Line 6 Pod Go Tutorial and Free Preset- Tips and Workflow
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- I felt like making a video with an amp I am not too familiar with and showing my workflow after spending 3 years with the Pod Go big brother, Helix Floor. Ask any questions below!
Camera mic is the TASCAM DR-10SG
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Nice thx.
The low and hi cuts for the reverb is easy to tweak and hear when you set the mix slider to 100% and then set mix to the level
Great channel👍🏻
Hey Steve - cool vid. You reinforced the Early Reflections trick that you mentioned to me previously - very cool. Regarding the Room Reverb, is Pre Delay a time gap between the attack and when the ambience occurs? And the High and Lo Cuts on any of the reverbs does the same thing as on the delay - it relates to the wet signal only. If you like a darker "reverb", crank the High Cut, etc. It doesn't impact the dry portion of the sound. BTW, I bet you like to drop the bass down because you are a Tele guy at heart :) Rock on!
ha! Usually the tele bridges are too bright and need a bit more low end! Yes on the pre-delay. I never hear a big difference in the hi and low cuts on the reverbs
Check out Jason Sadites great IN DEPTH video on using/dialing in Reverb and what al the settings do.
HI, could you help with info on a good clean acoustic guitar sound please. Thanks.
Do as little in the preset as possible. Get a good acoustic IR and bypass the amp block
Can you do a demo of using parallel path delay/reverb? That would be great.
Unfortunately, that can't be done in the Pod Go. I have some helix and stomp videos that show how it works though
I'm new to electric, when you say the tone is lifeless or mushy or some people say muddy, I don't really know what that means
You say your able to feel like what you need based on ear and how do I start to train this ear from beginning?
Its hard to explain feelings in words... but you just have to try to make tons of presets, try to make some bad ones to find what you dont like and express what it feels like to you! Then make it better and try to describe why you think its better or feels better! Dont stress about being a beginner. It takes time and patience
@@SteveSterlacci not really for guitar but for music that I listen to on my phone, sometimes the song sounds bad cause the eq is bad and I would always try adjust it. And I can hear the difference but I can never get it right.
Why is it so hard seems like to get the right sound everything has to dial in at once perfectly to get a good sound but when you do it you know what each individual frequency could sound like.
Ofc theat only comes with experience with the right knowledge and practice
Its hard to quantify it into a practice... just have to find what you like and try to emulate it! I usually max out the knobs and then bring them to 0, then experiment in the middle where i like it to be.
@@SteveSterlacci okay thanks so much for the advice
Good luck and stick with it!! Keep practicing 🤘 hope to have earned your sub
Do you ever bypass the Cab and use a real 2x12 or 4x12 cab with the Helix or Go?
real cabs, no... but I use the Powercab and am very happy with it
@@SteveSterlacci What do you do live, straight to the house?
@@danc3746 always xlr out. Here is how i send it th-cam.com/video/5Gfa1rqE1tQ/w-d-xo.html
Still finding my way with Pod Go. This video was really helpful on the preset building process. Killer tone too. Many thanks.
Nice. I especially appreciate the EQ portion. Also, that guitar is killer, and Tim Pierce is a god.
Thanks so much! I have fallen in love with this guitar very unexpectedly. Tim is the absolute best. Been a masterclass member since day 1
So cool for you doing this! I just got my Pod Go yesterday and you are helping minimize the curve. Thanks a bunch!
Thanks Steve! Glad to help. Hope to have earned your sub 🤘
Nice job Steve. Your tempting me to buy a POD Go, but I can't pull the trigger with the other hardware I own. Nice seeing how your thought process works.
Keep the faith brother.
Later. John
Thanks John! If you are happy with the Helix or Stomp, stick with what works! I use toys for content LOL
on-point video and exactly what i was looking for in an introductory (but not layman) video on the pod go. you can use these pointers towards any sound you're trying to achieve. liked/subbed/commented. . please post more pod go vids.
Thats what i try to achieve in my videos! So glad you liked it. Will definitely be posting more
Thanks for sharing Steve! This video was awesome. I'm late to the Pod Go game and this was super-helpful. Great stuff man!!!
All of the Helix tips should apply!
