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@ stapani: I bought my PodGo just 4 years ago. I wrote this in the honeymoon period. At that time I naively thought: 1 block more or less doesn’t matter. But I was very wrong. 4 years of experience later I miss this assignable block a lot. It reduces my sound design significantly today. Even the good old POD HD 500 had 8 blocks you could load with any FX you wanted. Now 14 years later (!) PODGo only offers 4 assignable blocks? Today important competitors like Boss or Mooer don't have any restrictions in the signal chain - except processing power which applies for all brands. @ grdGo33: I understood your message very well. But I am neither a technician nor a programmer. I fear something unwanted to happen after the hack. I want to be sure that all the updates for my PodGo will work without any problems. PodGo is my only sound source, so I prefer „never change a running system“.

Dear silverhead, you ask ME: "What are the POD Go’s ‘band features’ that are missing in the Stomp/XL?"? I think L6 product managers will answer to your question better than I ever could. Anyway, I will describe my needs. I play guitar in a band and am the singer. I have to change sounds and volume/boost (for solos) while I’m still singing. I need a device which I can use „half-blind“. PodGo is perfect for me. I don’t need the all these surely great and advanced features of Helix. I only need one more assignable block in my PodGo.

The PodGo has best features for use in a band. But has the fixed EQ issue. No chance to get this solved I fear - so I don’t want discuss things which will never change. The smallest Helix products are HX Stomp/Stomp XL. They both miss PoGo’s band features. If I want a PodGo with freely assignable slots, I have to pay double the price of a PodGo - for Helix LT. That's pretty expensive for 1 additional assignable slot in my opinion.

Hey grdGo33, the EQ-slot issue is PodGo specific. L6 are absolutely not willing to solve this issue. Their decision, of course. So what. What I am much more worried about is the fact that the 2 mentioned competitors offer better features today than PodGo does. PodGo offers 4 free slots. Mooer GE1000 + Boss GX100 both offer 9 free slots: more powerful hardware = more flexibility + better options. Helix is 8 (?) years old, PodGo 4 years. Each mighty update brings the hardware to its limit, I fear. Slowly but surely it is time for successors.

Thanks for your input, silverhead. The bookshelf is a nice comparison. I understand your message which is a PodGo-specific view of things. If I take a look at the competitors PodGo has some disadvantages. Please take a look at the attached comparison. In my opinion there is a need for action to avoid that PodGo falls behind.

Since 2018 L6 offered 1 great upgrade each year for Helix and since 2020 for PodGo, too. Helix: 11/2023 V3.70 + service update 3.71 in 1/2024 PodGo: 11/2023 V2.0 + service update 2.01 in 12/2023 So we all hope for another great upgrade to be published at the end of this year to keep PodGo competitive. For PodGo I hope that L6 finally frees the EQ slot. Great annoyance until today and the biggest competive disadvantage in my opinion.

I use a 2-step-boost: fixed boost with Minotaur, additional variable boost with volume pedal. See pdf attached. Solo Boost.pdf

Thanks for your advice, theElevators. Interesting approach. It’s like I played years ago using my 1 amp with cab + pedalboard. I play in a cover band and use - similarily to you - only 6 presets for our 90 songs with the following cabs/mics: 1x10 US Princess Mic: 67 Cond Clean + Dirty + ZZ Top Loudness: -7 dB 1x12 US Deluxe Mic: 57 Dyn RocknRoll Loudness: -4 dB 4x12 Greenback 25 Mic: 67 Cond Rock Loudness: -7 dB 4x12 Greenback 25 Mic: 57 Dyn ACDC Loudness: -4 dB The only ribbon mic with an appropriate volume level is the 160 Ribbon (-7 dB). The other ribbon mics are much too quiet (-11 up to -14 dB). The max cab level ends at +6 dB – so the level of all presets must be a adjusted. Depending on the number of presets this can become an annoying job. Some PodGo YouTube videos recommend ribbon mics so I tried them out. Unfortunately very disappointing.

Dear PodGo users, V2.0 introduced new cabs and mics. Since then I have a big problem with the Ribbon sims. With the exception of 1 model all ribbon mics offer a much lower volume than the rest. So I analyzed all the new mics with my DAW to verify the facts. Result: Only 160 Ribbon offers a approximately volume comparable to the other new mic sims if I raise its level. The rest of the Ribbon mics are unusual for me because of them missing sufficient volume. Please see the results attached if you like. Do you have any ideas or suggestions how to solve this problem? Do you experience this problem, too? Is it a firmware bug? Does perhaps my PodGo have an issue? Thanks for your help in advance.

Hello erhold, I don't speak French and translated your topic into English. Where did you connect your Pod Express? If you connected it to a USB Hub try to connect directly to your PC.

Hi PodGo players, I updated to V2.01 fixing just 1 bug: „Audio could ramp up upon preset load“. Don’t know exactly what that means. Anyway. I expected a short update process because it was just 1 bug fix. But the update process lasted surprisingly long – felt like 5 Minutes or so. After turning on my PodGo I was very astonished about the different sound my ears heard. Much fuller and more differentiated. Suddently distortion pedals sounded good with amps which didn’t before. I am very happy with the sound improvement coming with 2.01. Did my ears play a trick? Did anyone else make the same experience? Thanks to L6 if the sound improvement was intentional!

The first time since V 1.20: Horror Update to Version 2.0. My queasy feeling didn't deceive me: the update was a gauntlet. First of all, the connection between my PC and PodGo was constantly broken, so I had to start all over again. After a few failed attempts, the editor was finally updated. But now the creation of the backup constantly stopped at the same position. It was only after I changed the USB port on the PC that the backup was able to go through. I had to do that never before in the past. Anyway. To update the PodGo itself, I had to log into my account. This only worked after umpsteen attempts. Then, during the hardware update, the connection to the L6 server kept dropping. I sweated blood and water so that nothing was corrupted on my PodGo. After about 3/4 of an hour (!) the drama was finally over and I succeded to update to V 2.0. One thing you have to give L6 credit for: despite these problems and the constant interruptions, my PodGo seems to be running stable fort he moment. Thank goodness a happy ending. Phuu. I.e.: presumably... L6-Server-Problems? PodGo Edit bugs? Don't know. See screen shots of the error messages attached.

Hi, L6 says Version 1.97.0.2 is compatible with Win11 - see L6 download page. Do you have this version installed?

PodGo can work with any wav files without problems. L6 modifies IR files to especially work with Helix or PodGo eg. These modified files have a specific file extension like hir. Standard wav-IR files can be used with most of the MFX units. These special L6 hir-files can only be used within the L6 family. You can buy Celestion wav files directly from celestionplus.com eg.

Can you hear a sound if you plug ear phones into the PodGo?