POD Go Wireless—How Does it Hold Up On Stage? Review and Tips

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[00:00:00] Emily: Welcome to get offset. My name is Emily and I’m here today with the pod go wireless edition. Uh, if you watch the channel for a while, thank you for being a longtime supporters. Last year in October, probably October, we did a series of videos on the wired version. Of the pod go. Uh, we did a deep dive into all the sounds made.

[00:00:26] Some patches, went through some presets, had some fun with it, and then I gave it to Andrew as a birthday present. That’s the podcast. Co-host yes, there’s a podcast. I recommend checking it out. Well, I’ve been working with a Yamaha line six for a little bit, and they’re like, you should check out the wireless version of the pod go.

[00:00:49] And I said, yes, please. I love the idea of wireless units. I’ve never actually had or used one. Um, so it was a little bit, you know, skeptical, I guess dad was skeptical, you know, I was curious. I was optimistic. I was hopeful, but you know, there are things you worry about and wireless, you worry primarily about two things, interference that is that, um, there will be like other noises that could potentially interfere.

[00:01:26] With your whore, your sound, or that something will get between you and your sound. Think like sometimes you hear, uh, like cell phone interference, like a sound that’s interference or. Uh, just your sound getting interrupted because something comes between you and your sound. Um, you know, those things happen.

[00:01:51] Uh, so it’s one thing you worry about. You worry also about latency and latency is the time it takes from a wireless thing to transmission transmit. To get to the receiver. That’s what latency is. And do you ever watch like, um, a Tik TOK video on, or, or if you were watching a video on, uh, Bluetooth headphones, especially cheap Bluetooth headphones or old blue tooth headphones.

[00:02:20] And there’s a noticeable difference between when the person’s lips move and when you hear what you hear, that’s late. So, I mean, I would kind of think that if you, if you’re listening to this, you’re, you know, enough about audio to know what Lindsey is, if you don’t, there you go. Um, so those were two things I was kind of worried about.

[00:02:37] And I, but I was kind of figured if blind six was selling, uh, wireless units as they have for a long time, they figured out those issues. So, um, I. Got this. And I was so stoked to try it, but by the time I got it, I only had one show left with my band Sunday crushed by the end of the year. So I hunkered down, I made some presets, made some snapshots and I got to play it at my first show.

[00:03:04] I’m sorry, at my last Sunday crushed show of 2021. And here is some actual footage of me using that. Here it is. Check it out.

[00:04:22] Yep. I did it. I used it at the last Sunday Crow show of 2021. I got up on that table. I, you know, I had fun. I like to do that at my shows. I like to get into the audience. Um, I try to wrangle the crowd at the bigger shows and. I’ll be damned at work and worked great. And it was a smaller venue, but I wanted to, you know, even so make sure it works during sound check.

[00:04:50] What I did was I got up, um, I walked around the venue. I walked through the actual restaurant and to make sure, just to make sure I could still hear myself, but even before I left my house, I was down here on the first. And before you get uppity about how I live in a townhouse. So it’s narrow, but it’s tall.

[00:05:12] And I got all the way up to the third floor. That’s the top floor and it still worked out. My husband stayed downstairs. I’m like, tell me if you hear any interference. And this is not even like rated for. So, uh, yeah, this thing had, uh, more than enough range for me on it. I did not notice any latency. Um, the responsiveness was perfect.

[00:05:38] Uh, so as far as all my worries. I didn’t experience anything I worried about. I didn’t have any issues with any interference. Um, I wasn’t using any other wireless systems, so no in your monitors or anything like that. Uh, I think that they were using a digital mixing system, so they were probably, it was probably some wifi going on, but again, no interference on the system.

[00:06:07] So that was pretty, pretty neat. Um, so the receiver. You have a little nesting place for it and they pull it out here and it charges in this little port, but you never want to charge is very important. You never want to put it in this charging port while it’s unplugged. So let’s plug it in, moving to my other camera.

[00:06:29] Shamira

[00:06:33] let me make sure I plug this guy in. I am going to, uh, kind of show you some things, because last time I did a video, I don’t think I’ve walked through some elements that I ended up using a lot. And the actual show, um, if you were, so if you were watching the. The video, which I think you did, you saw, uh, before my, my big solo, I hit a foot switch and what I did was I switched to a snapshot, a louder, higher gain snapshot.

