PodGo vs V60

[Natoybigboy]

So my son has a Spider V60 and it really helped him get into different genres of music because he could easily switch between artists styles by downloading specific song settings. Like jumping from playing GnR to Santana.

 

So I got him a PodGo thinking he could take the simplicity of his V60 on the go. Come to find out they do not have the same downloads, lots of song presets that were on his amp, aren’t on the pedal. And even if I take a snapshot of the amp presets, a lot of times there is a slot missing for an additional effect on the pedal programming.

 

Am I doing something wrong or missing something? Definitely not as simple as the amp, but if I can copy I don’t mind…thoughts?

[silverhead]

You can see a link at the top of this page called Customtone. That’s a public space for Line 6 users to share presets. You can filter by product. Right now a search for POD Go presets shows 1764 presets available. To audition them you need to download them individually and use POD Go Edit to get them into your POD Go device.

 

Might sound like a bonanza,  but there’s a caveat. This space is not moderated in any way, so preset quality is highly variable. Anyone can upload a preset and describe/tag it however they want. Doesn’t mean it will sound like that in your environment using your guitar, your speakers/monitors, and your ears.  But you will probably find some that are at least good for a starting point for further tweaking.

 

It will get exhausting. To help with that, click on the Downloads/Rating button to sort them in order of highest rating.

[Natoybigboy]

On 3/3/2023 at 7:45 AM, silverhead said:

You can see a link at the top of this page called Customtone. That’s a public space for Line 6 users to share presets. You can filter by product. Right now a search for POD Go presets shows 1764 presets available. To audition them you need to download them individually and use POD Go Edit to get them into your POD Go device.

 

Might sound like a bonanza,  but there’s a caveat. This space is not moderated in any way, so preset quality is highly variable. Anyone can upload a preset and describe/tag it however they want. Doesn’t mean it will sound like that in your environment using your guitar, your speakers/monitors, and your ears.  But you will probably find some that are at least good for a starting point for further tweaking.

 

It will get exhausting. To help with that, click on the Downloads/Rating button to sort them in order of highest rating.

 

Yeah we use customtone, we just thought it was weird that there are lots of songs available for the V60, and not as many for the PodGo. So I'll try to mirror the V60 setups and the PodGo has less spots for pedals & FX...

[grdGo33]

On 3/7/2023 at 7:48 PM, Natoybigboy said:

PodGo thinking he could take the simplicity of his V60 on the go.  [...]  Am I doing something wrong or missing something? Definitely not as simple as the amp

 

This.  IMHO, not the right unit if you wanted simplicity.  Looking at the L6 products doesn't seem like any would really fit, think Zoom and others have simpler units, but likely not the strength of the Go.  Maybe something like Boss GT-1 Guitar Multi-effects Pedal would have been simpler, albeit, definitely drawbacks such as sound quality, probably no downloadable patches, etc.

 

Go Strengths:

- Quality of effects:   Fantastic emulation of amps, reverb effects, all kinds of pedals, etc.

- Flexibility & tweakability:  Probably lot better than most cheaper / other FX pedals.

- Price, features, color screen, etc.

 

Weakness:

- Complexity; lots of effects with TONS of parameters, really hard to know what param does what

- Cab/mic system; better to get "the best IR in the world"; fantastic alternative to cab/mic IMHO, YMMV

- Limited blocks

 

Another alternative could have been something like one of those 'portable' amps; Positive Grid, Yamaha THR, etc., but they don't really do what the Go does. And not same form factor.

 

In the end, hte Go is a great unit, IMHO, but it's not 'simple'.  It's simple enough as per it's easy enough to learn the basics, but if you're a sort of tweaker that can get overwhelmed by options, you can dive really really deep...    But in the end, it's worth the effort.  As you can really get incredible results from it.

 

So you likely 'overbought'; you bought something 'too good' for a beginner player, but you bought something which has incredible potential and will likely get years and years of use, where the product will be limited by the user, not vice versa.