Very informative video which is also applicable to tone sculpting in general. I have an Avid Eleven Rack, and will definitely try these tricks on it when building new tones or tweaking old ones. Also, the High/Low cut on the Room Reverb is more of an "in the mix" thing, I believe. Sometimes reverbs either add or accentuate low/high frequencies, so if you want your guitar to cut through the mix a bit more, you would enhance it with these settings, and vice-versa for putting your guitar more in the background of the mix.
Thanks for checking it out! Hope to have earned your sub. I never experienced that with the reverbs and i always lift the cuts off 🤷♂️
Dirt has to be maintained regardless of volume pedal. Gain reduction has to be controlled by the guitar vol. That's just how it is. Lol.
I agree. Some people don't do it 🤷♂️
Appreciate you keeping it real for us brother steve, it's great to get the perspective of a working guitarist. I've got a pod go that I use with a line 6 power cab 212 plus, and they rock killer mate!
killer combo man! Thank you for always commenting. Means a lot to me and keeps me motivated to do this
Hi Steve, Nice video, that almost brings a user by hand to build his own preset. I have PodGo since a few months but i'm struggling to get to a dark tone without being boomy.
Thanks Val! Have you tried lo cutting from the cabinet or parametric eq?
I just brought my line 6 podgo back to shop after 1 week. It s so complicated and it is a headache. Music shop imediately accepted the podgo back. They refund me completelly.
Sorry you didnt get it. Its definitely something that takes a bit of getting used to
Sorry I'm new and analog as hell but I just bought a line 6 pod go. If I was going to run it through the fx loop of my head with my 4x12 cab should I have a preset with the cab sim turned off?
Yes turn the cab off
THANKS!
Thanks for watching!
This gives me that lovely ‘watching a master at work’ feeling. Thank you!
That means a lot! Thanks so much. Hope to have earned your sub
Can you give me more information about that Gibson guitar with the P 90s ?
Gibson les paul CM. Replaced tuners and tailpiece with graphtech and the pickup is a gfs mean 90
Very helpful in all Helix products. Definitely using the CaliQ in front. Great info. Keep making awesome content.🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽
Thanks Carlos! That has become one of my Go To tricks for making a tone
superb that is for me.. ill be using that as my base for now as ive just got meself one of these. followed yours to the letter and sounds real dam close on my strat , has got a SD jbjr in the bridge tho.. ill keep checkin your vids on the podgo as there the most useful ive found . cheers again
Thanks so much! Glad you got something useful from it. I will definitely be posting more of these
Are the beyerdynamic 80 Ohm any good for getting it close when you play through your FrFr for live guys? Thanks in advance 🎶🎶
Mine are 32 ohm. Not sure if you'll even hear any difference but yes. Turn them up loud and it will tell you all you need to know. I have affiliate links in the description if you wouldn't mind checking them out!
clean settings please
The Park sounds really nice at much lower gain settings (around 2) FWIW
Its a very cool amp! I dig it.
Have you recorded in a DAW as of yet? I want to know how it will sound in Garageband as an Interface
The Helix/PodGo is already an interface on its own so nothing else is needed but yes you can use Garage Band to record from your OUT signal from the PodGo
I always record my videos using Cakewalk. Helix, Pod Go and HX Stomp are great interfaces that I use daily. They would be great going into garageband I am sure. Thanks for writing! hope you check out some of the other tones and consider subscribing
Most people don't have it going threw a PC
Ask in any fb group. Most use the editor on their computer
Nice job Steve - quick question can you assign midi changes in helix native in a daw - change snapshot - volume pedal etc. ? thanks
You can definitely do that but its over my head! Lol
Thanks Buddy :) subscribed
Hi, thank you for this video! Can I use my amp with this device, or have I to buy studio monitors, to get the advantage of the amps that are integrated in the device? Take care!
I would recommend either studio monitors, a FRFR floor wedge, or a nice set of studio monitors. I use the DT770s. There are links in the description for those. I also really like the powercab from Line 6
Steve Sterlacci Thank you very much!!!
Cool stuff, I am wondering if the presets for pod go will work with helix?
Conceptually, yes. All the tones are exactly the same if you match them up. Presets, however, are not drag and drop cross compatible at the moment
no you have to manually enter in the info Steve showed here into your Helix as the Helix files are .hlx and the PodGo files are different Also the Line6 site wont allow you to even access/download the files for PodGo unless you owned and registered a PodGo on the site. You can only access what you have purchased and registered so.....watch the video, write down the settings and then enter them into your Helix is the only way.
