I'm really obsessed with your content man. I bought my POD Go some months ago and each time I tried to develop my tone, I felt overwhelmed and quit. I said "well, time to get some presets" and I was horrified when I realized that the official Line 6 preset web was empty. Watching your videos and getting your pdf is all I needed and more. Thank you so much!
low cut and high cut are located in global settings... you're welcome...! just google the freq range of the cab your using or the custom IR you've installed
That is some of the most useful information ever! I am an advanced guitarist who is familiar already with POD GO and I tried these tips and I am immediately applying all of them to my own situation. Wow! I am grateful!
Not sure if it's my car speakers. But at around 6:05 when you talk about adding the reel to reduce harshness I'm still getting it on my end (the digital harshness sound)
On the fence on getting a stomp. (doesn't everyone have one?) Owned a Helix, sold it. Playing 3 various tube amps now. For compact grab and go it is very enticing. Still hear the difference between real and fake, but heck, at the end of the day I still play through modelers out of convenience of switching tones probably 40% of the time.
Pro tip, ditch the FX loop and wah via jail break preset, adds 2 free blocks. 1. Add the dimension Chorus pedal - Extra spice on the cleans (adding this post amp and cab) 2. Put a dual dealy right at the end of the signal chain. Modulation off, left right mixes at 100% feedback at 0%, left time 5ms right time 14ms - fattens the tone so much
Agreed! Step#1 is find an amp to compliment your guitar ...OK, I have an HSS strat-style guitar, now what? What amps go with that for modern worship applications? Can't do step #2 pick a drive to compliment the amp if I don't have enough info to pick the amp
My main unit is a Helix, but I got a POD Go for a simpler, more mobile solution. I have been struggling to get the POD Go to sound good since I've gotten it. And it would be easy to say that obviously, it's because it has a fraction of the processing power of the Helix. However, I also have a POD 2.0 that I recently started using again. It sounds much better than the POD Go and it's much less of a struggle to get great tones out of. I fully accept that this may be user error, but it points out how "progress" isn't always automatically great. Line 6 seems to be a game of hopscotch for me. POD 2.0, love it. POD HD500, troublesome. Helix, love! POD Go, troublesome.
that's understandable if you are used to the HELIX and using parallel paths. But I can get the POD Go to sound exactly like the HELIX like in this video: ua-cam.com/video/7SoFG3SoLA8/v-deo.html
@@HeyWorshipLeader I rarely use parallel paths with the Helix. And my greatest struggle has been just creating a good, basic dirty rock rhythm guitar sound. I have a patch that works well for every guitar I own on the Helix. I rarely change it. However, I have not found or created an equivalent on the POD Go. I plug into the POD Go and I'm constantly fiddling trying to "fix" the sound. Frustrating, but it got worse when I plugged into the old "bean" while my Helix was in for repair on it's USB port. Almost instant gratification from a 25 year old unit! It just sounded great with minimal fuss. There's just something artificial and digital sounding about the POD Go that I can't seem to get rid of. I own the POD Go, so there's no reason to be contrarian about it, but I'd love to fix whatever the problem is.🤷
I agree with you man... I want to PLAY MUSIC, I don't have enough years left on earth to spend my precious time getting a frckin PhD in THIS piece of gear... Why couldn"t Line 6 put together a basic group of patches with THE BASIC TONES that everyone knows are the classic sounds used by 98% of every guitar song in history??? and then? if people want to endlessly tweak, that's ok, they are free to do so... but why couldn't they just give folks a handful of basic, USE-ABLE patches??? I went thru every factory preset, all 128 of them, and NOT ONE could be used. I don't need to know the exact frequency of the high/low cut needed for some cab w some mic etc etc ... I don't need to know how much sag and bias and blah blah... just make it sound OK, give us a place to start, for cryin' out loud... I've spent more time tweaking this thing than ANY OTHER thing I ever bought, and it still sounds MEH... I've spent more time and money downloading patches that sound great on youTube, but buzzy and plastic on my system...
@@richflynn2880 I couldn't agree more. Although I've gotten use to disregarding Line 6's default patches, post POD 2.0. They all pretty much suck and are a waste of time. So I go directly to the user created patches on Line 6's site. This was a satisfactory solution for the POD HD500 and a wonderful solution for the Helix floor. Not the POD Go. Every one I download and use doesn't live up to expectations. And, I've sent the unit back to Line 6 for the input impedance fix (which nobody should have needed to do, BTW) and it helped a little. Not much. Keep in mind, I'm a Line 6 fan. Three Variax guitars, a POD 2.0, an Amplifi 150 that I use as a small FRFR speaker (because that's all this stinker does well), a POD HD 500 and a Helix Floor. The POD Go is the turd in the punchbowl from this group, without a doubt. I'd recommend skipping this one and getting an HX Stomp or digging a little deeper and getting a Helix. The way they are built, I'd get a used Helix in a heartbeat. Not much more money for a used LT, and very satisfying.
I'm really obsessed with your content man. I bought my POD Go some months ago and each time I tried to develop my tone, I felt overwhelmed and quit. I said "well, time to get some presets" and I was horrified when I realized that the official Line 6 preset web was empty. Watching your videos and getting your pdf is all I needed and more.
