Line 6 Pod Go Review - Is it still good in 2023? 

Excellent video! Really helpful!

I used the red POD 2.0 kidney bean with a Tube Screamer for live gigs for 8 years and it worked just fine!

Lee, well done I love the way you demonstrated the podgo. I wish you all success with your band. Keep up the good work. Well-done mate.

I'd love to try it.

Useful vid mate, thank you 😊

My full rig is at my practice space and I got this yesterday. Had a Squire practice amp laying around and decided to see what's up. Its a head turner, it actually competed with my Laney Ironheart w EVH cab. I'm excited to plug it into that soon!

Thank you Lee. I was an original kidney bean owner years ago. I bought the first podgo when they came out and loved the clean tones and effects but crunch and rock tones just flat out suck,. I dumped it and went back to amps until I found Michael Britt online. so I bought a podgo wireless a few months ago and purchased Michael Britt podgo preset pack for $15 bucks. I personally dont know Michael and he uses custom IRs on it and he says thats why his tones are money and line6 stock tones are crappy. Well, I am super happy with the podgo wireless and love Michael Britt crunch and rock tones. I dumped my amps and bought a back pack and high end cables and carry my pod to all rehearsals and live gigs and run direct. I am a happy camper. I run a Les Paul through it and it sounds great. The Podgo is better for me bucease I dont have the bandwidth nor brains to play engineer with the Helix. goooooo Line6!

This was the most useful video out of all the one I have watched so far thank you so much for making it. I just got the pod go and am looking forward to using it.

To get an acoustic guitar to sound good you need to load an acoustic IR in the place of the cab. Worship tutorials have some free ones that are quite good

Good video, thanks!

I haven't tried an acoustic patch, but I did make a clean patch and it took a while to dial in something good. Had to crank some knobs like presence pretty high. I have a Sustainiac in the neck of my main guitar that sounds like a single coil. I think I'm using the Mark V clean channel emulation.

Acoustic Guitar with Pod Go for live gig: I deactivate the amp an cab, put a compressor first, after that an EQ in the pod go signal chain with a bit reverb….

How do you make it sound loud when recording? I’m recording and when I render the track is not that high! Did you add eq? Or mastered it?

Very thorough birds eye walkthrough. Youre very knowledgeable and well spoked. Thanks for this!

Hi Lee. I have been watching your videos for some time now and I'm really, enjoy your presentation. Could you tell me, if you're already own the hx effects why did you buy the pod?

Love my Pod Go. Lee, there's a hack to free the fixed blocks and have more pedals, it's a game changer! Let me know if you want them. Subscribed

How can i play a backing track on this thing from a mobile device? Anyone got an easy solution that allows volume control of the audio going in and is in stereo via headphones?

Try to load Acoustic IRs for your acoustic sounds.

I have a Helix LT that I have used for years, and I just recently picked up one of these b/c it was on sale for like $150 off the normal price. Is it going to make me get rid of my LT, NOPE. But it is just another tool in the box. Honestly, the "lack" of flexibility is kind of a potential plus IMO, b/c knowing that there are only 4 blocks that I have free reign over means I will have to be a little bit more creative building patches.

Hi Lee! Enjoyed the video and thinking of buying one myself, are there any Polyphonic pitch shifters?

Need a little more bass and mids at 20:03 imo....Excellent video!!

At 11:17 you said that the volumen and Wah cannot be changed, but this is false, you can assign any parameter in any amp, cabinet or. Effect to use the expression pedal. I hace a preset where i use the volume block as a mix/wet parameter of my delay

Valuable to note that you can't switch quickly between presets, because the new one take a second to load. So, you can't have one preset for rhythm and another one for leads. Not clear if this capability is possible with snapshots.

Is a noise gate always on or do you have to use one of the effect blocks for that?

Can anyone tell me how to get the screen on the presets to stop flashing?

Plug it into the fx loop and try an acoustic thru it that way.. I don't if that's gonna work I haven't tried it myself but seems like if u bypass the preamp of the amp it might make an acoustic sound better.. lemme know if it works out if u try it

Can I plug the pod 6 directly into a 2x12 cabinet instead of needing a head?

I only have a combo but really want this. Does anyone have success running through a combo on clean and it sounding good. I don’t gig so don’t necessarily want to buy a PA setup.

Lots of humble flex’s lol

This thing is awesome

What's the better buy, this or the Zoom G6?

You probably know that you can remove the pedals and fxloop by editing an external patch json file - the patch hack - and that will give you 3 extra blocks when loaded back in.

Try an acoustic IR works great

So I don't see much difference between this and the Valeton GP200, apart from the you can have more than one effect per patch but the blocks are limited.

Hi, do you disable the cab in your patches, when running it through your combo when playing Live, or do you just run it straight through the PA ?? Cheers 🍻

I currently use and hd500x for worship. Decided to try the pod go. The sound were very good, but my biggest gripe was the cpu limits. I like to use a fair amount of fx and the unit just couldn't handle it. Too many compromises. I went back to my hd for now. Was thinking about a helix or something else in the future.

Great review. Your place looks like a open plan kitchen/living room. I have the line 6 pod go too and only just getting used to it because when l was gigging I used the X3 live line 6 and was pretty good back then. So I am hoping that this pod go for home use recordings that l prefer doing, because the gig scene is one big con these days, annoying landlords think they are Simon cowel types lol and pubs just don’t pay enough for 2 hour set lists anymore hence why I got bored of the drama and singers or drummers not having kit lol. So for me home recordings with this bit of kit l hope will be worth the money l paid. Interesting review here too👍

I don't like the expression pedal because the heel position is too extreme of an angle and the toe switch is too easy to click. There is also pedal lag, at least with the Whammy pitch effect

I use tube amps live but now I record 90% with sims. I have to disagree about the original pod. I still have the old bean ad I still use it constantly. I always get shit for it and I always send folks this video. 20 years after and it still smokes higher priced gear and doesn’t sound much different than the top of the line stuff most of the time. Like anything else, you have to get familia with it and know how to tweak those knobs. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wsocXab3fKI.html

I have a standard post that I do and I'll post it here as well: "There is no greater impact on tone than practice". That said... I started with the Line6 GuitarPort, plus the pocket-pod-express (no tone control) and I used the pod-xt-live for 15 years, balking at the price tag of things like AxeFX and Helix and Kemper and QuadQartex... Then the pod-go showed up. I purchased the pod go vice other competitors because the fx-loop is stereo. For that, I plug in the Zoom MS-70 CDR, which adds 6 more blocks. I find that the MS_70 CDR is best right after the AMP/CAB and before a few more blocks on the pod-go, to include the EQ. I never understood the multiple amp/cab thing anyway, but the pod-go with the MS-70 CDR gives you 10 blocks, plus amp/cab, EQ, VOL/WAH. I just wish the pod-go EXP2 was really an EXP3, but a stereo FX loop is quite worthy. I'm doing acoustic on the pod-go with the "woody" amp/cab (not to hawk my channel, but just sayin').

smal gigs I'm using the cheapest amp simulator and for the big stages/gigs i use the pod go. because nobody can hear live what kind of quality you are playing . and breaking or being stolen is no problem with the cheap simulator. never the less do you really think your mum can tell the difference? if you r playing smal gigs sound is horrible anyway so don't go to far with it nobody will notice promise.

Guitar pod go sound is too loud compared to your speaking voice.

How any snap shots can you have at one time ? Can you go from clean to crunch to lead ?