Good day.
I have been using the Pod Go for a while in a band of pedalboard enthusiasts and am looking for some tips here.
We have, for now, a no-amp rig (and it sounds good so... please no skepticism lol). We are 3 guitarists (two standard and one baritone (me)) and we are all playing into amp emulators. All our levels into the board are similar (mine is even a bit hotter than theirs sometimes). The other two play through traditional pedal setups, output through a DI and into the modelers. Their sound is full, clear, responsive, and not compressed.
I, on the other hand, have a much more compressed sound than they do. I have tried many many configurations, troubleshooting a block at a time, turning off everything and adding things back in.
I of course eliminated amp and cab emulation in the Pod Go onboard and have ONLY effects and I use the main out to xlr into the board (where amp emulator lives, same as the other members). I have an eq, noise gate, reverb, and overdrive and alternate between presets with either delay or chorus. All other settings are exactly the same.
Even when I turn ALL blocks off... my sound is night and day compared to those with a plain pedalboard. Compressed, thinner... lacking the same type of visceral attack. It's not the guitar. I plug into their pedalboards and outshine their sound easily.
Any tips so that I can start from a similar foundation in terms of levels and clarity as a normal pedalboard? It feels like there are some global settings at play here.
Thanks so much for any help.
