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It'd be great to have a couple of effects saved to a switch to save switches, but not necessarily if one is present even when the button is off. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding

Absolutely! As I mention in the video you put the effect into the state you want it to be in. Then when you step on the footswitch it toggles to the opposite state, regardless which state that is (there are only 2 possibilities 😊) So just like one is on and the other one is off in my example- turn *both* of them to on or off - then when you step on the footswitch both of them will toggle to the other state - on/off.

@@patgiff101055 Totally. I get that. I’m saying can both be turned out so that neither are active? In your video they just toggle back and forth, can they both be bypassed? Maybe I’m still misunderstanding

And thank for the help by the way!

@@mjcolavolpe when they are turned off, they ARE bypassed :-)

Glad it was helpful!

Thanks! Just pause the video at the diagram, make a screenshot, print

@@patgiff101055 - I have never been able to make that work @#*?

If the amp is solid state you should compare amp vs preamp blocks in the Pod Go and see which one you like better.

I was using a Mercury but it works the same with “Silver” It was never officially Silver btw. People just started calling it that when Mercury arrived. Until then it was just called Amp1 because it was the only model.

Glad it helped!

You need a footswitch to get to a snapshot yes. Up to you how many you want to make accessible. You only need 3 if you want to see 3 snapshots while in Stomp mode.

What kind of pedals?

OCD, phase 90, loop station, and big muff.

@@gary1488 personally … I would put the OCD and Big Muff between the guitar and the PG input - but it’s a matter of taste. Experiment and see what you like better. The phaser should be connected to the L Output of the PG so it is *after the preamp* and last in the signal chain in 4CM - and hits your amp just before the power amp, after any delay and reverb… Same for the looper. I would do it differently if you had a 2nd FX Loop on the PG but you don’t. There is no right and wrong by the way. People can and do put stuff wherever they want depending on what they are trying to achieve. Good luck 👍

@@patgiff101055 thank you very much. Every time I just have headphones to the pod it sounds pretty good either way my two guitars. When I introduce the 4cm things just sound off. So lots of times I just go with my pedals into my Marshall but then lose the other effects capabilities. I’m ready to nail this setup so it sounds great and I don’t have to tinker again.

So i am thinking of using some York audio IRs. Seems like these are pointless with 4cm. What are your thoughts?

Glad it was helpful. I think it is especially useful in HX Effects where you go directly into Stomp mode after selecting a preset.

Hi Matti, you can pause the video then you can study the diagram which shows you the signal path in each case. When the FX Loop is turned off, no signal goes to the front input of the amp. It goes through the preamp block and out the L Output into the FX Return of the amp. That combines the preamp block inside the PG with the power amp section of your amp. When the FX Loop is on, the FX Send of the PG feeds the front input of your amp and this passes the signal through the amp’s preamp section. And that is why you do one or the other but not both at the same time- otherwise you have one preamp feeding into another preamp which is not what we want. Hope that helps! Pat

Hi what amp are you using? Maybe I can look up the manual and give you a better answer. For sure you should not put your Delay and Reverb before the FX Loop - unless you are trying to achieve something special. Remember you must turn off Amp and Cab blocks when you are running in 4CM into your tube amp. AND the FX Loop block has to be turned on. If you don't turn on the FX Loop you only hear the power amp section of your tube amp.

@@patgiff101055 Hi patrick, currently i using ENGL Fireball 100 for my tube amp head. And of course i turn off amp and cab section on the pod go, and turn on the FX loops. Just wondering why delay and reverb doesn’t sounds, just tube amp sound only. Or others setup on global settings?

you hit the nail on the head. In Helix you can choose to go directly into snapshot mode without hitting the two Bank switches. With HX Effects you cannot, so this is the best solution (in my opinion anyway )

yes that would work fine. You have to test between using a PG amp block vs a PG preamp block, since the amp block includes power amp modelling already. It's a matter of taste. But be sure to turn the cab block off if you are running your real amp into a real cab. Otherwise you have a PG cab feeding a real cab. Note: Personally I like 4CM because it gives you the chance to selectively use your own amp's preamp section - which you already paid for :-)

@@patgiff101055 Got it. Thank you!

The name is defined by you. You have to hit Return when you rename a Snapshot.

@@patgiff101055 I do have all the snapshots named.

@@patgiff101055 just to be clear, the function works, but the scribble strip does not pull in my name for the snapshot.

I have the same issue. It displays 'Snapshot' and the edit parameters instead of the name of the target snapshot. Did you ever sort this out?

@@patgiff101055 That's not the issue. The snapshot is named but pressing the switch makes the scribble strip display the edit parameters instead. If you step on another switch it clears and displays the name of the snapshot, but shows the edit parameters on the switch you just pressed. Not sure why it's not an issue for you. I can't find a setting that addresses it.

Go to Global Settings and play around so you switch between Snaps and Stomps. It is easily done.

@@patgiff101055 I had it then did the stupid 3.7.10 update and lost it. Scouring the internet and manuals again. Snapshot setting doesn't have toggle anymore, just latch or momentary.

The HX Effects only has L & R input. No audio interface if you mean to run to a DAW...

Hi Daniel, Leider PodGo hat kein Amp-switching Funktion wie "Ext Amp" bei Helix oder HX Effects. Auch kein MIDI. Es ist also nicht möglich. Grüß Pat

@@patgiff101055 ok danke dir für die schnelle Antwort. 👍🏽

Each instant command can send 1 MIDI command when the snapshot is loaded. Plus others can be Assigned to the footswitches and also to an expression pedal.

