Two guitars with Pod Go Wireless?

[hernan93]

Hello, having in mind POD Go wireless's input can be set to "Guitar+Wireless", does it mean you can use the GTII transmitter in one guitar and a additional cabled guitar connected and operating with the same current preset? If so, is this setup safe?, I mean, I don't want to over load or damage the pod go if I use that option.

Hope this does not sound as a dummy question, is kind of basic, but I want to be sure.

Thank you in advance.

Hernan

[voxman55]

Interesting question. As far as I'm aware it's 'either or' but as I don't have a PGW, I stand to be corrected.  But even if you could, as you only have a single signal path in PG where both guitars would use the same tone, I'm not quite sure how valuable that might be anyway?

[silverhead]

The POD Go is a single path device. You can’t process two inputs independently. I don’t know about the technical aspects of potential overload or risk by using two inputs simultaneously but I do expect that the resulting sound would probably be awful.
 

I think the input selection of Guitar + Wireless is designed more for the convenience of users who want to switch guitars at various points during their gig. This input setting allows you to put one guitar down and pick up another without having to swap out any cables. All you’d have to do is turn up/down the Vol knobs on the respective guitars when you swap them.

[phil_m]

Yes, both inputs are active at the same time. There’s nothing unsafe about using them both simultaneously, it’s just that there’s no way to separate them down the line. I think it’s really there as a fail-safe thing in case you need to switch to using a cable for whatever reasons, your existing presets will work without having to change anything.

[hernan93]

1 hour ago, phil_m said:

Yes, both inputs are active at the same time. There’s nothing unsafe about using them both simultaneously, it’s just that there’s no way to separate them down the line. I think it’s really there as a fail-safe thing in case you need to switch to using a cable for whatever reasons, your existing presets will work without having to change anything.

 

Agree with you, I think this is the idea behind that option.

 

In my case I'm thinking to use the two guitars simultaneously while I'm practicing with my son. In that case the same process chain will be ok for us. 

[Andreas_flf]

I am using two instruments simultaneously and switch in the middle of a song (bass, e-cello). What I would be interested is to know whether I can switch between the two inputs by some settings as I do NOT want to hear both at the same time. I cannot play one instrument and mute the other at the same time. Therefore my question is whether I can switch between two snapshots or perhaps tow presets, one taking the sound only from the wireless (bass), the other taking the sound only from the cable input (e-cello)? All what would be needed is the volume in one snapshot being totally turned down for the wireless input and the cable input being up and vice versa in the other snapshot. Is that possible?

 

I should perhaps note that I need a footswitch to switch between the instrument in order to do that while playing. Having to bend down to the front of the Pod Go and fiddle with the switches there to switch between the two inputs is out of question as being way too clumsy. That might work between two songs fine, but not in the middle of a piece going back and forth between my two instruments.

[silverhead]

I don’t have a Pod Go Wireless but I see from the manual that you can select either the Guitar or the Wireless input (or both) for any given preset. The manual says this:

 

POD Go Wireless users can choose Guitar for some presets and Wireless for others, effectively turning the Input block into an input switcher.
 

That suggests you may not be able choose this switching on a Snapshot basis but it’s worth experimenting. In one snapshot set the Input block to Guitar and in another set it to Wireless. If the Input selection behaves like any other block parameter you should be able to do this. Again,  I’m not sure and can’t test it but I don’t see any reason that it would not work this way(except that if it did the manual would likely say so).