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Did you check the guide I posted? Guessing you don't have the same options available he does? For channel 3/4 should be normal, as you likely don't have a stereo guitar.

What do you mean USB drivers? Pretty sure you mean Asio drivers instead. There was some hallucination in that AI response as is appears that Reaper does not have its own native Asio drivers: The important part I thought for the previous AI answer was this: "However, Audacity is limited by its lack of native ASIO driver support, which is required to access more than two channels from many audio interfaces, including the Pod Go. As a result, in Audacity, you will generally only see and be able to record two channels at a time—either a stereo mix or a single mono channel—rather than four independent tracks". But it turns out the native Reaper ASIO drivers were AI hallucinations, likely not an Asio driver issues. Just found this guide, watching it; might just be a settings/configuration issue, see here! (make sure you select the same channel # as he does, and while AI said that it wouldn't work for Audacity, maybe should work too with the right channels selected? No reasons it shouldn't if it isn't a driver issue...!)

AI answer, (which could or could not be hallucinated...) But if it's not working with Reaper either, from AI response, there should be a native Reaper ASIO driver that you should be able to use for the 4 channels? In other words: Don't use the Line6 Pod Go Asio driver, but instead using the Reaper native ASIO driver should work. [edit] It was all hallucinated AI garbage. See guide below!!

Been using the fx loop with a mono pedal looper without any issue, other than losing stereo.. So I doubt there is any risk of damage, I'm not savvy enough as to guarantee it given the particular schematics of the Go... My guess is that if you could blow it up by going mono/stereo cables there would be big warnings everywhere in manual and rear, so risk of shorts should be null; Line6 engineers likely factored everything in their design.

Two things: 1) Think it's just the nature of distortion. There's the 3 main types, overdrive, distortion and fuzz. But for OD & Distortion, even within a type, there are different types of sounds, which respond again differently. So the Heir for instance isn't designed to sound like a metal zone.. Ex; 2) Two, for the 'high gain', again, I think it's the nature of distortion, what would you precisely define as 'gain' ? Imho, gain refers more to volume, but gain when sitting in front of an amp results in more distortion, given the amp is hit harder. But 'gain' on a clean amp wouldn't do much in terms of distortion. So I'm again guessing that it's not the Go or the Go's distortion pedals which sound off or don't work just right, might be more a case of misconceptions of gain/distortion/pedals in general. Remember that most guitarists see 'gain'/distortion as a combination of pedal gain/distortion + amp gain/distortion. Hell, lets leave AI to answer again! :D

Think the odds of being something wrong with the Go is very low, as described in OP it's just normal guitar behavior, especially with single coils & distortion. Easy way to test is step away from electronics and testing, if the same thing happens, then yes, it's Go, but if it is significantly reduced or eliminated, it's normal.

Single coils I'm guessing? I think it's normal behavior, but hard to tell not knowing the extent. But basically, the signal pickups generate is quite faint, so it requires amplification and that's enough to pickup ambient electromagnetic noise from speakers or other electronic devices. Wax potting can help, but it's not a magical solution. Shielded speakers can help, but again, not perfect. Pickups vary a bit too. Some humbuckers can be more noisy than others. You could try shielding your guitar https://humbuckersoup.com/shielded-guitar-cavity-really-necessary/ but again, can help, but not a miracle cure. No perfect solution exist imho Also, try different Pod Go amps, some work fine for single coils but others behave similarly as you describe. So just playing around in Amp/effects could help. If single coils (Fender style) and you set your 5 way switch at position 2 or 4, does the issue go away?

Likely has to do with the complexity of the internal circuits, as that is what is being emulated https://circuitlangtantqf.z21.web.core.windows.net/nobels-odr-1-schematic.html http://guitarpedalbuilders.blogspot.com/2012/05/boss-od-1-overdrive.html

It's more than that though, 3.7 also released between Go updates, and it had a couple of effects, plus 1 bass effect which I omitted. Not the end of the world I guess, plenty of effects in the box already, but for accuracy's sake... - Prize Drive (Mono, Stereo), based on* the Nobels ODR-1 - Feedbacker (Mono), Line 6 Original feedback generator - Dynamic Bloom (Mono, Stereo), Line 6 Original bloom reverb. - Nonlinear (Mono, Stereo), Line 6 Original nonlinear reverb with a variety of decay tail shapes (including multiple reverse reverb shapes). Looking forward to trying out the new L6 amps though! Nice we get new stuff, could even call it exclusive since those custom amps are not available anywhere else. Pretty cool that L6 is innovating the amp field without being constrained by limits of the real world (if that's what it's doing!), but even just designing new amps that don't exist in the real world is something! :D

At this point... I'm not so sure Line6 is very interested in keeping the Pod Go up to date. It's been now 1 year and 1 month since the 2.0 update (Released 11/7/23) , and during that time, apparently the Helix got 3 updates (Version 3.70 - November 16, 2023, Version 3.71 - January 10, 2024, Version 3.80 - November 19, 2024) and with the new Plethora of Line6 products, I think the Pod Go is on the way out in terms of update priority. So my guess would be that we might get 1 more update, then it's highly improbable we'll get more. But that's just my guess, and I'd love to be pleasantly surprised. TLDR: IMHO, Go likely not a priority now for Line6. Well... That's surely the impression given the number of updates it released in the last year, which is zero.

At this point... I'm not so sure Line6 is very interested in keeping the Pod Go up to date. Anyway, rather than derailing this conversation I'll post in the firmware thread! Btw @cortkx there's other amps which might be able to do what you want, but I'm not certain which exactly, you can read on amps here; https://helixhelp.com/models/ Anyway, not sure how great/bad the model is, doesn't seem to be that bad, but that might not work for you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUNTHYwhdL4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7usTTOQixU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFON_Fuh-h8

Not possible if the GUI doesn't let you... You could try to export the patch, change the value and re-import, and there's a possibility it could work, also a possibility it wouldn't and might even cause issues so how bad do you want it? Otherwise, I think you could stack delays? If your 1st delay is 2s, configuring a 2nd delay with also 2s would extend the 1st one by that much, although you'll likely have to play a bit with the volume of the 2nd to get it to match the natural decal of the 1st reverb.

Sh!t we missed the 2.0 one year anniversary guys.. Can't believe it's already been a year! For myself, still rocking on the Go, but using mainly the same ~10 patches lol Don't remember trying out the newer features of the 2.0 it's been so long, and I don't think I've been using any/most stuff from new patch like amps and effects... Guess what I'm saying is that I came here to see what was happening with the next patch, but in practice, for me at least doesn't really matter in the end, Go still rocks! But hey, it's been a year, it's probably time I give a go to the new 2.0 features! It'll surely feel like some new stuff for me! LOL https://line6.com/software/index.html?hardware=All&name=POD Go Edit&os=All&submit_form=set

Version 2.00 Released 11/7/23 Yep, looks like we missed the 2.0 one year anniversary. Hopefully some time soon... Sigh..

Btw, I wouldn't recommend anyone skip a used deal because of this issue. The issue was subtle, took many many months before anyone noticed the issue, and even when comparing with and without, they're kinda hard to tell apart. Not to mention that if you're running a pedal with a buffer in front of the Go, then the impedance issue completely goes away. I think the effect might vary too depending on the guitar, but the bottom line is, if you have a good deal for a used unit, likely worth getting. I haven't bothered to get mine fixed, given I'm using a buffered pedal + as I said, really not a very significant issue!