[00:07:08] Basically I, um, turned to Busan and, uh, have somebody gain a little bit, but I have another song in Sunday crush where I go between, um, basically during the chorus, I turn. A chorus pedal on. And normally it’s Caroline somersault. It’s sort of like there have X switch and I maxed the rate in the depth. So to emulate that what I do would do on this is I would set a snapshot.

[00:07:45] Where I basically turned a rotary on and that’s kind of what I did here, because I dumped just fast. I’m like, that sounds good. I like that. I’m going to use that. So I’m going to show you how I did that in a couple of other things. What I really liked on this, where the different views, um, so you see it’s charging and I have the wireless guy, uh, plugged in and charging can kind of see that.

[00:08:09] Let me pull it down a little bit. So you can see that. All right. So I have my presets named mode is how you find the, see the different views there. So I have a couple of banks I’ve named them all. So we have in this bank, classic lover. Hey, Sandy rainbow. Good boy. Upper a bank lick green dude, and a heartbreaker.

[00:08:39] Gold. This will mess from another. Um, something else I did. So, uh, let’s go, uh, you see that little snapshotty guy, but let’s first look at the mode just in general. Well, that was, yeah. So now we’re in the mode and that just shows you this. It would be the very easy way to turn effects on an off. Uh, it would be this mode.

[00:09:04] So this is very simply. Turning a pedal on and turning a pedal off. So I, my spring reverb on now, I have it off my deluxe comp and you can see it lit up really nicely around the rings. That’s fantastic for when you’re just sitting in the Dawn of dark stage. And it’s really nice now. Coordination also it’s coordinated to where it is there.

[00:09:28] And obviously I don’t have all six spots, uh, lit up here. So my IQ on off, and you can see kind of where they are in the chain up there. Um, and obviously don’t have the FX loop, um, Uh, nothing’s there, calm vibe. Rotary is sort of what I want to really get into here for this particular demo in the snapshot.

[00:09:54] So if we go into view, that’s a better look at what the actual, um, signal chain I’ve built up looks like, and that’s what we’re going to edit in the snapshot. So I’m going to go back to view, go back to mode. And the camera I’m in snapshot one, and you can have up to four snapshots, but you need to enter the snapshot mode to access them.

[00:10:21] And so the difference between, so if, if you just want to have like a normal sort of pedal analog pedal board interaction, this is your mode. So I have everything set the way I want to set it. And I just maybe want to turn things on and off. And that’s my comfort level. This is your mode. And I use this a lot for that first show.

[00:10:46] And that’s why I was comfortable with snapshots are like, if I want to change a couple of things at once. So if I simultaneously want to turn on one effect and crank another effect and turn down one effect, but not turn it off, snapshots will enable you to do that. So I’m going to go back to this view.

[00:11:09] I’m going to hit the up and down areas at the same time. And I’m in my snapshot mode. Woo. Woo. Oh my gosh. I’m going to hit view. Sorry about that. So in this, I am going to turn my, uh, rotary.

[00:11:40] Um, because I just don’t want it in the normal person’s son. And I’m going to, going to be, I’m going to turn the rotary on, because I do want it in the chorus, but let’s say that in, in some parts of the song, I don’t want the rotary on as much. So I’m going to go over to the rotary. And I am going to turn to go to page two and I’m going to turn the mics down some, so I just don’t want as much of that,

[00:12:20] but I definitely want some distortion. Oops. And I haven’t really turned any of that on yet. So I’m going to go to my Dinah drive and I’m going to add that. Yes, I like that. And I just want those three snapshots. I’m going to go back over here. So I added something and it turned it on to all of the snapshots.

[00:12:48] Yeah. So now I have these four snapshots for good boy and I like them. And then you save your preset to save your snap. Easy. So now I’m going to go back to mode. Oh, well, I’m going to hit you my bad. All right. So now I’m back in view. And as I go through my snapshots, you can see the little lights change through all of those.

