these just follow instructions above on pluging in straight to your sound cards mono port, opening up a mono track, clicking the little speaker button, clicking the little "e" and dropping in Amplitube or guitar rig 3, as I stated above you can use anything in your fx bank and it will work with your guitar.

I also recomend buying a good guitar cable, gold tipped Monster Cable.