Hey man, thanks for this nice and in depth video!
Q: Can you make 2 or more effects assign to the same switch on the stomp mode?
Exemple: I'm used to make a "solo button" on my old pod hd500x, to activate the gain boost, delay and reverb at the same time and all 3 pedals at the same switch and i dont know if this is possible on the POD GO.
Absolutely is possible! Thank you for watching!
I’m stuck in creating a preset and can’t exit. Can anyone help?
did you escape?
@@SteveSterlacci yes! It took countless attempts and two days but I got it. The fix was to select factory user in some crazy spot. First time using a Device like this. It’s sweet now!
Hi Steve,
Your videos are awesome! I hope you can help me with something, I'm not finding any information on this so far. I would like to to use the built-in onboard expression pedal just like normal; volume and wah with toe switch on every patch as it comes out of the box. I also want to connect an external exp pedal (Mission) to control only parameters like delay and verb. Is that possible, and if so how can I set it up for that? Right now when I connect the external expression pedal it seems to make it a volume pedal and the onboard exp pedal quits working or only for the wah, I don't remember. I haven't discovered how to do this in the manual or pilot's guide. thanks....dan
Hey Dan! Just hold down the parameters knob you want to control, page "Controller" to EXP 2 and set your min / max values for toe up/toe down. Make sure you re assign the volume pedal to EXP1 if it changed. Hold down Position and select EXP 1 for controller
And turn off Auto Assign foot switches in global settings . That may be why it became a volume
Success :-) Worked just as you said. I did have to go in and re-assign Volume to EXP1, and remove it from the external. I got thrown off by the Volume LED not coming on when using EXP1 after adding the external pedal, but that's minor. All is well. Thanks a ton, please keep the instructional videos coming!!
Any time! Maybe this would be a good one to do
@@SteveSterlacci yep, i completely agree. it's not very intuitive and the manual is lacking this info.
I bounce back and forth between using a physical amp, and using an FRFR. I have been keeping my presets common, and just disabling the amp and cab if I am using a real amp. And on the GO, there is no real hard to this since you can't use those blocks for anything else anyway. But on the Stomp, that means a wasted block (assuming I use the combined amp/cab block) or two. But using this strategy means I don't have to create and maintain multiple sets of presets. Maybe you could do a video that discusses your approach to this.
I would either do what you do and just bypass the amp. Maybe assign it to a FS? Or, make a User folder named Amp, and one named Pedals and just copy them all over. It is easy to navigate the folders. Maybe I will cover this!
Thanks as always
help ... I just bought pod go and the master volume doesn't work
Have you tried multiple presets?
@@SteveSterlacci no. does it have any solution?
@@richardjunovaldez9177 yes it could matter. What are you running it into?
@@SteveSterlacci I want to know if it is correct that when the in amp input of the pod is used the master volume of the pod is disabled
@@richardjunovaldez9177 you are correct. That is meant for a power amp that should have its own volume. Dont plug that into the front end of your amp though
I love using the POD Go so far, but I downloaded your preset and noticed that in Pedal Mode, only one pedal shows up on the screen. Is there any way to fix that?
Which preset? If its one of the customtone ones, those are just meant to be bare bones tone for you to build what you need around.
@@SteveSterlacci The free one - it looks like the pedals weren't assigned to buttons. I think I might be able to do that myself.
Can you use thr exp pedal for pitch shifting?
Yep! It can be set to any parameter
good job Steve
Thanks Steve!
I have a helix LT my question about the pod go is that can I have 2 amp heads in the chain and change them with snapschots with the pod go like I can with the helix?
Unfortunately, not with the Pod Go. One amp per preset. They had to cut somewhere to avoid making it "too good to be true"
@@SteveSterlacci can you put 2 amps in 1 preset with the hx stomp? Im trying to make a decision between the pod go and hx stomp for a backup
@@holyass242 yes you can in the stomp but it eats DSP so it would need to be a simple preset beyond the 2 amps. I have plenty of 2 amp presets for the stomp
@@SteveSterlacci thanks for all the help
@@holyass242 any time! When 3.0 drops, the hx stomp will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine 😉