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for the kind words.😊

Thanks!

Hi Larry thanks for the compliment, I am glad you found it useful. You ask a good question! The reason I use the FX Loop in the electric path is that I am going 4CM to my amp. if I did not use 4CM but just wanted to go "old school" from the HX Effects into the front of my amp, I would not need that FX Loop either. I don't need an FX Loop for the acoustic path because I am not using an external amp for acoustic (I could - but then I would need 2 amps- one electric and one acoustic). I am only using the HX Effects for effects like compression, EQ, reverb etc and then feeding out to my mixer (in my case via a DI box - which is actually not really needed either). Hope that helps.

@Patrick Gifford I'm wanting to run my electric guitar to my regular amp and my acoustic to my acoustic amp. Any difference then? Thanks for the quick reply! And if i have to run a loop in my path(s), does it matter where i put the loop block in the path?

@@recruiterlb no difference. If you use 4CM, your FX Loop block should be positioned so that your compression, noise gate, distortion blocks are BEFORE the FX Loop (so they feed the preamp section of your amp). Your time-based effects like reverb should be positioned AFTER the FX Loop block so they don't feed your preamp but they sit in between the preamp section and power amp section of your amp (all assuming your amp also has an FX Loop!- if not there is no 4CM possible). If you are not using 4CM then it depends what you plan to use that FX Loop for... if for a distortion pedal, put it early. If for a time-based effect, put it later. On the acoustic side, same advice. I doubt you want to use 4CM with an acoustic amp (many acoustic amps do not even have an FX Loop- I had a Fishman Loudbox which I bought mainly because it DID, but I rarely used that FX loop anyway)... but there is no reason why you couldn't (just a lot of cables!). Good luck!

@@patgiff101055 awesome, thank ls again!

Hi Rodrigo. Now you got me thinking :-) For sure you need to have a CAB turned on when you go into the PA or else where will the cab sound come from? You already have the sound of your Marshall preamp in your signal chain. So my advice is to try the following: 1) turn Cab ON and still leave the amp block off 2) Put the amp AND cab at the end of the signal chain because AMP OUT is a tap directly before the amp block, and you want that to be at the end so yo get all your Chorus Reverb etc into the signal (or else it will be cut out!). Try it and please let me know how it works. PS I assume you do not want to take a DI out from your Marshall itself? This would surely make things simpler 🙂

Hi Patrick, thanks for the tip, now that I have enabled the CAB virtually in my Pod Go it now works, also as you recommended I put CAB and Amp at the end of the signal chain. Additionally I bought the same IR to my real CAB. My real amp is at Amp Out which was set to Pre Cab/IR. Via Main Out (Mono) I go to the PA, also all effects are active, thanks for the quick and helpful feedback! Unfortunately, when I use DI Out on the real amp, my EQ on the amp is disabled. I always had a decibel boost for solos at the end of the signal chain for Main Out, via a footswitch. Can I somehow use this in front of my real amp, so that it also gets louder?

@@rodrigoschneider3997 Hi Rodrigo, look at the signal chain...anything you put before the Amp/Cab blocks will be sent via Amp Out- and everything that is not turned off will go out via Main Out. So if you put the boost in front of the amp/cab in the Pod Go it will feed into Amp Out AND it will go to Main Out. I would probably put it directly after the FX Loop block just to make it simple, but it's up to you. If you put it *before* the FX Loop it will drive your amp harder- so it won't be a clean boost any more. You decide which you want to have - "clean boost" (after the FX Loop on PG) or "OD boost" (before the FX Loop). Good luck!

If you ever want to use amp models from the Pod Go, you should be in 4CM. If you want to put overdrive, compressor, noise gate from Pod Go in front of your amp and delay, reverb, chorus after the preamp of your amp then you should use 4CM. If you only want to use the PG for delay, reverb etc then you can just put it into the fx loop of your amp.

@@patgiff101055 So far I've played from PG through FRFR and used soundbanks for each song separately. The sound of the Marshall DSL tube amp is nicer to me and more legible in the band. I will probably use the PG in the FX Loop for live performance and in the rehearsal - I just don't know if it will be possible to use the PG wireless when connected to the loop. At home, I will use the PD classic MAIN OUT/MONO output for training. Thanks for the reply, I will try and learn.

@@janhejtmanek831 no issue with the wireless just get a good one. The benefit of having the PG in 4CM is that you can try out different types of amps and not be limited to what your DSL 40 does. EG if you want an AC30 sound…

Very simple. Each snapshot has its own Command Center environment. In HX Edit go to Window then Command Center. Choose which IC you want to send in that snapshot. Save it. Done. Good luck!

The cab only was on again because the default when you select an amp block is to add the matching cab every time. But this can be switched off in Global Settings too. The Pod Go is an amazing little gadget with so many options, I really think of it as a mini Helix.

Hi Max you are in my Dream Rig group in Facebook already :-) I am near Freising.

In 4CM you are using the amp’s preamp so as you see in the video you still have full control. If your amp volume etc do not have any effect then something is wrong. If you switch off the FX Loop in Helix then indeed you are totally bypassing your amp’s preamp section- so of course the amp volume and eq will not do anything- as one would expect.

Hi Richard, thanks for the compliment. It’s a strange phenomenon and I cannot explain it, I tried assigning to a different footswitch and then for some reason it worked. Could be a conflict with an effects block also unknowingly assigned to that particular footswitch. Remember HX FX default is to assign every effects block to a footswitch until you remove it. Opposite of Helix! Take a look in HX Edit and make sure no other block happens to be assigned to that footswitch…

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