Thank you so much!
low cut and high cut are located in global settings... you're welcome...! just google the freq range of the cab your using or the custom IR you've installed
That is some of the most useful information ever! I am an advanced guitarist who is familiar already with POD GO and I tried these tips and I am immediately applying all of them to my own situation. Wow! I am grateful!
Wow man, thank you so much for the kind words
Not sure if it's my car speakers. But at around 6:05 when you talk about adding the reel to reduce harshness I'm still getting it on my end (the digital harshness sound)
On the fence on getting a stomp. (doesn't everyone have one?) Owned a Helix, sold it. Playing 3 various tube amps now. For compact grab and go it is very enticing. Still hear the difference between real and fake, but heck, at the end of the day I still play through modelers out of convenience of switching tones probably 40% of the time.
I'm looking to get either this or the HX stomp soon. Can't decide which one!
Pro tip, ditch the FX loop and wah via jail break preset, adds 2 free blocks.
1. Add the dimension Chorus pedal - Extra spice on the cleans (adding this post amp and cab)
2. Put a dual dealy right at the end of the signal chain. Modulation off, left right mixes at 100% feedback at 0%, left time 5ms right time 14ms - fattens the tone so much
Thank you, just want I am looking for.
can you make new video like ambient freeze ? with every step and how can we use loop on Line 6 pod go
Can you do a podgo tone video for a Stratocaster?
Agreed! Step#1 is find an amp to compliment your guitar ...OK, I have an HSS strat-style guitar, now what? What amps go with that for modern worship applications? Can't do step #2 pick a drive to compliment the amp if I don't have enough info to pick the amp
@@tjhannemann I like the Matchless amps for strats in Pod, use the AC30 Fawn for my gretsch.
@@RealisticZeus thank you!!!!
@@tjhannemann Line6 Litigator
My main unit is a Helix, but I got a POD Go for a simpler, more mobile solution. I have been struggling to get the POD Go to sound good since I've gotten it. And it would be easy to say that obviously, it's because it has a fraction of the processing power of the Helix. However, I also have a POD 2.0 that I recently started using again. It sounds much better than the POD Go and it's much less of a struggle to get great tones out of. I fully accept that this may be user error, but it points out how "progress" isn't always automatically great. Line 6 seems to be a game of hopscotch for me. POD 2.0, love it. POD HD500, troublesome. Helix, love! POD Go, troublesome.
that's understandable if you are used to the HELIX and using parallel paths. But I can get the POD Go to sound exactly like the HELIX like in this video: ua-cam.com/video/7SoFG3SoLA8/v-deo.html
@@HeyWorshipLeader I rarely use parallel paths with the Helix. And my greatest struggle has been just creating a good, basic dirty rock rhythm guitar sound. I have a patch that works well for every guitar I own on the Helix. I rarely change it. However, I have not found or created an equivalent on the POD Go. I plug into the POD Go and I'm constantly fiddling trying to "fix" the sound. Frustrating, but it got worse when I plugged into the old "bean" while my Helix was in for repair on it's USB port. Almost instant gratification from a 25 year old unit! It just sounded great with minimal fuss. There's just something artificial and digital sounding about the POD Go that I can't seem to get rid of. I own the POD Go, so there's no reason to be contrarian about it, but I'd love to fix whatever the problem is.🤷
I agree with you man... I want to PLAY MUSIC, I don't have enough years left on earth to spend my precious time getting a frckin PhD in THIS piece of gear...
Why couldn"t Line 6 put together a basic group of patches with THE BASIC TONES that everyone knows are the classic sounds used by 98% of every guitar song in history??? and then? if people want to endlessly tweak, that's ok, they are free to do so... but why couldn't they just give folks a handful of basic, USE-ABLE patches??? I went thru every factory preset, all 128 of them, and NOT ONE could be used.
I don't need to know the exact frequency of the high/low cut needed for some cab w some mic etc etc ... I don't need to know how much sag and bias and blah blah... just make it sound OK, give us a place to start, for cryin' out loud...
I've spent more time tweaking this thing than ANY OTHER thing I ever bought, and it still sounds MEH... I've spent more time and money downloading patches that sound great on youTube, but buzzy and plastic on my system...
@@richflynn2880 I couldn't agree more. Although I've gotten use to disregarding Line 6's default patches, post POD 2.0. They all pretty much suck and are a waste of time. So I go directly to the user created patches on Line 6's site. This was a satisfactory solution for the POD HD500 and a wonderful solution for the Helix floor. Not the POD Go. Every one I download and use doesn't live up to expectations. And, I've sent the unit back to Line 6 for the input impedance fix (which nobody should have needed to do, BTW) and it helped a little. Not much.
Keep in mind, I'm a Line 6 fan. Three Variax guitars, a POD 2.0, an Amplifi 150 that I use as a small FRFR speaker (because that's all this stinker does well), a POD HD 500 and a Helix Floor. The POD Go is the turd in the punchbowl from this group, without a doubt. I'd recommend skipping this one and getting an HX Stomp or digging a little deeper and getting a Helix. The way they are built, I'd get a used Helix in a heartbeat. Not much more money for a used LT, and very satisfying.
Thanks man
Glad to help!
Wish i could get one lol! But your preset's sound great
I get that!
Is there a way I can contact you about some questions and advice? email???