Line 6 POD Go Guide | EVERYTHING You Need To Know (2024)

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Congratulations on getting the Line 6 POD Go, and welcome to hours upon hours of tweaking! I hope to cut short some of those hours by showing you my personal process to configure the hardware and tweaking methodology to get you up and running with a Sunday-ready tone by the end of this video!

0:33 Hardware setup (line level, aux in)
1:06 Wireless cable emulation
1:28 Tempo pitch - authentic or transparent
2:01 Up/down switches
2:59 Stomp mode - 4 or 6 switches
3:24 2-button aux switch
3:50 Tweaking a preset
4:09 Tweak on a computer
4:30 Get to know the editor
5:08 Input gate
6:37 Volume pedal
7:02 The amplifier
8:27 The cabinet
10:38 Low cut and high cut filters
12:44 Fine-tuning the amp and cab
13:28 Compressor
15:13 Overdrive
16:33 Delay and pseudo-reverb
19:07 Reverb for ambient swell
20:53 Linear or log volume pedal?
21:44 EQ pedal as overdrive
24:05 Control scheme
25:03 Assigning delay mix to footswitch
27:08 Putting it all together
28:34 Final touches - rename/recolour switches
29:38 Tone demo
30:29 Epilogue

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Greetings, I'm Justin, a worship leader and music director from the sunny island of Singapore who's most actively involved with worship and music ministry. My passion is to see musicians grow in their stewardship of their musical talent to serve our Lord and King, Jesus Christ!

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[Ripperx]

WOW! Ya know us dudes. We don't ask for directions ever! And we don't read the manual! Thank you I just got this thing and didn't know some of this. I really appreciate it!

[PatSeguin]

Wow man what a fully comprehensible guide! The use of simple explanations and tips go a long way for new PodGo owners. Your tone is also very easy on the ears lol Thank you very much for taking the time to create this for us 🙏

[Not-a-GSD]

A very well done presentation on using the Line 6 Pod Go.

[Superboygamer]

This really blows me, a fully usable setup for a lot of praise and worship covers! Thank you Justin! God bless you!

[bennyomb]

Broooo!!! Thank you so much for making this video. Your knowledge has helped me so much. 😁🙌🏽 May God continue to bless you every single day!

[GFunkyDollins]

Thank you so much for making this video. You have done a wonderful job explaining all the many important aspects and details of this machine. You have helped me understand the process and inspired me to create. Thank you. Everyone with a pod go should watch this video.

[michaelscott]

I’ve had my Pod Go for about 3 months or so, and have been so confused and honestly lost much of the time, I just put it away. I’m an old school guy who played in bands all through the 70’s. I played a Strat, through a Marshall half stack with a wah wah, fuzz and another pedal or two. There was no internet or cab sims it pretty IR’s(which I still don’t understand) Told the wife I must have a brain tumor. :) I retired a couple of years ago and started playing again after about 30 yr absence from playing. I thought the PodGo was the way to go, since it sounded really good and didn’t look too difficult. I mean I am an educated individual with a degree and ran a district office for a Fortune 500 company for many years..But my 68yr old brain feels like it just doesn’t work anymore..! Your video is so great, very informative, and down to earth. I sat and watched it through twice. Now I am going to sit down with my amp, a Boss Kantana MK2, guitars, and see if I can replicate this fantastic sounding preset you’ve shown here. There are still a few things I’m not sure of, like the Snapshot thing, compared to an octopus in the user guide. I want to be able to set and use 2-4 presets with different sounds for different songs, being able to look down at the screen and select my preset, play and move back and forth between them with the foot switch. I wonder if it’s possible to make a preset as yours is, select it and be able to turn off an on the different pedals as your while using that one preset. Then select yet another preset and do the same…I like to he a Wah Wah in one of the presets too. I apologize for going on and on, I’m really looking forward to getting into this PodGo and jamming with some former bandmates from days gone by….Once more great video and Thanks again…..!

[Hickeroar]

The hardest part for someone like myself is that I have only ever used floor modelers (Pod Go and Helix), so a lot of the minutia is somewhat over my head. I usually buy presets from Worship Tutorials, Alex Guitar, Tone Junkies, or you, and then tweak them to taste. I've never been able to create a patch from scratch that sounded decent.

Side note: When you added that transistor tape, it totally changed the personality of that patch. Wow! Loved your tip on the swell reverb as well! I'm going to use that.

[MarkGray]

Very nice info! Thank you for sharing!

[treychilton]

This was great Justin! I have watched your previous video of making a patch and I now use that as my primary patch at church and when I create a new patch, I use your settings as a starting point and make adjustments as needed. Thank you again!

[JohnWDGTandTele]

Justin, I just got done a little bit ago following along to your video with my pod go. Thank you so much for giving those of us who are more visual learners this tutorial. It is so much easier than reading a manual, which I know is both valuable and a lot of times required. However, the visual aspect really helped! Thank you again!

[yonniesboy]

Thank you for this video .. will have to watch it many of times since I am a slow learner but I almost gave up on my pod go and sold because i felt frustrated, , thank you

[ikewashere]

This was amazing. I almost gave go trying to figure out my Pod Go, you got me playing guitar again!

[keithscabin]

Honestly just awesome! I just got a guitar and pod go and have no experience (as a former drummer) in what does what in the guitar world. This is a great start and would have not thought of using the computer as it seemed like a pain in the butt.
Thanks for a great video!

[Dvram]

Thank you for this! I’ll be using this as a foundation for my Pod Go setup.

[vincentiusleonard]

Hey bro great videos btw! Could you also do a line 6 firehawk build walkthrough for worship if you have the pedalboard?

[Imnotthevillian]

I have followed this step by step. The delay isn’t doing anything on either setting. and the ambient is off when the light is on and off when the light is on. What did I do wrong?! Thank you so much for this video. May 2024 be full of blessings and good health. Help a brother out internet. What did I do wrong? I’m gonna delete the patch and start over. Another question the compressor and the delay are not mapped to a stomp does that mean they should always be active in the signal chain? PS I know these are rookie questions but I gotta say line 6 editor is infinitely easier to use than my previous multi effects unit. So glad I upgraded. Now I just need it to work. And yes I did update the firmware

[yonniesboy]

I have the non wireless version since I it was sold to me for a very good price

[kevgaming]

in the global settings, do I use my Amp out source as main out or precab/ir? I'm using the cab ir simulator and not using the actual amp. I'm plugging guitar -> pod go -> mixer

[jb]

Could you do a stereo demo of the rotary speaker modulation block?