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I've been sitting and dialing in some decent amp overdrive/distortion tones with my better Sennheiser HD6 phones (which are more of a reference type headphone). The results have been pretty good so far, but a lot of that depends on the amp model. The Placater Dirty (for rock tones) and the Cali Texas Ch.2 (for blues tones) seem to agree with the phones pretty well. Of course, most all of the clean amp tones sound pretty good through phones without much tweaking. I had a conversation with a sales engineer at Sweetwater who recommended trying the AKG K240S semi-open back headphones. I considered buying the MKII version of these which are $100 more, but I ordered the original series to start with. They are supposedly the same phones except for a few cosmetic and feature changes. Same transducers and frequency ranges though. I'll chime back in later on and let you know how they work out unless someone out there is already using these.. in that case I would like to know how they work with the POD Go.

Just got my Pod Go this last week mainly for the intent and purpose of using it for silent practice with headphones. This thing sounds like total crap (most distortion tones anyway) through headphones. I believe that this aspect of the POD Go engineering was overlooked. At first I thought it was just my phones; (Koss TD/80's) so I tried my better quality Sennheiser HD6 Mix phones through it and it sounds a little better. Like someone said in an earlier post, you'll have to do some tweaking to get it sounding decent through phones though, and don't expect your headphone tweaking to sound right into an amp or a DAW. The headphone patches are gonna have to be for just that: headphones -