[00:13:32] Have there, so you can really see visually that those are changing, but we really want to hear it. So how about I plug in the pod go and we see what those changes actually sound like. All right. I’m back. I’m in the snapshot view, you can see that. Hopefully of there and I’m going to play through the snapshots for you.

[00:13:58] Uh, you can see a signal chain up in the corner there. Let’s hear how it sounds. Please forgive me. I’m on a wobbly bench and I got my red star and I’m really excited about it. Whoops.

[00:14:26] And then the chorus, I would go to B,

[00:14:37] then the bridge gets angry.

[00:14:47] If I decide that’s not angry enough. I can just go back to view, go my distortion, turn up the game. Maybe turn the volume. Okay.

[00:15:18] I think it sounds goofy with the. Rotary like that I can change

[00:15:36] yeah, I think that sounds better. So I’m going to save it and then go back to the view.

[00:16:09] nice. So those were snapshots and just look at the different views. Um, before I let you go. There’s one more thing I want to show you because it actually did take me a minute to figure this one out. Um, I probably should cover this first, but it is important. And, um, took me a second before you said any of the fun stuff before you set your amp, um, this, you might be like, why am I not getting signal?

[00:16:38] Am I not? Is my volume not up? No, my volume is up. I’m plugged in. I have charge. Why am I not getting a signal? Uh, so you got to scroll all the way over to input it, set to wireless.

[00:16:56] Sorry if that clip there. I have not said the vault did not set the volume on the amp. I select. Don’t judge me too harshly for that. Well, that is my look at the pod go wireless. Um, I I’ve been having a lot of fun with it. Obviously. I really enjoyed having it for that show. Um, I’ve also really enjoyed taking it to some practices.

[00:17:21] I used it for rehearsals, for a project I was doing call that Kim’s covers. That, uh, we opened four. That was my Halloween gig that you might’ve heard about. So it was really cool. I loved it for that, especially because, um, though I did end up using, uh, just a standard pedal board for that, um, for the rehearsals, especially, I love just being able to throw that in a backpack and, uh, taking that with me, uh, because we have.

[00:17:53] So many different sounds to bounce between, uh, for the covers. So to go between covering blue oyster, oyster cult, everyone hates the way everyone in my family hates the way I say oyster. I know that’s not the right way. Um, blue, blue oyster called the rolling stones, all of that. Um, especially it took me weeks to find my wall pedal.

[00:18:17] So there is a wall pedal right there and all that stuff. So to be able to have that for practices, especially was just so phenomenal. Um, especially when I’m, you know, trying to not rely too heavily on a car, living in a city, uh, and having a one-car family, you know, it’s, it’s great. You know, um, I use as for the Sunday crush gig, I use the power cab on the flat set of.

[00:18:45] Um, and I use the cab and amp Sims there. Next, I might use the cab since I’ve been kind of playing with the cab Sims on the power cab and they sound really, really great. So next time you hear that then. Yup. You probably going to be hearing some of the built-in calves, Sims miked up stuff did so be on the lookout for that.

[00:19:09] It’s going to be fun. Um, what else do I have to say about this other than like, it’s, it’s really just been a blast. Um, the amount of sounds that are in this that are really, really phenomenal is, is super duper impressive. Nobody had a bad thing to say about my town. I w I was watching through the video.

[00:19:25] My husband took a lot of videos. Uh, of, of my Sunday crush gig. And I was like, damn, I think sounded good. And it was powerful. Um, then yeah, my band liked it. It’s, you know, easy. It feels more, um, analog than it than you would. Would it still, I know it’s it doesn’t feel like menu diving. Like Mindy can feel you’re still, yeah.

[00:19:56] You’re, you’re selecting a bunch of options, but you’re still turning dials. It’s it’s very tactile like that. And I’m, I’m very much. Like twisting knobs. So it’s very much a middle ground between something that is a digital effect and something for somebody who really likes twisting knobs. And I really, really liked that about, about the pod go.

[00:20:25] Yeah. It’s not too, um, brainy for me and there’s a lot of good and cool, cool. Sounds. So that’s all I got to say. I’m checking our affiliate links. We have them for Sweetwater and reverb.com. Using those links helps the show tremendously. It’s a great way to show support. Another great way to show support is to subscribe to this channel.

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