phil_m

Hi there. Line 6 actually has a program set up that will suit you perfectly, I think. This is advertised to help people with the Helix, but I’m sure someone will gladly help you with the POD Go. Let me know if you have any trouble, and I can make sure to get you in contact with someone.

They're just set up to toggle opposite one another. To get them to toggle on and off together, navigate over to one of them and push down on the top knob on the menu cluster to toggle that one's bypass state.

Well, the Stomp is getting some pretty nice features with the 3.0 update. I don't think "fairness" has anything to do with it, though. I mean, the POD Go and the Stomp are just different products. There's stuff you can do on the Stomp that you can't do on the POD Go and vice versa. Most of the stuff you can do on the POD Go have to do with the fact that it has more footswitches, though. The Stomp is more powerful and flexible, even with 6 blocks. But, anyway, 3.0 will be out, and it will alleviate you concerns, I think. Interestingly, enough, though, I don't think Line 6's reasoning for adding this stuff to the Stomp has anything to with the POD Go. The reasons will become more clear moving forward.

No matter what size processor you have, there's always going to be a limit to what you can. The POD Go uses a 400MHz SHARC chip. The Helix uses two 450MHz SHARCs. It's still totally possible to hit the DSP limit on the Helix. Depending on what you use, it can happen pretty quickly. It just depends on what you want to do. The POD Go is designed so that the DSP limit doesn't become something that most users see that often, but it's still possible to hit it. Pretty much. The EQ, Volume and Wah block are all things that use very little DSP. So having them always in the chain makes it so the chain will always look a certain way. Basically everything about the POD Go's design was very purposeful. It was trying to squeeze the most performance out of the price.

Yes, the onboard pedal is optical. Direct sunlight can mess with its operation.

If it’s not responding in the UI test screen, that indicates something with the hardware. Could be the sensor is dirty or something else is wrong with it. He should open a support ticket.

You could set it up as a MIDI controller, yes. It would be pretty tedious to do, though. You also don’t have two-way communication, so things like the status of the LEDs for the footswitch would eventually get out of sync, especially if you start changing snapshots. The Control is really the way to go as far controlling the Rack.

The Ampero has a similar sort of semi-fixed chain as the POD Go. It has EQ, delay and reverb effects that are always in the chain (as well as the amp and cab), and you get three wildcard slots. I don’t know if the Ampero allows you to use multiples of the same effect in those slots or not. The POD Go has fixed volume, wah and EQ blocks and four wild card slots. The EQ uses almost no DSP, so removing it wouldn’t really give you any more useable DSP for anything else.

There’s no such limit with POD Go Edit. You can install it on as many machines as you want. You do have to sign in the check for update, but your POD Go doesn’t technically even have to be registered in order for you to update it. The sign in process is really there to authorize any purchases made from the Marketplace.

What do you mean by authorized computer? There’s no authorization requirement to run POD Go Edit.

Over 40% of the DSP available on one processor path.

The Drop does do half steps. Each of the 7 number LEDs represent a semitone beneath the reference pitch. So you can go down to a fifth below and then it jumps to an octave down. I could how looking at it, though, you’d assume that those were whole steps.

The new polyphonic stuff will be in the same league as those pedals (yes, I’ve tried it). The main issue is that the polyphonic effects are going to be DSP hogs. So if you have existing presets that you want to use them in, and those presets are already near the DSP limit, you many find you can’t fit them in without getting rid of stuff. But they are coming in 3.0.

Something isn’t adding up here... You’re saying that the Stomp’s 1/4” out works when you plug it into the Scarlett, but it doesn’t work when you plug it into an amp or a PA? I just don’t see how that could be. We’re you powering the Stomp the same way in every case? When you connected to the amp, did you try setting the Stomp to Bypass All to see if signal was coming through?

On the back of the TimeLine, there’s a little switch with “Stereo In/Out” on the one position and “Feedback Loop” on the other. Are you sure it’s set to “Stereo In/Out”?

I wouldn’t hold my breath on that one... :-)

No. I’ll save you the time. It won’t work.

Buy another POD Go? POD Go Edit won’t do anything without the hardware connected, so you’re out of luck there.

No Line 6 processor has ever had a delete preset function. For one thing, you aren’t really ever deleting a preset. You’re just overwriting whatever’s in that slot. I guess the Helix kind of has a delete preset function, but it’s more like a troubleshooting thing than an editing function. If you hold down certain footswitches when powering up, it will clear the current preset. But this is really for the purpose of dealing with a corrupted patch more than anything.

Well, Native doesn’t have firmware. It’s just an application. So just download the latest installer and run it, and that’s all you need to do. There’s no need to install the intermediary versions.

I wouldn’t risk it. There’s a good chance that 12V will damage something in the POD Go. Analog pedals are more forgiving than digital ones when it comes to running at different voltages.

4 Snapshots/4 Stomps is a global view option for Preset Mode. If you want to temporarily get into the view where you can see 8 presets at once, just hit the Bank Up or Down switch.

The Helix itself can serve as a USB audio interface, you know... I’m curious as to how you have everything connected as well. Is the audio cutting out while your playing guitar or during playback?

I’ve seen a few people report it happening. I’ve also seen a few times when it’s been due to the fact of people saving presets while inadvertently having the volume pedal set to zero. Or they normally use a volume pedal with the Stomp and then when they don’t the volume parameter is set to zero. It’s one of those things that’s hard to know what they real story is, unfortunately. As with any issue, the only way the right people at Line 6 will find out about is if people open support tickets when they experience problems. Forums and Facebook posts don’t guarantee Line 6 will see it. Most of the time it’s probably safe to assume they don’t.

Yes. The tempo is up in the upper right corner of the screen in HX Edit. You can actually change the global setting from global/preset/snapshot there as well.